Naruto: Uchiha Youngjo's Konoha Spring

Chapter 221 Battle on the Front Lines
At the border of the Land of Hot Water, the sky, which had been perfectly clear just moments before, was suddenly covered with dark clouds. The Konoha ninja army spontaneously made way for him, and Uchiha Touko stepped forward unhurriedly, arriving at the front of the Cloud Village army. Behind him, the Fifth Hokage's divine robe fluttered in the strong wind.

"They're here." Killer Bee and Yugito looked solemnly at Uchiha Touko as he slowly approached. However, when Killer Bee saw the figure of the person Uchiha Touko was carrying, he also showed surprise.

"Big brother?" Upon seeing Ai covered in charred wounds, Killer Bee immediately wanted to rush out, but Yugito stopped him.

“Killer Bee, calm down. The Raikage is in their hands now, we can’t act rashly,” Yugito said.

"They're both here." Uchiha Touko glanced with interest at the two ninjas in front of him, who were arguably the strongest in Kumogakure besides A, and then turned to the Kumogakure member holding Konohamaru hostage, saying, "Alright, we can begin the hostage exchange."

At this moment, the other party was already covered in sweat. After all, he had to hold hostages while maintaining the activation of the explosive tags, and he also had to travel under the death stares of a group of Konoha ninjas.

When he arrived at the front line, his back was soaked with sweat, but even so, he kept holding Konohamaru by the neck.

"You should escort Lord Raikage across the border first!" the man roared.

"Is this the procedure for exchanging hostages?" Uchiha Touko narrowed his eyes. Under Uchiha Touko's gaze, the person holding Konohamaru hostage trembled uncontrollably.

"Now, quickly send Lord Raikage across the border, or I'll make this brat pay with his life!" the other party shouted, blustering but cowardly, while lifting Konohamaru up.

"Konohamaru!" Hiruzen Sarutobi shouted anxiously.

"Alright, let's do it your way then." Uchiha Touko chuckled and tossed the A in his hand at Killer Bee and Yugito like trash.

From behind Killer Bee, an octopus tentacle stretched out and curled up Ai, pulling him back into the formation.

"Big brother!" Killer Bee cried out anxiously, seeing the unconscious A. "Medical ninja! Medical ninja!"

The next moment, after seeing that the Raikage had safely returned to the formation, the man holding Konohamaru hostage suddenly revealed a fanatical expression on his face.

"Damn Konoha, die!" With that, the opponent withdrew the chakra from his hand, and the explosive tag, which was already in an activated state, instantly lit up with a blinding white light. From the beginning, he had no intention of returning alive. After seeing the Raikage safely return to the Land of Lightning, he made the choice to fight to the death without thinking.

However, the next moment, Uchiha Touko suddenly appeared in front of him. With a gentle stroke of his right hand, which was wrapped in chakra, he set up a complex sealing technique. The flames from the exploding tags instantly subsided and were gathered into the rune hand in Uchiha Touko's hand.

The next second, Uchiha Touko, carrying Konohamaru, returned to the front lines, leaving only a headless corpse behind. "Sealing Technique..." Yugito stared at Uchiha Touko with an extremely solemn expression. According to the information they had, Uchiha Touko was not skilled in genjutsu, which was why they, the Jinchuriki, could stand safely in front of him. But the sealing technique that Uchiha Touko was displaying now was even more effective at restraining Jinchuriki than genjutsu.

After all, even with the illusions of the Mangekyou Sharingan, they could still gamble on the possibility of a perfect Jinchuriki and Tailed Beast working together to resist it, but sealing techniques had always kept them firmly under their control.

Uchiha Touko threw the still unconscious Konohamaru to Sarutobi Hiruzen. After catching Konohamaru, Sarutobi Hiruzen carefully checked his beloved grandson's condition. Seeing that Konohamaru was only unconscious because the effects of the strong sleeping potion hadn't worn off, he breathed a sigh of relief. After handing Konohamaru over to a clansman nearby, Sarutobi Hiruzen also came to Uchiha Touko's side. With the two Hokage standing at the front, the morale of the Konoha side suddenly soared.

Compared to just witnessing their own Raikage being thrown back into the Cloud Village army like a dead dog, their fighting spirit had already diminished.

Then, A, who was receiving treatment from a medical ninja in the Hidden Cloud Formation, had his right arm instantly explode into a cloud of blood mist.

"Uchiha... Touko!" Killer Bee gritted his teeth and glared at Uchiha Touko when he saw his brother suddenly suffer a heavy blow. The next moment, he drew his sword and charged at Uchiha Touko.

As Killer Bee ran, his chakra surged continuously, and in no time, an octopus with a bull's head appeared before everyone.

Uchiha Touko looked at Killer Bee, who had entered his tailed beast form and was heading straight for him, and said expressionlessly without dodging or avoiding him, "I could have resolved all of this within the territory, but do you know why I brought it here to resolve it?"

Uchiha Touko's eyes surged with ocular power, which, after mixing with chakra, transformed into a jet-black martial god. With a single punch, he slammed the charging Gyu-oni into the ground. The jet-black martial god looked down at the Cloud Village members before him and coldly said, "Because I want you to witness firsthand the miserable state of your Raikage, and then I will show you the consequences of provoking Konoha."

The enormous, jet-black war god raised its two long swords high. In an instant, thunderclouds gathered, and Susanoo's two exclusive divine weapons, Futsu-no-Mitama and Ame-no-Habakiri, were fully charged in the lightning. They unleashed two sword beams, one on the left and one on the right, powerful enough to cleave the sky, sweeping towards the Hidden Cloud Formation.

Upon seeing this scene, the Gyūki, who had been knocked to the ground by Susanoo, quickly got up and retreated, blocking the way for the Cloud Village army.

"Yataru!" Yugito shouted, completing his Tailed Beast Transformation. He transformed into a cat demon engulfed in dark blue flames. Together with Gyuki, he opened his mouth wide, and a jet-black Tailed Beast Ball rapidly condensed in front of them before flying one after the other toward the incoming lightning sword light.

A massive explosion resounded across the vast plains bordering the Land of Hot Water and the Land of Lightning. Although the two Tailed Beast Balls significantly reduced the damage of Uchiha Touko Slash, the hasty preparations were insufficient to completely block this attack imbued with divine might. The remaining lightning swept in, and the two Tailed Beasts, seeing this, could only stand in front of the army, using their bodies to block the attack.

The two enormous tailed beasts were slammed heavily onto the Cloud Hidden Formation. A huge wound appeared on the body of the Eight-Tails Gyūki, while the Two-Tails Matatabi was directly forced back to its original form.

(End of this chapter)