Land of Fire, Konohagakure Village.
The information gathering ability of Konohagakure Anbu is not weak, coupled with the huge commotion caused by the Whitebeard Pirates in Kumogakure Village, it can be said to have shaken the entire ninja world.
As one of the five major ninja villages, Konohagakure Village, if it did not get the news, then the Anbu of Konohagakure Village could close down.
"Hokage-sama,That's all the information" An Anbu Jonin from Konohagakure Village, gave all the information he knew to Sarutobi Hiruzen, the Third Hokage.
Sarutobi Hiruzen's wrinkled old face showed a look of astonishment, "The Whitebeard Pirates invaded Kumogakure Village, and Kumogakure Village announced its surrender to the Whitebeard Pirates?"
He found that the rhythm of the ninja world is really too fast, so fast that he, an old man, is a bit unable to keep up.
Because in Sarutobi Hiruzen's memory, not long ago, the news that the Whitebeard Pirates had captured two Jinchuriki and the Fourth Raikage of Kumogakure Village had spread throughout the entire ninja world.
At that time, Sarutobi Hiruzen was also shocked, and there was a bit of schadenfreude in his heart.
After all, if only Konohagakure Village was targeted by the Whitebeard Pirates, Sarutobi Hiruzen would definitely not be balanced.
Now there's another Kumogakure Village, and even the Fourth Raikage of Kumogakure Village has been captured by the people of the Whitebeard Pirates. Isn't this worse than Konohagakure Village?
At that time, Sarutobi Hiruzen thought the situation was just like that, at most Kumogakure Village would spend a lot of money to ransom their Raikage and Jinchuriki.
Who would have thought that the ninjas of Kumogakure Village were so staunch that they chose to fight the Whitebeard Pirates first!
Don't they know how terrifying this man Whitebeard is?
Konohagakure Village dares not offend Whitebeard, do they Kumogakure Village dare to offend?
"Ignorance is fearless!" Thousands of thoughts flashed through his mind, and Sarutobi Hiruzen could only sigh: "They don't know what kind of man they are provoking, and now Kumogakure Village is going to pay the price for their ignorance."
"Ha... cough! Cough cough!" Sarutobi Hiruzen was about to laugh, but found that it was not very good to gloat, so he quickly stopped the expression on his face.
He coughed a few times, and sighed with a pretentious sigh: "The pirates are so rampant, what should the ninja world do?"
He said so, but in his heart, Sarutobi Hiruzen wished that Kumogakure Village would be worse off.
The other four ninja villages among the five major ninja villages can threaten the position of Konohagakure Village at any time.
Sarutobi Hiruzen simply wished that they would all be found by the Whitebeard Pirates.
He also wished that they had the guts to go to war with the Whitebeard Pirates.
In this way, it can severely weaken the power of the other four ninja villages, and perhaps even weaken the power of the Whitebeard Pirates.
They Konohagakure Village choose not to provoke the Whitebeard Pirates, and do not provoke other ninja villages, just need to sit on the mountain and watch the tigers fight... can sit firmly in the position of the five major ninja villages.
As long as the Whitebeard Pirates do not target Konohagakure Village, who they want to target has nothing to do with him, Sarutobi Hiruzen.
"Continue to keep a close eye on the information about Kumogakure Village and the Whitebeard Pirates. Once there is any new information, immediately put it on my office desk."
Sarutobi Hiruzen sorted out his thoughts and said to Anbu Jonin.
Anbu Jonin knelt on one knee, and nodded solemnly.
"Yes! Hokage-sama!"
...
Danzo was numb.
His hatred and fear of Whitebeard made him pay more attention to the Whitebeard Pirates than anyone else.
For this reason, Danzo even let the members of the root under his hand compile a detailed report on Whitebeard.
The root has been compiling the information of the day Whitebeard appeared until now.
When a large stack of information was presented to Danzo, he found out... In just two short years, Whitebeard had made such a big noise in the ninja world.
"First, they bewitched the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki, then injured Sarutobi, then took the Jinchuriki away from the village, killed the leader of Kusagakure Village and the Daimyo of the Land of Grass, killed the big businessman Gato, killed the Fourth Mizukage, subdued Kirigakure Village, disrupted the Chunin Exam..."
Danzo murmured to himself: "Up to today, Whitebeard hasn't stopped. This time he's even more outrageous, he invaded Kumogakure Village, and he actually succeeded!"
How many years has it been since such an outrageous character appeared in the ninja world?
The last one, was it Uchiha Madara, or Senju Hashirama?
And from the information Danzo got, the Whitebeard Pirates didn't lose a single person in the process of invading Kumogakure Village.
That is to say, all of Whitebeard's sons and daughters are alive and well, not one of them was killed.
Without losing a single person, they took down Kumogakure Village, what kind of concept is this?
"The god of the new era... of the ninja world?" Danzo, in a daze, actually put the title of Senju Hashirama on Whitebeard.
...
"The Whitebeard Pirates have taken down another 'city'." In the residence of the Yamanaka clan, Yamanaka Inoichi gently placed a chess piece in a corner of the chessboard.
His face, which was paralyzed, had a hint of a smile on it: "Although my chess skills are not as good as yours, but my layout for the family, this time is above you, Shikaku."
The person playing chess with Yamanaka Inoichi was none other than the head of the Nara clan - Nara Shikaku.
Nara Shikaku held a chess piece for a long time without dropping it.
He looked at his old friend in front of him and said with emotion: "When you made that big bet, how big did you think your chances of winning were?"
Yamanaka Inoichi thought for a moment, and he answered: "Less than thirty percent, at that time I wasn't even sure if the Whitebeard Pirates would take in Ino."
"If the Whitebeard Pirates didn't take in Ino, and everything I did was known by the higher-ups of the village, then the Yamanaka clan would be finished."
Shikaku was amazed: "With less than a thirty percent chance, you dared to make such a big bet, in this respect, I am indeed not as good as you. But..."
Shikaku suddenly showed a mysterious smile: "I think my luck, might... be a little bit better than yours."
Yamanaka Inoichi was stunned: "Luck?"
Shikaku didn't say anything, he just smiled: "Yes! Luck, it's a kind of forced luck! At that time I thought it was a bad luck, but now it seems, it's a great good luck!"
What Nara Shikaku was referring to was the incident when he helped the Whitebeard Pirates clean up the mess.
At that time, he was indeed forced, if he didn't help, he might have to fight with Hoshigaki Kisame.
At the critical moment, he chickened out, he chose to help.
The facts proved...
That time of chickening out, was the right choice.
It gave their Nara clan, a bright future.
Although the relationship between the Nara clan and the Whitebeard Pirates is not as close as that of the Yamanaka clan.
But Nara Shikaku feels that the relationship between the two sides is not simple.
...
"Shikamaru... it's so boring! So boring!"
On the streets of Konohagakure, Akimichi Chouji, holding a bag of chips, had a face full of pain and discomfort: "Naruto is not here, Ino is not here, only the two of us are left!"
Nara Shikamaru, with a toothpick in his mouth, rolled his eyes when he heard Chouji's complaint: "What? You still want to find Naruto and Ino?"
Shikamaru said: "The two of them are now incredible, kidnapping the Raikage of Kumogakure Village, and then invading Kumogakure Village, they are doing dangerous things every day."
"Just the two of us running over there, once they pull us into that kind of dangerous trouble, wouldn't we be sent to death in a minute?"
Chouji's chubby little face couldn't help but droop.
Just as he wanted to reach into the bag of chips and pull out a few chips to relieve his depression...
Suddenly a hand forcibly snatched the chips from his hand.
Chouji was stunned, he couldn't believe his empty hand.
Then he mechanically turned his head and looked at the two people who were standing in front of him at some point.
He watched as the other person poured his chips into his mouth and chewed quickly with a "crunch crunch".
Obito casually threw the bag of chips, and then quickly put on his mask, so that the two little ghosts in front of him could not see his face.
Tobi on the side was dumbfounded: "Madara-sama, you are too outrageous, right? You want to rob the things of two little kids?"
Obito snorted coldly: "Now as long as I see people related to the Whitebeard Pirates, it will make me very upset!"
It was only then that Chouji reacted, his eyes filled with anger: "Damn! You... you two..."
But before Chouji could react, Shikamaru quickly pulled him back.
Shikamaru acted in a hurry and shouted urgently: "Idiot Chouji! Run! Didn't you notice the clothes on these two people? Black bottom red cloud, it's the Akatsuki organization!"
Subconsciousness told Shikamaru that the sudden appearance of two members of the Akatsuki organization in front of him and Chouji was definitely not that simple.
Maybe, they are targeting the two of them!
The next second, Shikamaru found that his foot seemed to be bound by something.
He was tripped over. His face had a close contact with the ground, and he broke his nose on the spot.
"Uh--it hurts!" Shikamaru covered his nose and hurriedly looked down, only to find that it was a vine that had tied his leg!
"Shikamaru! Help!" Chouji's cry for help rang out.
Shikamaru quickly turned his head and saw that Chouji's body was also tied up by the vine, and it was tied very tightly.
"It's that guy!" Shikamaru looked at Tobi, his forehead was sweating coldly: "His hands... how did they become tree vines?"
And he didn't expect that he actually guessed right, the other party really came for him and Chouji!
"Hehe, as long as we catch all the people related to the Whitebeard Pirates, and use you little kids to threaten Whitebeard..."
Obito's eyes under the mask narrowed slightly: "The Whitebeard Pirates, who value friendship and righteousness, will definitely not ignore your life and death, right?"
A few short sentences made Shikamaru's pupils shrink.
Oh no, do these two guys want to capture him and Chouji, and then use their lives to threaten Naruto?
It seems that he and Chouji were inadvertently involved by the Whitebeard Pirates.
"Little brat, don't think about calling for help!" Soon, the vines had Shikamaru completely tied up like a dumpling.
A thick vine even drilled into Shikamaru's mouth, making his eyes bulge on the spot.
The vine was pressing against his tongue, making him want to retch, and his eyes were rolling back in his head.
But this was also very useful, he couldn't utter a word.
"The more people related to the Whitebeard Pirates we catch, the greater our chances of dealing with that bastard Kakashi! Those pirates pride themselves on treating their companions as family, right? If a friend of a family member is in trouble, can Kakashi just sit by and do nothing?"
Obito's eyes were gloomy, and he snorted coldly: "The next target... is a little brat named 'Rock Lee'."
At first, Obito said he wanted to deal with the Whitebeard Pirates, but his last sentence revealed his true intentions.
He actually wanted to target Kakashi.
The previous incident involving Nohara Rin had a huge impact on Obito.
Every time he thought back to that scene, Obito felt a wave of heartache and grievance.
What followed was a surge of anger.
It was an uncontrollable anger.
He wished he could eat Kakashi's flesh.
And drink Kakashi's blood!
...
Meanwhile, in a coastal town in the Land of Thunder.
Terumi Mei, upon hearing the news she had just learned, was completely dumbfounded: "Ah? The Whitebeard Pirates invaded Kumogakure Village, and they succeeded in the invasion?"
Terumi Mei was a bit dazed, what was going on?
What happened during the time she was drifting at sea?
The reason why she was drifting at sea was naturally to take a full year's fiscal revenue from Kirigakure Village, to find the Whitebeard Pirates, and to hand this money over to Whitebeard-sama.
According to the information Kirigakure Village had about the Whitebeard Pirates, Terumi Mei sailed all the way to the Land of Thunder at sea.
But as soon as her two feet stood on land, she learned of this news that shocked her immensely.
This heavy news hit Terumi Mei hard, making her speechless: "Doesn't that mean that we have to go to Kumogakure Village to find Whitebeard-sama?"
Then, she couldn't help but sigh, the master really had foresight!
If it weren't for the master's strong opposition, and let Kirigakure Village completely throw in with the Whitebeard Pirates, I'm afraid Kirigakure Village wouldn't be able to cling to such a big leg.
Terumi Mei knew very well that the military power of Kumogakure Village was absolutely more than ten times that of Kirigakure Village.
After all, Kirigakure Village had been almost ruined after a round of blood mist policy.
Such a powerful ninja village is still so weak in front of the Whitebeard Pirates.
"Let's go!" Terumi Mei immediately ordered the few Kirigakure ninjas beside her: "Go to Kumogakure Village! By the way, take out the pirate flag of the Whitebeard Pirates, we will directly carry the pirate flag!"
Originally, when she came to the Land of Thunder, Terumi Mei wanted to hide her identity a bit, so as not to provoke the ninjas of Kumogakure Village.
Now that she looked at it... there was no need to hide!
Just be open and aboveboard!
She didn't believe that, under the banner of the Whitebeard Pirates, the ninjas of Kumogakure Village would dare to target a few of them from Kirigakure Village.
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