Chapter 218 Hostages
"Kid, calm down!" At this moment, the Nine-Tails inside the sealed space noticed that Naruto was completely enveloped in negative emotions.
If he wanted, he could use these negative emotions to break the seal on his body at any time. After the Fourth Hokage and Kushina's chakra dissipated, Naruto had no backup plan. However, the Nine-Tails, seeing Naruto huddled and trembling slightly in front of the seal gate, sternly warned him.
"Kurama..." Naruto turned around blankly, looking at the Nine-Tails inside the sealed space.
At this moment, two Cloud Village ninja noticed Naruto's abnormality. After burrowing underground to Naruto's feet, they rushed out with their ninja swords, aiming directly at Naruto's vitals.
However, at that very moment, two dark red chakra arms suddenly extended from Naruto's body, grabbing the attacking Cloud Village ninja with one hand and crushing them into a pulp.
Blood and flesh mingled and fell around Naruto. Looking at the surrounding hell, Naruto suddenly felt unable to understand this world, ever since that eight-year-old child had attacked him.
It wasn't that Naruto had never killed anyone. After graduating from the Ninja Academy, whether it was a mission to the Land of Waves or a few bandit-clearing missions for practice, Naruto had personally killed enemies. However, those enemies had died cleanly in ninja combat, and they were indeed heinous criminals. Therefore, Naruto felt no guilt about killing them.
But now, the screams around him, friend and foe alike, were pushing Naruto's already fragile heart to the brink of collapse.
Meanwhile, Neji and Sasuke were focused on the enemy before them, unable to attend to anything else.
The stench of blood and burning flesh filled Naruto's nostrils. Kurama, seeing this, sighed.
Judging from the current situation, this kid definitely can't continue fighting. The next moment, dark red chakra mixed with golden threads emerged on Naruto's body, and five red tails appeared behind him. Kurama (the Nine-Tails) took control of Naruto's body.
The Five-Tails state was the limit Kurama could currently achieve without injuring Naruto's body while controlling him.
Usually, Jinchuriki can't fully unleash the power of their Tailed Beasts because the Tailed Beasts don't cooperate, but Kurama was willing to let Naruto enter the perfect Jinchuriki state. However, Naruto clearly couldn't cooperate well with it, so Kurama had to do it alone.
Even such power was beyond the capacity of the Cloud Village in this area to withstand. When Naruto in his Five-Tails form charged into the enemy ranks, it was as if he were in an empty field. He could tear apart a Cloud Villager's body with a mere wave of his hand, while the Cloud Villager's attacks were completely unable to penetrate the Nine-Tails' chakra defense.
"The Nine-Tails has gone berserk?" Sasuke noticed Naruto's situation immediately and was shocked. He stepped on lightning and sneaked over, intending to use genjutsu to calm Naruto down.
"Uchiha brat, Naruto can't fight in his current state. If you don't want him to die on this chaotic battlefield, then stop your genjutsu." The Nine-Tails used Naruto's body to turn its head and speak to the approaching Sasuke.
"You...you're the Nine-Tails?" Sasuke was also taken aback upon hearing this.
"Who else could I be?" Naruto, covered in a layer of scarlet chakra, bared his teeth. For the Nine-Tails, which could accurately sense malice, the deathly aura surrounding this battlefield was also very uncomfortable. Therefore, it was not so polite when facing Sasuke.
"Alright." Sasuke nodded. "Then I'll leave Naruto in your care."
As time progressed, the battle situation gradually became clearer. Especially after Inuzuka Jacques and Aburame Shiki worked together to kill the temporary commander of this Cloud Village army, the Cloud Village army fell into chaos without a leader and was defeated one by one by the Konoha army.
This Cloud Village army was quickly surrounded, leaving less than 20 people, who were surrounded by the remaining Konoha ninja.
"Tell me, where did you hide Konohamaru?" After surrounding the enemy, Aburame Shiki also gave the order to temporarily stop fighting, after all, their biggest goal on this trip was to find Konohamaru.
"I won't tell you, Konoha, just wait and see if you can start a war with us Cloud Village!" A Cloud Village ninja who had lost his right arm gritted his teeth while clutching his arm, which had only received simple bandages and was still bleeding.
"If you want to fight, then fight. We Konoha have never been afraid of war." Inuzuka Jacques said with a gloomy face.
Just then, a messenger insect flew in from the sky and landed on Aburame Shiki's shoulder.
"A large number of Kumogakure troops have appeared at the border of the Land of Hot Springs," Aburame Shiki said solemnly to Inuzuka Jacques beside her. "If I'm not mistaken, the same should be the case at your base in the Land of Rice Fields."
"This... should we rush back now?" Inuzuka Jacques asked.
"Not for now. Kakashi and the Third Hokage have already been sent to the border by Genma and the others. With him there, there won't be any problems at the border. However, it seems that war is truly about to begin," Aburame said with a slightly grave expression.
"In that case, let's use their heads as a sacrifice. Let the Yamanaka clan use their secret techniques to extract information on Konohamaru," Inuzuka Jacques said coldly.
The next moment, the Konoha ninja present picked up their weapons again, and the Kumogakure ninja who were surrounded also showed a look of resignation to their fate.
"Brothers, fight them! Lord Raikage will avenge us!"
Just as the battle was about to erupt, from the northeast, an elderly man of unusual stature was rapidly approaching at a speed far beyond his years.
Soon after, the sensory ninjas within the Konoha formation also spotted this rapidly approaching figure.
"Someone's approaching... This chakra fluctuation... Third Hokage?" a sensory ninja exclaimed in surprise.
Soon, Hiruzen Sarutobi arrived at the scene.
"Third Hokage." The Konoha ninjas present bowed in unison. Although Hiruzen Sarutobi had retired and his control over Konoha was almost zero, his status still warranted some respect.
"Have you found Konohamaru?" Hiruzen Sarutobi asked anxiously without elaborating.
"I'm sorry, Third Hokage, we haven't found any trace of Konohamaru." Sasuke then spoke up.
"Speak! Where did you take Konohamaru!" Upon hearing this, Hiruzen Sarutobi turned and glared fiercely at the group of Cloud Villagers, his killing intent unrestrained. Although he had been a passive observer in Konoha for several years, these Cloud Villagers dared to kidnap his grandson, so he wouldn't mind showing these youngsters the strength of a former ninja hero.
"Hmph, that brat will pay for our deaths!" the temporary commander of Kumogakure said defiantly. "Lord Raikage will avenge us!"
Just then, a thunderclap suddenly resounded in the sky, and a colossal war god flew in at dawn, accompanied by lightning, landing not far from the group before slowly dissipating.
Uchiha Touko slowly walked over, carrying the heavily injured and unconscious A in one hand.
"Fifth Hokage!" The Konoha ninjas, upon seeing Uchiha Touko, showed fanaticism on their faces and spontaneously made way for him.
Uchiha Touko, carrying A, walked expressionlessly to the surrounded Kumogakure troops.
"Are you waiting for him to avenge you?" Uchiha Touko casually tossed the charred A to the group of Kumogakure soldiers who were determined to put up a fight, and said coldly.
"Lord Raikage?" The temporary commander of Kumogakure stared at the scene before him in disbelief. Their invincible Raikage had fallen just like that? And the other party didn't even seem to have gotten a dirty cloak?
"Touko." Hiruzen Sarutobi nodded to Touko Uchiha.
"I'm sorry, Third Hokage, this has happened. But don't worry, I will definitely bring Konohamaru back." Touko Uchiha turned to Hiruzen Sarutobi and said. Hiruzen Sarutobi
nodded.
Touko Uchiha glanced around, his Sage Mode sensory abilities completely covering a radius of a thousand meters. After a few minutes, Touko Uchiha spoke loudly, "Listen up, you hiding in the shadows. I'll only count to three. If you don't show yourself, then you Cloud Village can wait to be chosen as the Fifth Raikage." As Touko
Uchiha's words fell, an eerie silence descended.
"3!" Touko Uchiha held up three fingers.
"2!"
"1!"
After counting, Uchiha Touko drew his sword, Swift Thunder, from his waist and raised it high. In an instant, lightning flashed across the sky. Swift Thunder's blade, filled with lightning, transformed into a 3-meter-long giant sword of thunder. Uchiha Touko decisively slashed Swift Thunder down at the unconscious A and the remaining Cloud Village members behind him.
"Wait!" At this moment, the person hiding in the shadows with Konohamaru finally couldn't hold back any longer and appeared, shouting.
The giant sword of thunder stopped a few centimeters from A's nose, the leaping lightning above adding more wounds to A's face.
"Finally decided to come out, huh?" Uchiha Touko said with a cold smile, "I thought you were ready for the Cloud Village to elect the Fifth Hokage." "
Release Lord Raikage, or this brat won't live either." The person who appeared grabbed Konohamaru by the neck and said.
"Konohamaru!" Sarutobi Hiruzen was immediately alarmed upon seeing his grandson.
"Hokage-sama..." At this moment, Aburame Shiki approached Uchiha Touko and whispered a reminder. Although he didn't say it explicitly, Uchiha Touko understood his meaning. Trading Konohamaru for the Raikage would be a huge loss for Konoha.
However, Uchiha Touko nodded and said, "Want to trade Konohamaru for this guy's life? Fine."
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