In Konoha, Naruto lies down

Dazzling lightning flashed across the Kumogakure jonin's body. Bang, bang, bang, the naked eye could not catch the Kumogakure jonin's moving figure. Almost with each sound, he moved to a different position, closing in on Sasuke at the speed of a dragon and a snake.

This is the unique lightning-style ninjutsu of Kumogakure, which compresses the chakra in the body to allow the body to burst out with unlimited potential.

The jonin moved, everyone moved, and explosions echoed. The air was distorted by the lightning, and even the dozen or so human figures seemed to be twisted and swaying like ghosts.

Sasuke continued to draw his sword and chopped down all the people.

Ten minutes later, the scene was a mess, with broken limbs and arms everywhere. Sasuke was covered in blood, and he seemed to have calmed down.

Without even looking at it, he put the knife back to his waist. With a click, the blade slid into the sheath.

"Let's go, the people from Kumogakure will be here soon to kill the next batch." Sasuke walked slowly forward, and Karin followed closely behind him.

Kumogakure did repel the five thousand White Zetsu that had infiltrated the village, but they were unable to stop Sasuke and his men. The Hawk Squad split up, with Sasuke taking Karin and Suigetsu taking Jūgo.

This mimics the Akatsuki's two-person team format, and while its destructive power is limited, its advantage lies in its flexibility. Karin and Jūgo each possess a unique chakra sensing ability, allowing them to offer superior counter-detection capabilities compared to Kumogakure.

It is early winter now. The Hidden Cloud Ninja wants to send troops to form a ninja coalition with the other four major countries, but also has to guard against another counterattack by White Zetsu.

Even the Fourth Raikage, with his immense power, was still powerless against the swift-moving Eagle Squad. In just the past few days, the Eagle Squad had already taken out seven or eight outposts across Kumogakure.

The Hawk Squad's style of action was full of Sasuke-esque ruthlessness, almost holding their knives to the Raikage's neck, as if to say, "If you dare to send troops, I will dare to sneak into the village in the middle of the night when defenses are low and kill you."

Karin was the one who felt Sasuke's growth and change most directly. It seemed that Sasuke changed after the Fire Country Daimyo case fell on him.

Becoming... more and more... a rogue?

Acting without restraint... She didn't know what to say, she just felt that Sasuke seemed to be becoming more and more like a person, a very shameless person. It was also like he was forced into a corner and became the person he didn't like.

Others might not be aware of this, but Karin was with Sasuke every day. She naturally knew that Sasuke had been in a bad state since Uchiha Itachi's death.

If Sasuke before was like a piece of ice, like a high-pressure bomb, then after this, Sasuke was like a punch on cotton, and the whole person was a little timid.

Uchiha Itachi's death was related to Danzo, so Danzo died. After a narrow escape and revenge, Sasuke could have returned to normal, but Karin found that Sasuke's condition was getting worse.

Confused, without goals, not wanting to take care of things, and being controlled by emotions.

For a long time, the three members of Team Hawk could clearly feel that Sasuke had lost his leadership spirit and was like a self-exiled madman.

Until he was framed by that person time and again, and he used Sasuke's name to cause trouble everywhere, Sasuke could no longer bear it and lost his temper. It was from then on that Sasuke seemed to have changed.

~~

"Uchiha Sasuke!" The Fourth Raikage stood up in a rage and was about to smash the table with a hammer.

"Lord Raikage, this is the last table." Ma Buyi suddenly reminded.

"Ah!!!" The Raikage had no place to vent his anger. He roared to the sky, his eyes red. "Evil Uchiha! Hiding like a bug!"

"It seems like we weren't wrong to blame him from the beginning! Uchiha Sasuke directed and acted all this from the beginning to the end. This scoundrel's tactics are too familiar!"

Ma Buyi standing by remained silent, not knowing what to say.

She knew that the one who had attacked Kumogakure at the beginning was indeed not Uchiha Sasuke, but now... forget it, he's already a traitor, so she didn't worry about it.

It's strange, though. After initially betraying and submitting to that shameless yellow-haired guy, I couldn't sleep all night. All sorts of shame and guilt washed over me, but then... I got used to it.

Perhaps that person also liked to let them run free, so he took a few of them in and signed contracts to work for them, but he didn't use them often.

I had originally thought that person was going to deal with Kumogakure, as that was what we had agreed upon at the beginning, but then it was as if he had forgotten about it. The yellow-haired guy had only said to wait for the right time, and that had been dragging on until now.

If it weren't for the contract, Ma Buyi would have almost forgotten that she had another master. Occasionally, she would remember that the top management of Yunyin had been infiltrated by the three of them, and she would suddenly break out in a cold sweat.

"Where's Samui? Let her lead the team to find those bugs. Is there any news?" The voice of the Fourth Raikage brought Ma Buyi back to her senses, and she straightened her body.

"They should still be on the way. News came back half a day ago that the outpost in the southwest was attacked." Ma Buyi calmly reported the information he had collected, and his thoughts couldn't help but wander again.

Of the three, Yumu Ren had already made up her mind to side with that man and had already pledged her allegiance. Samui, with her cold personality, had neither pledged nor expressed any attitude.

It seemed that this matter had no effect on her, but she herself was often restless.

The north wind was blowing and heavy snow was falling from the sky.

"It just stopped and it started raining again, what a bad weather!" Karui, the female ninja with fiery red hair and dark skin, looked up at the white sky and complained.

"Maybe the enemy has escaped in the heavy snow, or has set a trap for us somewhere." The brown-skinned Omoi with short white hair spoke dejectedly, looking listless.

"You guy!"

With a bang, the dark-skinned, red-haired female ninja Karui punched Omoi hard and shouted.

"Can you please stop saying depressing things all the time? It's really annoying to hear."

The three of them left messy footprints on the snow.

Samyi squatted down and pushed aside the thick snow in the forest, revealing the barely perceptible trace of blood. Her eyes suddenly became serious. The snow had not stopped for long, and the person had not left far.

After all, we are just mortals. No matter how powerful we are, the Hidden Cloud Village is not made of clay.

"Shut up!" Samyi turned around and glared coldly at the two useless disciples. "The enemy hasn't gone far. Stay alert, or you won't know when you'll die."

These two weren't cool at all as ninjas, she added to herself.

The Hidden Cloud Range wasn't very large, an isolated island built on a mountaintop. The slopes grew steeper as one moved further back. Samui and the other two made their way forward, following the bloodstains, and saw more and more bodies.

~~

Chojuro turned over a frozen corpse, his expression changing. Even though he had seen many corpses, he couldn't hold it in anymore and retched for a while.

"What's wrong? Chojuro?" Qing, who had luckily managed to save one of his white eyes, rushed over. He lowered his gaze and saw the corpse. "This is..."

The face was gone and the head was screwed into a ball, looking horrible.

"The enemy has been replaced by a new group, and they are stronger than the previous group of White Zetsu." The voice of Mizukage Terumi Mei came, her figure was graceful, and every step was like a lotus.

"Are they evolving?" Qing's face changed, and he felt a chill on his back for no reason.

"This is not a power that ordinary people can possess. The bones and flesh were crushed together." Chojuro shuddered, and there was a hint of fear in his voice.

"Yesterday... no, was it lost the day before yesterday?" Terumi Mei had no expression on her face. Instead, she squatted down and carefully examined the corpse.

"Lady Terumi Mei." Chojuro called out.

"It's okay, the body is frozen, there's no danger." Terumi Mei said lightly, and without turning back, she ordered, "Chojuro, Ao, return to the village immediately and organize ten elite teams. I can be of use to you."

"Yes." The two responded.

~~

Twenty miles outside the Valley of the End is the Immortal Forest, where Konoha has left a line of defense.

Moriwa was just a veteran Chunin, his family all in the north. Counting from the time he went to the battlefield, it had been forty years.

It is indeed a miracle that he survived the Third Shinobi World War until now.

The Fire Nation had been at peace for so long, nearly twenty years, that people had almost forgotten what war was like. He had spent almost the same ten years at the border, drowsy and idling away his days.

But the war came so quickly that the village transferred him from the northern front of Konoha to the west with a single transfer order. Many people around him had the same experience as him, having been transferred from the southwest or even further south.

He didn't understand strategy, but after years of living on the border, Moriwa had a vague sense that this mission might be dangerous. The enemy was so fierce that Konoha was forced to withdraw its troops and retreat.

This had never happened before. Even when the village's survival was at stake, no troops had been dispatched from the border. When he first arrived, he was a little nervous, as everything looked like an enemy.

His companions from the north liked to tease him, whistling at him, saying that he looked like a woman and was scared. Morihe didn't care, shrugged his shoulders, and joked that if he turned into a woman, he would let his brothers have fun.

For four or five days, everything on the defense line was normal.

He was no longer worried, and he also discovered that there was a small village of 34 households not far from the defense line.

There was a clever little girl who looked about ten years old, who always came to the edge of the camp boldly to sell alcohol.

Senhe had bought it a few times, and when he saw the little girl approaching the edge of the camp again, he couldn't help but want to laugh. He thought that his own daughter was only about the same age, but she wasn't so smart, always dull and hiding when she saw people.

He bought some wine and arranged with the little girl for tomorrow's quantity. The camp wasn't strictly managed, so it was okay to have a few drinks after work. The girl smiled sweetly and nodded heavily.

"Then I'll come again tomorrow!"

"Come on, come on, hehe." Morihe smiled.

At nightfall, screams were heard from the west side of the defense line. By the time Senhe realized something was wrong, it was too late. The fire burned the sky of the western forest red, and the heat wave melted the snow on the defense line.

The ninja rushed over, and a large number of White Zetsu climbed out of the icy river and attacked the village beside the river. The whole village fell into chaos, and the sea of ​​fire submerged the corpses.

By the time Moriwa arrived, he saw the villager's chest shattered by the White Zetsu, half of his body already shattered. Blood mist drifted in the firelight, and the whirring wind drowned out the screams.

He roared, drew his knife and rushed forward, feeling both fear and anger.

He himself didn't know why he was angry, perhaps because the villagers died in such a miserable way, or perhaps because he knew that he would die tonight too.

On weekdays, he always boasted about his experiences of surviving on the battlefield, and sometimes even believed that he was destined to be not an ordinary person, and that his survival was the blessing of an immortal.

He felt a chill in his lower abdomen, and before he could look down, his adrenaline protected him for a few seconds. Before the pain could reach his brain, he slashed the White Zetsu in front of him to death.

But before he could turn around, he felt half his head being hit again, and he fell to the ground with a thud. He opened only one eye, and half of his head was gone.

He wanted to take one more look, one last look at this world. War was never rational, he knew that, but he just wouldn't give up. That was until he saw the young woman selling alcohol push open the door from the ruins and run towards him.

Behind her were two ferocious White Zetsu, which could no longer be called monsters. He wanted to move but realized he was about to die. So he could only silently shout, "Run!"

The flame of life that was about to go out seemed to last for a few more seconds. He had only one thought in his mind: run.

Just as Bai Zetsu was about to catch up with the girl, a sudden roar like a humming sound was heard. A huge fiery red ball fell, shaking the earth like the sun.

The last glimmer of light appeared in his slowly withering eyes. His eye sockets widened and he stared at the giant ball... with nine tails spread out.

Chapter 517: Every word is true, and I have a clear conscience, but the first half

After Naruto kicked the Nine-Tails out of the Yellow Springs Gate, he left without looking back, regardless of how badly the Nine-Tails would fall from the clouds.

He didn't want to see the battlefield beneath the clouds. The Immortal Forest was just a small line of defense. Fifty miles east of the Valley of the End, twenty miles north of the Moon Belt, the border of the Fire Nation, fierce fighting was raging everywhere.

War meant constant death, and he wasn't an octopus, so he couldn't care less. Throwing a fat pig, Nine-Tailed Fox, to suppress the fountain that White Zetsu was refreshing was the biggest concession he could make.

If the Fire Nation ninjas were to rely solely on risking their lives to stop White Zetsu, more people would die. White Zetsu would not think and would still climb ashore from the bottom of the river.

This is also the terrifying thing about White Zetsu. They cannot think but obey orders, and they don’t need to breathe even when marching underwater.

This is no longer something humans can do, it is completely an alien monster.

Yakushi Kabuto is far more patient and capable than he imagined. He is not like the original plot where he just made a cameo appearance, gathered a bunch of rabble, dug up corpses and fulfilled his dreams.

Today, when he went to the battlefield, Naruto realized that he had underestimated the hatred of the Dream Maker and the determination of Kabuto Yakushi.

If he were given some more time, I'm afraid Kabuto Yakushi would be able to create a bunch of weakened versions of the Otsutsuki. This kid... is so terrifying, he's the leader of the resident crisis in the ninja world.

At Xianren Ridge, the fat pig Nine-Tailed was almost knocked unconscious when he landed on the ground.

In a rage, it opened its nine tails, and while cursing Naruto, the bastard, for having a penis ten centimeters shorter, it angrily shook off the white bugs that it had killed.

It felt a little disgusted. It couldn't make blood come out of hitting it, and it was sticky and looked like a flattened rice ball, which was a bit disgusting.

If it weren't for that yellow-haired man's coercion and inducement, it would not have left Konoha. Anyway, Konoha has sealed it for so long, so what's wrong with it refusing to leave?

Isn't it too much to drink a little? I've been locked up for so long, is that too much?

If that guy hadn't insisted that Konoha was about to die and there was no more wine, it would have been better to cut off its alcohol supply from now on.

He was obviously talking nonsense, but he pretended I couldn't hear it. But I didn't care, that bastard was never sure what he said.

So, we just need to clear out all the white bugs here. Jiuwei had a plan in mind and was ready to let go and do it.

But I heard someone screaming and yelling behind me.

"Where did the giant pig fall from?"

"roll!"

~~

The war was raging on ahead, but Naruto didn't have too many worries for the time being. He was alone, and now he finally had the chance to take care of Hinata and Ino's affairs.

Everyone seemed panicked when White Zetsu invaded, except Naruto who had already expected it but was unable to explain it in advance.

No one would believe me even if I told them, so I just waited.

This was an opportunity for him, so he didn't panic, but instead seemed to be in an orderly manner. Mao Yue Xi Yan didn't know, so her efforts were wasted from the beginning.

Naruto already had a plan for what to do after the war started. He estimated that since the war had just begun, the five major nations should be able to hold out for a while.

The Impure World Reincarnation army has not yet arrived at the battlefield, and Kabuto Yakushi may still be digging graves everywhere.

He can easily create a time difference, and very few people know that he has the ability to travel freely along the coordinates, and they are all his own people.

It just so happened that Uzuki Yugao owed him a few favors, so he could take the opportunity to place Hinata in the Snow Country.

If he were to come forward, Hyuga Hiashi wouldn't listen to a word Naruto said. Only the words of Uzuki Yugao, the captain of the Anbu, had weight, and Hyuga Hiashi would listen to them.