The world I hear is completely different from yours.

The sound, like thousands of birds taking flight, rang out again, and the dazzling yet highly lethal lightning reappeared on Kakashi's left hand, this time targeting the remaining three Sand Ninja!

With the extremely destructive power of Chidori, the spiral electric field that can monitor the movements of surrounding enemies at all times, and the explosive speed that Kakashi gains through electrical stimulation, the young Kakashi at this moment possesses close combat abilities that surpass those of a Jonin!

Through his sprint, Kakashi had already reached the Sand Ninja directly. At such close range, neither side had time to form hand seals; they could only rely on taijutsu and ninjutsu without hand seals to determine the victor. Kakashi had actually forced the battle into hand-to-hand combat!

This is what is known as the rhythm of battle. Through reasonable tactical arrangements, one can always amplify one's own advantages and keep the enemy in a disadvantageous position, thereby achieving the goal of defeating the strong with the weak and sweeping away the enemy's forces.

"Back off and create distance! His power can't last!" a Sand Ninja shouted, then charged forward recklessly, wielding his weapon and engaging Kakashi in close combat. He used this opportunity to allow his two companions to scatter and further distance themselves from Kakashi.

Although Kakashi successfully killed three Sand Ninja in the first few seconds of the battle by risking his life, the remaining three Sand Ninja were no pushovers either. Although they were slightly stunned by Kakashi's outburst and the instant death of their comrades, as Jonin, they quickly regained their composure and keenly perceived Kakashi's weaknesses.

That's because Kakashi is too young!

Yes, Kakashi has only been out of the Ninja Academy for a year now, and is only 6 years old. As a genius who graduated from the Ninja Academy early, and one of the earliest graduates of Konoha Ninja Academy, Kakashi is still a child in the process of physical development.

Although these Sand Ninja didn't know Kakashi's exact age, as Jonin, their experienced eyes immediately noticed that Kakashi wasn't very old. Therefore, they could deduce that Kakashi's body wasn't fully developed and couldn't withstand such powerful force. Not to mention that Kakashi recklessly used electricity to stimulate his body in order to achieve speeds surpassing Jonin. How long could such a self-destructive method last?

"I can't hold out for long, but it's enough to deal with you!" Kakashi closed his eyes and sensed the movements of the surrounding enemies through the spiraling electric field emanating from his Saint Cloth. With a flash, he thrust the Chidori into the body of the Sand Ninja!

Sizzle! Like a red-hot knife slicing through cream, Chidori sliced ​​through the opponent's abdomen without any resistance, tearing off most of the opponent's body.

"Next are the two remaining!" Kakashi thought to himself, and stomped his foot on the ground, intending to use the force to catch up with the two Sand Ninja who were fleeing at high speed. However, Kakashi was surprised to find that his body had become much heavier, and his speed had decreased significantly!

It was that Sand Ninja from before! His face was flushed red, his eyes were bloodshot, and he clung tightly to Kakashi's leg. His hands were like steel bars, gripping Kakashi tightly. The moment Kakashi's Chidori struck him, the Sand Ninja realized his impending death, so he abandoned his defense and concentrated all his chakra in his hands, greatly increasing the hardness of his arms before holding Kakashi tightly.

"You can't escape now! My comrades will avenge me!!" The Sand Ninja said incoherently, blood gushing from his mouth.

When Kakashi finally managed to break free from the Sand Ninja's grasp, he was shocked to find that the spiral electric field, which covered his body and was tens of meters in diameter, was now empty. The two Sand Ninja had taken the opportunity to run out of the spiral electric field and successfully increased the distance between themselves and Kakashi.

"This is it!" Kakashi felt a chill run down his spine.

*Crack!* A crisp sound of bones breaking rang out, and Kakashi collapsed powerlessly. After this period of entanglement, Kakashi's body finally couldn't take it anymore. The close-combat abilities surpassing those of a Jonin, gained through the enhancement of the Cloth and continuous electric stimulation, were ultimately not something a young child's body could handle. After the brief burst of power, the backlash from the force was already appearing on Kakashi's body.

"My thigh is broken, and the muscles in my limbs are torn. I'm afraid I can't even move a finger now, can I?" Kakashi tried to twist his body, but it only brought him excruciating pain. Although his Saint Cloth was still functioning normally, constantly drawing Kakashi's blood and returning his chakra, what was the point of that for a ninja who couldn't move, dodge, or even form hand seals?

"Those two Sand Ninja are probably preparing hand seals to unleash a ninjutsu on me right now, aren't they? Looks like my life is over." Kakashi opened his eyes, looking at the sky above: "Damn it! I'm so unwilling!!"

The next moment, the two Sand Ninja corpses fell to the ground, their eyes wide open, their faces filled with disbelief.

Flying Thunder God Technique!

Minato Namikaze, who had instantly defeated the two Sand Ninja, teleported again and appeared next to Kakashi: "I'm so sorry I'm late. Kakashi, are you alright?"

Kakashi was stunned for a moment, then laughed happily. Life's ups and downs happened so fast that he couldn't quite process it for a moment.

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Outside the Sand Ninja camp in the Valley Country, a Sand Ninja team that had assembled and was ready to depart was waiting for Commander Maki's next order.

Maki stared grimly at the sky above, raising his hand to signal the troops behind him to change direction. He had originally planned to lead these elite Jonin to wipe out the few Konoha ninjas who dared to attack the logistics transport team, but now he felt it was better to quickly retreat back to the Sand Ninja's position.

In the azure sky, many large black dots appeared—elliptical spheres floating in the air, rapidly approaching the Sand Ninja army. Although these flying objects were at a high altitude, some of the sharper-eyed Sand Ninja were still able to make out the Leaf Village insignia on the airships.

Konoha's First Aircraft Carrier Squadron, reporting for duty!

"Lord Hokage, why do you insist on coming to the battlefield?" a Konoha staff officer asked in the control room of the leading aircraft carrier.

"Because if I don't show up soon, some people might forget about me," Tian Qing said earnestly.

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Chapter Thirty-Seven: Why Don't You Play by the Rules?

"Enemy attack! Enemy attack from the air!" The piercing alarm blared across the Sand Ninja's position, urging large numbers of Sand Ninja to scramble about in a chaotic frenzy. From the air, they looked like a swarm of ants doused with boiling water, moving erratically and frantically.

"I didn't expect the people from Konoha to arrive so quickly! And they all came from the sky!" The Sand Village commander, Ma Ji, stood in his defensive fortifications, looking up at the approaching black dots in the sky, his expression uncertain.

When the Land of Wind invaded the Land of Valleys, the Sand Village's strategic advisors had already anticipated the possibility of Konoha's intervention. Therefore, they specifically instructed the Sand Village to construct several defensive lines along the border of the Land of Valleys to counter any potential Konoha forces. Of course, it was unrealistic to rely solely on these makeshift lines to withstand Konoha's army. The Sand Village's original plan was merely to slow down the Konoha army's advance, giving their rear positions more time, and simultaneously using these lines to reassess Konoha's combat tactics.

Unfortunately, this was all in vain, because the Konoha army came directly from the sky. The Sand Ninja defenses on the ground were all rendered useless, and they could only watch helplessly as the sky did nothing. Therefore, Maki has urgently contacted the commanders of those defenses, instructing them to prepare to send some troops to support the rear positions.

Since you can't reach the sky anyway, you might as well come and get bombarded with us. Good brothers may not be born on the same day, but they will definitely die on the same day together. To this, the Sand Ninja who were recalled all expressed that they had a "MMP" they didn't know whether to say or not.

"It seems we won't be able to wait for those reinforcements to arrive!" Maki silently estimated the time and considered the next battle plan. "But it doesn't matter if there are no reinforcements. The Sand Village is not the Sand Village of the past! We suffered from the lack of long-range firepower in the last great battle, but this time we are different!"

Indeed, the weapons and equipment of the Sand Ninja army are now completely different from what they used to be.

The adage "to fall behind is to be attacked" was a lesson the ninjas had learned instinctively from centuries of bloody warfare. Therefore, after the last Shinobi World War, the Sand Shinobi began collecting information on Konoha's automated electromagnetic cannons, snake-shaped swords, and other puppet weapons, in order to study how to improve their own military combat system.

Theft, plunder, bribery, black market purchases—during the long years of peace, the Sand Ninja used every means at their disposal to obtain military intelligence from Konoha. The process was comparable to a series of spy blockbusters, but the actors had no script and could only rely on their own experience to act out the story. Making a mistake could cost them their lives.

Through various means, the Sand Ninja successfully copied a series of Konoha puppet weapons, including electromagnetic cannons of various ranges, as well as snake-shaped swords and other weapons and equipment for Sand Ninja soldiers. They also spent a lot of manpower and financial resources to produce these weapons and equip their troops.

However, the Sand Village did not popularize basic puppetry techniques like the Leaf Village did, so there were not many Sand Village ninjas who could manipulate these puppet weapons. Most Sand Village ninjas were still not used to using puppet weapons like the Snake Sword. After all, ninjas who did not know any basic puppetry techniques could not manipulate the puppet core of the Snake Sword in detail, let alone unleash its power.

At this moment, the Sand Ninja army was like an African native that had just completed the transition from cold weapons to firearms. Although they were equipped with relatively advanced guns and cannons, the soldiers' basic skills were not up to par. Most of the soldiers did not even know how to aim their guns, let alone fight with these weapons.

It wasn't that no one in the Sand Ninja's leadership was aware of this, but the unexpected disappearance of the Third Kazekage, the "strongest Kazekage," greatly disrupted the Sand Ninja's training plans. Coupled with the unrest among the people of the Land of Wind, the Sand Ninja's army had to act ahead of schedule and hastily went to the battlefield before they were fully integrated.

As Maki pondered, the dark figures in the sky finally arrived above the Sand Ninja's position.

Boom! Boom! Boom! Several electromagnetic cannons in the Sand Ninja's position fired a few shots into the sky. This was a probing attack by the Sand Ninja to test whether their anti-aircraft fire could damage the enemy.

"Report! Our electromagnetic gun's range is insufficient to inflict effective damage on the enemy!!" The artillery captain in charge of observation reported the results of the probing shelling to the staff officers in the command post.

"Don't worry!" Maki said confidently. "Since they're flying at such a high altitude, they shouldn't be able to accurately damage us! They'll lower their altitude sooner or later to launch an attack! Continue the probing bombardment, don't stop!!"

"Yes, sir!!" The artillery captain accepted the order and left, a look of delight on his face. As a Sand Ninja who liked to fire cannons at others, he couldn't help but feel a surge of joy when he realized that the enemy couldn't use artillery fire to retaliate. It was rare to see an enemy who would just take the hits without fighting back.

"Quick! Keep firing! Don't stop, let those Konoha bastards experience the passion of the Sand Ninja!!" the artillery captain shouted.

Immediately, several more electromagnetic cannons roared to life, sending out brilliant sparks in the sky, with explosions echoing everywhere!

"Hahaha!! Isn't that great? You Konoha bastards!!" The artillery captain laughed wildly, hands on his hips.

Then, countless bombs were dropped from Konoha's aircraft carrier, densely filling the sky.

"Huh?" The artillery captain suddenly realized that there was a huge logical flaw in what Commander Maki had just said. Although the enemy could not retaliate with electromagnetic cannons, they could just drop bombs, right? As for the enemy's low accuracy due to its high flight altitude, they could just drop more bombs to prevent the Sand Ninja's electromagnetic cannons from missing them.

After all, how can an army that has never fought in air combat possibly know in advance what air superiority really means?

"So, in reality, we're the ones who just take the beatings without being able to fight back?!" The artillery captain's face turned deathly pale upon realizing the truth!

"Seriously, you Konoha ninjas are so unpredictable! Isn't it supposed to be an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth? We Sand Ninjas fired cannons at you, so you should retaliate with cannons too! What's with suddenly throwing out a bunch of bombs? Don't you have any sense of contractual obligation?" The artillery captain cursed inwardly, then covered his head and hid in the fortifications.

The next moment, a deafening explosion rang out in the Sand Ninja's position!

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P.S. My internet was down yesterday and just got back today. I'm so sorry, everyone.

Chapter Thirty-Eight: Haiku about the Bombing

Humans actually have a very strong capacity for endurance; otherwise, they wouldn't be the strongest predators in the natural food chain. For example, when suddenly moving from an extremely cold environment to an extremely hot one, although humans will initially feel somewhat uncomfortable, after staying in such abnormal conditions for a while, the human body gets used to it, or rather, adapts.

This is true for ordinary people, and even more so for ninjas whose physical abilities far surpass those of ordinary people. I remember there was a rather popular saying in the ninja world that the name of the profession "ninja" actually means "a person who is good at enduring."

Kokuro now felt that this statement was quite correct. For example, right now, amidst the continuous bombardment of Konoha, he was surprised to find that he had become accustomed to the deafening explosions and no longer felt the tension he had felt before.

Although Kokuro can no longer hear any other sounds and can only communicate with others using sign language, he is in a pretty good mood. He even has the inclination to compose a haiku for some special sounds according to a certain rhythm, and he has given this haiku a name: "Rhythm".

Rhythm

Author Matsuo Kokuro

Konoha's bombardment boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom!

The Sand Ninja's screams of agony!

Mogami River

After finishing his masterpiece, Kokuro felt that his haiku was quite good, so he used sign language to "recite" the haiku to a friend next to him.

Then the Sand Ninja readily displayed a series of sign language: "The God of Haiku would want to punch someone if he heard this. Your ancestor Matsuo Bashō's coffin lid is about to burst open!"

"Hehe," Kokuro said dismissively, "You're just jealous! Just wait, once the Sand Ninja invade Konoha, I'll definitely carve my masterpiece onto the faces of every Hokage, so that my haiku will live on forever!"

Just as Xiao Jiulang was composing his next masterpiece, his friend, unable to bear it any longer, threw a punch.

Muay Thai is issuing a warning!

Kokuro, whose eyes were blackened from the beating, finally calmed down and began to ponder the next question: "Why did the bombing of Konoha last for so long?"

This is also the question on the minds of all the Sand Ninja. Since the bombing began, Konoha has been bombing continuously for about 5 minutes. If it were Konoha's ground troops, it would be understandable, as they would assume that the enemy has a lot of ammunition reserves. But now it is Konoha's air force that is launching the bombing. Is the carrying capacity of these air forces really that large?

At that moment, a terrifying thought surged into the mind of Maki, the Sand Village commander: "Could it be that Konoha has already been able to mass-produce scrolls that seal high-energy bombs?"

In the original work, sealing scrolls do not appear very often. This is because storage items like sealing scrolls are relatively complex to manufacture, so their production volume is not high. They are not common items that everyone has. That is why there are so many passersby in the original work who always carry ninja tool bags and a lot of weapons.

Maki was right. All the bombs dropped by the Konoha First Aircraft Carrier Squadron were sealed in batches on scrolls and carried onto the aircraft.

This first aircraft carrier squadron of Konoha was a new unit officially formed by drawing elite ninjas after an internal meeting of Konoha Village. For the sake of secrecy, these huge aircraft carriers had previously been kept at a secret military base in the Land of Fire, only used to train some necessary operators for the future. Others had never seen these weapons, nor had they appeared in public. Therefore, many Konoha ninjas only learned that their village possessed such huge aerial warfare machinery when they boarded these aircraft carriers.

This type of aircraft carrier is shaped like a giant oval rugby ball, with a length of several hundred meters from bow to stern. Around the ship, there are many small propellers that serve as the main propulsion for the aircraft carrier. At the same time, there are also a considerable number of airbags inside the aircraft carrier, filled with a large amount of light gas, which, together with the propellers, provide the aircraft carrier with a considerable amount of buoyancy.

On the outer side of the aircraft carrier, there are many bomb bays, from which a continuous stream of bombs are dropped on the Sand Ninja positions below.

"Report! All the bombs in the storage scrolls on the second ship have been dropped!" a Konoha advisor reported to Ame. "According to the Hyuga clan's Byakugan, the long-range weapons on the Sand Ninja positions below have been largely destroyed!"

"Then, according to the plan, let the vanguard set off!" Tian Qing ordered.

"Yes!!" The Konoha advisor accepted the order and left.

Inside the aircraft carrier are many drop bays, where rows of Konoha ninja with different expressions sit. They are the aircraft carrier's "carrier-based aircraft" and the aircraft carrier's main combat force.

Buzz! Buzz! Buzz! Buzz! Buzz! Buzz! Buzz!

Uchiha Shisui sat with his eyes closed in the aircraft carrier's drop bay, listening to his comrades chatting amongst themselves amidst the buzzing of the machinery.

According to the engineers from the puppet manufacturing department, this distinctive humming sound indicates that the aircraft carrier is in good condition and that all internal machinery is operating normally. "It's a happy, mechanical roar!" the engineer, who seemed a bit eccentric, said.

Of course, Uchiha Shisui had deep doubts about this.

The drop pod was a long and narrow room, not wide, but quite long. Along the long side walls were two rows of chairs firmly fixed to the walls, filled with Konoha ninja, each looking at their comrade opposite them with a different expression.

For safety reasons, all the ninjas seated in their seats had to be secured with seatbelts to avoid bumping into each other during a jolt. Furthermore, according to orders, to prevent a large movement of personnel from shifting the aircraft carrier's center of gravity and causing an accident, everyone had to remain seated and wait, and were not allowed to move around.

Sitting in such a cramped space with a group of people for dozens of hours, Uchiha Shisui found the incessant buzzing in his ears extremely annoying, practically the most terrifying noise in the world. Where was the sense of happiness? That engineer must have lost his mind!

Fortunately, the endless noise finally came to an end, and the captain's order came over the loudspeaker in the drop pod: "All vanguard personnel, prepare! Begin the airborne combat immediately!"

It's finally starting! Uchiha Shisui opened his eyes, ready for battle.

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P.S. Sorry for the late update, dear readers. I've been moving these past few days, so updates have been irregular. I sincerely apologize.