Born in Sunagakure, dedicated to antagonizing Konoha for decades

Ever since their senior bounty hunter rogue ninja became famous, he has been so worried that he can't sleep every night. Although it happened decades ago and all the people involved in the case were killed by that senior, he doesn't know the details of the plot very clearly. However, from the recent rumors in the ninja world, he has figured out the general idea. It is said that the village sent that senior to assassinate Hashirama Senju, but the mission failed. The village's higher-ups were afraid that the matter would be exposed and offend Konoha, so they abandoned that senior. This also explains why all those higher-ups were killed back then.

It was precisely because of this that the village had done a good job of defense during this period that they immediately released the Tailed Beasts when they discovered that the enemy had a large number of people. However, they did not expect that the enemy's goal was actually the Tailed Beasts!

This time, we've practically walked right into their line of fire.

Hearing their leader's shout, the underlings around them charged forward one after another, risking their lives. It was quite a spectacular sight. However, the difference in level between the two sides was too great. Even though Takigakure was fighting on home ground, the fighting strength of Takigakure was far inferior to that of Iwagakure. Moreover, Takigakure had no home advantage in terms of numbers. On the other hand, Onoki seemed to have taken some kind of testosterone boost, as he sent thousands of people to deal with the small village of Takigakure, almost completely surrounding it.

"The Iwa ninja are attacking Takigakure? That can't be, can it?"

Sasori's father, who has poor perception, was incredulous after hearing Masato's words. Iwagakure had half of its village destroyed by the Five-Tails. Shouldn't a proper Tsuchikage be actively mobilizing the villagers to rebuild their homes? Why is he attacking Takigakure?

"Although they were all masked and not wearing ninja headbands, their aura... well, the ninjutsu they used, confirmed that they were Iwa ninja."

Shinto was too lazy to explain to these natives what "aura" meant, since he didn't understand it anyway. His Observation Haki and his amazing sixth sense told him that these cowardly guys were Iwa ninjas, and that kind of Earth Release technique with the Rock attribute was something that no other village had.

"They seem to be here for the Seven-Tails as well. Could it be that Ōnoki, instead of looking for the Four-Tails after losing it, has come to fight the even more powerful Seven-Tails?"

Shinto was puzzled. After learning from Kakuzu that the Four-Tails had been bought by the people of the Land of Demons, he estimated that the Four-Tails would most likely return to the hands of Iwagakure. After all, the Land of Demons was just a little brother, how could it dare to secretly hide the things of its big brother?

But judging from the current situation, something seems amiss! Could it be that the Land of Demons has really become so bold as to secretly hide the Four-Tails?

"Never mind what Onoki is up to, what do we do now, brother?"

"The Seven-Tails is the bargaining chip for the supplies they need to trade with Danzo Shimura. Of course, we can't let the Iwa ninja take it away. Besides, his mother taught him since he was a child that we must never let our teammates become too strong!"

"Let me think about it..."

"Got it! Jie, it's time for you to step up... You'll go up there in a bit..."

Shinto sensed the great battle in Takigakure ahead. Although he didn't want to complain, the Takigakure ninja, who had lived in peace and prosperity for many years, were indeed too weak. Although their spirit of sacrificing their lives was commendable, they were already outnumbered by Iwagakure ninja, and their strength was just like that of weaklings. They couldn't even beat Iwagakure ninja in a one-on-one fight, yet they kept thinking about defending against two opponents at once, which only made them die faster.

After thinking for a while, a brilliant idea struck me! Isn't this the perfect opportunity for my brother to boost his stats and stand out?

The two Red-Rank ninja leading the Iwa ninja squad are of average strength, but judging by their age, they should be well-established experts from Iwagakure. After all, aside from Konoha, each village doesn't have many Red-Rank ninja, and almost every one of them has some reputation in the ninja world. Add to that these thousands of Iwa ninja, and puppeteers are perfect for group battles. With this super tough guy around, if they can hold out long enough, this buddy might really be able to create a new world...

Ohnoki will probably cry then!

......

"Hurry! Kill them and seal the Tailed Beasts!"

"Stop them! We can't let them seal the Tailed Beasts!!"

"Roar!"

"boom!"

The battlefield in Takigakure was extremely fierce. On one side, the leader kept urging the sealing team to move forward, while on the other side, the leader was also leading his underlings in a desperate resistance.

At this moment, the leader of the Takigakure was filled with despair. The reason why the Takigakure were so arrogant and dared to call themselves the sixth largest ninja village in the ninja world, and even when they were plotting to become the fifth largest ninja village during the Kumogakure coup, they relied on this tailed beast!

Their Seven-Tails is different from the tailed beasts of other villages. Their Seven-Tails is more gentle in nature, and the fact that they've treated it like royalty for so many years has made it willing to communicate with them. Sometimes, they even use the Seven-Tails' power. It's precisely because of this advantage that they've become so arrogant over the years. If these people were to take the Seven-Tails, the news would spread throughout the ninja world...

God knows what will happen!

The neighboring Land of Grass and Land of Rain alone wouldn't let their sworn brother get away with this...

129. Let me give you a taste of your fourth brother's experience.

"Stop! What a bunch of scoundrels! How dare they commit such a heinous act in broad daylight! Is there no justice? Is there no law?!"

Just as the leader of the Takigakure clan was in despair, a righteous voice came from above, igniting a glimmer of hope in his heart. He looked up in the direction of the voice...

"(⊙_⊙)...Golden Lion? The Sand Village's genius puppeteer?"

Not only the Takigakure ninja, but even the Iwa ninja who were preparing to seal the Seven Kings looked in the direction of the sound and saw a blond man with a large, gold-plated sword at his waist. The oppressive aura that made people want to call him "Dad" could only belong to the Golden Lion of Sunagakure. The boy who was being carried away by the Golden Lion had a Sunagakure ninja headband on his forehead. He had a handsome face, but what was most eye-catching were his fair, slender, and nimble hands. Who else could it be but Chiyo's genius son?

The one who had just shouted was now the genius puppeteer who was angrily staring at them with an upright and unyielding expression.

"You heartless bastards! For a mere tailed beast, you actually barged into someone else's village and committed atrocities! This is intolerable! Today, I, Gong Liejie, the puppeteer of Sunagakure, will act on behalf of Heaven!"

"White Secret Technique!"

"Shuashuashua..."

With that righteous and awe-inspiring tone and an angry pretty face, Taki Shinobu below looked at the handsome crab father who had already thrown out the Ten-Man Army and seemed to see holy light on him!

The leader of the Takigakure ninja, in particular, was moved to tears. He never imagined that after clinging to Konoha for so many years, it would be the Sand Village who would come to their rescue in their moment of life and death. He never expected that there were still such righteous people in the ninja world...

"Damn it! Stop him! (「▼皿▼)"

Seeing ten puppets, identical to those in Chiyo's famous Ten Puppet Masters, charging towards them wielding large swords, with a Golden Lion on top who hadn't even made a move yet, the two leaders of the Iwa ninja panicked. Chiyo's Chikamatsu Ten Puppet Masters were renowned throughout the ninja world, not only for their incredibly skillful "Ten Fingers Technique," but more importantly, for the terrifyingly toxic poison on the puppets. Even a slight scratch would send them scrambling to call 120 (emergency services). This young man was Chiyo's son; they wouldn't believe for a second that the puppets didn't possess the same terrifying poison as Chiyo's.

So when the two Iwa ninja leaders saw the Ten Ninja Swordsmen charging in, they exchanged a quick glance and wisely yelled at their underlings, "Isn't it always the underlings who go first in tough battles? The leaders can just pad their stats..."

"kill!!!"

"Escape!..."

"Shuashuashua...!"

The Iwa ninja are tough as nails. At their leader's command, they immediately charged towards the ten members of Sasori's parents' group. Every Iwa ninja knows the principle of fighting a puppeteer by attacking the puppeteer himself, but damn it, the puppeteer can fly! He's currently showing off his skills in the sky, and they can't reach him. Their leader has spoken, so even though they know they can't fight the puppet head-on, they have to bite the bullet and go for it!

"Shhhhh!"

"Big wave q!"

"Blow Wave Q!"

"Dig and grab q..."

Carried high in the sky by Shinto, Sasori's father, with his ten fingers moving in unison, controlled the ten puppets in a blur of motion. With their super tough brother by their side, they were as steady as dogs, controlling the ten puppets to wreak havoc in the crowd. Sasori's father had inherited Chiyo's puppet control skills. The ten puppets in his hands were like ten agile and fearless tools, dodging left and right in the crowd, slashing left and stabbing right. In this situation, it was as if the Iwa ninja were just handing Sasori's father a free kill. In just a few minutes, Sasori's father had already become a god.

"Sealing class! Hurry! ミ?д?彡"

The two Iwa ninja leaders looked at Shinto and Sasori's father flying in the air with helpless expressions. At this moment, they finally understood the helplessness of their Tsuchikage's enemy. Only the Hokage of Konoha could knock their Tsuchikage to the ground.

But... they don't have that stick that gets bigger and thicker!

Seeing their underlings fall one by one to the puppets' blades, they were helpless. Even if they could get close, they wouldn't dare; that Golden Lion was right beside them. The Tsuchikage's nephew had been beaten so badly he was impotent—just thinking about it made their legs weak...

"Bang bang bang!"

"Hehehe, everyone... I'm still here. Isn't it a bit much to just ignore me like this?"

"boom!"

"Big beetle, don't move! You'll get a beating if you do!"

Shindou, accompanied by Sasori's father, arrived on the giant beetle's head. He used his greatsword to fling away the Iwa ninja who was trying to seal the giant beetle, and then delivered a powerful punch to the giant beetle, which was shaking its massive body.

"Roar!!"

"Damn human! You're asking for it! (╬◣д◢)"

The giant beetle was immediately displeased after being punched in the head, and its huge body shook even more violently. It had been hiding for thousands of years, and since it came out of its father Liudao's belly, when had it ever been hit on the head? Now it was actually hit on the head by a little brat, and this human brat's fist was incredibly painful.

"Hey! You're getting grumpy now, aren't you? Let me show you what your fourth brother went through. You've never been beaten before, have you?"

"boom!"

"I'll teach you to curse!"

"Roar!!"

"Bang bang bang!"

"I'll let you move!"

"Roar!!"

"Bang bang bang..."

"..."

The people at the scene seemed to be frozen in time. One by one, the Iwa ninja and Takigakure ninja stared in disbelief at the scene in front of them, punch after punch being brutally beaten on the Seven-Tails' head lying on the ground. The leader of the Takigakure and Iwa ninja had their jaws dropped to the ground!

That's absolutely shocking!

That's a tailed beast!

The seven-tailed beast, led by those at the bottom, didn't quite understand how powerful the tailed beasts were, but they knew very well that the Five-Tails alone had destroyed half of Iwagakure. This Seven-Tails had two more tails than the Five-Tails. Iwagakure outnumbered Takigakure by two times, yet they'd been dragged on until now entirely because this external reinforcement from Takigakure was too powerful, wiping out countless of their people. But now, this enormous monster was being beaten to a pulp...

"Quick...hurry up! If the plan changes, go back and report first..."

Feeling the violent tremors from the ground, the two Iwa ninja leaders' legs went weak. This Golden Lion was terrifying beyond belief! Even the Seven-Tails was reduced to this state; if he punched them, they'd be reduced to dust...

Although that genius puppeteer was incredibly powerful and had achieved godlike feats several times, his destructive power was still no match for the Golden Lion's fist!

The two exchanged glances and saw the fear deep in each other's eyes. They believed that as long as they were alive, they could always make a comeback; they wanted to remain useful and contribute to the village. They'd rather go back and face hardship than be beaten by the Golden Lion!

130. For every person who loves him, there is someone who hates him.

"boom!"

"You fucking move!"

"boom!"

"Get up! You think you're so tough? Come on! Let's fight three hundred rounds more! (▼へ▼メ)"

"Bang bang bang..."

Less than two minutes later, the Iwa ninja left silently, just as they had come quietly, without taking away a single cloud. But Shinto was already addicted and couldn't stop. Ever since he had beaten up the Four-Tails last time, he had fallen in love with this kind of visceral, exhilarating feeling of punches landing.

"Taki...Lord Takikage, if you keep hammering him, won't Shigeaki be killed...?"

The henchmen beside the leader of the Takigakure gang watched in terror as their Seven-Tails was beaten to a pulp, and trembled as they spoke to their boss.

"Don't worry, it's a tailed beast. It's much more resilient. It can last another half hour without any problem. Even the Four-Tails can last twenty-five minutes. With three more tails, it should be able to last another half hour. But after half an hour, it's hard to say..."

Having already witnessed such grand occasions, Handsome Scorpion's father calmly recounted the events after recalling his ten men.

"This... Lord Jie, perhaps... we should ask Lord Shindou to stop..."

The leader of the Takigakure ninja almost cried when he heard what Sasori's father said. Damn it, that meant their Seven-Tails was really going to be hammered to death in half an hour. Although tailed beasts are formed from chakra and can be resurrected after death, who knows how many years that would take? They've been treating it like a king for so many years, and they were finally able to get along with it peacefully. If it gets hammered to death and then resurrects, they don't have the ability to reseal the Seven-Tails!

"Lord Takigage, it's not that I don't want to help, but you saw those people just now. They were stronger and more numerous than you, and their target was clearly the Seven-Tails. You don't have the ability to protect it. If you stay in your village, they might come back, which would be a disaster for Takigakure. It's better for my brother to kill them now. Without the tailed beast, they might not cause trouble for a few years while the Seven-Tails is resurrected. However... it's hard to say whether they will come back after the Seven-Tails is resurrected. You were lucky this time because my brother and I happened to be nearby. We might not be so lucky next time... Think about what I'm saying and see if it makes sense."

Handsome Scorpion's father rolled his eyes and turned to Takikage, calmly analyzing the situation.

"What should we do then, Lord Jie? Please, please save our village!"

After a thorough analysis by Sasori's father, Takikage slapped his thigh hard. "That's right! Those people are after their tailed beasts. That's why the village leaders are acting this way. If those guys come again, as has been proven before, even with the Seven-Tails as a powerful ally, they won't last long. In that case, even more people will die."