Naruto: I am Ninja World Ghost Story, who are you?

"You think I'd believe you?! You dare say it wasn't you who controlled the Nine-Tails eight years ago?!"

Upon hearing this, Obito was momentarily embarrassed: "That time it was me, this time it's not."

"I don't believe it!" Itachi's left eye began to spin rapidly, and the fluctuation of chakra made Obito leave his original spot without hesitation. The next moment, black flames appeared where Obito had been standing.

Furthermore, Itachi's left eye kept tracking Obito's figure: "Don't even think about running away!"

The weasel's voice was filled with gritted teeth.

Hiruzen Sarutobi, who was still feeling dizzy and disoriented, heard the commotion beside him and realized that he wasn't in his original world at all, but rather in a parallel world. He immediately stood up and said to the bewildered crowd:

"Quick! Now is the best time to kill the masked man. That nine-tailed fox is just a phantom of this world; it has nothing to do with reality!"

Hiruzen Sarutobi's voice also gave the others a boost of morale.

"I was so scared! I thought the village was gone." Xiaochun touched her chest; she had almost had a heart attack.

“Me too.” Mitokado Yan wiped the cold sweat from his forehead.

Meanwhile, Itachi's black flames, which Obito couldn't explain, hid behind a wall, completely depriving Itachi of any line of sight to attack.

"Ha! Ha!" Itachi Uchiha covered his bleeding left eye, squatting down and panting heavily.

"We're allies now, right? That guy was too ruthless." Hiruzen Sarutobi's tone was a bit lighter.

Itachi Uchiha's next sentence cut off Hiruzen Sarutobi's lightheartedness: "You guys aren't much better."

Hiruzen Sarutobi awkwardly scratched his forehead, wondering how much time he had left, when the wall provided the answer again.

[Time: 8 minutes and 50 seconds]

But now, with the village under attack by the Nine-Tails, Itachi Uchiha has no choice but to join forces with this group of 'Uchiha ninjas': "I can give you a chance. As long as you cooperate to eliminate the masked man in front of you, I can let you go."

“Okay!” Mitokado Homura hurriedly said, afraid that Uchiha Itachi would change his mind.

Uchiha Itachi nodded slightly: "That masked man possesses the Void Space-Time Eye Technique, which only allows his body to appear in the real world when he attacks. As long as we seize that opportunity, we can kill him."

Upon hearing Itachi Uchiha's words, Hiruzen Sarutobi also thought of another point: "Is there a specific time?"

Itachi Uchiha shook his head: "I don't know."

Upon hearing this, everyone looked at each other, somewhat doubtful.

But Hiruzen Sarutobi nodded firmly: "Itachi wouldn't lie to us at this time. Let's prepare to drag out... the battle."

Hiruzen Sarutobi's word made the other ninjas understand, and they secretly prepared measures to buy time.

Obito Uchiha emerged from the wall, his voice filled with anger: "Are you trying to break off our cooperation?"

"That's right!"

“My cooperation with you did not mean I agreed to let you destroy the village.”

"I didn't do this."

Hiruzen Sarutobi and the others: "It was you who did it!"

Chapter 20 A Series of Unexpected Events (Please read on, please vote with monthly tickets)

Inside the village in the inner world.

Fugaku Uchiha, who had been calm, instantly flew into a rage upon hearing Kakashi's words.

"Kakashi! Tell me, what did we Uchiha do wrong?! Why is the village treating us like this?!"

For a moment, Kakashi was unable to answer. This was a political matter; he was merely the captain of the Anbu, and his primary duty was to follow the Hokage's orders.

"I can't say for sure." Fugaku crossed his arms, took a step forward, and looked down at Kakashi, who was standing on the rooftop.

"Let me tell you, the Uchiha did nothing wrong. The only mistake they made was trusting the village too much."

"Since your village has decided to exterminate my son's entire clan, then I, Fugaku, have nothing left to regret!"

"Then let's all perish together!"

As soon as the words were spoken, Kurama opened its mouth wide, and the air became extremely oppressive. Dark purple chakra gathered in front of Kurama, gradually forming a sphere.

"Oh no!" Kakashi panicked at the sight and tried to stop them, saying, "Clan Chief Fugaku! Don't make another mistake! Obito wouldn't want the Uchiha clan to end up like this either!"

"..." Fugaku remained silent for a moment, looking down at Konoha Village, which he had always considered his family. Now, with the Nine-Tails under his control and the Uchiha guards who had secretly remained in the village, it was almost completely destroyed. He gritted his teeth slightly.

"Although I shouldn't hesitate at this time, Kakashi, what you said may be right. The only one who is wrong is the Third Hokage. But since I have made this decision, I am prepared to die in battle."

"There are no cowards in the Uchiha clan who will just wait to die!"

At this moment, the Nine-Tails' chakra also gathered and took shape, turning its body to face the Hokage Building in the center of the village, or more precisely, the Hokage Rock behind the Hokage Building.

In a short while, the Tailed Beast Ball in front of Kurama took shape, and the purple Tailed Beast Ball swept through the streets and houses along the way, flying all the way towards the location of the Hokage Rock.

"No!!" All the ninjas saw this scene, and many residents had not yet moved from the location of the Hokage Rock.

boom! ! !

A mushroom cloud shattered everything within a radius of several hundred meters around the Fire Shadow Rock.

Cries of pain, screams, wails, the sound of rocks falling, and the explosions of flames echoed throughout Konoha Village, creating a great cacophony.

Kakashi involuntarily knelt on the ground, looking at the Hokage Building and Hokage Rock that had been there before him. After the thick smoke dissipated, they had become a huge crater. The surrounding buildings were still glowing with fire, and there were countless severed limbs of villagers and ninjas outside the area.

That's because they couldn't escape the explosion of the Tailed Beast Ball and were affected by the shockwave.

"Uchiha Fugaku!" Kakashi was completely enraged. He drew his short sword and charged forward. At that moment, his three-tomoe Sharingan awakened the Kamui Sharingan, which he had already activated, due to extreme anger.

"Too naive." Fugaku Uchiha didn't take it seriously and controlled the Nine-Tails to slam it down on Kakashi's body. The swinging arm stirred up the surrounding air, forming a powerful air wave.

Just as the Nine-Tails was about to strike Kakashi, it was interrupted by a mental attack, stopping its arm. Kakashi then used chakra to attach to the soles of his feet, stepping on the Nine-Tails' body and charging upwards.

"Die!" Kakashi was filled with remorse. He couldn't face this reality. He had to kill Fugaku and find a way to save his teacher's only child. This was his last thought at this moment.

Fugaku remained unmoved, blood trickling from his left eye as he looked at Kakashi: "Amaterasu!"

Kakashi was taken aback, and suddenly a raging black flame erupted from his body, causing him to scream in agony.

Upon seeing this, Fugaku smiled slightly, then his expression hardened again. He turned to look at the former clan land and made a decision.

Since he moved his wife and Sasuke to another place, and the eldest son has probably already dealt with the clan members, then the last threat should be eliminated.

boom!boom!

The Nine-Tails shifted its body, its massive mouth opened again, and the tailed beast chakra gathered once more, aiming towards the Uchiha clan's territory.

At that crucial moment, Kakashi leaped forward and appeared above and behind Fugaku, shouting, "Chidori!"

'Zizi——'

The sound, like the calls of a thousand birds at the same time, made Fugaku's eyes widen, and he turned around.

The next second, Kakashi arrived in front of Fugaku at an extremely fast speed, and the light of Chidori pierced through Fugaku's chest.

"Pfft." Fugaku coughed up blood. He had clearly already defeated Kakashi, so why...?!

"Kakashi, have you been using shadow clones to communicate with me from the very beginning?"

"More or less." Kakashi breathed slightly, and the 'Kakashi' burned by the black flames had turned into blue lightning and disappeared into the air.

"Heh... Even if you defeat me... the Nine-Tails has already emerged... You're powerless to change anything." Fugaku couldn't aim properly now and could only let the Nine-Tails shoot in one direction.

Kakashi sensed something was wrong and immediately noticed that Kurama's movements hadn't stopped; the tailed beast's chakra was still gathering, but the direction of the shot was off, heading towards an area near the clan's territory.

The location was a forest. Danzo covered himself in mud, trying to mask his scent, and hid in a tree, ready to leave immediately if he noticed anything amiss.

He didn't want to stay here in the first place and planned to run away from Konoha Village, but he found that a large number of patrolling ninjas were looking for him, so he had no choice but to focus his attention on the sparsely populated Uchiha clan territory.

However, he found that he could not enter the tribe's territory, so he could only find a place to rest about one kilometer away from the tribe's territory.

"I wonder how Sarutobi, Koharu, and Homura are doing." Danzo was in a sorry state, still clinging to the thought of living, while also wondering how much time he had left to end this 'death game'.

[Time: 3 minutes and 21 seconds]

"Three minutes... This game is so long... and terrifying." With the sudden appearance of the countdown timer, Danzo finally understood the Second Hokage's fear.

This kind of thing defies common sense and is simply beyond the capabilities of a ninja.

Just when Danzo thought he could escape this crisis, his sense of danger between life and death became alert at this moment. He even used his right eye, the Mangekyou Sharingan, which he had not originally planned to use, with great pain, just to survive.

Click! Click! Click!

Danzo heard the sound of tree branches breaking, and the sound was getting closer and closer.

The next moment, the forest in front of them parted in the middle, and a huge Tailed Beast Ball came flying towards them.

Danzo: ......

I'm sooooooooooooooo!

Before Danzo could even move, a loud 'boom' shattered everything around him. The area of ​​the forest, spanning hundreds of meters, was blasted into a jagged basin, and even the Uchiha clan's territory was severely affected at that moment.

"What happened?" A gust of wind blew by, causing Hiruzen Sarutobi, who was fighting the masked man, to stop what he was doing and turn around to look.

In an instant, he saw a thick plume of smoke rise slowly from an area outside the Uchiha clan's territory, resembling a black mushroom cloud.

"Tailed Beast Ball... It seems Konoha is in deep trouble." Obito Uchiha had no wounds, but his eye technique was almost figured out by this group. "Itachi, now that Konoha is gone, are you sure you still want to follow them down this path and go all the way down the dark side?"

"Damn it!" Itachi Uchiha slammed his fist into the ground. His chakra was almost completely depleted, mainly due to the excessive consumption during his previous battle with Jonin Hiruzen.

Moreover, he was worried about his younger brother at home.

"How about this."

"I agree to let your brother join Akatsuki, guarantee his safety, and I won't hold it against you for just fighting with me."

In return, you will continue to serve as a probationary member of the Akatsuki.

"how?"

In just a moment, the ninjas standing next to Itachi couldn't help but freeze and began to step back.

Itachi Uchiha's expression turned cold: "Not very good."

These words relieved the ninjas present. The Jonin from Root couldn't help but wipe the sweat from his brow. After removing his mask, he had a somewhat gloomy appearance with black greasepaint stripes.

"That's it..."

Obito Uchiha's voice made the air heat up again. Everyone was watching Obito's movements, afraid that they would be sucked in like that Chunin just now, and then thrown out as corpses.

"Since that's the case... to protect my information... may you go to hell!" Obito Uchiha raised his right hand, pointing a sword-like finger at the crowd:

"Die! Fire Release: Explosive Dance!"

"The range of this technique is vast, Koharu, quickly use Water Release!" Hiruzen Sarutobi formed hand seals, using his last bit of chakra to attempt a Water Release block.

Koharu Utatane nodded: "Water Release: Water Formation Wall!"

The other Root Jonin also used this ninjutsu.

The next moment, a soaring spiral of fire, accompanied by spatial distortion, surged forth with a spring-like momentum.

At the same time, a water escape formation with a range of about twenty meters was also formed by the combined efforts of everyone, rushing towards the firelight, determined to block the attack.

'Zizi——'

The fusion of fire and water created a large amount of steam that obscured everyone's vision. But at that moment, Itachi Uchiha clearly sensed something was wrong. He immediately canceled his Water Release technique, grabbed the nearest Jonin Hiruzen, and jumped to the side.

"Itachi! What are you doing!" Hiruzen Sarutobi was interrupted by Itachi Uchiha, cutting off his Water Release attack.

Uchiha Itachi held Hiruzen Sarutobi in his arms. "Jonin Hiruzen, although I really want to apologize to my clan, right now, we can only try to escape."

Just as Hiruzen Sarutobi thought something was happening, his eyes also noticed that the Water Release technique used by everyone together could not stop the masked man's Fire Release technique from advancing. The flames arrived in front of Koharu Utatane and the others within seconds of leaving.

boom! ! !

The violent explosion generated a strong hot wind that whipped Hiruzen Sarutobi's few remaining white hairs around his neck.

"Koharu... Menyan..." Before Hiruzen Sarutobi could finish grieving, the Uchiha mansion collapsed in the explosion.

"teacher..."

Seeing his old friends who died in an instant and the houses that collapsed, Hiruzen Sarutobi was filled with sorrow.

"Now is not the time for sentimentality. The masked man will not let us go. We should leave the tribe's territory as soon as possible."

"No..." Hiruzen Sarutobi's eyes were filled with death intent. Even if he died, he would kill that masked man. Even if this was not reality, the other party was indeed the murderer who killed his old friend and teacher.

"Put me down, I'll stop him."

He planned to use the sealing technique that the Fourth Hokage used to deal with the Nine-Tails.