Naruto: Uchiha Youngjo's Konoha Spring

Chapter 218 Hostages
"Kid, calm down!" At this moment, the Nine-Tails inside the sealed space also noticed that Naruto was now completely surrounded by negative emotions.

If he wanted, he could use this negative emotion to break the seal on his body at any time. After the Fourth Hokage and Kushina's chakra dissipated, Naruto had no backup plan. However, Kurama looked at Naruto, who was huddled in front of the seal gate and trembling slightly, and gave him a stern reminder.

“Kurama…” Naruto turned around blankly, looking at the Nine-Tails inside the sealed space.

At that moment, two Cloud Village ninja noticed Naruto's unusual behavior. They burrowed underground to Naruto's feet, then rushed out with their ninja swords, aiming directly at Naruto's vitals.

However, at that very moment, two dark red chakra arms suddenly extended from Naruto's body, grabbing the attacking Cloud Village members one by one and crushing them into a pulp.

Blood and flesh fell around Naruto. Naruto looked at the surrounding hell. From the moment that eight-year-old child attacked him, Naruto suddenly began to not understand this world.

Naruto wasn't entirely without killing anyone. After graduating from the Ninja Academy, whether it was a mission in the Land of Waves or a few later missions to clear out bandits for practice, Naruto had personally killed enemies. However, those enemies at that time simply died in clean and efficient ninja battles, and they were indeed notorious villains. Therefore, Naruto had no psychological burden about killing them.

But at this moment, the screams all around him, whether from friend or foe, were provoking Naruto's already fragile heart, which was on the verge of collapse.

At this moment, Neji and Sasuke had to focus on the enemy in front of them and had no time to think about anything else.

The stench of blood and burnt flesh kept filling Naruto's nose, and Kurama sighed when he saw this.

Judging from the current situation, this kid definitely can't continue fighting. The next moment, dark red chakra mixed with gold threads appeared on Naruto's body, and five red tails also appeared behind him. At this moment, Kurama took control of Naruto's body.

The Five-Tails state is currently the limit that Kurama can achieve while controlling Naruto's body without causing him any injury.

Normally, Jinchuriki cannot fully unleash the power of a Tailed Beast because the Tailed Beast is uncooperative. However, the current Kurama is willing to let Naruto enter the perfect Jinchuriki state, but Naruto is obviously unable to cooperate well with it, so Kurama has to do it alone.

However, even such power was beyond the capacity of the Cloud Village in this area to withstand. When Naruto in his Five-Tails form charged into the enemy ranks, he moved as if he were in an empty field, tearing apart the body of a Cloud Villager with a mere wave of his hand. Meanwhile, the Cloud Villager's attacks were completely unable to penetrate the Nine-Tails' chakra defense.

"The Nine-Tails has gone berserk?" Sasuke noticed Naruto's situation immediately and was shocked. He stepped on lightning and sneaked over, intending to use genjutsu to calm Naruto down.

"Uchiha brat, Naruto is in no condition to fight right now. If you don't want him to die on this chaotic battlefield, then stop your genjutsu." Kurama used Naruto's body to turn his head and say to the approaching Sasuke.

"You...you are the Nine-Tails?" Sasuke asked, his face showing surprise.

"Who else could I be?" Naruto, covered in a layer of scarlet chakra, grinned. For Kurama, who could accurately sense malice, the aura of death shrouding this battlefield made it very uncomfortable. Therefore, he was not so polite when facing Sasuke.

“Alright.” Sasuke nodded. “Then I’ll leave Naruto in your care.”

As time went on, the battle situation gradually became clearer. In particular, after Inuzuka Jacques and Aburame Shiki worked together to kill the temporary commander of the Cloud Village army, the Cloud Village army fell into chaos without a leader and was defeated one by one by the Konoha army.

This army of Kumogakure was quickly annihilated, leaving less than 20 men, who were surrounded by the remaining Konoha ninja.

"Tell me, where did you hide Konohamaru?" After surrounding the enemy, Aburame Shiki gave the order to temporarily stop, since their main objective was to find Konohamaru.

"I won't tell you. You Konoha should just wait to start a war with us, Kumogakure!" A Kumogakure ninja who had lost his right arm gritted his teeth as he clutched his bleeding arm, which had only received simple bandaging.

"If you want war, then let's fight. We, Konoha, have never been afraid of war," Inuzuka Jacques said with a gloomy expression.

Just then, a messenger insect flew down from the sky and landed on Aburame Shiki's shoulder.

“A large number of Cloud Village troops have appeared on the border of the Land of Hot Water.” Aburame Shiki said to Inuzuka Jacques beside her with a solemn expression. “If I’m not mistaken, the same should be the case on the Land of Rice Fields where you are stationed.”

"Do we...should we go back now?" Inuzuka Jacques asked.

"Not for now. Kakashi and the Third Hokage have already been sent to the border by Genma and the others. With him in charge, there won't be any problems at the border. However, it seems that the war is really about to begin," Aburame said with a slightly solemn expression.

"In that case, let's use their heads as a sacrifice first. As for Konohamaru, let the Yamanaka clan use their secret techniques to extract information from him," Inuzuka Jacques said coldly.

The next moment, the Konoha ninja present picked up their weapons again, and the Cloud Village ninja who were surrounded also showed a look of fearlessness on their faces.

"Brothers, let's fight them! Lord Raikage will avenge us!"

Just as the battle was about to break out, from the northeast, an elderly man who was not particularly tall was rushing towards them at a speed that seemed completely out of character for his age.

Before long, the sensory ninjas within the Konoha formation also detected the figure rapidly approaching. "Someone is getting closer, this chakra fluctuation... the Third Hokage?" one of the sensory ninjas said in surprise.

Soon, Hiruzen Sarutobi arrived at the scene.

"Third Hokage." The Konoha ninja present bowed in unison. Although Hiruzen Sarutobi had retired and had almost no control over Konoha, he was still a figure of respect, so they had to give him some face.

"Have you found Konohamaru?" Hiruzen Sarutobi didn't say much, but asked anxiously.

"I'm sorry, Third Hokage, we haven't found any trace of Konohamaru." Sasuke said at this moment.

"Tell me! Where did you take Konohamaru!" Upon hearing this, Hiruzen Sarutobi turned and glared fiercely at the group of Cloud Villagers, unleashing his killing intent without restraint. Although he had been a slacker in Konoha for several years, he didn't mind letting these Cloud Villagers show him the strength of the legendary ninja hero of the past since they dared to kidnap his grandson.

"Hmph, that brat can just wait to be buried with us!" the temporary commander of Kumogakure declared defiantly. "Lord Raikage will avenge us!"

Just then, a thunderclap suddenly resounded in the sky, and a huge war god flew in at dawn accompanied by lightning, landing not far from the crowd before slowly dissipating.

Uchiha Touko slowly walked over, carrying the severely injured and unconscious A in one hand.

"Fifth Hokage!" Upon seeing Uchiha Touko, the Konoha ninjas' faces lit up with fervor, and they spontaneously made way for him.

Uchiha Touko, carrying A, walked slowly and expressionlessly to the surrounded Cloud Village troops.

"Are you waiting for him to avenge you?" Uchiha Touko coldly said, casually tossing the charred body of A in front of the group of Cloud Village members who were determined to put up a last-ditch resistance.

"Lord Raikage?" The temporary commander of Kumogakure stared in disbelief at the scene before him. Their invincible Raikage had fallen just like that? And yet, the other man's clothes didn't even look dirty?

"Touko." Hiruzen Sarutobi nodded to Touko Uchiha.

"I'm sorry, Third Hokage, this has happened. But don't worry, I will definitely bring Konohamaru back." Uchiha Touko turned to Hiruzen Sarutobi and said.

Sarutobi Hiruzen nodded.

After looking around, Uchiha Touko's Sage Mode sensory abilities completely covered a radius of one thousand meters. After a few minutes, Uchiha Touko spoke loudly: "Listen up, you guys hiding in the shadows. I'll only count to three. If you don't show yourself, then you Cloud Village can wait to be chosen as the Fifth Raikage."

As soon as Uchiha finished speaking, an eerie silence fell over the surroundings.

“3!” Uchiha Touko held up three fingers.

"2!"

"1!"

After counting, Uchiha Touko drew the Swift Lightning from his waist, raised it high, and instantly lightning flashed across the sky. The blade of Swift Lightning, filled with lightning, transformed into a giant lightning sword 3 meters long. Uchiha Touko decisively slashed Swift Lightning down fiercely at the unconscious A and the remaining Cloud Village members behind him.

"Wait a minute!" At this moment, the person who had been hiding in the shadows with Konohamaru finally couldn't hold back any longer and appeared, shouting loudly.

The Thunder Greatsword stopped just centimeters from Ai's nose, and the leaping lightning above added more wounds to Ai's face.

"So you've finally decided to come out?" Uchiha Touko said with a sneer. "I thought you were ready for the election of the Fifth Hokage in Kumogakure."

"Release Lord Raikage, or this brat won't live either," the newcomer said, grabbing Konohamaru by the neck.

"Konohamaru!" Hiruzen Sarutobi exclaimed in alarm upon seeing his grandson.

"Lord Hokage..." At this moment, Aburame Shiki came to Uchiha Touko's side and whispered a reminder. Although he didn't say it explicitly, Uchiha Touko understood what he meant. If they used Konohamaru to exchange for the Raikage, Konoha would be at a huge loss.

However, Uchiha Touko nodded and said, "Want to trade Konohamaru for this guy's life? Sure."

(End of this chapter)