Yes, the Hokage!

"Support has arrived!"

Upon spotting the enemy, the guard on watch immediately raised the alarm.

Pakula silently stepped forward, forming a hand seal in front of him. Several enormous orange-yellow fireballs appeared beside him and exploded violently on both sides of the cliff before the opponent could get close.

"Boom!"

A violent explosion rang out, and huge rocks crashed down, forming a natural barrier in the canyon.

An angry shout immediately came from behind the rock: "Damn it, it's Scorch Release! The people of Sunagakure are after Lord Killer Bee!"

Upon hearing this, Pakula was immediately startled. Could it be that Fenglan had deliberately arranged for him to blow up the cliff here in order to betray Sunagakure?

Just as she was distracted, a surge of blue and white light suddenly appeared in front of her, and then a large black man appeared out of thin air.

A divine gift!

This is a secret technique passed down through generations in Kumogakure. In short, it's long-distance teleportation. Most of the time, it can only be used to teleport items because ordinary people's bodies simply cannot withstand it. However, the Third Raikage and his son, the Fourth Raikage, who have exceptional physical strength, are exceptions.

Upon hearing that his younger brother Killer Bee had been attacked, the Fourth Raikage was naturally furious and immediately ordered someone to use the Heavenly Delivery Technique to send him into the Cloud Thunder Gorge!

"Suffer to death!"

Once he gets carried away, he doesn't care who's in front of him. He just raises his leg high above his head in the same pose as Tsunade and then slams it down forcefully.

"Righteous Thunder, Shen Nu Thunder Axe!"

Hizashi wasn't distracted, and the Byakugan's enhanced dynamic vision was a great help, so even though the Raikage's kick was fast and urgent, he still managed to dodge it with a backflip.

Pakula, on the other hand, was in a much worse situation. Although he realized what was happening at the last moment and hurriedly dodged, he was still injured in the calf by the scattered lightning and couldn't help but cry out in pain.

Most importantly, Hizashi dodged by jumping backward and running back, while Pakula dodged by turning to the side and was blocked by the Fourth Raikage, preventing him from rejoining the main force!

"Yeah!"

The Fourth Raikage was in a fit of rage when he saw Pakula's injured leg making it difficult for him to move, so he immediately swung a powerful black elbow at him.

Although Pakula was an elite Jonin, he wasn't particularly skilled in close combat. His opponent was a speed-type Raikage, whose Lightning Armor was incredibly fast. Even if he saw it with his eyes, his body wouldn't have time to react.

[Damn it... Am I going to die here?]

Pakura was filled with despair. As a ninja, she was naturally prepared to die, but not to die on the battlefield for the village, but to die here. Especially since her body would make Kumogakure think that Sunagakure had attacked their Jinchuriki, which was something she could not accept no matter what.

But faced with the massive black elbow flashing with lightning, she had no power to resist and seemed to have no choice but to close her eyes and wait for death.

However, at this very moment...

"Shh!"

A figure suddenly appeared in front of Pakura and the Raikage, forcefully slamming down a spinning ball in his hand.

With Feng Lan's strength, even if he used Rasengan to fight the Raikage, he would definitely not be able to beat him. The Raikage is a standard Kage-level monster with high stats. What makes you, a ranged turret who is not good at fighting, think you can compete with his beams?

Feng Lan declared that this was no ordinary Rasengan, but a Wind Release Rasengan!

The Rasengan is already the ultimate form of transformation, but it can still be improved further by injecting elemental chakra to perform a nature transformation.

This Wind Release: Rasengan is a new technique that Naruto created by infusing wind-style chakra into the Rasengan after learning the secrets of wind-style nature transformation from Asuma and through his own arduous training. It has higher attack power than the Rasengan and has cutting ability when attacking. It is the prototype of the Wind Release: Rasenshuriken.

The trick to using this move is to use two clones to assist, one to maintain the shape change and the other to inject the nature change. Feng Lan can make the pill with one hand, so he can use only one clone to assist in performing this move.

Of course, his move was only in its initial form, so despite the fact that wind counters lightning, the ball failed to penetrate the lightning armor. Instead, it was shattered by the Raikage's elbow, causing his entire palm to bleed profusely.

But the brief obstruction from Feng Kelei was enough. Feng Lan grabbed Pakula's waist and activated the Flying Thunder God Technique once more.

The Fourth Raikage roared and tried to give chase, but Pakula, who was also a veteran of many battles, had already thrown a flashbang.

"Buzz!"

A blinding flash of light burst across the night sky, so bright that even Lei Ying couldn't help but be momentarily stunned. When his vision returned, the area in front of him was completely empty.

"This is?!" The Fourth Raikage's expression instantly turned ferocious. "Flying Thunder God Technique?!"

On the other side, Hizashi had already run away as soon as he saw the Raikage appear, showing great loyalty. He wasn't familiar with Pakura and had no interest in staying to die on the same day, month, and year as this ninja from another village.

Therefore, when Fenglan used Flying Thunder God Technique to bring Pakula back to the cave, Richa arrived just in time.

"go!"

Tobirama pressed him down, and with the physical contact between Fenglan, Pakura, and Hizashi, he activated Flying Thunder God once again.

He was the creator of the Flying Thunder God Technique, and his proficiency was far beyond that of someone like Feng Lan who had only recently acquired the skill. Moreover, in his Edo Tensei state, he possessed unlimited chakra. In the blink of an eye, everyone found themselves outside the Cloud Thunder Gorge.

"Get in the car quickly!"

Everyone was immediately sucked into the Kamui dimension by Obito, and then the kid used all his strength to head straight for the border of the Land of Lightning...

"hiss!"

Once inside the Divine Might Space, Feng Lan finally relaxed, feeling a sharp, needle-like pain in her right hand.

"Lord Fenglan!"

Pakula exclaimed in surprise, his face full of worry.

"It's alright." Feng Lan first took out water to rinse, and said, "My Flying Thunder God technique has been exposed. Even if the Fourth Raikage suspects Sunagakure, he will cause trouble for Konoha first."

"Thank you, thank you..." Pakula was grateful but also filled with guilt. If he hadn't been distracted and almost been killed by the Fourth Raikage, Feng Lan wouldn't have been exposed.

"Hmph, you're too soft-hearted!" Tobirama scoffed, ignoring Pakura's presence. "Wouldn't it be better to let her die there and turn the blame to Sunagakure?"

Pakura's body stiffened slightly. She could feel Tobirama's gaze upon her, as cold as a knife. And she had no way to refute it; as a ninja, to be distracted during a mission—she deserved to die.

Feng Lan didn't answer immediately, but glanced at Pakula before speaking: "That red cloud robe wasn't worn for nothing. According to my plan, not only can we solve the war problem in Kumogakure, but we can also completely take over Amegakure. As for Sunagakure... they are still innocent, so let's not involve them."

He has a grand plan for Sunagakure. If he betrays them now, it will lower Rasa's trust in him. He also wants to protect Pakula, as they will be useful in the future.

Pakura lowered her head. She knew that Fenglan's words were directed at Tobirama, but she also knew that the other party was speaking well of her.

Tobirama's gaze shifted away from her, and the oppressive feeling lessened. She pursed her lips, still standing there with her head down.

"Humph."

Although Tobirama was very unhappy, he knew that Fenglan must have saved Pakura because the man was still useful, so he stopped pursuing the matter: "Tsunade, treat him."

"I, I..." Tsunade, contrary to her boldness during the battle, appeared very nervous and embarrassed.

"What's wrong?" Both the first and second generations noticed her unnatural state and frowned slightly.

“Hemophobia.” After rinsing off the blood, Feng Lan tried to treat it with his half-baked medical ninjutsu. As expected, the effect was not good. After all, he had never practiced medical ninjutsu before. “It would be better if you two could give me some advice, but I can’t count on you for my current injury.”

"What happened?" Hashirama, still feeling sorry for his granddaughter, immediately looked over with concern.

Tsunade turned her head away sadly, but Jiraiya stepped forward and said, "First Hokage, Second Hokage, leave Tsunade's matter to me. I guarantee I can help her overcome her hemophobia... She just needs a little time."

"Hmm~~" Hashirama, being an experienced man, looked at Jiraiya with the same expression he would give a grandson-in-law.

The First Lord just loved to gossip.

While complaining, Feng Lan tore at the bandage with both her hands and mouth, but it was too much of a strain to wrap it properly with one hand.

"Lord Fenglan, I'm here..."

At this moment, the fleeing Rizashi finally caught his breath and hurriedly got up to help, but Pakula stopped him: "Let me do it."

"Yes, thank you for your trouble."

Pakura, being a woman, was far superior to Feng Lan in bandaging, even though she didn't know medical ninjutsu. She quickly finished bandaging her entire palm with medicine.

"I feel much better." Feng Lan waved and smiled. "Thank you."

“Lord Fenglan… no…” Pakula opened her mouth hesitantly, but shook her head. “It’s nothing, I should thank you.”

"You want to ask why I saved you, right?" Her thoughts didn't escape Feng Lan's notice.

“You revealed the Flying Thunder God Technique, just to save a Sand Village person… It’s not worth it.” She said softly, “You should know why I’ve followed you.”

"I know."

"Then why..."

"Because you are still useful."

Pakula was slightly taken aback, clearly not expecting Feng Lan to give such an answer.

"You are a pawn."

But Feng Lan didn't offer any comforting words to the girl who had just experienced life and death and was perhaps yearning for warmth. Instead, his words were direct and calm, as if he were describing a trivial matter.

"Although this chess piece was sent by Luo Sha, if it is placed well, it may be able to be used by me."

Chapter 102 Fate Unknown, That is...

The Flying Thunder God Technique was so fast that even the Fourth Raikage, driving his Lightning Armor, couldn't catch up with Obito's taillights and had to hurry back to the village to hold a meeting.

When he entered the conference room, the other high-ranking officials were already seated and engaged in a heated discussion. Compared to the elders of the other four countries, the elders of Kumogakure were much younger, not old men and women, but vigorous and upright young men. It seemed that the good bro policy was at least very effective in this respect.

Therefore, compared to the conservative and stable approach of the other four villages, the Hidden Cloud Village often adopts aggressive strategies, especially in its complete hegemonic domination of the surrounding small countries. While its infamous reputation spread far and wide, it was forced to be even more aggressive, and over time, it found itself in a somewhat precarious situation.

Right now, the village's Eight-Tails Jinchuriki, "Bea" from the AB duo, and the Raikage's younger brother have been captured by someone who has brazenly broken into the Land of Lightning. If the village doesn't react at all, the image of hegemony that it has worked so hard to build will collapse. Those forces that are afraid of Kumogakure or want to curry favor with them will also scatter in all directions. They are far less solid than the alliances that Fenglan has formed based on favors and benefits.

"Scorching Release! It's Scorching Release! It must be Sunagakure's doing!"

"And that black robe with red cloud patterns seems to be frequently seen near Amegakure."

"How could Killer Bee be captured without even having a chance to transform, leaving only very few traces at the scene of the fight?"

"Could it be a genjutsu...? Impossible, perfect Jinchuriki are immune to genjutsu!"

"..."

This shows Feng Lan's shrewdness. Killer Bee was able to detect Obito's silent intrusion because Jiraiya started using the Toad Mouth Binding Technique outside the cave. So when the battle started, the entire cave was already covered by the esophagus of the Giant Toad. Things like wood release fragments, iron sand, and snake venom were all taken away with the Giant Toad when it returned to Mount Myōboku.

The only clue that could be found in the cave was the traces left by the wriggling of the flesh walls. Theoretically, the Hidden Cloud Village would not have thought of the Hidden Leaf Village in the short term.

Unfortunately, there are no perfect plans in the world...

"Boom!"

The door was kicked open with a loud thud, and the Fourth Raikage strode in, his face full of anger. Before he could even speak, he slammed his fist on the conference table, cracking a deep fissure in the solid wood surface, and causing teacups and documents to bounce.

Surprisingly, none of the elders were frightened; they all showed expressions of being used to it. After all, this Raikage was known for frequently breaking through walls to escape, and the fact that his punch hadn't shattered the table was already a sign of restraint.

"Stop arguing, everyone! The one we're arresting is someone from Konoha!"

"Konoha?" The elders all looked surprised and uncertain. "Fourth Hokage, we haven't seen anything related to Konoha. What evidence do you have?"