Starting with the Uchiha clan, they began cultivating demonic arts.

Chapter 33 Heading to the Battlefield

"You've come, Feiyu."

The Third Hokage smiled kindly, looking at the troublemaker Uchiha Tou with a benevolent expression.

The Third Hokage already knew that Uchiha Hiyu had injured an Anbu ninja, but clearly, the old man didn't care about that.

To the Third Hokage's surprise, Uchiha Tou, who usually lacked motivation, seemed to be showing some improvement this time, with a serious demeanor that was quite different from usual.

"Lord Hokage, is there any mission you require?"

When Uchiha Tou asked the question, the Third Hokage was stunned. If the Third Hokage remembered correctly, this should be the first time this cowardly Uchiha had asked about a mission.

"Uh...it's nothing really...I just wanted to ask if you've ever considered raising your ninja rank?"

"I heard that you ran into a Sand Village squad during your mission this time. Hiu, you took out their squad leader and two members. According to later investigations, you also took out a special Jonin and two veteran Chunin."

"With your current strength, remaining a genin would be a waste, so I'm planning to upgrade your ninja rank. What do you think?"

"After leveling up your ninja rank, you can't stay in the team anymore, right?"

Uchiha Touyu spoke calmly, and the Third Hokage nodded helplessly. There was no way to hide this from the other party.

"In other words, the Third Hokage wants me to go to the battlefield?"

"Well, the battle between Konoha and Sunagakure isn't as intense as it was in the beginning. If you're interested, you could go there to train."

"With your current strength as an elite Jonin, it's highly unlikely that you'll encounter any major danger."

Ignoring the Third Hokage's advice, Uchiha Touyu directly asked:

"Right now, the leader of the ninja army fighting against the Sand Village should be Lord Orochimaru!"

"That's right, it's Orochimaru."

The Third Hokage found Uchiha Touyu's question somewhat strange. After receiving the answer, Uchiha Touyu nodded and said:

"In that case, participating in the war shouldn't be a problem. When do we depart?"

Uchiha Touyu's decisiveness caught the Third Hokage off guard, causing him to hesitate.

This kid is so enthusiastic, is he up to something? What if the Uchiha in front of us makes a great contribution on the battlefield? Would that impact the current power distribution in Konoha?

Although Uchiha Touyu has no real foundation in either the Uchiha clan or Konoha, he still shares the Uchiha surname. If he truly demonstrates unparalleled strength and gains immense prestige, the possibility of the Uchiha clan joining his cause is not small.

Ultimately, Uchiha Touyu was young and talented, and his surname also aligns with the Third Hokage's interests, so it's not surprising that he had such thoughts.

However, it would be unwise to withhold the combat power of an elite Jonin during the war simply because of such suspicion. Not to mention, given Uchiha Touyu's past personality, if he really had the idea of ​​withholding him, Touyu would probably go along with it and wouldn't be able to contribute anything during the entire war.

After considering this, the Third Hokage nodded:

"I didn't expect you to be so proactive this time, Feiyu. After you rest for two more days, you can set off with the team supporting the front lines the day after tomorrow."

"in addition……"

The Third Hokage smiled and took out a Chunin vest:

"From this day forward, you are a Chunin!"

After saying goodbye to his team leader and two teammates, and having a farewell dinner, three days later, Uchiha Touyu, wearing a Chunin vest, joined Konoha's support team on the front lines.

The team was small, numbering only a little over a hundred people, and ninjas themselves did not advocate large-scale battles.

The leader was a Jonin, with two Special Jonin as the team's deputies. The Chunin were already part of the middle management, and there were only ten Chunin in total. As for the Genin team of nearly a hundred people, they were all experienced adult ninjas.

Konoha would obviously not send young ninjas to the battlefield unless they were in dire straits; everyone understands the principle of killing the goose that lays the golden eggs.

Unless they are exceptionally talented, ninjas under the age of fourteen usually perform logistical work in the early stages of a war and do not enter the front lines.

Everyone was a ninja, and the team of over a hundred people silently began to advance. It took them almost a day to reach the front lines of Konoha.

The battle between Konoha and Sunagakure is not taking place within their own country, but rather in the Land of Rivers. Smaller countries between major powers are buffer zones, and inevitably become battlefields during battles.

Therefore, it seems natural for small countries like the Land of Rain to hate large countries. After all, in every war, large countries lose their ninja reserves, while small countries are almost completely destroyed.

The front line has a very familiar name—Mount Kikyo. Uchiha Touyu vaguely remembered that there was a Battle of Mount Kikyo in his previous life in Naruto, and Konoha won. At least he didn't have to worry about the battle being as brutal as the battle against Iwa ninja.

In the war against the Iwa ninja, Konoha was truly exhausted. If it weren't for Minato Namikaze's Flying Thunder God Technique to save the day, the ninjas on the main battlefield would probably have been wiped out. Even if they had won in the end, the remaining ninjas would have been almost entirely wiped out, making it an extremely tragic battle.

Even if Uchiha Touyu is currently desperately short of lives to sacrifice and wants to collect some souls, he wouldn't be crazy enough to want to participate in that kind of battle.

Upon arriving at the front-line camp, the Jonin leader and two special Jonin went to report to Orochimaru, who was in charge at the front, while the ordinary Chunin and Genin were simply scattered and assigned to different groups.

Uchiha Touyu was still pondering how to meet Orochimaru when a Jonin who had just emerged from the frontline command post summoned him directly:

"Chunibyo Tou, Lord Orochimaru requests your presence in the command center!"

Upon hearing this, Uchiha Touyu's eyes lit up, and he headed straight for the command center.

He realized that he had underestimated the significance of elite Jonin-level strength. After all, in the original work, most of the combatants were no weaker than elite Jonin, but in reality, there were very few ninjas of this level in the entire ninja village.

Uchiha Touyu was unaware that even on the front lines of this battlefield, there were only four elite Jonin-level ninjas, and that was only because the war had just begun and manpower was relatively abundant.

In another two or three years, when the other ninja villages make their moves at the same time, and the battle becomes more intense, each front will have at most two or three elite Jonin to assist the commanders, in addition to the Kage-level commanders.

Therefore, even though Uchiha Tou is only a fourteen-year-old boy with only the title of Chunin, Orochimaru would still personally summon him for an audience.

(End of this chapter)