Naruto: Konoha Spring of the Uchiha Prodigies

[But this is for the best; fools are easier to control.] Sasuke thought to himself as he looked at the helpless Kazahana Koyuki.

bang~

A cloud of smoke exploded, and Sasuke transformed into Kazahana Koyuki using his Transformation Jutsu, then said:

"I'll only teach you once, so watch carefully and learn well." After Sasuke finished speaking, he stretched out his hand in front of Kazahana Koyuki and said, "Hexagonal Crystal."

Kazahana Koyuki looked at the figure in front of her. Although the figure looked exactly like her, there was an undeniable majesty in his eyes. Kazahana Koyuki was stunned for a moment, and then, as if possessed, she took off the necklace around her neck and handed it to Sasuke.

"Sigh..." When she came to her senses, all Sasuke left her with was his back.

Sasuke, dressed as a snow-covered flower, arrived at the center of the shopping street. He took out a small flare from his pocket, lit it, and it exploded in mid-air in no time. The flare's noise quickly attracted the attention of the crowd on the street.

"Hello everyone, I'll take up a little of your time." Sasuke, disguised as Fuuka Koyuki, calmly chose a step and walked to the top.

"Let me introduce myself first. My name is Kazahana Koyuki. Of course, you might be more familiar with my other name, Fuji Kazahana Yukie." Sasuke, disguised as Kazahana Koyuki, had a smile on his face, looking confident and elegant.

"In the past few days, you may have all heard my name and know my identity. That's right, I am Kazeka Sayayuki, the only daughter of the former emperor of the Snow Country, who went missing during the palace coup ten years ago!"

"Some people may be wondering why I'm only coming back now!"

"My father once told me that what he loved to see most was the happy smiles on the faces of everyone in the Snow Country. But my uncle, Feng Hua Nutao, cruelly murdered my father and seized the position of Daimyo of the Snow Country. In just ten years, he turned the Snow Country into what it is today, where the people are suffering."

"By right, I should be the princess of the Snow Kingdom, but I have returned to the Snow Kingdom only to do three things!"

"Fairness! Fairness! Fairness!"

"I hope to bring this country, which my father poured countless efforts into, back on track! To bring back the happy smiles on everyone's faces."

"Your Highness!" A middle-aged man in the crowd seemed to be infected by Feng Hua Xiaoxue's emotions and shouted "Your Highness!" Then, more and more people joined in.

Hiding in the shadows, Kazahana Koyuki was almost dumbfounded. As a big star, she had experienced being surrounded by fans who shouted her name before, but the look in her fans' eyes when they surrounded her and shouted her stage name was completely different from the look in the eyes of the people cheering for Sasuke at this moment. Her fans only had fanaticism in their eyes when they surrounded her, but Kazahana Koyuki saw hope in the eyes of these people of the Land of Snow.

They genuinely hoped that Feng Hua Xiao Xue was a princess who could lead them out of their predicament.

The chaos in the commercial street quickly attracted the attention of the samurai responsible for maintaining order. However, faced with the ever-growing number of civilians from the Land of Snow, the samurai could only call for backup.

Not long after, a group of samurai from the Land of Snow arrived in a hurry. At this moment, Sasuke, disguised as Kazahana Koyuki, took the initiative to walk down the steps and walk towards the samurai who had come to disperse the crowd.

"You are warriors from our Land of Snow, right?" Sasuke asked softly.

However, before the other party could answer, Sasuke immediately continued, "Did you come here on the orders of that usurper, Fuuka Nata, to suppress the innocent people of the Land of Snow and then use my head, the princess's head, to curry favor with the usurper?"

Sasuke's aggressive aura quickly overwhelmed the leader of the samurai group. To bolster his courage, the samurai instinctively placed his hand on the hilt of his sword. However, upon seeing this, Sasuke straightened his chest and met the samurai's attack head-on.

"Go ahead and do it! Come on! Swing your swords at your princess!" Sasuke, disguised as Kazahana Koyuki, exuded an imposing aura that quickly intimidated the enemy while stirring up the emotions of the surrounding crowd. The common people of the Land of Snow spontaneously gathered around, gritting their teeth as they stared at the group of samurai, ready to fight to the death if the enemy dared to draw their swords.

"You... what makes you think you're a princess?!" The captain of the samurai group was also intimidated by the surrounding civilians. He gritted his teeth and questioned them.

"Good question!" Sasuke exclaimed, picking up the hexagonal crystal pendant, which glittered in the sunlight. He spoke calmly, "This is the most important token of our Land of Snow, and also the key to unlocking the treasure buried beneath the Rainbow Glacier! It was entrusted to me by my father, the King. Today, I will travel to the Rainbow Glacier and, with everyone as witnesses, unlock the treasure of our Land of Snow! This will be the first step in restoring order to our Land of Snow!"

After saying that, Sasuke, disguised as Kazeka Koyuki, strode forward. The samurai troops in front of him unconsciously split into two rows. Sasuke walked straight out from the middle without changing his expression, like a king inspecting his army.

"Don't just stand there, follow me. You'll have to open the treasure yourself later." Neji, who was hiding in the shadows, reminded Kazahana Koyuki, who was still dumbfounded, and signaled her to follow.

"How...how did he do that?" After regaining her senses, Fuuka Koyuki looked at Sasuke's back with a complicated expression.

“It’s not that difficult,” Neji explained. “The tyranny of Fuuka Nyutō in the Land of Snow over the years has already angered the people. At this time, as long as someone of sufficient stature can stand up, these commoners will see him as their hope. Even if you are a fake princess, in their eyes you are, and you can only be real.”

“Sasuke received the master’s true teachings, so it’s not a difficult thing for him to do this. Compared to the situation in the Land of Snow, the situation our master faced was truly hellish,” Neji said.

"Neji, you're saying a bit too much," Shisui, who was responsible for protecting Koyuki Kazahana, reminded her with a smile.

"Your teacher?" Feng Hua Xiaoxue asked curiously, but Zhishui quickly pulled her along and secretly followed the main group heading to Rainbow Glacier.

……

"What? How dare she! Those samurai actually plan to go to Rainbow Glacier with that woman?" In the Snow Kingdom's palace, Fuuhou Fuuhou was furious after learning about what had happened in the commercial district.

However, he also knew that he could no longer hesitate. Once Kazama Koyuki used the hexagonal crystal to open the treasure of the Land of Snow in front of everyone and confirmed her identity as a princess, then as long as she was willing to offer some conditions, the surrounding great ninja villages, especially the Land of Earth, would definitely be willing to help her solve her problem.

The only way to prevent all of this from happening is to kill the other party before they open the treasure, suppress those ignorant and unruly people, and then announce to the outside world that someone is trying to start a rebellion in the Snow Kingdom.

Chapter 195 The Dust Settles

Just as Feng Hua Nu Tao finished counting his ninjas and led them out of the palace, a flying insect buzzed away from the palace gate.

……

"The fish has taken the bait." In Team 8, who was setting up the trap with Shikamaru's team, Shino Aburame suddenly looked up and said to the others.

"Seriously, do we really need to set up so many traps?" Kiba Inuzuka said, struggling to break through the frozen ground while burying a trigger-activated electromagnetic interference trap. After finishing, he looked up and wiped the beads of sweat that had frozen into ice crystals on his forehead. "The enemy is at most a few Jonin with some special skills, and some Chunin and Genin. We don't even need Shisui-sensei to lift a finger. Naruto and the other two can handle the Jonin, and we can take care of the rest, right?"

"Woof!" Akamaru, perched on Kiba Inuzuka's shoulder, barked in response to his master's words.

“It’s necessary.” Shikamaru said as he and Choji set up a new trap. “These traps are not set to kill the enemy, but to protect the civilians who have been drawn here by our plan.”

"Our plan will attract many unarmed civilians to Rainbow Glacier. If we directly engage in battle with them without any regard for the consequences, it would be lucky if even 20% of these civilians survive under the ninjutsu of Sasuke and the others. This would be detrimental to our future cooperation with Konoha and the Land of Snow."

"Besides, didn't Shisui-sensei already say that he wouldn't make a move in this battle unless it was absolutely necessary? If we want to qualify for the Chunin Exams, we'll have to take care of these enemies ourselves."

"That's true, but this kind of work is really boring," Kiba Inuzuka complained.

“That’s true, but, Ya, we’re the reconnaissance team. Besides gathering intelligence, setting traps is also one of our tasks.”

"That's about it." Ino breathed a sigh of relief after planting a string of explosive tags in a weak spot in the ice. "Now, all that's left is for Sasuke and Neji to lure the enemy over."

"Hinata, go check on Naruto's preparations. We'll need him to lead the charge in the upcoming battle," Shikamaru called out to Hinata, who was standing not far away, after glancing at the map.

"Yes!" Hinata nodded, gently rubbed her little hands, which were a little red from the cold, and then jumped up to the top of the ice cliff after a series of leaps. Naruto had been lying in ambush there for a long time.

At this moment, Naruto was wrapped in a warm robe and sat cross-legged at the top of the cliff. The cold wind occasionally blew his golden hair, which shone brightly in the sunlight. Hinata blushed slightly at the sight.

"Naruto-kun..." Hinata said softly.

"Ah? It's Hinata." Naruto's face lit up with a bright smile upon seeing who it was. "What's up?"

"Um... Shikamaru asked me to come and ask you how your preparations are going?" Although to others, Naruto's slightly innocent and foolish smile seemed a bit out of place with his previous air of superiority, Hinata liked Naruto just the way he was, so Hinata's face turned even redder.

"Don't worry! According to the plan, after Her Highness the Princess leads the civilians through, it will be my turn to go down and intercept the enemy while activating the traps you set for the electronic circuits." Naruto waved his hand to indicate that he understood. Then, seeing Hinata's face getting redder and redder, Naruto couldn't help but ask curiously, "Why is your face so red? Are you cold? Here, wear this."

As Naruto spoke, he took off his coat and draped it over Hinata's shoulders. The lingering scent of Naruto on the coat instantly overloaded Hinata's brain, and steam began to rise from the top of her head.

Hinata's reaction startled Naruto: "Are you alright? If you're not feeling well, you should stay hidden during the operation later."

"N-nothing... Um, Naruto-kun, I'll head back now." Hinata suppressed the urge to faint, said goodbye to Naruto, and returned to her assigned area.

……

Before long, from the perspective of the hidden crowd, they saw Feng Hua Xiaoxue leading a large group of hundreds of people heading in this direction.

"Sasuke, there are nearly fifty chakra fluctuations behind us." At this moment, Neji, disguised as a follower of Kazaka Koyuki, used his Byakugan's 360-degree view to survey the area behind him before lowering his voice to speak to Sasuke beside him.

"Shikamaru, how are the preparations going on your end?" Sasuke contacted Shikamaru, who was hiding, via radio. After receiving a confirmation, he turned to Kazahana Koyuki, who had just switched identities with him. "Well then, Your Highness, you'll have to handle the rest yourself. You should be fine, right?"

Feng Hua Xiaoxue glanced nervously at the Snow Kingdom civilians who had followed her to Rainbow Glacier, hesitated for a moment, then took a deep breath and said, "Leave it to me."

“Very good. We can guarantee that no one will interfere with you during the process of opening the treasure, and we will leave your uncle in Rainbow Glacier forever. However, how far you go after that is up to you. Whether you become a true queen adored by your subjects, or a puppet who loses all support after the loss of outsiders, it all depends on your own performance.” Sasuke chuckled and placed his hand on the hilt of Shiden, while Neji at that moment released the safety seal on his ninja tools.

Just a second after Feng Hua Xiaoxue led the crowd past the designated location, a deafening sound resounded throughout the entire snowfield.

Everyone present turned around and saw a blond man descending from the sky, wielding a giant Rasengan several meters in diameter. The giant Rasengan slammed heavily onto the ground. However, the huge explosion that everyone had expected did not occur. The giant chakra sphere vanished the moment it touched the snowfield.

"Didn't you hit him?" Kazahana Koyuki stared blankly at Naruto's back as he landed on the snowfield in a superhero-like pose, and asked in a daze.

"Don't rush, let the chakra fly for a while." Sasuke chuckled, and he and Neji rushed out of the crowd, one on the left and one on the right.

Before long, a sound as if the sky had collapsed and the earth had split apart came from the snowfield. The traps that had been buried earlier began to operate after absorbing the chakra of Naruto's Giant Rasengan. Every possible hiding place of the enemy that Shikamaru had calculated was suddenly blown up. One after another, ninjas wearing strange armor were forced out of the snowfield. Several of the weaker ones were directly buried under the traps.

A cold wind blew across the colorful icicles, and Kiba Inuzuka's Akamaru scratched restlessly on the snow.

Nara Shikamaru's shadow meandered along the ice surface. In Hinata Hyuga's Byakugan vision, fifty blue-glowing chakra reactions, once forced out, no longer concealed themselves and rapidly approached the interior of Rainbow Glacier.

Aburame Shino's sunglasses flashed with a cold light, and a swarm of insects poured out from her collar: "Their armor is special, but..."

He looked at Shikamaru, "Enough for my parasites to find a crack."

Shikamaru bit his finger and drew the final incantation on the ground. The acrid smell of the exploding tags mingled with the chilling aura of ice crystals: "Three minutes from now, when Choji triggers the first avalanche, Ino, the two of us must control that guy in the middle."

The roar of machinery echoed across the wilderness. Under the cover of a group of Snow Ninja, Feng Hua Nu Tao charged straight towards the main force ahead. Terrifying chakra fluctuations surged from their armor, and the footsteps of fifty Snow Ninja echoed with a metallic sound in the icy valley.

"Choji! Move! Ino, get ready!" Shikamaru's shadow suddenly pierced the ice.

Choji Akimichi shoved the potato chips he'd been holding, which he'd opened while waiting for the enemy to arrive, into his mouth. Then, he activated his clan's Multiply Technique, his enlarged body slamming heavily onto the ice. Cracks spread like a spiderweb, and the massive ice spikes hanging above the glacier plummeted to the ground.

The Snow Ninja, who were forming hand seals, suddenly heard a piercing alarm coming from their chakra armor. When they looked up, they saw solid and heavy ice spikes falling down on them.

"Lightning Release: Chidori!" Sasuke arrived in the Snow Ninja's formation, stepping on lightning. His purple lightning pierced the glacier, and purple lightning snakes shot out along the cracks in the ice. The Snow Ninja, who were about to dodge the ice spikes, suddenly convulsed, and sparks flew from the joints of their armor.

Yamanaka Ino's golden hair fluttered in the wind and snow as she used her Mind Turn Technique to target Fuuka Nutsui, and a long, trailing shadow appeared at Fuuka Nutsui's feet.

In the chaos, Shino's swarm of insects had covered half of the Snow Ninja, and the sound of their shells rubbing together was enough to make your teeth ache.

The snow ninjas, their scalps tingling from Sasuke's lightning release ninjutsu, were now forced to endure the constant error warnings emanating from their chakra armor.

The roar of the wind and waves shook down ice shards: "Konoha ninjas! Do you want to wage war against our Land of Snow?"

However, the next second, he suddenly realized that his body was out of control and his mind had entered a strange black space. A blonde girl in front of him smoothed her hair behind her ear and made a throat-slitting gesture at him.

After regaining her senses, Feng Hua Nu Tao suddenly realized that she couldn't move her body at all, and a long shadow under her feet connected her to the body of a boy not far away.

"Eight Trigrams Sealing Points!"

Just then, Neji descended from the sky, and Hinata arrived behind Fuuka Nuta. Various sealing techniques flashed on their arm guards, which were covered in small sealing scrolls. Steel needles appeared in their hands, which they used to pierce the gaps in Fuuka Nuta's chakra armor, completely severing his chakra pathways. At this moment, Sasuke, who had given the Snow Ninja a set of electrotherapy ninjutsu, calmly approached Fuuka Nuta, lightly wiped his purple lightning, and said with a cold smile, "Go to war with Konoha? Are you even qualified?"

The Snow Ninja brought by the raging wind and waves suffered heavy losses under the falling ice spikes and Sasuke's lightning ninjutsu. Before the survivors could even catch their breath, two crimson whirlwinds swept in.

Kiba and Akamaru's combined ninjutsu, Fang Wolf Fang, instantly tore apart the remaining Snow Ninja formation. Naruto's Shadow Clone Army also joined the battle at this moment, and in no time, they had finished off the remaining Snow Ninja.

At this moment, Feng Hua Nutao, who was completely unable to move, looked at the several boys wearing Konoha headbands in front of him, gritted his teeth, and decided to make a final effort.

"What exactly did Kazeka Koyuki promise Konoha? I'm willing to give you double!"

"Is that so?" Sasuke walked slowly to Fuuka Noutō with interest and said with a light laugh, "That's quite an offer to make, but I refuse."

"Why?" Feng Hua Nu Tao asked in disbelief.

“Actually, if you were even slightly more like a competent daimyo, Konoha would have cooperated with you directly, instead of going to all the trouble of helping Kazahana Koyuki,” Sasuke said, shaking his head.

After receiving the mission from Uchiha Touko, Sasuke carefully considered Uchiha Touko's purpose.

The geographical location of the Land of Snow is not as crucial as that of the Land of Rice Fields and the Land of Hot Springs. First of all, the Land of Snow does not border the Land of Fire, and the economic development of the entire country is limited by the weather environment. If it is just an ordinary ally, the value it can bring to the Land of Fire is very limited.

Once the two countries formally form an alliance, in many cases the Fire Country may have to bleed money to support the Snow Country's development.

However, if Konoha goes to war with the Land of Earth in the future, the geographical location of the Land of Snow could become a burden that completely holds back the Land of Earth, allowing Konoha to gain the upper hand in the war.