This team of Konoha ninjas was stationed at the border of the Country of Fire all year round, responsible for the defense and intelligence investigation work of the border.
On the other side of the border of the Country of Fire was Country of Wind.
Third Kazekage was the ruler of the Country of Wind and Sunagakure, and he was also known as the strongest Kazekage in history.
Magnet Release Bloodline Limit!
They recognized this terrifying talent in an instant.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
Just as the Konoha ninja team cried out in alarm, numerous black iron needles that seemed to be controlled by the magnetic force quickly flew toward their bodies and instantly penetrated their bodies.
Puchi!
Puchi!
Puchi!
...
The sound of piercing flesh sounded one after another. The bodies of these four Konoha ninjas seemed to have been penetrated into sieves and were covered in bloody holes.
Fresh blood poured out.
The blood continued to spurt out from these bloody holes.
The four Konoha ninjas widened their eyes which were filled with shock. They knew that the moment they died, they still couldn't believe that the difference in strength between the two sides was so obvious.
As these four people lost their breath, they fell down from the trees.
"Deal with the corpse. Don't leave any traces behind. What we need to do now is a surprise attack. We can't give Konohagakure any chance to get any information." The Third Kazekage said in a deep voice.
"Yes!"
These ninjas of Sunagakure immediately responded. Then, they specially sent a few people to deal with the corpse. The other people followed the Third Kazekage and continued forward.
With Third Kazekage leading the elite ninja team, it would be easy for them to invade the Country of Fire.
There were very few ninjas stationed here, and most of the captains were just Chunin.
Their strength was nothing in front of the Third Kazekage.
They were not on the same level and had no ability to resist at all.
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Country of Fire, Konohagakure, Anbu's dormitory.
A burst of information suddenly awakened Aoba. It was the shadow clones that had completed creating the explosive tag.
"It's not enough!"
Aoba slowly opened his eyes. After calculating the number of explosive tags in his mind, he immediately used Hiraishin no Jutsu(Flying Thunder God Technique) to lock onto the tower's position and reappeared there.
Aoba did not stop on the tower. He went straight to the dojo on the first floor. Then, he formed a seal with his hands and use Tajū Kage Bunshin no Jutsu(Multiple Shadow Clone Technique).
In a split second.
Thousands of Aoba's clones appeared in the dojo.
"You guys continue to make explosive tags."
Aoba said to the many clones in front of him. Right now, explosive tags still had some use for him. After all, this kind of thing has no attributes, and it was impossible to judge who was using it.
"Yes!"
These clones responded in unison. Then, they picked up the blank paper tags and began to draw on them.
After so many attempts at drawing up explosive tags, the success rate for Aoba to draw up explosive tags was already getting higher and higher.
Aoba watched as these shadow clones began to draw up explosive tags, and then he walked toward the other side.
He was not walking alone.
Behind him was a shadow clone.
The shadow clone understood what Aoba was thinking. After all, they all have Aoba's thoughts.
The two of them walked until they were near the stairs.
Aoba stopped.
The shadow clone also stopped.
"I'll leave today's interrogation to you," Aoba said to the shadow clone beside him.
"Understood." The shadow clone immediately nodded.
"Make sure to interrogate a little longer to leave a deep impression on them and let them know that you never left the compartment," Aoba said again.
"Understood." This shadow clone nodded again.
"Right, this is for you. Keep it with you. If you meet Brother Eaton, give this to him, and everything can be settled." Aoba took out a book from his pocket. It was the book that Fugaku had given him. On it were the latest chapters of the Ninja Academy's Teacher Bai from the shadow clone that had written it overnight.
"Understood." The shadow clone took the book that Aoba handed over.
"Well... there is one last thing." It was the first time that Aoba had handed over the interrogation work to the shadow clone, so he had to make it clear. After all, he could not be sloppy in his work. He stared at the shadow clone and said seriously, "If the reward for the prisoner awaiting interrogation is special, don't let him go for the time being. Let's see what happened based on his memory."
"Don't worry!" The shadow clone nodded at Aoba. He stared at Aoba with a very strange feeling. He said, "We are the same person. I know all these thoughts."
"Go." Aoba nodded. He also understood this matter, but he still had to remind him again. This way, even he would be more at ease.
"Yes."
After this shadow clone was warned by Aoba, it immediately used Hiraishin no Jutsu(Flying Thunder God Technique) and instantly disappeared, returning to Anbu's dormitory.
After Aoba's shadow clone returned to Anbu's dormitory, according to the usual trajectory of Aoba's life, he changed into Anbu ninja clothes, put on the cat face mask, left Anbu's dormitory, and strode towards the direction of Konohagakure Intelligence Division compartment.
Not long after.
Aoba's shadow clone came to the compartment and helped Aoba complete the day's work.
...
On the tall tower.
After Aoba finished giving instructions to the shadow clone.
He strode toward the top of the tower.
When he arrived at the top of the tower, his eyes were focused on the two Root ninjas.
"You will be useful in a while."
The corners of Aoba's mouth curled up slightly. He planned a very interesting thing.
He believed that as long as these things were successfully completed, they would produce a very interesting effect.
"But..."
"Before that."
"I want to invite someone over."
Aoba slowly closed his eyes and instantly communicated with the Flying Thunder God Formula on the wall at Root Base.
Swish!
Aoba's figure instantly flashed away.
Almost at the same time.
Aoba's figure appeared on the wall of the underground stone room at Root Base.
Not far ahead of him.
He could see Root ninjas wearing masks guarding the front of the stone room.
Swish Swish Swish...
The paper on Aoba's body began to change.
In just the blink of an eye.
He directly transformed into the appearance of Kumogakure Ninja, Gasshi.
Then.
A paper crane floated out of Aoba's sleeve.
The paper crane quickly flew up, creating a sound that broke through the air as it headed straight for the stone room's door.
"What is it?"
The eyes of these Root ninjas instantly focused on the paper crane. They had never seen such a thing before.
Just as the paper crane flew to the door of the stone room, it instantly turned into a piece of white paper.
As soon as the white paper was exposed to the sight of several people, various symbols began to appear on it, which was the Summoning Seal.
"Something is wrong!"
These Root ninjas immediately realized that there was something wrong with this piece of paper, but before they could react.
This piece of paper immediately trembled.
Swish swish swish...
Like magic, this piece of paper changed from one piece to dozens.
The paper produced was not ordinary paper.
All of them were explosive tags!
"Not good!"
These Root ninjas all reacted, but everything came too suddenly, and it was already too late.
They could only watch helplessly as explosive tags floated in the air. The seal patterns on the paper tags began to gradually change, and a shocking flame broke out.
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
Terrifying explosions rang out one after another, directly causing violent tremors in Root Base.
The stone door of this stone room was directly blown to pieces.
The surrounding Root ninjas even had their masks blown to pieces. Their bodies were badly mangled, and all of them were sent flying, falling to the ground.
At the same time.
Hari, who had been sitting in the stone room with his eyes closed, was suddenly awakened by the sound of the explosion.
He was completely dumbfounded!
Just as he instinctively looked in the direction of the stone door, a rock that had been shattered by the explosion smashed right into his face.
Pachi!
Hari was directly smashed to the ground by this rock. The bridge of his nose was shattered directly, his entire face became flat, and blood kept flowing out.
"AHHHH!"
Hari screamed in pain. This sudden disaster caused him incomparably pain. The intense pain constantly stimulated his nerves.
"Hari-sama, I'm here to save you!"
Aoba suddenly roared. Now, he had changed into Gasshi's appearance. In an instant, he rushed in front of Hari at an extremely fast speed. He directly grabbed Hari by the collar and pulled him out.
Aoba's movements were very rude and arrogant and did not care about Hari's physical condition at all. With such an instant pull, he almost pulled out Hari's soul.
"You..."
Hari's eyes were mixed with sand and blood. His vision had been blurred and he could not see the face of the person in front of him. However, he could tell from his rude actions that this person was a Kumogakure Ninja.
"Who are you?"
Hari immediately asked doubtfully. He squinted his eyes but could not open them. Although the situation was very miserable now, he was still very happy when he thought of someone coming to save him.
"Gasshi!" Aoba said with a grin.
As soon as he said this.
Hari instantly fell silent.
His face turned ugly.
"Are you really Gasshi?" Hari asked coldly. His heart was filled with intense anger.
"Are you touched?" Aoba said with a smile.
"It's all your fault that I am in this situation!" Hari's tone became even colder. Right now, what he did not want to see the most was this pig teammate. He suddenly had doubts about being saved.
"Aiya, Hari-sama, you can't say that. I deliberately broke into Root Base to save you!" Aoba imitated Gasshi's tone and said. When he pulled Hari over, he grabbed Hari's hair in an extremely rude manner and ruthlessly pulled him in front of him.
"Ding Dong! Memory Reading Succesful! Obtained: Raiton Chakura Mōdo(Lightning Release Chakra Mode)!"
A crisp electronic prompt sounded in Aoba's mind.
At the same time.
Scenes after scenes were added to Aoba's mind.
These memories were all Hari's memories.
"Not bad!"
Aoba lowered his head to look at Hari. He didn't expect to be directly rewarded with Raiton Chakura Mōdo(Lightning Release Chakra Mode). Now he clearly felt that he could enter the first stage of Raiton Chakura Mōdo(Lightning Release Chakra Mode). His physical activity would increase by using the lightning-release chakra to stimulate the muscles and cells around his body.
As long as he practiced a little more, he would be able to enter the Raiton Chakura Mōdo(Lightning Release Chakra Mode).
At that time.
Not to mention Gasshi.
He could even imitate the Third Raikage!
"Who?"
Just as Aoba walked out of the stone room with Hari in his hand, the Root ninjas quickly gathered around and focused their gazes on Aoba and Hari.
"Aiya..."
There was a hint of regret in Aoba's tone. He looked at Hari and said indifferently, "Hari-sama, we have been discovered. There is no other way. I can only abandon you."
"????"
A lot of question marks appeared in Hari's head.
At this time.
He felt that he could confirm one thing.
That was, Gasshi had a grudge against him!
He wouldn't do such a thing without a big grudge!
Hari was very clear about the current situation. He sat firmly in the stone room at Root Base, not fearing the current environment at all.
What's more.
He had already received some information.
Tomorrow, Kumogakure's envoy group would come to Konohagakure for a peace talk.
At that time, he would be rescued!
He could walk out of here openly, not in such a brainless way to be rescued.
And...
Now it seems that...
It seems that the rescue has not been successful...
"Gasshi, what are you doing!"
Hari almost roared. His anger towards Gasshi had reached the limit, and he wished he could tear this person apart right now.
But...
During this period of time, his diet only contained the most basic condition of not dying of hunger.
He had already lost all of his strength.
Not to mention killing Gasshi, he didn't even have the strength to struggle now.
In addition, he had just been hit in the head by the stone, and his entire face had been flattened. Now, even his vision was extremely blurry.
It could be said that Hari had been unhindered his entire life. He had never been defiled like this. This feeling was simply like a dog and could no longer be described as feelings.
Step step step step step...
As the dense sound of footsteps rang out.
More and more Root ninjas were gathering here.
Aoba's gaze swept past these Root ninjas and landed on Hari's face.
"Hari-sama, I have set up a reverse summoning technique outside. It can save both of us."
Aoba said slowly. After that, he whispered a few words into Hari's ear in a voice that only Hari could hear.
"But..."
"I can go out, but I won't take you away!"
"It's just a play!"
Aoba's words immediately provoked Hari. The latter's mood instantly became unstable, and he was on the verge of rage.
Infuriating!
It was too infuriating!
Pig teammates were just like that!
"I'll tell you one more thing. I'm here to kill you. Because of your existence has affected the progress of Country of Lightning's conquest of the world. Don't ask me who instructed me to do this. Do you understand the word 'great merit'?"
After saying this, the corners of Aoba's mouth curled up slightly. Finally, he whispered into Hari's ear.
"Farewell!"
Finished speaking.
Aoba grabbed Hari's body and rushed toward the group of Root ninjas in front of him.
Chi chi chi...
At this moment.
Aoba's body began to glow with lightning, and his body seemed to be covered in a layer of lightning armor. His speed instantly soared to the extreme, directly charging at the Root ninjas.
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
Aoba and Hari crashed into the Root ninjas as if taking Hari as a humanoid weapon and did not care about the latter's life or death at all.
Several waves of attacks came down.
All the bones in Hari's body were about to scatter.
However, he did not die.
The most fundamental reason was that when Aoba was attacked, he relied on his medical knowledge to let Hari avoid being hit in his vital points, causing the latter to suffer a very painful blow. However, he did not die.
"Die!"
Aoba pretended not to understand. When he saw that Hari was in a semi-conscious state, he threw Hari away like he was throwing away trash.
"Goodbye, Konoha ninjas!"
Aoba suddenly stretched out his hand toward his ninja bag and took out three smoke bombs.
In an instant.
He directly threw the three smoke bombs on the ground.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
The three smoke bombs produced a series of loud noises and instantly caused thick smoke to rise from the ground, blocking the line of sight in front of them.
"Reverse Summoning Technique!"
Aoba roared, then controlled his perception to lock onto the position of the Flying Thunder God Formula on the tower, and instantly cast Hiraishin no Jutsu(Flying Thunder God Technique).
Swish!
Aoba's body suddenly disappeared, leaving only thick smoke.
"Cough cough..."
"Cough, cough, cough, cough..."
"Cough, cough, cough, cough..."
The Root ninjas were choked up by these smoke bombs. When they came here, they planned to attack Gasshi, who was Aoba.
However, he was too fast.
They could not catch up at all!
At this time.
One of the Root ninjas arrived in front of Hari, who was lying limply on the ground.
He reached out his hand to touch Hari's neck.
"He is still alive!"
This Root ninja was a medical ninja. He instantly determined that Hari's bones and muscles were all broken, and his chakra pathway was also all broken. However, he still had a breath left, so he did not die directly.
"Inform the medical ninja team to do their best to treat him. The rest of the people stay here to prevent any accidents from happening again. I will report to Danzo-sama!"
A Root ninja who could speak up immediately gave the order, and then his figure flashed and disappeared.
...
On the tall tower.
After Aoba used Hiraishin no Jutsu(Flying Thunder God Technique) to return, he had already changed back to his original appearance.
"It's so comfortable!"
Aoba stood on the observation deck of the high tower and looked at the green trees outside, his mood had not been so good for a long time.
This wave of profit!
Aoba had the training method of Raiton Chakura Mōdo(Lightning Release Chakra Mode) in his head, but that required lightning chakra and body muscles to complement each other.
This meant that it needed Aoba's real body to practice. There was no way to replace it with a shadow clone.
Because of this special nature of training.
Aoba chose to delay it indefinitely when there was no time for him to learn ninjutsu. If he still had enough free time to practice, then he would learn it at that time.
All along.
The Gasshi that Aoba simulated was just superficial.
The traces of lightning radiating from his body were simulated by lightning chakra, and then the explosive heavy fist attack was performed by using Chōkajūgan no Jutsu(Ultra-Added-Weight Rock Technique).
Now that he had the real Raiton Chakura Mōdo(Lightning Release Chakra Mode), the rest of the things were much easier.
"I don't know what kind of change will happen after Hari knows that someone wants to harm him."
Aoba deliberately did not take Hari away, nor did he kill Hari, but he let Hari smell the smell of death.
The entire process was extremely realistic.
At the very least.
What Aoba was certain of was...
Hari would not think that this was all an act.
After all, Hari really almost died at Root's side.
After experiencing this kind of life and death.
That would change a person's mind.
Aoba was very clear that Hari was very loyal to Kumogakure, but this kind of loyalty could not affect the suspicion that burst out at the last moment of life and death.
Regardless of whether Hari returned to Kumogakure or not, Aoba had already planted a seed in his heart.
This would become a hurdle.
It lay across Hari's heart.
Aoba was certain.
The relationship between Hari and Kumogakure was no longer the same as before.
As long as Kumogakure doesn't have Hari, it will be like a strong body without a brain. The direction of this ninja world war will change completely!
Aoba took a deep breath and slowly exhaled. His eyes stared at the forest outside the tower.
"I didn't think it would go so smoothly because Kumogakure's envoy is coming soon. Most of the power of Root is concentrated on the external defense, which leads to the weakening of Hari's guard in the innermost area!"
Aoba can make this successful because he had taken advantage of Hiraishin no Jutsu(Flying Thunder God Technique). Usually, if he wanted to invade Root, he would have to enter through the entrance. Most of the defensive power of Root was concentrated at the entrance.
"Hari is done here. Now it's Kumogakure's turn."
Aoba's eyes suddenly lit up. The paper on his body flew up and instantly changed into another appearance.
This person's appearance.
It was Satsuma Rentaro, whom the Seven Ninja Swordsmen from Kirigakure had seen before.
Then.
Aoba raised his hand and grabbed the two Root ninjas lying on the ground and instantly used Hiraishin no Jutsu(Flying Thunder God Technique).
Swish!
Aoba disappeared with the two Root ninjas.
The next moment.
Aoba appeared on a tree outside of Konohagakure.
As far as he could see, not far in front of him was the camp of Kumogakure ninjas.
This Flying Thunder God Formula was left behind by the last shadow clone he had been waiting for.
Aoba had previously sent out four shadow clones.
Three of the shadow clones imitated the appearance of Root ninjas and headed to the Country of Rain to negotiate with Hanzo.
The last shadow clone remained.
He quickly found the place where Kumogakure was staying.
"It's here."
Aoba placed the two Root ninjas on the branches. A piece of paper appeared on their bodies and fixed them on the branches.
The next moment.
Aoba's eyes flashed with a cold light.
"Kumogakure!"
"I haven't liked you for a long time!"
"Now, consider it as giving me a chance."
"Let me punish you!"
Aoba quickly formed seals with both hands and immediately used Kage Bunshin no Jutsu(Shadow Clone Technique), directly summoning nine shadow clones beside him.
The bodies of these nine shadow clones were all flying in the air, and then they changed into different appearances. However, from the looks of it, they were all Kirigakure's ninjas.
After that.
Aoba brought along nine shadow clones, and a total of ten people rushed in the direction of Kumogakure's encampment.
The ten people made a seal at the same time.
The method of forming seals was the same.
Streams of water chakra condensed in their throats.
The ten people, including Aoba, all took a deep breath. Their chests instantly swelled up, and they sprayed a large amount of water in the direction of Kumogakure's encampment.
"Suiton: Dai Bakusui Shōha(Water Release: Great Exploding Water Colliding Wave)!"