I became Hokage in Tokyo

Chapters 472 and 473: The Battle of Iwo Jima

The Ogasawara Islands, located more than 1000 kilometers southwest of Tokyo.

On the sea, the night was dark and the wind was high, the waves were surging, and beneath the surface, the undercurrents were turbulent.

An Ohio-class black nuclear submarine, its cylindrical teardrop-shaped streamlined hull allows it to silently traverse the ocean.

"That's Iwo Jima, which our ancestors fought over with the Japanese."

In the bridge of the nuclear submarine, the chief engineer looked through the periscope at the tiny black dot almost invisible on the sea surface, muttering with a complex expression:

"President George H.W. Bush probably never imagined that while they were fighting a bloody battle, there was a Japanese demon, the Nine-Tailed Fox, lurking beneath their feet."

The Battle of Iwo Jima, fought at the end of World War II between Japan and the United States for control of this easily defensible island, was one of the most brutal and arduous amphibious landings in the Pacific War, resulting in the deaths of nearly 30,000 soldiers on both sides.

"Was George H.W. Bush a pilot back then, uh..."

The bearded captain, upon hearing the chief engineer's words, felt a wave of nausea and vomiting, both physically and mentally, as he recalled the sashimi prepared by the Mexican chef before the voyage.

But tell Old Mo that he's the one who wants to eat fish.

The bearded captain could only swallow back the acidic liquid with a contorted expression.

One of the targets of this special operation is the Japanese mythical nine-tailed fox spirit.

In order to pray for good luck and express his intention to eliminate the Japanese, the bearded captain specially ordered sashimi, a representative Japanese dish.

"That's enough, don't go any closer. It wouldn't be good if we alerted those two monsters," the bearded captain said in a deep voice.

"Two monsters? Besides the nine-tailed fox, what other monsters are there...?"

The chief engineer was taken aback, and then looked around suspiciously.

"Could it be a three-tailed Leviathan nearby?!"

The Three-Tailed Isobu is arguably the most infamous tailed beast to date.

Its immediate presence blocked one of the world's busiest waterways, the Panama Canal, causing immeasurable economic losses.

Yesterday afternoon at 13 PM, perhaps stimulated by the sixth crimson moon, the Three-Tails was sighted for the second time in the Coral Sea in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.

The three tails then made landfall in Wellington, the capital of New Zealand's North Island, triggering a tsunami that ravaged the entire city before disappearing again into the Pacific Ocean.

All the Pacific coastal nations are now living in constant fear, lest the elusive Isofuri appear in their major coastal cities.

Undoubtedly, all Pacific nations are gripped by unprecedented panic. Coastal residents are fleeing inland, fishermen are afraid to go to sea, and merchant ships are hesitant to set sail. The resulting economic recession can be described as a new economic crisis.

No wonder the chief engineer was so paranoid and saw threats everywhere.

A monster like the Three-Tailed Fox, capable of controlling storms and tsunamis, is virtually invincible in the ocean. It could easily annihilate not just a nuclear submarine, but an entire aircraft carrier fleet.

"The monster I'm talking about isn't that damned giant turtle."

The bearded captain's face was filled with gloom and apprehension as he said in a deep voice:

"It is the Uchiha Sage Sect."

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The sea was pitch black, and the stars and moon were shrouded in dark clouds.

With high winds and rough seas, amidst the ominous signs of an approaching storm, a Japan Coast Guard lifeboat was tossed about in the raging waves.

"The residents of both Chichijima and Hatojima have been evacuated? Good."

With his jet-black hair and piercing eyes, Uchiha Senmon held a satellite phone in one hand, facing the howling, biting sea wind, and looking towards Iwo Jima, twenty or thirty nautical miles away.

Iwo Jima is a volcanic island formed by the cooling of an underwater volcano. To the south lies Mount Suribachi, an extinct volcano that has not yet cooled, which emits sulfurous volcanic gases year-round, hence the island's name.

Iwo Jima is administratively part of Ogasawara Village in Tokyo, but due to the large number of unexploded ordnance left on the island by both the Japanese and the Americans, it is no longer suitable for habitation. The original inhabitants of Iwo Jima have almost all migrated to Chichijima and Hakajima, about 100 kilometers away.

Yesterday, the Uchiha Sage Sect sensed the Nine-Tails' immense evil aura and determined its approximate location.

After demarcating the area, the Maritime Self-Defense Force quickly discovered a newly formed trench near Iwo Jima, created by an undersea earthquake, where a famous tailed beast was lurking.

Daji, Huayang Tian, ​​and Tamamo-no-Mae are all incarnations of a golden-haired, jade-faced, nine-tailed fox spirit who wreaks havoc on three countries!

The mere sightings and videos captured by the submarine, revealing the nine-tailed fox demon's magnificent nine enormous tails and its unfathomably dark eyes, sent chills down the spines of Tokyo's powerful figures.

The staff who faced the malice of the Nine-Tailed Fox on site were even more devastated, suffering severe mental trauma, and some even died of cardiac arrest as a result.

Even ordinary mortals like them realized that the Nine-Tailed Fox was a monster that surpassed any previous tailed beast!

At the emergency meeting, some suggested that the Maritime Self-Defense Force and other countries form a joint fleet to encircle and annihilate the Nine-Tailed Fox, severely damaging or even killing it before it awakens.

However, it was rejected by the Uchiha Sage.

Firstly, the time was too short, and the fleets of various countries did not have enough time to organize and coordinate before the Nine-Tailed Fox revived; secondly, the previous few crushing defeats were enough to prove that conventional forces would be doomed to defeat the Nine-Tailed Fox, whose strength far exceeded that of ordinary tailed beasts.

The Uchiha Sage Sect, acting unilaterally, ultimately decided that he would be the one to confront the legendary Nine-Tailed Fox.

With the Kamui Mangekyou Sharingan at their disposal, the Uchiha Senmon naturally had no worries about the future.

Furthermore, the Uchiha Sage Sect had also prepared a backup plan.

"They did come after all. Their courage is commendable, but they're certainly courting death."

He casually tossed the satellite phone into the sea, then picked up the Uchiha fan and scanned it with his Sharingan.

Under the cover of night, the horizon was blurred, and numerous warships could be vaguely seen sailing on it.

Although the Uchiha Sage Sect currently holds power in Japan, the United States has been operating in the country for decades, with henchmen from top to bottom, making it impossible for this move to be kept secret from the United States.

The Uchiha Sage Sect simply went ahead and revealed the information about the Nine-Tailed Fox's resurgence in the waters off Iwo Jima to high-ranking officials around the world.

Despite clear warnings, some countries still sent warships to observe the battle.

Moreover, at this moment, countless satellites in space are aimed at this sea area.

All eyes are on this: the Second Battle of Iwo Jima in the Extraordinary Era will determine the future.

"Boom!"

The sea was filled with changing clouds and the weather was suddenly altered.

Thunder rumbled in the sky, and waves as big as small hills rose and fell, crashing together and turning into a torrential downpour of foamy droplets.

The lifeboat was tossed about by the waves, seemingly on the verge of falling into the sea. Seawater splashed onto Uchiha Senmon's face, but his icy expression remained unchanged.

It seemed as if some great being was awakening in the depths of the ocean, and with its return, the entire vast ocean trembled in fear.

"Oh my god, is a tsunami about to erupt? The seismic wave curve is rising higher and higher!"

"Immediately! Issue the highest level of alert to Tokyo!"

The Japan Meteorological Agency had already identified this area of ​​sea, and the volatile curves left the staff at the Ogasawara Observatory horrified.

Even meteorological and earthquake disaster departments in other countries detected this terrifying earthquake signal, and they were all in a state of panic.

"It's surfaced!"

As if possessed by a prophet, the Uchiha Sage stared intently at a towering wave crest hundreds of meters away, his gaze sharpening.

The towering waves, formed by tens of thousands of tons of seawater, surged and crashed, followed by nine golden fox tails, each nearly a hundred meters long, that broke through the waves, dancing gracefully like pillars between the sea and the sky.

"Boom!"

A violent clap of thunder exploded, instantly illuminating the vast sea in the dead of night as if it were daytime.

All the warships patrolling this sea, as well as the weather satellites in space, saw this enormous thing emerging from the sea!

This is an enormous orange fox, so ferocious it's like a physical natural disaster, yet so sacred it feels like a deity.

"This is the nine-tailed fox..."

"So beautiful!"

The nine-tailed fox's sacred yet terrifying aura caused their minds to go blank for a moment. After a long while, they groaned and said:

"He's practically the embodiment of a god!"

Even if it causes chaos in the world and destroys the country, it is a great being that will be allowed to do so.

"The Nine-Tailed Fox, what powerful evil energy! Compared to it, Shukaku is simply not in the same league!"

Facing the overwhelming ferocity of the Nine-Tailed Fox, a power capable of shattering the liver and gallbladder and scattering the soul of ordinary people, Uchiha Senmon's three tomoe in his eyes spun rapidly, and his expression changed drastically.

The immense energy of Shukaku, the One-Tailed Beast, can be described as inexhaustible, but the power of the Nine-Tailed Beast is completely immeasurable.

Are there really such big differences between tailed beasts?

It is as big as the number of tails between them.

This is not something to laugh about.

After emerging from the abyss, the nine-tailed fox landed on all fours on the churning sea, then turned its head westward, its beastly eyes filled with nothing but dark malice that sought to destroy everything, and prepared to leave.

Standing on the sea, Uchiha Senmon glanced westward and felt a chill run down his spine.

That direction leads to Japan!

If a monster like the Nine-Tailed Fox were to land, it wouldn't be impossible for the Japanese archipelago to sink.

"Water Release: Water Dragon Bullet Technique!"

Uchiha Senmon's palms flew, forming several hand seals with lightning speed.

Two sea dragons, each twenty or thirty meters long, leaped out of the raging waves and lunged at the nine-tailed fox.

The nine-tailed fox didn't even glance at it. With a casual, elegant flick of its tails, it cleaved through the sea and shattered the water dragon bullet.

When his first attack failed, Uchiha Senmon changed the way he formed hand seals.

In the raging, boiling ocean, as if Poseidon, the god of the sea, had descended, the crest of the wave beneath Uchiha Senmon's feet lifted him a hundred meters into the air in one fell swoop.

"Water Release: Great Waterfall Technique!"

A colossal wave, several heads taller than the fox demon, crashed down on it like a landslide or tsunami.

In the vast ocean, water-style techniques can unleash their full power.

"roar!"

The Nine-Tailed Fox merely opened its mouth and roared forward, and the raging waves that were enough to destroy a coastal town turned into a torrential downpour, as fragile as paper.

Crackling sounds!

After effortlessly thwarting the two waves of attacks from the Uchiha Sage Clan, the Nine-Tailed Fox lowered its head, seemingly searching for the insects that had been buzzing and harassing it earlier.

Suddenly, a crimson moon, blooming with cherry blossoms, was reflected in the Nine-Tailed Fox's eyes.

Its massive body was temporarily unable to move.

Kaleidoscope Sharingan!

A few breaths later, Uchiha Senmon couldn't help but groan, his right eyelid heavy and half-open.

"Using only the power of one Mangekyou Sharingan to tame the Nine-Tails is clearly not going to work."

Uchiha Senmon let out a long breath and smiled bitterly.

If it were his original Mangekyou Sharingan, he might have been able to manage it, but the Kamui Mangekyou Sharingan that Uchiha Senmon replaced in his left eye definitely wouldn't be as powerful as his original eye.

Moreover, the Uchiha Sage Sect still has a considerable portion of its eye power occupied controlling other tailed beasts, leaving them no time to attend to anything else.

"If the power of the Kaleidoscope Sharingan is insufficient, then the only option left is to use the second power to tame the Tailed Beasts."

When one plan failed, another was devised. Uchiha Senmon quickly withdrew, skimming the surface of the sea like a dragonfly, and sped towards Iwo Jima.

"Awooohoo!"

The Nine-Tailed Fox, who had been as indifferent as a god strolling among the clouds, finally went berserk under the threat of the Mangekyou Sharingan. She trampled between the waves with both hands and feet as she chased after the Uchiha Immortals.

"Great! That's it!"

The Uchiha Sage's senses were locked onto the Nine-Tailed Fox, allowing him to accurately judge the distance between him and the Nine-Tailed Fox without turning around.

The area where the Nine-Tailed Fox emerges from the sea has an average depth of over 1000 meters. Using Wood Release under such conditions would be like a tree without roots.

The Nine-Tailed Fox must be lured to Iwo Jima, the largest uninhabited island nearby, for the Wood Release technique to unleash its full power.

A dark figure moved with the agility of a dragon across the surging sea as if it were flat ground, instantly flashing dozens of meters away, while the nine-tailed fox relentlessly pursued him.

Just then, a reef with a diameter of 100 meters appeared right under the noses of the Uchiha Sage Sect.

This is not Iwo Jima.

The waters near Iwo Jima are subject to frequent crustal activity, with more than a dozen large and small islands and reefs formed by lava deposits from underwater volcanic eruptions.

Uchiha Senmon was about to leap up and use this reef as a stepping stone to reach Iwo Jima.

Just then, Uchiha Senmon felt a chill run down his spine and experienced a strong heart palpitation.

He knew something was wrong and instead of continuing to rise into the air, he retreated rapidly and dived into the sea.

"boom!"

A single Tailed Beast Ball obliterated the entire reef, and a massive fireball, as large as a mountain, spread out, causing countless seawaters to evaporate into a vast expanse of white mist.

A minute later, several miles away, Uchiha Senmon surfaced on the sea with a splash.

The vast expanse of water vapor on the sea surface had not yet dissipated, and the Uchiha Senmon were observing the Nine-Tailed Fox's movements.

Before they could even catch their breath, another chill swept over Uchiha Senmon.

"roar!"

The Nine-Tailed Fox accurately pinpointed the direction where the Uchiha Immortal Sect was hiding, and with a swift movement, the second Tailed Beast Ball hurtled towards them.

Seeing this, Uchiha Senmon decisively drew his Uchiha fan from his waist and went to meet the attack head-on.

"Uchiha Rebound!"

(End of this chapter)