Uchiha Akaishi Tour

Chapter 330: Broken Village

August 8th, Konoha Year 38, early morning, outside Kusagakure Village in the Land of Grass.

Akaishi led 21 Chunin to the outskirts of Kusagakure.

What we need to do next is wait for the "Kusa no Hana" ninjas to come and meet us outside!

"This time, Kusanagi is really going to take drastic measures. They're all from the same village—" Lanwu's tone was a mix of disdain and helplessness.

What they despised was the infighting within Kusagakure, but at the same time, they couldn't bear to witness this tragic scene.

The two major factions in Kusagakure, the doves known as "Kusa no Hana" and the hawks known as "Kusa no Mina," have a long history of internal strife and sharp conflicts.

"It's one thing to have subtle factions, but the factions in the village have even their own names. What's the difference between this and a family splitting up? It's the same thing at the root." Akashi said, shaking his head.

Nonou: Nonou turned her head and glanced at Akaishi, who was inexplicably emphasizing the words.

However, what Akaishi said does make sense.

Even in the Hidden Cloud Village, where the fighting escalated to the point of the Raikage's assassination, the doves and hawks didn't specifically come up with a name for themselves. Having different names was tantamount to no longer concealing that they had "split up."

"Indeed, during the Chunin Exams, when I saw those three Kusagakure genin, I remember that the one called Wuwei was probably a genin who had transformed into grass, and he was being ostracized by the other two genin who had the fruit of grass—they even publicly slandered him in front of outsiders, and the conflict had become public," Lan Wu recalled.

Akashi shook his head and said, "No, that Muwei is from Kusanagi no Shiki, and the other two are from Kusanagi no Hana. At that time, Kusanagi no Hana was in power in Kusagakure."

"Is that so?" Lan Wu was taken aback when she heard this, she really couldn't remember.

It's not that she has a bad memory. First, she didn't make a special effort to remember it. Second, the naive Lanwu, because she always instinctively has a good impression of the "dove faction," naturally assigned "Kusa no Hana" a role of being bullied in her memory.

After all, what impressed Lanwu the most was the hawkish rebellion in Kumogakure—which directly led to the death of her grandfather.

"Of course! I have a great memory, and I remember everything from the Chunin Exams perfectly!" Akaishi said matter-of-factly.

Nonou:

Isn't this a bit targeted?

Seeing this, Minato reminded him, "However, whether it's the flower of the grass or the fruit of the grass, before this, we actually preferred..."

"We'll finish our planned objective in Iwagakure shortly."

Clearly, Konoha doesn't hesitate to use "Hana no Hana" (Flower of Grass) without any hesitation!

Kusagakure, situated between Konoha and Iwagakure, has historically leaned more towards Iwagakure. Even Kannabi Bridge, a key border town between the two countries, is not usually fortified against Iwagakure.

Even when the Second Hokage of Konoha was still alive, he only asked Kusagakure to serve him water. After Tobirama passed away, Kusagakure became a vassal of Iwagakure. At that time, Kusagakure was in power.

However, both major factions in Kusagakure are actually controlled by Iwagakure. In a sense, this is because Onoki has been "balancing things out".

After the Chunin Exams, because Iwagakure needed Kusagakure to participate more actively in the battle, that is, to use them as cannon fodder, Iwagakure increased its efforts to cultivate "Grass Fruits" and seized control of "Grass Flowers".

However, this also gave Konoha an opportunity—

"Kusa no Hana" has now sided with Konoha. Although "Kusa no Mi" had risen to power in Kusagakure before, its strength was greatly diminished in the past three months, and now "Kusa no Hana" has regained control of Kusagakure.

Right now, "Grass Flower" is going to work with Konoha to completely eliminate "Grass Fruit"!

Soon after, at the appointed time, the ninja sent by "Kusa no Hana" to make contact appeared. Moreover, it was an acquaintance of Akaishi and the other two—the chubby grass ninja they had met during the Chunin Exams—the one with the most arrogant personality.

"Lord Akaishi!" Upon seeing Akaishi this time, the chubby Shinobu immediately smiled obsequiously.

Although the two participated in the Chunin Exams together, and even the fat grass ninja had been promoted to Jonin in Kusagakure, he himself understood that compared to "Konoha Red Stone," whose reputation had already spread throughout the ninja world, the gap was not just a little bit!

"Yes, you're all ready, right?" Akaishi asked specifically.

"Yes!" The fat grass ninja stood ramrod straight, and said with a hint of cruelty, "The main force of the Grass Fruit has gone to cooperate with the Iwa ninja in their attack, but many young people, including that Muwei, are still here, especially their families—"

That's right, after "Hana no Hana" regained power, she ostensibly only forced "Hana no Hijika" to pay for her belligerence, but in reality—

But they were already prepared to take drastic measures!

The reason why only Akaishi was present among Konoha's Jonin was because the others were dealing with the final counterattack of the Grass Ninja, and—the final performance of the Iwagakure Village—no matter how much the Iwagakure Village wanted to sell out the Grass Ninja, they had to put on an act. At this critical moment, they still dispatched some people.

However, with the support of "Kusa no Hana", Konoha already has the key to strike at the heart of the enemy, and this most important opportunity to make a contribution has fallen to Red Stone.

after all----

With three Uchiha Jonin here, this final credit must go to the Uchiha. Otherwise, given the Uchiha's limited strategic vision, they would have definitely messed things up for Director Huang.

Moreover, Kato Dan and Akimichi Torifu have always thought highly of Akaishi, so they naturally support him in taking on the task of "breaking the village".

Konoha was not afraid of being tricked.

The Hidden Grass Village doesn't have any outstanding experts, so even if they wanted to ambush Red Stone, they wouldn't have much of a chance. The only variable is if the Hidden Stone Village assists and sends an expert to ambush him.

However, judging from the previous conflict between "Kusa no Hana" and Iwagakure, the possibility is extremely slim!

Led by the fat ninja, Akaishi entered Kusagakure through an underground passage, bypassing all the sealing techniques.

"Um?"

When she came in, Nonou, who was already on guard, immediately put the kunai on the fat ninja's neck!

"Ah—this—I don't know what's going on!" Fat Shinobu was also bewildered.

At this moment, Kusagakure was in complete chaos.

Upon first hearing the commotion, Akaishi thought there was a real ambush and was already preparing to activate Susanoo to block it.

However, Akaishi soon realized—

Something is wrong!

It doesn't seem like there's an ambush, but the scene is really chaotic, it looks more like—an internal strife?

"You've already made your move?" Akaishi looked at the fat Shinobu with a strange expression.

Are the people of "Kusa no Hana" really that loyal? They actually took the initiative to become cannon fodder?

"I—I don't know—" Fat Grass Ninja's doubt didn't seem fake.

But he quickly realized—

"The sounds of battle are mainly—ah! It's the treasure vault! It must be those people from Kusanagi, desperate and trying to steal the village's treasures to escape!" the fat Kusanagi ninja said confidently.

"A treasure?" Akashi's eyes lit up upon hearing this.

I feel that the treasures of Kusagakure need to be safeguarded by truly virtuous people.

Upon hearing this, the fat ninja villager paused for a moment, then said, "Our little ninja village doesn't have anything good—"

"Is that so?" Akaishi stared at him and asked in return.

Chishi originally thought it was just some valuables at most, but now seeing his guilty look, it seems there really are some good things!

The fat grass ninja was able to participate in the Chunin Exams, so he must have something outstanding about him—not only is his talent and strength excellent among grass ninjas of his age, but he is also the son of the leader of the Grass Flower.

Therefore, he had actually heard his father mention that although Kusagakure was a small village, it had acquired a real treasure when it was founded—it was said to be the Six Paths Treasure!

Legend has it that the owner of this Six Paths Treasure Tool nearly unified the ninja world.

Even if this ancient legend has some exaggeration, just look at recent events to see how powerful the Six Paths Treasures of the Gold and Silver Brothers are—they even killed the Second Hokage!

Unfortunately, although Kusagakure possesses these six treasures, it has never been able to control them.

The only known method of use is that it absorbs the chakra of those who get close.

This thing is like a bottomless pit; no matter how much chakra it absorbs, it doesn't change anything, and if you're not careful, it can even suck people in!

However, the fat Grass Ninja, like the Grass Ninja leaders who knew about this in previous generations, was full of covetousness for this legendary "Six Paths Treasure" and even fantasized that one day he could use this "Six Paths Treasure" and make Grass Ninja a great ninja village—at least like Hanzo, right?

Therefore, after discovering that the main battle was taking place in the treasure vault, the fat grass ninja immediately became nervous.

"Is that so? Then why aren't you leading the way? You must need some support, right?" Akashi looked at Fatty and chuckled.

Upon seeing this, the chubby ninja nodded quickly and led the Konoha ninja towards the treasure vault.

result----

Fat Grass Ninja was right after all!

Outside the treasure vault, many grass ninja were fighting each other.

"Kusanomi, you bastard! You actually tried to steal the village's treasure? Reinforcements have arrived, surrender now!"

"Bah! You actually colluded with Konoha! Do you even deserve to rule Kusagakure?"

"We're simply cooperating with Konoha to restore peace to Kusagakure. That's better than you guys using Kusagakure as cannon fodder for your power grabs!"

"This is the right path for Kusagakure—"

"Ridiculous! They pretended to leave, but actually planned to rob the village of its treasures?"

From the mutual insults exchanged between the two sides, Akaishi also realized that there were more "grass fruits" on the scene than he had expected.

It wasn't specifically to ambush Konoha, but to launch a rebellion and seize some treasure—it sounded like something very important!

However, it just so happened to coincide with the day the Konoha ninja would be arriving.

The ninjas of Konoha had already made their move.

"Those people with red collars and black cloaks are Kusanagi's people!" Fat Kusanagi Shinobu immediately reminded him from the side.

Akaishi was still holding the line at the rear.

Even with just twenty Chunin, suppressing the Kusagakure's internal strife was a piece of cake!

After all, among these Chunin, there are also "relatively strong Chunin" like Minato Namikaze.

Just as the situation was being brought under control, the leader of the Grass Ninja urgently shouted to Akaishi, "Konoha Akaishi! Stop the people inside—inside—those guys have taken in the orphans of the Uzumaki clan—"

"The Uzumaki clan?" Upon hearing this, Akaishi frowned.

Where did this vortex clan come from?