I have a bunch of relatives who want to become Hokage.

"What a magnificent city!" Ye Cang exclaimed.

In the Land of Wind, due to environmental reasons, it would be impossible to have such a military fortress that is nestled against the mountains and connected to the sea.

"Where is the grandeur?" Uchiha Shingen said with dissatisfaction. "It's all show and no substance. As a Jonin, I have a lot to say about this."

Ye Cang was speechless.

You are a Jonin, that's true, but you're not much weaker than the Five Kage, are you? Which country could build a city you can't enter?

After saying that, Uchiha Shingen stared at the distant fortress with his Sharingan, and memories of the past surfaced.

He didn't know how those sixty-three impure souls fared in the end; after his rebirth, he couldn't find any information about them.

But after that, Kumogakure and Konoha made peace.

Both the wealthy dog ​​and the foolish old black man died because of that peace talks, and Hiruzen Sarutobi ruled Konoha as Hokage for decades afterward.

Thinking about this, he felt inexplicably irritable.

Let's put into practice the plan that we couldn't do in the first playthrough!

"Who goes first?" He turned to look at the 308 Edo Tensei Jonin behind him.

“I’ll do it.” The burly white-haired man stepped forward, a smile of excitement on his face. “I’ve been controlled all this time, I finally want to fight for myself.”

Uchiha Shingen stepped aside and made a gesture that said, "Please begin your performance."

The white-haired, burly man glanced at Uchiha Shingen and walked out.

This time, Uchiha Shingen did not impose any restrictions on their activities. Their only restriction was that they could not associate Uchiha Shingen with the Senju Muzoku in any way.

Everyone had only one thought about this.

That old schemer hasn't changed at all; he's definitely up to no good and is plotting against the Uchiha.

Apart from Uchiha Itachi, no one else cared. They had no objection to Senju Muzoku's plan to scheme against the Uchiha clan.

Which ninja clan hasn't been beaten by the Uchiha clan and the Senju clan of the Forest? The enemies of the Senju clan are also the enemies of the Uchiha clan. The only difference is whether you were beaten by the Uchiha because you sided with the Senju clan or by the Senju clan because you sided with the Uchiha clan.

These days, when dogs fight each other, they'd be happy to celebrate if circumstances allowed.

Emerging from the forest, the white-haired, burly man quickened his pace, rushing towards the fortress.

As a reanimated body, his current strength is not as great as it was in life, but the difference is not huge. At least in terms of physical skills, he has actually become stronger.

As he got closer to the city wall, he was spotted by the Cloud Ninja on the wall.

Shouts came from the city wall, but the white-haired strong man ignored them and continued on his way.

A sharp whistling sound came from the air as a barrage of kunai, each attached with an explosive tag, was shot down from the city wall.

The white-haired, burly man's eyesight was better than when he was alive; he spotted the pattern of the detonating tag at a glance and grinned.

The design is so simple; it's a low-quality product.

With a hissing sound, bone spikes emerged from his body. He grabbed a bone protruding from his shoulder, pulled out a bone knife, and casually knocked several kunai aimed at him to the ground before leaping up.

Boom!

The shockwave from the explosion propelled the white-haired, burly man like a cannonball towards the city wall.

In the woods, Uchiha Shingen watched as the white-haired, muscular man made his move, forming hand seals.

Ninja Art: Mutual Impure Earth Technique.

The impure bodies behind him began to disappear one by one.

Chapter Twenty-Two: You're Just Going to Die

As the first line of defense along the coastal passage, the Cloud Ninja still maintained their strength in this city even though the main force needed to move south. Although they were mainly new recruits, there were still more than a thousand Cloud Ninja, including more than thirty special Jonin and five Jonin.

Among the five Jonin, one was quite special.

Konoha's intelligence this time completely failed. Since Kumogakure was certain that Konoha, which had just experienced the Third Shinobi World War and suffered the Nine-Tails' rampage and the collapse of the Sannin, would have limited military forces to mobilize, in order to gain battlefield advantage and pacify the Land of Hot Springs as soon as possible, they had sent not one, but two Jinchuriki who accompanied the Fourth Raikage on his southern invasion.

Originally, after the death of the Third Raikage, the Fourth Raikage, unwilling to lose his loved ones again, issued the order that no one could leave the village without his permission, as the Eight-Tails Jinchuriki, Killer Bee.

However, such an opportunity was too rare, and Killer Bee kept insisting on going along, so the Fourth Raikage weighed the pros and cons and agreed to his clansman's request, taking him along.

However, considering that the commander of Konoha was Jiraiya, the teacher of the Yellow Flash and one of the Legendary Sannin, the Fourth Raikage, out of caution, ordered Killer Bee to guard the South Gate Castle and did not enter the Land of Hot Springs with the main force of the army.

So, Killer Bee got bored.

Although he was nominally stationed there, his position as commander was merely symbolic. It wasn't that he was sidelined, but rather that he simply didn't know how to do anything...

As a Jinchūriki who underwent a complete training process, Killer Bee's training never included legion command.

Instead, he served as a spearhead and partner of the Fourth Raikage, using the power of the Eight-Tails to conquer cities and clear obstacles for the army.

On this day, Kira was practicing singing, just like any other day.

Then I heard the sound of the detonating tag exploding.

South Gate City is connected to the supply lines to the front lines, and it has a large stockpile of military supplies. Killer Bee's first thought was that someone had accidentally triggered an explosive tag.

He genuinely hadn't considered that it was an enemy attack.

The Cloud Ninja army has an absolute advantage in numbers and can form more scout teams. While it is possible for only elite enemy squads to reach the South Gate, it is impossible for them to march there on a large scale.

As for the small number, they wouldn't dare to attack the city.

So, Kirabi, whose singing practice had been interrupted, decided to stop practicing and go find that unlucky guy to chat with.

But when he pushed open the door, he saw flames shooting into the sky from the south.

Killer Bee, who just turned 20 this year, was stunned.

Then a series of explosions reminded him.

"Damn it! Idiot!" Without even thinking about why there was an enemy attacking the city, Killer Bee quickly ran back to his room, grabbed his weapon, and rushed out the door.

He jumped over rooftop after rooftop and approached the southern city wall, where he witnessed a horrific scene.

Hundreds of agile and perfectly coordinated enemies are slaughtering every Cloud Ninja in their field of vision with terrifying efficiency.

A burly, white-haired man clad in bone armor charged into the crowd with a maniacal laugh. As soon as he entered, his bone armor split open, transforming into blades that shot out in all directions, slicing down dozens of people as easily as cutting grass.

But he was just one of them.

Killer Bee saw a dozen or so enemies advancing and retreating in unison, unleashing various elemental escape techniques without pause, causing the Cloud Ninja who were blocking them to fall one after another.

Many more enemies, ignoring the Cloud Ninja's attempts to stop them, were setting fire to the city. Thick smoke was billowing from most of the warehouses in the south, and the fires were growing stronger with the help of the wind, accompanied by occasional loud bangs.

Those who had stockpiled explosive tags had their roofs blown off.

Killer Bee was shocked and furious. Having become a perfect Jinchūriki, he immediately began to communicate with the Eight-Tails.

He thought he might be under a genjutsu; these enemies... all seemed to be Jonin-level! Although they only looked like ordinary Jonin, but...

At first glance, there are at least two hundred of them! That's about the size of the entire Hidden Cloud Village!

Fortunately, there were no elites.

"Yoru of the Night Moon?" A voice suddenly came from beside him.

The gleaming blade sliced ​​towards Killer Bee's neck with impeccable angle and speed.

Their ability to seize opportunities is truly ruthless.

Throughout the entire Hidden Cloud Village, in Killer Bee's memory, no one could have unleashed such a strike.

He's a veteran! An elite Jonin!

With a clang, Killer Bee's blade sprang up, blocking the attack.

With the reflection from the blade, Killer Bee saw a pair of scarlet Sharingan with three tomoe.

【not good!】

Killer Bee had barely entertained this thought when he was pulled into the illusion, but in an instant, the Eight-Tails, which was in harmony with his will, helped him break the illusion.

Without hesitation, he channeled his Lightning Release chakra into the blade, slicing through the enemy's weapon. Relying on his reflexes and swordsmanship honed through countless hours of practice, he cut his opponent in two with a single stroke.

But that was just a phantom.

"You've got some skill." The enemy glanced at the broken sword in his hand. "To use Lightning Release to this extent is quite impressive."

“A ninja of the Uchiha clan, you…” Killer Bee’s gaze froze.

This is not a living person!

Those cracked, dark gray skin, those black eye sockets—a single word popped into Killer Bee's mind.

"Impure World Reincarnation..."

In this timeline, no village has a more vivid memory of the Impure World Reincarnation than the Hidden Cloud Village.

Everything related to it was classified as top secret, and only a limited number of high-ranking officials and a very small elite group knew about it.

And that name that cannot be mentioned.

The Hidden Cloud Village still seals away those sixty-three reanimated bodies!

Konoha, which initially agreed to peace talks, had no idea the extent of the losses suffered by Kumogakure!

Boom! ...

Amidst the deafening roar, the earth trembled.

Killer Bee's gaze passed over the dead bodies ahead; the southern city wall had collapsed.

It softened like tofu and then collapsed.

The tremors quickly spread to the ground, the earth shook, houses were overturned in large numbers, and the Cloud Ninja were buried by the collapsing buildings amidst screams, and then rolled away with the mud.

Killer Bee saw another Jonin from Kumogakure being held by a dead body, and then a series of explosions engulfed entire buildings.

These enemies are all dead!

The Konoha ninja have once again used the Impure World Reincarnation technique!

"It seems this city won't last much longer," said the Uchiha corpse in front. "Your people will all die too. It's not a good idea for one person to escape alone, is it?"

"Who summoned you?" Killer Bee asked seriously, clearly not in the mood for singing right now.

"You can't say that, that damned guy put restrictions on us." The Uchiha ghost looked at Killer Bee with a half-smile. "Besides, I also hate the Yotsuki clan. My name is Uchiha Kei. Maybe you will become that guy's puppet too."