The moment the ships of the four great ninjas' village arrived on the shore of the island the Uzumaki were alerted.
Instead of being in the meeting room, this time the members of the war council consisting of a few adults and old people were in the open.
"They are here!" said Azuno to the people around him
The Kaguya mind eyes allowed him to see the entire island
"Nearly ten thousand all ninja," he said with a grim expression as he remembered the number of people present on the island
'About five thousand remaining on the island with about two thousand ninjas! I guess this is a good thing that we evacuated'
"They indeed came prepared, but why do seem so somber, we already knew what to expect, there is nothing new," said Ashina to everyone
"I can feel a lot of powerful individuals, and those massive and virulent chakras, it must be the tail beasts,"
"They are on the move!" someone noted as they felt that nearly simultaneously as if on cue
"So much hostility, I guess there is no possibility to get out of that,"
Five minutes later
The forces of the ninjas of the major nations were getting deeper and deeper into the forest of Uzushio from all sides when
"Swoosh, clang," before they could get too far in, they were intercepted by the ninja of Uzushio.
"Halt, ninja of Kiri," said a middle-aged man as he confronted the ninja of the land of water, he could recognize many famous ninjas particularly members of the seven great epeeists.
'Three of the seven are here,' he thought.
"What business do you have invading the land of Whirpool," he asked perfectly aware of the situation.
"What business do we have with you, well it's very simple we are here to ask you ninja of Uzushio to surrender to the land of water and share your knowledge on sealing jutsu or face extermination," said the one who seemed to be the leader a big man with teeth like shark
"I see… I understand unfortunately the inheritance of the Uzumaki is not to be shared with fish like you," he said with a haughty expression.
"I knew that, kill them," he screamed jumping toward his target who only made a hand sign before an explosion swallowed his target.
Everywhere on the island, some kind of version of that was happening
"Boom, boom…"
In a few instances sounds of explosion and destruction started to resound everywhere on the island as if in synchronization, explosive tags disseminated everywhere in the forest started to explode one after the other, blowing up the limbs and killing the unfortunate shinobi who had the bad luck to get to close.
In another part of the forest standing above the body of a Uzumaki ninja a ninja with bees flying around him was looking down at a red-haired ninja whose entire lower body was missing.
"Why don't you just surrender, we will let you a way out of this impasse," he said with a magnanimous tone.
The dying ninja looking at him with a deep gaze rarely seen on the face of a dying man finally opened his mouth to say only one word.
"Lie!" After saying that he closed his eyes forever
A voice then resonated in his ear
"Even a dying moment won't fall for you lied Onoki, you shouldn't underestimate those people," Said Han the jinchuriki of the four-tail beast.
"Let's just go," he said to his men choosing to ignore Han
"Yes!!" they responded in unison, but they had barely started to move when a series of explosions perfectly timed took the lives of many of his men.
"What happened!" he screamed.
Very soon he had his answer, he saw skilfully hidden multiple explosive scrolls everywhere.
"Looks like they are prepared,"
In the center of the island, a group of old Uzumaki was standing in a circle with their eyes closed and their Kaguya mind eyes activated their looked throughout the battlefield.
With the help of a secret technique, they were able to each time that enough ninjas in the trap they detonated the explosives, taking out as many targets as possible.
"How is that going?!" someone asked
"It's going well for now, we are incurring the minimum amount of loss," the objective was simple to tire and cripple the enemy forces using the trap planted everywhere on the island and at the same time to slow them down.
And it was working very soon realising what was happening the forces of the four ninja villages started to move with more caution.
****
Konoha
"What did you say!" the angry voice of the third Hokage echoes from his office he is generally not very animated
"I said that the country of the Uzumaki was attacked by a coalition of the other four ninja villages," responded the calm voice of Danzo
"And how did that happen?! How did those four mount a surprise offensive so well coordinated on one of our strongest and longest allies without anyone noticing," Hiruzen voice was cold and accusatory
"We aren't even fully into the war and we are already at risk of losing allies,"
"It didn't completely escape our radar," said Danzo one of the advisors
"I already sent members of the root to Uzushio, they will rescue as many people as they can,"
"Did you know that it was coming," asked Hiruzen
"I knew that something was coming, but not this, I'm as surprised as you are," he said looking at his friend in the eyes.
"We need to send as much reinforcement as soon as possible, as quickly as possible, I want a list of ninjas disponible, we…"
Hiruzen couldn't even end his sentence when a member of his ambu appeared beside him.
"Master Hokage! The country of the rain has officially declared war against the five ninja villages!"
"Master Hokage! The country of the sky has declared war against the five ninja villages!"
"Master Hokage!" When the third anbu appears the already somber expression on the face of Hiruzen darkens even more
"We are experiencing a simultaneous offense from the other four ninja villages!"
The announcement soured the already bad mood of all the people in the room Homura, Koharu, Hiruzen, and even the unusually unexpressive Danzo seemed to be losing his cool
"Is it a fucking joke!"
"Bad news never comes alone,"
"Call every available ninja and the head of all the clans the war has officially started!!"
****
After spending a few hours in the stomach of the great whale summoned by Ashina, Akashi, his mother Kana, and his cousin finally arrived in one of the sanctuaries of the Uzumaki clan situated on the land of fire.
"Sir!" as soon as they arrived they were stormed by the members of the clan who started to give them their rapport of the situation of the clan.
"How is everything going?!" asked Ashina with concern on their face
"The second ninja war seems to have officially started, Rain and Sky Country have declared war on the five great ninja villages, and Konoha is currently been assaulted from all sides," they reported
"Good job Kurona," he said before turning to Kana and Akashi and a discussion started with everyone present
"Looks like you were right the sky country has declared war on the major ninja village,"
"Yes, but I'm stunned by the simultaneous attack on Konoha," he said
"Why! Konoha is still their enemy, if they were capable of mounting an attack on us they can do the same for them,"
"Do you think that means that we were wrong about them should we have tried to seek refuge with them?!"
"Maybe, but again maybe not, I'm not willing to bet my life or that of the clan on that, plus if we go seek refuge with them there is the possibility that we may be required to fight the war with them, and we have already lost enough,"
"True, we need time to recover, and we may be attacked on the way there, this is still safer to continue with our original goal, the sky country,"
"But the sky country is going to attract a lot of attention with that war," remarked someone else
"Plus it is a neighbor of the sand country,"
"Even more reason to go,"
"We will stay on the fence nurse our wounds and wait until the right time,"
"Now let's discuss the itinerary,"
Before it happened Kana turned to Akashi and Arima you two should go with the others, you need to rest until our departure.
"No! We want to stay here, this way we can learn more," Arima protested as he saw that he was being sent away.
"I want to stay too, I'm not just a child!" he said
For others, it was just a child acting like one but Kana and Ashina knew why he said that so they allowed them to stay on the condition that they stayed silent
"OK, next topic!"
After a few minutes of discussion with a map in the center of the room they quickly circled the place where the fighting was taking place and of course, decided to avoid it.
Soon an itinerary was determine
"Our next stopover is the Tea Country!"