Konoha Drunkard

"Don't make this sound so grand!" Shanks gave him a loving punch on the head.

"Then what should we do? We can't just find someone we don't like to be with, can we?" Rope Tree looked a little innocent. He hadn't found anyone in over ten years, and now he was going to find someone in just two or three months? How easy was that?

"Anyway, there's still a month left. If it doesn't work, I'll just tie one up for you. It'll all look the same with the lights off anyway," Shanks said, looking at the rope tree swaying in the shadows.

“…” Rope Tree looked up at the sky, already sensing that his life as a breeding pig was about to begin.

"Don't be so pessimistic. Wanting to go to the battlefield, wanting to avoid getting beaten up by your sister—this is the path that will guide you forward," Shanks comforted him. He added, "It doesn't matter if Kishimoto kills you off later. At least you have a bloodline to carry on, and he's done right by his aunt."

Shanks is currently helping Nawaki find a girl. The Land of Wind has been fighting the Leaf Village ninjas several times in the past two months, but fortunately Tsunade has finally cured Chiyo's poison.

In a later battle, Sasori was held back by Tsunade and Orochimaru. Sakumo Hatake, unable to escape his fate of being targeted by Aunt Chiyo, charged directly at Sasori's parents and unleashed his full power. Sasori's mother shielded her father from Sakumo's attack and was pierced through the heart. Sasori's father was furious. "I won't bother with you, Konoha's White Fang, trying to seduce my mother, but now you dare to kill my wife! My uncle can tolerate it, but I can't!" Then, Sasori's father's toys rushed towards Sakumo Hatake like they were free. This move was incredibly impressive.

Looking at Sasori's father's angry eyes, Hatake Sakumo felt that it was not just a simple matter of killing his wife. Although he was puzzled, he still knew that avoiding him and getting back to his mana was the priority. As a member of the Hatake clan, he used up all of Sasori's mana with a single Musou attack.

Sasori's father, relying on his life-or-death control of the puppets, charged towards Hatake Sakumo. However, Hatake Sakumo had far too many elite puppeteers to handle. From Shamon to Chiyo, each of them was a master. Shamon was just too weak in his own abilities, but his puppet control was incredibly skilled. Sasori's father's puppets attacked Hatake Sakumo like raindrops, but he dodged them all with his skillful maneuvering!

Finally, despite the danger of being remembered by Chiyo for decades to come, Sakumo Hatake regained a lot of his mana and once again unleashed his Musou attack on Sasori. This time, no one was there to shield him, and Sakumo Hatake pierced through him completely.

After witnessing the murder of his eldest nephew, Haizang lost his composure and was severely injured by a giant flesh bomb. With the two puppeteers' leaders dead, chaos ensued due to the lack of leadership, and he was devoured by the insects of the Aburame clan.

After killing Sasori's father, Hatake Sakumo overexerted his chakra and collapsed on the battlefield. Fortunately, he was protected by insects next to Aburame Shiki's father. With many puppeteers killed, Kaizo seriously injured, and himself surrounded by the Ino-Shika-Cho trio and Tsunade Orochimaru, Sakumo watched helplessly as the Sand Ninja were slaughtered.

"Shalie. Still not admitting defeat? Do you want them all killed?" The loudmouth kept blaring in his ear, disturbing his mind.

Looking at the horrific battlefield, Sha Lie gritted his teeth and shouted to the remaining Sand Ninja, "Let's go back to the village! We've lost this war!"

After Sha Lie finished speaking, Hai Zang dragged his heavily injured body to the corpses of Scorpion's parents, his face full of tears, asking him how he would explain things to his sister when he got back.

The next day, the son and daughter-in-law of the First Kazekage and Chiyo, a senior advisor of Sunagakure, were killed by the White Fang of Konoha. The Third Kazekage, Sara, announced his withdrawal from the war, and the news spread like wildfire throughout the ninja world.

Upon hearing this news, Shanks sighed deeply, "Little Scorpion is going to turn evil! Sakumo and Aunt Chiyo are wrong! ...Now even Grandma has no chance!"

Inside a house in Sunagakure, a little boy with reddish-brown hair was playing with his toys. Just then, the door opened, and an old woman stood in the doorway. The former flower of the ninja world had become a kind-faced old lady, her eyes red as if she had just been crying.

"Grandma, when will Father and Mother come back? I've finished making all the toys they gave me," the little boy said, rushing towards Aunt Chiyo as soon as he saw her.

Aunt Chiyo looked at the puppets the little boy was playing with and sighed inwardly that Konoha's Shanks was right; the Sand Village had finally produced a super genius. But she couldn't be happy about it.

"Ah, they have things to do, they'll be back to play with Sasori soon." Aunt Chiyo patted Sasori's head, and an image of a white-haired boy holding a short sword appeared in her mind again.

The storm surrounding the killing of the First Kazekage's son and daughter-in-law by Konoha's White Fang was clearly more intense than the Land of Wind's withdrawal from the war. Their strength was undeniably formidable; their teamwork surpassed even Chiyo's. People couldn't help but marvel at the sheer number of powerful figures Konoha possessed. Three of the four had already been defeated in their one-against-four battle, leaving only the Raikage, that tough guy, in the end.

After the battle in the Land of Wind ended, Orochimaru led the Sarutobi clan, the Shimura clan, and the village's ninjas—a total of eight thousand people—to the Land of Lightning. Sakumo Hatake led the rest of the ninjas back to the village.

Orochimaru has been in a bad mood lately. He thought that after the battle in the Land of Wind ended, he could return to his beloved laboratory to continue his beloved scientific experiments, but he was drafted by Hiruzen Sarutobi again.

Of course, the clever man guessed Hiruzen Sarutobi's plan, but was his dream really just as lowly as becoming Hokage? His dream was something far more ambitious, transcending life and death!

However, since the order had been given, there was no way to refuse. When Orochimaru arrived at the battlefield in the Land of Lightning with his men, he was dumbfounded! Danzo, the Root of Konoha, did not accept his friend's order to return to Konoha. Instead, after recovering from his injuries, he decisively took over command. After receiving the forces from the Land of Wind, he acted swiftly and decisively, and went to fight the Cloud Ninja!

A tough guy is a tough guy. The Raikage, leading a group of over 10,000 Cloud Ninja, wasn't scared at all. He charged towards Danzo's direction. The current Raikage is the kind who can explode with rage at the mere sight of Danzo.

Later, when Danzo, the Root of Konoha, once activated his free-flying mode, he was beaten half to death by the Raikage. At this moment, the role of the leader was fully demonstrated. Under the Raikage's MVP aura, the Cloud Ninja were all like Rodman, charging forward like madmen.

Konoha's commander was beaten to a pulp before being rescued at near-death. Meanwhile, the Raikage, as if playing house, casually led his men to retreat after Danzo was rescued. Orochimaru, witnessing Konoha lose nearly two thousand men in such a short time, finally understood why Shanks was unwilling to come to the Land of Lightning.

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Orochimaru was in a bad mood. He didn't want to come to the Land of Lightning to be under someone's command in the first place, but now he's not even in command anymore, he can only be second-in-command.

Being second in command was one thing, but then the leader, after pulling off a series of impressive plays that resulted in the loss of two thousand men, went back to his hospital bed to rest, and he took over the leader's position...

Orochimaru was completely outmaneuvered by Danzo's antics... Now he finally understood why Shanks didn't want to come to the Land of Lightning. Damn it, being commanded by someone like that is just an insult to one's intelligence... And thinking about the Raikage's battlefield prowess, his tactics are no different from Shanks's, which is the type he hates most—there's no way he can fight him! His Manda had previously broken a tooth by biting the Raikage. If Manda could break a tooth, what about his snake ninjutsu, which is for biting humans, not this inhuman...?

Furthermore, the Raikage seemed much stronger than Hanzo the Salamander. Hanzo's only decent technique was Poison Release; his other taijutsu and water release techniques were mediocre. The Raikage, on the other hand, would just stand there, activate Lightning Release, and let you attack without even dodging. That level of damage was nothing to him.

"Orochimaru, aren't you going to rest?" Kurenai Yuhi noticed Orochimaru standing quietly outside the camp.

"Ah, I can't sleep. I'm thinking about how to deal with the Raikage." Orochimaru had a very high reputation in Konoha at this time. Although he was ruthless and didn't talk much, he gave people a very reliable feeling and was very popular.

"Hey! Actually, when I came here, Shanks told me that encountering the Raikage would only wear him down, but after encountering the Raikage, I knew it wouldn't be that simple!" Kurenai Yuhi said, shrugging.

Orochimaru nodded in agreement. After all, he was known as the man with the strongest spear and the strongest shield; if he didn't wear him down, he himself would collapse first... unless...

Orochimaru's eyes suddenly lit up. If it could withstand one S-rank ninjutsu, how many could it withstand? But his gaze quickly dimmed again; his own chakra couldn't even hold a few S-rank ninjutsu...

The thought filled him with joy. He was just an ordinary person, and without any bloodline limits, his chakra reserves were naturally quite ordinary. While not as little as Hatake Sakumo's, they weren't much more either.

Thinking of bloodline limits reminds me of Shanks' ability to stun people by releasing his aura. He was actually quite surprised when Jasmine mentioned it in the Land of Rain. He had been studying Shanks' genes for several years, and apart from the Uzumaki clan's signature chakra and abundant vitality, he hadn't found anything particularly special. If there was anything truly unique, it was his exceptionally high cellular activity.

"Well, don't overthink it. We have more people than them. If we keep fighting like this, they'll eventually run out of manpower." Seeing that he was deep in thought, Kurenai Yuhi assumed that he was still thinking of a way to deal with the Raikage.

"Ah. I understand." After Orochimaru finished speaking, he returned to his camp, intending to take out the research records of Shanks and the First Hokage to study them and see what was so special about them. One had awakened Wood Release, and the other was exceptionally gifted, both having awakened abilities that no one else in their clan possessed.

As soon as Orochimaru returned to the camp, a masked ninja appeared behind him. "Lord Orochimaru, Lord Danzo requests your presence."

"...Get lost!" Orochimaru coldly glanced at the masked ninja as he walked into his camp. Mentioning Danzo only fueled Orochimaru's anger. Danzo was useless enough, but he had to show his face, leaving Orochimaru with a mess after he was defeated.

Without his antics in the Land of Earth, the war would have ended long ago. Orochimaru really wants to put a few snakes on his bed...

.......

Meanwhile, Danzo, lying on his sickbed, heard his subordinate's report, took a deep breath, and forced himself to close his eyes, suppressing his anger. "Damn it! It's one thing for the Raikage to look down on me, but even a disciple of Hiruzen Sarutobi dares to look down on me? You all just wait!"

A month later, Danzo reappeared, full of energy. He had pretended to be dead when he was attacked by the Raikage last time, and the Konoha ninjas came to his rescue early, so his injuries were not serious.

Danzo, with his golden sword on a large horse, sat in the main seat of the command camp and said with great vigor, "In the last great battle, the Cloud Ninja suffered heavy losses, so we will continue to attack them tomorrow. We can afford the losses, but they cannot!"

"..." The group of ninjas below were stunned. "Which of your dog eyes saw their losses last time? They only fought for a short while and you were beaten to a pulp. You still want to come back?" They wondered if the Raikage had made you stupid and you went back to being beaten as soon as you recovered from your injuries.

Orochimaru seemed not to hear him, his eyes closed in deep thought. He knew Danzo wasn't such a brainless person; if he were, the Second Hokage wouldn't have taken him as a disciple. Danzo must have some kind of scheme.

After Danzo finished speaking, he observed the expressions of the ninja below. Since even these Konoha elites thought he was that kind of person, then the muscle-bound Cloud Ninja would surely think so too. Then his plan would succeed! Once he defeated the Cloud Ninja, his reputation in Konoha would be unparalleled. Ever since Hiruzen Sarutobi sent Orochimaru here, he knew his good buddy Hiruzen Sarutobi's plan: to cultivate Orochimaru, huh!

Back then, Danzo had a plan: if he launched two or three mindless attacks on the Cloud Ninja, those muscle-bound brutes would think he was no threat. Then, he could send a group of men to flank and ambush the Land of Lightning. He wanted to see if the Raikage would surrender. Danzo was surprised by his own intelligence. He never thought he was so smart, much better than the Nara clan!

The next day, Danzo, true to his word, did his best! He gathered everyone from the Konoha camp except for the medical staff and set off for the Kumogakure camp.

At this time, in the Cloud Ninja camp,

"Lord Raikage, Danzo has brought his men again. It looks like he's preparing to fight me again!" a Cloud Ninja reported as he entered.

"What's Danzo up to? He just recovered from his injuries and he's already attacking us!" Raikage A was completely bewildered in the main seat.

“I don’t think this is a simple matter. Although Danzo’s strength has declined a lot in recent years, he is not a brainless person. He may be plotting something.” The chief steward, Hemp Bag, stroked his chin and said.

"Could it be that they're planning to let us fight, then call for reinforcements again? Or are they going to try and wear us down?" Mabu Jiushi said.

“None of them are like him! The Second Hokage was known as the First Generation Old Schemer. As his disciple, Danzo is no less impressive than Onoki!” After saying this, Azabu Kotori looked at his younger brother.

"spread!"

"I've got it!"

Suddenly, he slammed his hand on the table!

"What did you think of?" Raikage looked at the burlap sack.

"Danzo's two brainless attacks were designed to make us believe he's brainless. Once we lower our guard, I reckon he'll send a force to flank us, or... directly attack our village!" He jumped up as he finished speaking! Truly a disciple of that cunning old fox.

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Inside the Cloud Ninja camp, Raikage A was dumbfounded after hearing what the burlap sack had to say! He never expected that the person he had pinned to the ground and rubbed against would come up with such a flamboyant move, and even use himself as a pawn! If it weren't for the Grand Steward, he probably would have actually believed that the Root of Konoha was a brainless idiot.

"What do we do now?" Raikage asked directly.

"Clap clap clap!" The man in the burlap sack rested his chin on one hand, tapping the table incessantly with one finger! He had grasped Danzo's plan, but he didn't know the key details: when Danzo would flank them, and how many men he would send. Their Cloud Ninja numbers were inferior to Konoha's; they couldn't afford to split their forces like Konoha did, otherwise they would suffer losses on their main battlefield.

"I can't think of a good solution right now, Raikage. We can continue the war with them this time, but you need to be ruthless when you strike. Let them stay for another two or three months, and I'll think of a better way." Sack Bag still couldn't come up with a solution. After all, they were too few in number. If they had as many people as Konoha, they would have invaded Konoha long ago. Why would they need to slowly wear them down at the border?

Konoha's fourth clan, all three others have already withdrawn, only they're still fighting. Isn't it just so Konoha can bargain for the final peace talks? Thinking about this makes him feel frustrated. He originally planned to go to the Land of Earth to make another killing, but Hiruzen Sarutobi offended their Raikage, and as soon as they entered the fray, Onoki actually withdrew... He's speechless, wondering if the heavens are playing a cruel joke on him.

"Haha! Alright, let's do it! I want to see how many times I can beat Danzo up!" Raikage A laughed loudly!

Later, the Raikage gathered his forces and fought another battle against Konoha on the same battlefield where he and Shanks had fought one-on-one.

It was the same movement, still so graceful, still so distant.

Danzo, the Root of Konoha, couldn't even play dead this time. The Raikage seemed to know he was faking it, ignoring the ninjutsu, kunai, shuriken, and explosive tags thrown at him.

They just kept attacking and beating him until finally all the Jonin of Konoha came together and Hiruzen Sarutobi dragged him out of the crowd. In the end, when the Raikage saw that Danzo had been rescued, he casually led his men back to camp!

Meanwhile, in the Konoha camp, a group of ninjas looked at Danzo lying on the bed, covered in wounds, and felt a pang of sorrow. What kind of grudge could this have caused? His injuries wouldn't heal for at least three months; even his mouth was badly mangled.

The next day, Hiruzen Sarutobi couldn't stand it anymore and asked his older brother for help, telling him to take this masochist back home, otherwise he would really die.

A few days later, rumors spread throughout Konoha that Konoha advisor Shimura Danzo had been beaten up by the Raikage again, and this time his mouth was smashed so that he couldn't call for help!

"Hahaha! The Raikage is eating, sleeping, and fighting Danzo! Hahaha! Has our advisor Danzo already started to enjoy this feeling?!" Shanks was laughing wildly in the Hokage's office, clutching his stomach and completely losing his composure!

The clan heads and the three major figures in the office were speechless. Why were they so happy that their own village's leaders were getting beaten up? Although they also wanted to laugh, Danzo was really so brainless.

Only Danzo's best friend, Hiruzen Sarutobi, wondered if there was a reason behind Danzo's actions. Often, the person who understands you best isn't your enemy, but your closest friend!

Hiruzen Sarutobi had indeed guessed Danzo's thoughts correctly, but he didn't know that Danzo was truly badly injured this time. Throughout the entire battle, Raikage A ignored everyone else and focused solely on attacking Danzo, resolutely carrying out the Grand Steward's plan, fearing that Danzo wasn't badly injured enough. He started by smashing Danzo's mouth so he couldn't speak. After three hours, it was a miracle that Danzo was still alive; it was a miracle he was still alive thanks to Tobirama Senju.

“Now that Hiruzen has requested reinforcements, he wants us to send another batch of people over. What do you all think?” Hiruzen Sarutobi said. His own younger brother had asked him for help, so he couldn’t refuse. Therefore, he summoned the clan heads and Jonin for a meeting.

"Why the hell are you mobilizing manpower? Should we just send all the people from Konoha to wipe out the Land of Lightning with overwhelming force? Giving them 20,000 men is two or three thousand more than the Cloud Ninja. Even my grandma could carry them all!" Shanks launched into his nonsensical mode.

This attracted a group of Tenseigan users, especially Tsunade, who covered her face and looked up at the sky, as if she didn't recognize him.

The three giants of Konoha were speechless. They regretted not including him. Even if his grandma dared to lead the team, they wouldn't dare to give it to him!

"Shut up and go play in the mud!" Koharu, the Flower of Konoha, snapped. If she let him keep this up, the meeting was over.

"Tch!" Shanks said, then lay on the table playing with his fingers. He had to give his wife's teacher some face.

Sakumo Hatake looked up at the sky. He knew that the meeting wouldn't go smoothly when he saw Shanks there. That bastard never came to meetings, but he was so enthusiastic today.

"There are only two options now. First, send someone over and bring Danzo back to Konoha to recover, with Orochimaru as the commander. Second, send Shanks and Sakumo to defeat the Raikage!" Big Cannon said.

"I'll just say one thing... Forget about the second option. That old man Raikage isn't someone you can just defeat. His temper is just as volatile as Tsunade's, and things will only get worse! Besides... if we kill him... I reckon World War III will start."

"when!"

Shanks had barely finished speaking when Tsunade delivered a powerful punch to his head.

"..." Everyone looked up at the sky. This family was really something else. This was the Hokage's office!

After listening to Shanks' words, Hiruzen Sarutobi nodded and said, "Shanks is right. I only sent Danzo over, and he has already provoked the Raikage to this state. Moreover, he wants to kill the Raikage. I estimate that our losses will be very large, and then the war will begin. But the first thing to do is to wait. I don't think Danzo's actions are so simple. Let's send someone to him first."

Shanks activated his Byakugan and gave Hiruzen Sarutobi a look. All that talk was just a ploy to watch his buddy get beaten up! Shanks suddenly realized Hiruzen Sarutobi was a bit wicked after all.