Naruto: Uchiha Youngjo's Konoha Spring

Chapter 291 Walk away
With the help of the Nara family's secret techniques, the infiltration team led by Masato Nara moved forward silently, clinging to the cold wall of a narrow alley, as if they were shadows themselves.

Not far ahead lies one of the defensive centers of Kumogakure, the towering barrier tower. Its body is covered with dense barrier runes, casting a powerful sensory and defensive barrier over a large area. At the foot of the tower, two squads of well-equipped Kumogakure guards are patrolling vigilantly, their sharp eyes scanning the rain.

"Shadow Imitation Technique, target, guard captain and communications ninja, listen to my countdown." Nara Masato gestured with his hands to the four Nara clansmen behind him, then quickly formed several hand seals in front of his chest, the movements as light as breathing.

"Three...two...one!"

Several slender, jet-black shadows, like venomous snakes poised to strike, suddenly shot out from beneath the feet of Masato and the other Nara clansmen! They clung tightly to the wet ground, perfectly blending into the shadows of the buildings and the reflections of the rain, and in the gaps between the guards' glances, they precisely connected with the shadows beneath the feet of the target guards!

"What...?!" The guard captain felt his body suddenly stiffen, as if he were bound by invisible chains, making it extremely difficult to even move his eyes! The communications ninja beside him also froze in place, his finger only inches away from the alarm button at his waist, but he could no longer press it.

"Success! Move out!" A glint flashed in Yato's eyes. The moment he gave the order, several Hyuga clan ninjas had already silently appeared behind the guards. Their Gentle Fist struck the vital points of the stiff guards with precision, and the guards collapsed to the ground without even uttering a sound.

"Barrier team, take over the external rune defense within ten seconds! Sensory team, shield the energy fluctuations inside the tower from leakage!" Nara Masato's command was concise and efficient. Several Yamanaka clan ninjas placed their hands on the cold, damp outer wall of the barrier tower. Powerful mental energy instantly invaded the consciousness of the operators inside the tower. The rune light flashing at the top of the tower experienced a very brief period of disorder before returning to normal, but the coverage area had been quietly reduced and its direction adjusted.

Masato looked up at the Raikage Building, which symbolized the command center of Kumogakure. Although the Raikage himself was being held back by Sasuke, there must still be a command center inside the building.

"Shadow Strangle...prepare to cover." He gave the order in a low voice, his gaze icy. The Nara clansmen began to form hand seals, and countless dark shadows spread upwards along the shadows of the building as if they were alive, their target being the windows of the command room on the top floor of the building.

Meanwhile, in the lower-lying southeastern region of Kumogakure, a dull tremor resounded through the earth.

boom! boom! boom!
A series of deafening crashes, accompanied by the piercing noise of shattering rocks and twisting metal, drowned out some of the rain. Akimichi Ken's incredibly massive body caused the ground to tremble violently with every step he took. After a furious roar, his enormous fists, wreathed in visible waves of chakra, slammed down like two giant hammers from the sky onto a heavily guarded, fortress-like building—the Cloud Village's armory!

"Fools of Kumogakure! Taste the Akimichi clan's 'human bomb tank'!!" Akimichi Ken's voice boomed like thunder in the rainy night. His massive body suddenly curled up, transforming into a super giant ball covered in hard defenses and spinning at high speed. With a terrifying aura that could crush everything, he charged toward the tightly closed, heavy alloy gate of the armory!

"Stop him!" the commander guarding the arsenal roared. A barrage of lightning-style ninjutsu and explosive tags rained down on the rolling sphere, creating deafening explosions and blinding flashes of lightning. However, because most of the elite troops had been deployed to the front lines, the attacks from the village ninjas could only leave shallow scorch marks on the sphere's surface, offering no real resistance whatsoever!
Boom——! ! !
A deafening roar! The alloy gate of the arsenal, capable of withstanding the bombardment of large-scale ninjutsu, twisted, shattered, and collapsed like paper under Akimichi Ken's savage charge imbued with all his power! Huge metal fragments mixed with gravel flew everywhere!

"Charge in! Destroy the core power reactor and production line! Leave no one alive!" Akimichi Ken deactivated his size-up transformation, returning to normal human size, but his ferocious aura remained undiminished. Chakra surged within him, making him appear like a humanoid beast. Wielding his enormous fists, he led the ravenous Konoha army, charging into the depths of the factory, which reeked of machine oil and metal, towards the panicked Cloud Ninja guards inside the armory. A fierce melee erupted instantly, with roars, the clash of ninjutsu, and the tearing of metal echoing throughout the massive factory.

Further away, Konoha's sabotage squads moved with impunity, while the Aburame clan's insect swarms transformed into a black storm, burrowing into energy pipelines and precision instruments. The Inuzuka clan's ninja dogs worked in perfect unison, tearing apart the Cloud Ninja squads that were trying to organize a counterattack. Ninjas skilled in Earth Release and Water Release rampaged through roads, bridges, and water supply systems. Thick smoke billowed up from the rear of the entire Cloud Village, alarms blared incessantly, and flames struggled and flickered in the rain, creating a scene of chaos and devastation.

Above the village, the intensity of the battle had reached its peak.

Enveloped in azure lightning, Raikage A's chakra metal prosthetic limb transformed into a blade of death tearing through the rain. Each swing was accompanied by a piercing sonic boom and destructive power. On the surface of the prosthetic limb, the charred marks left by black lightning clashed fiercely with new lightning, emitting crackling thunderous sounds. At this moment, A was like a maddened beast, frantically attacking the massive Susanoo, leaving countless blue afterimages in the air.

Inside the crystal above Susanoo's head, Sasuke's eyes tracked the Raikage's movements, his face filled with solemnity. It must be said that A's prosthetic arm was indeed something special, as it was able to withstand the annihilating power of the black lightning created by his eye technique.

"Lightning Strike: Thousand Generations Dance!" The Raikage roared, transforming himself into a massive, spinning blue lightning drill. His chakra metal prosthetic arm served as the sharpest tip of the drill, carrying an unwavering determination to pierce through everything, as it slammed into the Susanoo's relatively weak waist and abdomen joint!
On the other side, Killer Bee, having finally broken free from the Mangekyou Sharingan's genjutsu, re-entered his Tailed Beast form. His massive octopus body wielded eight enormous tails covered in hard shells, each tail wreathed in raging lightning chakra, like eight giant whips of lightning. Combined with the scorching ink spewed from his mouth and the Tailed Beast Chakra Cannon, he launched a relentless attack on Susanoo from multiple angles!

Amidst the relentless onslaught, the purple Susanoo resembled a colossal ship in a raging storm. Cracks spread across its sturdy chakra armor, and purple chakra fragments shattered and flew from the points struck by the Raikage's prosthetic limb. Sasuke stood within the crystal on Susanoo's forehead, his Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan operating at high speed, pushing his eye power to its limit. He manipulated Susanoo with difficulty, blocking, dodging, and counterattacking.

"Kenbutsu no Mikoto!" Sasuke's eyes flashed with a cold light. Susanoo suddenly opened its enormous palm, and in front of the palm, a ball of pitch-black lightning surged, instantly forming a giant purplish-black arrow! The space around the arrow was slightly distorted due to the violent energy!
"Go!" Sasuke hissed.

A giant, purplish-black arrow shot off! It silently tore through the rain, moving faster than the eye could perceive. Its target was not the Raikage or the Eight-Tails, but rather a massive factory on the edge of Kumogakure below, spewing thick smoke and emitting powerful chakra reactions—clearly a vital energy hub!
This arrow was both a counterattack and a way to point out the key target to the sabotage troops below!

"Damn it! Don't even think about it!" Raikage A's eyes were bloodshot as he instantly understood Sasuke's intention. He forcefully reversed the momentum of the lightning strike, and his chakra metal prosthetic arm erupted with unprecedentedly dazzling lightning as he desperately grabbed at the purplish-black arrow of death! "Bee! Stop it!" Raikage roared.

The Eight-Tailed Gyūki let out a deafening roar, and its two enormous octopus tentacles, imbued with immense power and wrapped in raging lightning, lashed out at the purple arrow like two thunder dragons!
boom--! ! !
A terrifying explosion erupted above the edge of Kumogakure! Crimson lightning, raging tailed beast energy, and blinding flashes of light intertwined, annihilated, and expanded wildly! A gigantic sphere of energy instantly expanded, tearing through the rain and illuminating half the sky like a scene from hell! A terrifying shockwave swept down, and the massive factory below, like an eggshell struck by a giant hammer, instantly collapsed and shattered, unleashing even more intense flames and explosions from within! Thick smoke mixed with flames soared into the sky like a ferocious beast, illuminating the three faces locked in fierce combat.

Sasuke, Raikage A, and Killer Bee were all thrown back by the violent shockwave from the explosion.

The purple armor of Susanoo shattered even more severely, and a trickle of blood seeped from the corner of Sasuke's mouth. On Raikage A's chakra metal prosthetic arm, black lightning reappeared, devouring the metal and the internal energy circuits, emitting a hissing wail. His entire right arm was trembling violently. One of the tentacles of the Eight-Tails controlled by Killer Bee was torn apart by the energy of the explosion, and viscous tailed beast chakra flowed from the severed end.

"Damn Uchiha brat!" Raikage A gasped for breath, staring intently at the figure within the Susanoo crystal, his eyes filled with a hatred that seemed to want to devour it alive.

He glanced at his chakra metal prosthetic limb, which was entangled in black lightning, crackling with its internal energy circuits, and on the verge of breaking down. Then he looked down at the village below, groaning amidst the chaos and flames. An unprecedented rage and a barely perceptible sense of frustration surged within him.

[Losing to Uchiha Touko was bad enough, but now even this brat can make me look so pathetic?]

Just then, Nara Masato's icy voice, transmitted through the Yamanaka clan's mind-to-body technique, clearly echoed in the minds of Sasuke and all the Konoha squad captains: "Suppression complete! Shadow binding successfully applied to the target building, the Raikage Building! The Raikage Building's command center is in chaos! Akimichi's forces have breached the core area of ​​the armory!"

At the same time, Akimichi Ken's signature loud voice, filled with ecstasy and a hint of exhaustion, rang out: "It's done! The power furnace exploded! The entire production line is ruined! Haha! That's great!"

Sasuke's blood-stained lips twitched upwards very slightly.

He stood within the crystal on the forehead of the scarred Susanoo, slowly raised his hand, and wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth with his thumb.

The Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan's gaze pierced through the lingering smoke of the explosion and the still-pouring rain, coldly locking onto the Fourth Raikage, A, below, whose body was wreathed in lightning yet could not conceal his shock and rage.

"Face reality, Raikage." Sasuke's voice wasn't loud, but it clearly pierced through the wind and rain, and the distant sounds of explosions, alarms, and battle cries, like a cold hammer of judgment striking Raikage A's heart.

The runes atop the command tower glowed dimly and chaotically. Several windows on the upper floors of the Raikage Building, symbolizing the highest command authority, were blocked by eerie, writhing black shadows. In the southeast region, towards the armory, a massive fireball accompanied by billowing black smoke shot straight into the rainy night, illuminating the outline of the collapsed factory buildings. Further away, the energy node factory was ablaze, roads were torn apart by earth-style techniques, bridges collapsed, and black swarms of insects controlled by the Aburame clan hovered like ominous clouds above several important facilities... The entire heartland of Kumogakure was a scene of chaotic ruins.

"Provoking Konoha is the worst decision you've ever made," Sasuke said coldly, then shouted, "Everyone! Retreat!"

At this moment, their strategic objectives for this trip have been largely achieved. The only regret that Sasuke felt was that he was unable to kill the Fourth Raikage, A. Although, according to his teacher, his current strength had barely surpassed the level of a Kage, his chakra reserves were still limited by his age and far from his peak. Therefore, when facing several Kage-level powerhouses, he was still somewhat outmatched.

However, both Raikage A and Killer Bee were already at their limit, and the Hidden Cloud Village, which had been extensively destroyed, could not mount any effective resistance. The Hidden Cloud Village's true elite troops were either sent to the front lines or were searching for the lone army within the Land of Lightning. But they did not expect that Sasuke would be so bold as to dare to attack their Hidden Cloud Village's stronghold under such circumstances of being surrounded.

Nara Masato's troops, like a receding black tide, were making extremely efficient use of the ruins as cover. The Yamanaka clan's ninjas were responsible for the final mental disruption, creating a false sense of chaos. The Aburame clan's insect swarms covered the rear, forming a moving, chilling black barrier to block any possible pursuit. The Hyuga clan's Byakugan peered into every possible blind spot.

On the other side, Akimichi Ken's massive body stood out against the rain. He had deactivated his multiplication technique, but he also had many new injuries. His left arm hung unnaturally, clearly dislocated or fractured. He was being supported by two Akimichi clan members. While cursing, he didn't forget to turn around and look at the still burning ruins of the armory in the distance. He grinned, revealing a smile that was a mixture of exhaustion and ferocity, and forcefully gave the middle finger.

"Foolish Cloud Village ninja! Next time we meet, I'll smash your underwear!" His gruff voice carried far through the rain, drawing suppressed chuckles from several nearby Konoha ninjas, which were quickly silenced by the stern look of their squad leader.

The retreating column snaked through the ruins and rain, maintaining an astonishing order and speed despite carrying the wounded and the remains of some victims.

(End of this chapter)