Konoha: I, Uchiha, am brimming with positive energy

Chapter 260 Luo Sha: A desperate gamble!

"Join Konoha?"

"Why should we join Konoha? Aren't we from Sunagakure? And what exactly happened in the village? Why are we forbidden from leaving the village now?"

"I don't know, is another war about to break out? Damn it, how are we supposed to make money if we don't leave the village? Didn't the Fourth Kazekage say when we could leave the village?"

The changes within Sunagakure were too great. Rasa ordered the village to be sealed off, and all the Sunagakure ninja under his command went into a state of war because nearly five thousand Konoha ninja were outside the village.

They divided into three large teams and surrounded Sunagakure. Without the tailed beasts, Rasa had no chance of launching a surprise attack on Konoha ninja.

Because of the Konoha ninja incident, even the Daimyo of the Land of Wind couldn't sit still and immediately sent people to the Sand Village to inquire.

This was the first time they had encountered such an event since the establishment of the Five Great Nations and the Five Great Ninja Villages, with a large army of enemy ninjas coming to the vicinity of their own territory.

Upon learning this news, the Daimyo of the Land of Wind lost his appetite; his daily worry shifted from how much tax to collect to increase the Daimyo's revenue to what the Konoha ninjas were up to.

Since ninjas earn rewards by accepting commissioned missions, ninja villages are generally not too far from their home country's capital. Now that so many Konoha ninjas are near the capital of the Land of Wind, the Daimyo of the Land of Wind is having trouble sleeping.

Two envoys were dispatched directly. In addition to the Sand Village, the Daimyo of the Land of Wind also sent an envoy to the Daimyo's residence in the Land of Fire. He wanted to ask the Daimyo of the Land of Fire what he meant and whether he remembered the agreement made by the former Daimyo. How could he allow his country's ninjas to become so powerful!

However, the Daimyo of the Land of Wind's move will certainly be in vain. The Daimyo of the Land of Fire, the Minister of Finance, and the Minister of Home Affairs—the three most powerful people in the Land of Fire—are now completely devoted to the people of Konoha.

Uchiha Shisui's Kotoamatsukami command was to make them obey the Fifth Hokage's orders and the command of Konoha. Unless the Daimyo was killed and replaced, the Land of Fire was now a powerful country with a unified military and political system.

But the daimyo's son is only four years old, and it's just that Konoha Village has become powerful. Kotoamatsukami has never been exposed in the ninja world. Apart from Uchiha Shisui and Uchiha Yoichi, no one knows that the three of them were indulging in Konoha Village's actions because they were under a genjutsu.

Outside the Sand Village, the Konoha ninja camp was only three kilometers away, but the Sand Village only dared to rely on the high earthen walls and dared not make any offensive moves.

Even the eastern exit of Sunagakure was occupied by Pakura's ninjas, dividing the vast village into two parts; Rasa now uses more than 700 Sunagakure ninjas to build a defensive line in the middle of the village.

If any unusual movement is made by the ninjas on Pakura's side, the ninjas on Rasa's side will likely launch an attack immediately.

However, after Yekura came out of the Kazekage Building, her side of the ninjas made a big move, and Konoha also sent a large army of ninjas into Sunagakure to occupy the earthen wall at the eastern exit.

Upon learning this news, Luo Sha was so angry that he even crushed the desk in front of him with gold dust.

Not long after, his subordinates from the Anbu came to report that the ninjas on Yekura's side had begun to publicize the village annexation plan. Upon hearing this news, Rasa's eyes turned red. Without thinking much, he ordered the Anbu to summon his subordinates.

There's no way to salvage the situation with Yekura now. Just now, Rasa even considered taking the initiative to admit his mistakes to Yekura and get her forgiveness, and then negotiating with the Konoha ninja to ensure the continuation of Sunagakure.

But now it seems that Yekura is the person Sunagakure should eliminate the most, and we must find a way to kill her, even if it means going to war.

"Yondaime-sama."

"Kazekage-sama!"

"The fourth generation"

Once everyone had arrived, Luo Sha spoke with a grim expression: "You all know about Ye Cang's actions. Now, tell me, what good suggestions do you have?"

The dozen or so people inside remained silent after hearing Luo Sha's words; there wasn't a sound.

It's not that they're afraid to voice their opinions to protect themselves; their options are almost completely blocked now. The only options are to start a war or surrender obediently.

As for other plans, what good plans could they possibly have in the face of five thousand Konoha ninjas and one thousand Sand ninjas led by Yekura?

After a while, Chiyo spoke up: "Fourth Hokage, using poison was possible before, but now the Konoha ninjas may even be monitoring the village's medicinal herb gardens, and many poisons are not yet mature. If you really want to resist, it's best to fight to the death tonight."

"Have the Konoha ninjas become this audacious?"

Luo Sha asked in disbelief, feeling that he was truly the most humiliated Wind Shadow in history, unworthy of the Wind Shadow statues behind him.

"Although we didn't find any Konoha ninjas, that feeling of being watched was probably from the Byakugan of the Hyuga clan in Konoha. Now that Pakura and the others have such good relations with the Konoha ninjas, there might be Hyuga clan ninjas working under Pakura."

Ever since Chiyo learned that Pakura was colluding with the Konoha ninjas, she has completely sided with Rasa because she has an irreconcilable hatred for the Fourth Hokage, Sakumo Hatake.

Even if she felt guilty for what she did back then, she couldn't agree to Yokura's plan to merge the villages; so on Rasa's side, Chiyo was probably the one with the firmest stance.

"Konoha has many secret techniques and bloodline clans. If this goes on for too long, Konoha ninjas will probably find out all our information. By then, it will be too late to fight back."

Rasa's heart skipped a beat, and then he looked at Chiyo and asked, "Elder Chiyo, what do you mean?"

"Gather all our strength, use all our resources, and annihilate Yekura and her gang, while also driving out the Konoha ninja."

Elder Chiyo said decisively to Rasa, "Among the Konoha ninjas this time is the First Hokage. Although we don't know how Konoha resurrected this god of ninjas, he is probably the Hokage who least wants to see ninjas die. If we adopt a do-or-die attitude, we might be able to stop the Konoha ninjas from attacking, and that way, Sunagakure might be able to survive."

Upon hearing Elder Chiyo's plan, the Sand Shinobi were stunned into silence by her decisive attitude, and for a moment no one could utter a word.

However, Chiyo believed this was the most feasible plan, as she was quite old and had experienced the First Shinobi World War.

At that time, the Konoha ninjas held an absolute advantage in the chaotic Ninja World War with their secret techniques and bloodline limit ninjas, but the First Hokage took the initiative to stop the war.

After the Five Kage Summit, Chiyo learned from the Second Kazekage that the First Hokage wanted to resolve the First Shinobi World War through peace talks in order to prevent the death of ninjas. This led to the scene of the Tailed Beasts being divided.

Therefore, by exploiting the First Hokage's weakness, they might be able to save Sunagakure.

After thinking for a moment, Rasa looked at Chiyo and asked, "Is this really okay?"

"Besides this method, we can only surrender. After all, the Second Hokage is currently in the form of Edo Tensei, while the First Hokage is a real person who has been resurrected. We still have a great chance."

"Then let's do it this way, Gara. Take out everything from the storeroom and distribute it to the Anbu, Jonin, and Chunin."

Rasa, equally resolute, addressed the people in the room: "Gentlemen, this is probably the last chance for Sunagakure. If you don't want to become wandering ninjas in a dying village, then fight with everything you have to secure a place for our descendants to survive."

"Yes, Fourth Hokage!"

The Sand Village high-ranking officials inside responded, and then one by one they left the Kazekage Building with resolute expressions. They were all prepared to fight to the death. Rather than going to Konoha to be low-ranking people, it was better to stay in Sand Village as high-ranking officials.

Konoha doesn't have any preferential policies for them. Where would they start as ordinary ninjas? Don't be ridiculous!

the other side

Yekura also dispatched several squads of ninja to distribute Konoha's village annexation plan in Sunagakure, mainly to ordinary villagers.

The front side shows the benefits of the village merger plan, and the back side is the application form. As long as you fill out the form, you can leave Sunagakure through the eastern exit. The Konoha ninja outside will settle all the ordinary people who have come to join them.

The Sand Village has a total population of less than 100,000, and more than 5,000 Konoha ninja. If only 1,000 of them are sent, they can accommodate 70,000 to 80,000 people. Moreover, Uchiha Yoichi has sent all the Wood Release bloodline ninjas from the village.

Their Wood Release techniques are not as good as Hashirama Senju's, but they are definitely good enough for building houses.

After driving all the Sand Ninja back from the border between the Land of Rivers and the Land of Wind, the Wood Release Kekkei ninja of Konoha selected two locations to begin building settlements.

These are simple wooden huts now; in the future, we will build oasis towns centered around these two locations.

Before Tobirama Senju set off, Yoichi Uchiha handed him this plan. Now that he has met up with Pakura, Tobirama Senju has shown it to Pakura and the others. Furthermore, when the ninja families who were attached to Pakura were transferred, there were Sand Ninja from her side accompanying them.

"Oases are truly rare places in the Land of Wind. They're mostly occupied by the country's nobles, and even the Sand Village has to build high walls to keep out the sandstorms."

Yekura said with some emotion that many Sand Ninjas have never seen an oasis since birth. They only know what color the leaves are when they leave their country to do missions. As long as they stay in the village, seeing the green of the leaves is a very luxurious dream.

Living in an oasis is a dream for many Sunagakure villagers, and even seeing this, many would still come to seek refuge with them.

Once someone can't resist the temptation, they will pack their belongings and the whole family will rush to the eastern entrance with the village merging plan application; if the ninjas on Rasa's side block them, then the ninjas on Pakura's side will escort and stop them.

Moreover, as the number of people increases, the more Rasa's ninjas try to stop them, the more it will provoke resistance from the villagers of Sunagakure.

"Second Hokage, it seems to be going very smoothly. In less than a week, I estimate that more than half of the villagers will have left for the oasis resettlement site. How are the preparations for the follow-up going?"

"The Fifth Hokage has already prepared the supplies. You don't need to worry about the resettlement of the Sunagakure villagers. What you should be worried about now is the Fourth Kazekage."

With his arms crossed, Tobirama Senju said that there were personnel specifically in charge of the Oasis, so he only needed to keep an eye on Rasa, who posed the greatest threat, and the remaining Sand Ninja.

"Don't take it lightly, little girl. My brother and I participated in the First Five Kage Summit, and we know your Sand Village's style very well. Even when things are unfavorable, we'll fight like lone wolves, risking our lives. Back in the First Shinobi World War, the Sand Village was the weakest, yet they dared to make exorbitant demands on Konoha."

"If it weren't for my brother's mercy, and if I were the Hokage back then, there would be no Sand Village and the Land of Wind now. Your First Kazekage offended the Kage of four ninja villages with just one sentence."

Yekura and the other Sand Ninja twitched their lips. They didn't know about what happened decades ago, but the Second Hokage wouldn't lie to them about something like this.

"So, should we now guard against Luo Sha resorting to desperate measures?"

"War is inevitable, and the Fifth Hokage knew this would happen. The Konoha ninja he sent weren't just for show. Tonight, send two more Konoha ninja battalions into Sunagakure, otherwise, if Rasa suddenly launches a surprise attack, you won't be able to stop him."

Upon hearing Tobirama Senju's words, Yekura's expression froze for a moment. After thinking for about ten seconds, she immediately nodded in agreement: "I understand. Shall we prepare Sand Village ninja uniforms?"

Previously, the Konoha reconnaissance ninjas and Hyuga clan ninjas had infiltrated the area while dressed as Sand Ninjas, and had already obtained a considerable amount of information about Rasa's side of ninjas.

"No need. During the day, try not to come out of the house. Preparing for ninja service is too big a move, and the Fourth Kazekage will definitely notice."

Tobirama Senju shook his head, then said to Hashirama Senju beside him, "Brother, if war breaks out, it'll be up to you then. Don't be soft-hearted!"

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