Konoha: Uchiha, I get stronger by causing trouble.

Chapter 191 The Shy Nine-Tailed Fox

At this moment, the Nine-Tails' crimson eyes scanned its surroundings. When it saw Chiga, its pupils immediately narrowed. It was clear that it remembered Chiga's past remarks about it, and also the fact that Chiga was from the Uchiha clan.

Let's settle both old and new scores together.

The huge, sharp claws stretched straight toward Chiga, but then suddenly stopped in front of Chiga, staring at him intently for a long time.

After a long while, it slowly retracted its claws, and its massive body began to slowly disappear.

Upon seeing this, Qianhe closed the attribute panel in front of him, a slight smile playing on his lips. If the situation weren't so inappropriate, he would have loved to burst out laughing.

Kushina becoming the perfect Jinchuriki is a done deal!

He was genuinely happy for his teacher.

Before this, no matter how much Hiruzen Sarutobi favored Kushina in the village, it couldn't change the higher-ups' opinion of her, nor could it make Kushina get along well with the villagers because of the monster inside her.

At this moment, when the Nine-Tails appears and joins forces with the Konoha ninja to win the battle, and this event spreads throughout Konoha, everything will change.

Although it's impossible to change people's perceptions overnight, they won't think entirely of the Nine-Tails' terror and evil.

This would be a perfect start.

Just then, the Fourth Kazekage arrived at the scene. He saw Shukaku, who was still a pile of sand, and Kushina, who had returned to her original form.

"Retrieve Shukaku, and then..."

He stared at Kushina with murderous intent for a long time before gritting his teeth and roaring, "Retreat!"

As the newly appointed Kazekage, he desperately needs a victory to win the support of the Daimyo of the Land of Wind and the prestige of the people.

Therefore, he launched the invasion of Konoha, personally taking charge and even bringing Shukaku with him.

Unexpectedly, all of these arrangements failed. Not only was he completely defeated by Hiruzen Sarutobi in terms of his own combat strength, but even his own nuclear weapon against the village was now like a mangy dog, lying on the ground and refusing to get up.

He was very unwilling, but there was nothing he could do but order a retreat to preserve as much of his strength as possible.

Upon hearing the Fourth Kazekage's words, the Sand Ninja acted swiftly, summoning a giant sand pot while setting up a sealing technique around Shukaku.

At this time, Hiruzen Sarutobi was not present, and Tsunade was in the rear and unable to transmit information in time.

Sakumo Hatake became the supreme leader. With a wave of his hand, he said in a deep voice, "Stop them!"

Upon hearing this, the Konoha ninjas immediately sprang into action.

The Fourth Kazekage opposite him turned cold, waved his hands, and instantly countless gold dust gathered, blocking the path of all the Konoha ninja.

Seeing this, Hatake Sakumo was about to step forward to entangle the Fourth Kazekage when Chiyo suddenly jumped out and blocked his way, preventing him from breaking the Fourth Kazekage's ninjutsu.

Meanwhile, the Sand Ninja behind the Fourth Kazekage had begun sealing Shukaku. Shukaku, which had not been able to reassemble its body, was undoubtedly powerless to resist, which was the only good news for the Sand Ninja at this moment.

Before long, the sand from Shukaku flowed into the sand pot like water.

Next, the sealing ninjas pasted a special jutsu paper on top of the sand pot.

The Fourth Kazekage, who had held off all the Konoha ninja, saw that Shukaku had been sealed behind him and immediately formed a hand seal.

The clay pot that sealed Shukaku instantly turned into a wisp of smoke and disappeared.

At this moment, Hiruzen Sarutobi also arrived at the scene.

Chiyo and Ebizo appeared beside the Fourth Kazekage on the opposite side.

Chiyo didn't look particularly disheveled, but Ebizo was in a much worse state, hunched over and looking completely exhausted.

The three of them were originally having a good time with Hiruzen Sarutobi, but their older sister left first, and then the Fourth Kazekage also left.

He was left to hold off Hiruzen Sarutobi alone, and he was almost beaten to a pulp by Hiruzen Sarutobi.

On the battlefield, all that could be seen were smoke signals, huge craters, and ninjas who had died tragically.

After the previous battle against the tailed beasts, neither the Sand Village nor the Leaf Village had the will to fight again, and they looked at each other from afar, separated by corpses scattered all over the ground.

In terms of numbers, Konoha still has nearly two thousand people, while Sunagakure has about three thousand. This gap has narrowed by half compared to the initial two thousand people.

The Fourth Kazekage coldly stared at Hiruzen Sarutobi, uttering no harsh words, and simply said indifferently to the ninja beside him, "Retreat!"

"Waaah—"

A short while later, a long, continuous horn blast came from behind the Sand Ninja.

Upon seeing the retreating Sand Ninja, and the Fourth Kazekage, Chiyo, and Ebizo standing motionless, Hiruzen Sarutobi merely stared at them without giving the order to pursue.

With his immense strength and the ninjas behind him, he was fully capable of keeping all the Sand Ninjas here.

This was the reason he came to fight personally, but as the Hokage and the leader of a country, he had too many things to consider.

If these Sand Ninja are to be spared, how many of the more than a thousand Sand Ninja behind them will survive the desperate fight?

This alone was enough to make him give up on the plan.

Moreover, after this battle, the opponent will inevitably retreat to the Land of Wind and tighten their grip, thus achieving their strategic objective.

There's no need to keep pressing the issue.

Kushina, standing beside him, didn't think that much. In her view, letting the Sand Ninja go back now was like letting a tiger return to the mountain.

"old."

Perhaps to save face for Hiruzen Sarutobi in front of the Konoha ninja, Kushina changed her question and asked, "Hokage-sama, why didn't you give chase?"

"I need to transfer the ninjas from this front to the Land of Earth front; we can't afford to lose too many."

Hiruzen Sarutobi sighed, "The war situation in Konoha on the Land of Earth is not very good."

After the war ended, the final tasks were to clean up the battlefield and treat the wounded.

After years of war, all countries have long since developed a standardized procedure for these matters, and everything can proceed in an orderly manner without the need for Hiruzen Sarutobi's command.

Chiga followed Kushina into the command center.

The entire command center consisted of only five people: Hiruzen Sarutobi, Kushina, Chika, Tsunade, and Sakumo Hatake.

Tell me in detail about the battles that took place after Shukaku came out.

After Hiruzen Sarutobi sat down in the center, he asked while smoking his pipe.

"oh."

Kushina was about to speak when Hiruzen Sarutobi interrupted her mercilessly.

"I wasn't talking to you, I was telling Sakumo to say it, so shut up!"

Clearly, Hiruzen Sarutobi was somewhat dissatisfied with Kushina's decisions on the battlefield.

Sakumo Hatake glanced at Kushina, doing her a favor, and then said:

"After the Sand Village released Shukaku, in order to avoid too many losses for our ninjas, Jonin Kushina had no choice but to borrow the power of the Nine-Tails within her to fight against Shukaku."

After listening to Sakumo Hatake's explanation, Hiruzen Sarutobi looked Kushina up and down with surprise and suspicion, then suddenly said, "Forced to do it? With your strength, although you can't defeat Shukaku, suppressing him shouldn't be a problem, right?"

"Cough cough, back then, I didn't have much chakra left in my body, so it wasn't easy to suppress Shukaku with sealing techniques. In addition, the situation on the battlefield was complicated, and it was inevitable that I would be interrupted by the Sand Ninja."

Hiruzen Sarutobi nodded, barely accepting Kushina's explanation, and then asked, "So when were you able to control the Nine-Tails and have it borrow chakra from you?"

Kushina frowned slightly and corrected her, "Saying you'll control it is too harsh. I consider Kurama a friend; helping a friend in need is no big deal."

Hiruzen Sarutobi was taken aback and subconsciously asked, "Friend?"

"Yes, I thought that since I was going to spend my whole life with it, I couldn't just never see it again. Besides, it would be quite boring for it to just stay in my body all by itself, so I would go to see it often, and we gradually became familiar with each other."

Hiruzen Sarutobi rubbed his temples. Although he was known as the professor of the ninja world, he really had no experience in this area.

Judging from Kushina's performance on the battlefield, it seems that Kurama (the Nine-Tails) has no intention of taking this opportunity to break free from its seal.

It seems that Kushina's approach was correct.

Thinking of all this, Hiruzen Sarutobi's expression suddenly stiffened, and he stared directly at Kushina: "So, what about your first time?"

He understood that the fact that Kurama was still so quiet during such a favorable opportunity meant that Kushina had undoubtedly reconciled with Kurama long ago.

When Hiruzen Sarutobi brought this up, Kushina got annoyed and pouted, saying, "That was the first time I tried it, and someone interrupted me."

"Interrupted?! If someone had just been honest with me, none of this would have happened that day!"

Hiruzen Sarutobi was also unhappy. Kushina could have explained the reason directly, but she insisted on taking a beating from him for nothing. Who could she blame?

"You have to give me a chance to speak. You show up with a dark face, like you've lost your son."

"you!"

Upon hearing this, Hiruzen Sarutobi was so angry that his nose almost twisted out of shape. He pointed at Kushina with a trembling hand, and he almost couldn't catch his breath.

He took a deep breath and said, "Kushina, you need to understand that this was in a village. The ninjas below would be terrified if they sensed the Nine-Tails' chakra without knowing the truth! Besides, you yourself weren't having an easy time either, were you? I did go a little too far that day! Do you want to tell me the details of that day?"

Hiruzen Sarutobi emphasized the last few words, implying to Kushina not to provoke him any further.

Kushina's face stiffened after hearing this. Even though there were only five of them, she still felt a little embarrassed.

To avoid someone spreading the story as a laughing stock, she had to lie:

"After you showed up that day, it was no longer under my control. You have to understand that Kurama is very shy. Of course he would be very scared to see so many people around. And that fear made me a little reluctant to control him!"

She's become incredibly thick-skinned by now, as long as she doesn't reveal the real reason.

Besides, it's not her who's embarrassed, it's just the Nine-Tails inside her.

Ignoring the nine-tailed fox that was already raging within her, she continued, "In short, I don't remember anything from back then; it was all Kurama who was in charge."

(End of this chapter)