Naruto: Uchiha Youngjo's Konoha Spring

Chapter 172 Konoha Reinforcements
As Mei Terumi finished speaking, the surviving sealing squad ninjas all began to act, and several purple beams of light shot into the sky, enveloping Yagura and the three of them.

"Yagura, surrender!" Mei Terumi roared.

In the center of the battlefield, the three-tailed giant turtle watched the barrier gradually taking shape around it without saying a word. It simply opened its huge mouth and gathered violent chakra in front of it, slowly forming a black giant ball compressed with terrifying chakra.

"Tailed Beast Ball? Are you crazy?" Utakata, inside the Six-Tailed Saiken, said in disbelief. Then, Utakata shouted to the people maintaining the barrier, "Everyone in the barrier team, stop what you're doing and retreat! Retreat as far as possible!"

Utakata himself was a Jinchūriki of a Tailed Beast, so no one knew its destructive power better than him. Although Tailed Beasts had all sorts of amazing abilities, the most powerful attack of all Tailed Beasts was always the Tailed Beast Ball.

Compared to other fancy ninjutsu, the Tailed Beast Ball is the purest numerical value and the most violent destructive power.

The barriers created by the rebels, which were at most created by special Jonin, could not possibly survive the impact of the Tailed Beast Ball.

However, after Yu Gao finished speaking, the surrounding barrier class all looked up blankly at Mei Terumi and Zabuza above Saiken's head.

"Everyone, retreat!" The two, who were experiencing the power of the compressed Tailed Beast Ball up close, repeated what Utakata had just said.

Only then did the barrier team begin to retreat. Seeing this, Utakata also began to condense a Tailed Beast Ball together with the Six-Tailed Saiken.

The next moment, the Tailed Beast Balls in front of the Three-Tails and the Six-Tails shot out together and collided in mid-air.

"Boom!" A huge explosion rang out, and a massive mushroom cloud slowly rose above the misty sky. The houses in this area were reduced to dust almost instantly. The barrier class, who had hesitated and were not able to retreat in time, only managed to run out of the center of the explosion. The shockwave of the explosion sent them flying far away. A few of the weaker ones were injured in the internal organs by the shockwave and coughed up a cloud of blood.

"This...is this the destructive power of a tailed beast?" Mei Terumi was unharmed despite being protected by Utakata and Saiken, but she couldn't help but look at the vast barren land around her with a look of horror.

When Hashirama Senju distributed the Tailed Beasts to various villages, although it did not bring lasting peace to the ninja world as he had envisioned, it did play a role in curbing the intensity of war. Although the ninja villages of the five great nations all possessed the Tailed Beasts as a weapon of war, the number of times the Tailed Beasts and Jinchuriki were actually deployed to the battlefield during the four Shinobi World Wars was very limited. Therefore, apart from Konoha, which was actually ravaged by the Nine-Tails, most ninjas did not have a concrete concept of the destructive power of the Tailed Beasts.

Now that the destruction caused by the two tailed beasts' tailed beast balls has come into view, everyone has remembered why tailed beasts are often referred to as natural disasters in ancient records.

"There's no way I can get involved in a battle like this." Zabuza swallowed hard.

Mei Terumi was alright; her two bloodlines were not lacking in large-scale destructive methods, so she could play a role in the battle against such a behemoth. However, Zabuza's methods were all focused on assassination, and he was completely powerless in the face of such a battlefield.

"Zabuza, go help the others first. Leave this to me and Utakata," Mei Terumi said after taking a deep breath.

"Alright, then be careful." Zabuza nodded, and then Utakata escorted him to the edge of the battlefield. Without much hesitation, Zabuza turned and headed towards the battlefield between the rebels and the Hidden Mist Ninja.

……

"Looks like it's already started over there." Uchiha Touko looked in the direction of the explosion without changing his expression. He wasn't far from the battlefield where the two tailed beasts were located, and he could easily see their figures by looking up.

At this moment, a Jonin from Kirigakure noticed that Uchiha Touko was somewhat distracted, so he immediately drew his sword and rushed forward, intending to take this opportunity to kill Uchiha Touko. However, Uchiha Touko simply turned slightly to the side, dodging the fatal blow, and then beheaded the attacker with a single strike.

Then, Uchiha Touko casually tossed aside the standard ninja sword that had been chipped again, kicked the attacker's weapon into the air and caught it. In just a short while, Uchiha Touko had already changed three swords.

"Not bad, but you should concentrate more during the fight." At that moment, a somewhat cold voice rang out from behind Uchiha Touko.

Uchiha Touko turned around, and Zabuza, wielding the Executioner's Blade, saved one of his teammates and killed his opponent with a single strike. Zabuza looked at Uchiha Touko with a hint of admiration in his eyes.

"Lord Zabuza." Uchiha Touko nodded and bowed in greeting.

“With your skills, you might become one of the new Seven Ninja Swordsmen after we succeed this time,” Zabuza said.

"Then I'll take Zabuza-sama's auspicious words into consideration," Uchiha Touko said. But after Zabuza left, Uchiha Touko frowned and thought to himself, "It's already this late, why hasn't he arrived yet?"

At this moment, although it was night, as the battle intensified, the thick fog that Kirigakure could not dissipate had taken on an eerie pinkish-red hue under the dim light, and the smell of blood in the air was getting stronger and stronger. Tonight, Kirigakure truly lived up to its name as the Village of Blood Mist.

Uchiha Touko wasn't very clear about the situation on other battlefields, but in the battlefield where he was, the resistance forces had already gained a significant advantage.

Most of the Chunin and Genin among the rebel ninja who came to resist did not have a strong desire to fight against the rebel army. They usually put up a token resistance for a few moments before surrendering. Only the powerful Jonin and Anbu were still fighting desperately. They were all beneficiaries of the Blood Mist policy and were also loyal followers of Yagura Karatachi.

Boom! Another earth-shaking tremor occurred as the two Tailed Beast Balls collided once more on the battlefield of the Tailed Beasts.

At the same time, high-temperature steam rose up after the explosion, and the three-tailed iso, enveloped by the steam, let out a low roar, seemingly having completely lost its mind.

"Yagura Karatachi! Are you going to continue resisting?" Mei Terumi roared. "You have no chance of winning. Continuing to resist will only increase the casualties of our village!" Inside the Three-Tails, in Yagura Karatachi's eyes, the genjutsu of the Mangekyou Sharingan was slowly disintegrating. However, as the genjutsu dissipated, the Three-Tails' chakra became even more violent, and at the same time, Yagura Karatachi's life force was also disappearing.

In the other battlefields, the resistance forces held a significant advantage, especially in the battle led by Kisame Hoshigaki, who had never intended to participate in the fight against the Three-Tails. The battle was nearing its end, with only a dozen or so Jonin and Anbu remaining, struggling to hold on under the relentless bombardment of Kisame Hoshigaki's Water Shark Bullets. However, their defeat was only a matter of time.

However, just as they were about to perish under Kisame's Water Shark Bullet, a figure engulfed in blue flames flew in from afar, cleaving through the large area of ​​water formed by Water Release ninjutsu. Then, with a single kick, he shattered the giant shark-shaped water bullet in the air, a giant shark formed from water-style chakra, into tiny droplets that fell to the ground.

The figure that suddenly appeared landed steadily on the small lake formed by the battle, using the Water-Treading Technique. Water droplets formed after the Water Shark Bullet was shattered fell on the newcomer, but were quickly evaporated by the aura emanating from him, turning into wisps of water mist that rose up.

"Who goes there?" Kisame Hoshigaki stared intently, noticing the newcomer was dressed in a green bodysuit. Under the dim light, the bowl-shaped hair on his head shone with a dazzling light. Upon hearing Kisame's question, Might Guy grinned and gave a thumbs up: "Konoha, Might Guy!"

"It's...it's him?" The many rebel ninjas around him looked on incredulously. Among them were some who had participated in the operation to invade the border of Konoha. Last time, this man had forced their commander to retreat simply by training on the cliffs by the sea on the border of the Land of Fire. Some of them had also curiously investigated the reason behind it. That's when they learned that during the Third Shinobi World War, four of the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist, who were the pride of their village, had been killed by a man dressed like this. And this time, he had appeared here.

"A Konoha ninja? What are you doing here?" Kisame Hoshigaki asked, frowning.

Just then, the space around Might Guy began to distort, and a white-haired man wearing a headband appeared from the void. His eyes were filled with a pair of scarlet Mangekyou Sharingan. Kakashi arrived and said with some helplessness, "Guy, you ran too fast."

“Isn’t it because I got seasick and wasted too much time? I was afraid it would delay important matters,” Matt Kai said.

"You people from Konoha are entering our Land of Water at this time. Do you intend to start a war?" Kisame Hoshigaki narrowed his eyes, took out his greatsword Samehada from behind his back, and with a slight tremor of his wrist, the bandages wrapped around Samehada broke inch by inch, revealing the somewhat ferocious-looking blade.

"We received a plea for help from the Mizukage, requesting Konoha to send troops to assist Kirigakure in suppressing the rebellious rebels." Kakashi glanced at Kisame's greatsword Samehada and said coldly, "So, you are the rebels causing trouble in Kirigakure?"

"Asking Konoha for help? How could he do this? Has he forgotten how many of our comrades died at the hands of Konoha ninjas?" A rebel ninja spoke angrily from the crowd. "Konoha ninjas! Get out of our village! This is Kirigakure's business!"

Kakashi coldly turned to look at the person who had spoken, a flash of red light passing through his eyes. The person who had just spoken felt dizzy and disoriented. When he came to his senses, he found that his upper and lower body had been strangely separated. The next moment, blood gushed out, and his legs, which were still on the ground, wobbled and fell to the ground.

"Many of our Konoha ninjas have died at the hands of your Kirigakure during the war," Kakashi said coldly. "So, if it weren't for your Mizukage promising huge rewards, we Konoha wouldn't have bothered getting involved in your affairs."

After saying that, Kakashi's Mangekyou Sharingan tomoe spun rapidly, and a Kirigakure ANBU member who had just been in grave danger from Kisame's Water Shark Bullet vanished into thin air. The next instant, the person appeared beside Kakashi. Kakashi reached out and grabbed the person's collar, asking, "Where is your Mizukage? He's not dead, is he?"

"Lord Mizukage...Lord Mizukage is fighting the leader of the rebels." The Hidden Mist Anbu was being held by the collar by Kakashi, his legs kicking wildly as he spoke with some difficulty.

"Is this the kind of trash the Hidden Mist's Anbu are? No wonder you can't handle these rebels." Kakashi tossed the Anbu aside like trash and said.

A commotion arose not far away; Konoha's army had arrived at the outskirts of Kirigakure and begun fighting the rebel ninja.

The previous battles had exhausted the resistance fighters, leaving them at their limit. Faced with the sudden arrival of the Konoha ninjas, they quickly found themselves at a disadvantage.

"Kai, I'm leaving this to you. I need to go help that Mizukage. If he dies, no one will pay us for our expedition," Kakashi said to Kai.

“Alright, leave this to me!” Might Guy stretched, his blue aura erupting once more, and turned to Kisame Hoshigaki. “By the way, you’re their leader, right? What’s your name?”

"Kisame Hoshigaki." Kisame gripped his greatsword Samehada, sensing Might Guy's astonishing aura, and licked his lips. "Are you the legendary Konoha Beast? Or... Pressure Masne?"

As soon as they finished speaking, the two rushed at each other.

The next instant, the Samehada sword came crashing down with a stench, and Triumph leaned back, the blade grazing his nose, the wind it generated carving a ten-foot-deep furrow into the water.

"As expected of Konoha's prized beast." Kisame emerged from the water curtain, his shark-like fangs gleaming coldly. "But in the water... this is my home turf!"

Kisame's hands formed hand seals so fast they were barely visible, "Water Release: Great Exploding Water Wave!"

The entire lake seemed to be lifted up by an invisible hand, with a hundred-meter-high wall of water blocking out the sky.

Kai's pupils contracted sharply; this level of water-style ninjutsu had already surpassed the scope of conventional ninjutsu.

As the giant wave crashed down, he clasped his hands together in front of his chest, and his chakra surged through the meridians of the Eight Gates.

"Sixth Gate, open!"

Emerald-green steam shot skyward, the violent airflow forcefully tearing a gap in the waterfall-like curtain of water. Kai walked on air, each step creating a circular shockwave on the water's surface. Kisame grinned, his Samehada suddenly disintegrating into thousands of scales, each transforming into a man-eating shark that pounced.

(End of this chapter)