The Kirigakure Battlefields (1)

- DISCLAIMER:

*** THIS IS NOT THE ORIGINAL NARUTO SERIES, SO FORGET ABOUT THE ORIGINAL TIMELINE AND PLOT ALREADY, FOR THE LAST TIME!!! ***

*** FORGET ABOUT YAGURA NOT BECOMING THE MIZUKAGE!!! ***

*** THIS IS A FANFICTION!!! IT'S CALLED THAT FOR A REASON!!! ***

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Somewhere on the edge of the Land of Fire, further from the usual green and vast grasslands.

Near a teeming jungle in some kind of a swampy area, stood a recently constructed sturdy building.

This building was Konoha's temporary base for countering Kirigakure's possible invasion in the future.

All around, across the endless swamps in the distance, stood many scouts and other hidden sensory shinobi protecting it diligently all day and night.

On the spacious roof of that building, on the lookout area, stood a firm-looking man, who looked to be in his thirties. He just stood there quietly, looking at the distance.

He had short, brown hair that reached to his shoulders and onyx-colored eyes, with visible creases below them made more pronounced whenever he adopted a stern look.

He also wore the standard Konoha flak jacket, along a mark of his current rank of the commander engraved on it. He suddenly turned around while looking at his newly arrived visitors.

"You finally came," He said plainly.

"Yes, what is the situation now?" One of the three visitors who had a face mask, decorated in red, on his face suddenly asked. He also wore what appeared to be a standard Anbu uniform, the same as the other two visitors.

Fugaku just nodded and replied seriously, "They've made some movements recently."

"We're just waiting for them to attack us."

Instead of fighting in their home territory, swamps, Fugaku wanted to bait them here near their own base to fight on more familiar grounds.

"They're probably waiting for us to attack them as well."

"It's not good that way..."

"Let me go there and try to probe into their information a little, I have a somewhat good sensing ability," Yoshi suddenly said thoughtfully.

"Alright," Fugaku looked at him for a few moments and then nodded.

"What about us?" The silver-haired masked shinobi beside his suddenly asked.

"You two stay here, it's better if I go alone this time."

"Uhm, but please careful, Yoshi," Anko nodded and said feeling a little worried.

"Don't worry, see you later guys then!" He said and swiftly disappeared from the roof in a gust of wind. The rest of them stood there all looking in his direction.

Running through this peculiar marshy terrain, Yoshi felt incredible, it was the first he saw swamps this big and peculiar in his life, 'It seems like I finally passed all of the friendly sensory scouts.'

'Ahead is the enemy territory.'

He was incredibly fast thanks to his masterful Wind Body Flicker Jutsu.

He suddenly started sensing and bypassing some of the enemy's sensory ninjas.

'I'm getting closer...'

'Judging by their positions, their main hotspot should be in that direction...'

He increased his speed even further wanting to pry all the possible information before they catch up with him. Twenty minutes later, he finally sensed it!

A large concentration of strong chakra auras in one place.

'Let's count their numbers first...'

'Oh, this is interesting...'

'They have even more elites than Suna!'

'Seven strong auras grouped together, are they...'

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And while Yoshi was still immersed in his sensing, a conversation was being held in one of the hidden rooms of the place.

A person was sitting in the head position of a wooden table in a dark room leisurely.

Around him were sitting seven more distinctive and peculiar people.

All of them looked way more dangerous and fierce than the warm looking man sitting on the head position, but they were looking at him with true respect in their eyes.

They are the current generation of the so-called "Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist!".

They were all really young in age, same as the carefree green-haired man in the top position.

Some of them were a little older and some of them even younger.

The Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist are an organization consisting of only the greatest blade-wielding shinobi of their generation that Kirigakure can produce.

There can only be seven members at a time, hence the name.

The swords of the Seven Swordsmen are passed down from generation to generation since the First Mizukage's era and are considered mystical.

Together, the Seven Swordsmen are capable of bringing down an entire nation and are regarded as being the strongest shinobi in the village behind the Mizukage.

They were also the main source of confidence the green-haired man, Ryoto, had while practically declaring war on Konoha, the strongest shinobi village in recent history.

These seven men were also rather young and pretty hot-blooded, wanting to prove their abilities on the battlefield as soon as possible, getting merits for their actions.

As for why they were so respectful to that guy, it was a long story,

Outside of him being a great reformer and a hero of their generation, his genuineness also moved their cold and ruthless hearts.

He sincerely taught them how to defeat the previous generation of the Seven Ninja Swordsmen with their own strength, without any magical weapons,

And, after picking their weapons up as well, they are even stronger now!

And just then, a rushing figure entered their room quickly.

He was a young man with blue hair which is styled in a moused-up manner. His eyes were blue and he wore the standard Kirigakure shinobi uniform.

"Everyone, we have an enemy shinobi probing on us right now at this very moment!"

They all looked surprised a little and Ryoto asked incredulously, "Do you mean, like sensing?"

"Yes, I sensed him glancing over me just a moment ago, but he's really far ahead..."

"He's probably the best sensory ninja I've ever encountered in my life!"

The man called Ao exclaimed honestly, with a little dose of respect in his voice.

After all, this far-reaching sensory range was truly unheard of before,

Now they were all even more astonished!

He was that better than their village's currently best sensory ninja himself?

Ryoto suddenly stood up from his chair looking very intrigued, "I'll go and meet him myself!"

"No, we'll go there with you!" A large burly looking man also stood up from his chair and said decisively.

"Haha, no need. After all, it's only one ninja this time, isn't it Ao?"

Ao nodded and replied confidently, "Yes, we're pretty sure that it's only one!"

"You heard him guys, so only I must go this time."

No to mention, only with his own speed will he feel confident enough to not let the enemy ninja escape successfully and deliver that prying information back to the enemies.

"See you later, guys!" He grinned confidently and promptly disappeared from his position with incredible speed, almost close to real teleporting,

Moreover, if you had very good eyesight and looked more closely, you could see a slight flashing of the green color when he disappeared...

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Back in Yoshi's position, while he was preparing to hurry back, Yoshi suddenly opened his eyes wide, 'How is this possible?'

'Such a small chakra aura, but so fast...?'

'No matter, let's move from here fast! If he follows me back into our territory then, I'll see what's up...'

Yoshi suddenly started performing his Wind Body Flicker, swiftly appearing and reappearing in gusts of winds around the marshland, towards the direction of the Konoha's base.

After a while, he opened his eyes even wider, 'He could go... even faster?'

Yoshi grew a little dignified noticing the enemy's superior speed, 'But not everything's about speed...'

After even more of running and enemy getting even closer to him, Yoshi suddenly thought, 'This distance should be alright, I don't believe his reinforcements can come here that fast! '

'I'll make you spill out everything about this strange jutsu then...'

He suddenly stopped, made a few ordinary shadow clones, and hid them underground quickly.

He stood right on top of a swamp, waiting for his opponent there patiently thereafter.

And, he didn't have to wait for much longer...

In a flash of green light, another teen suddenly stood there right in front of him!

Light purple and brown eyes suddenly clashed on top of the swamp!

He wore an elegant green kimono and had an exquisite black sword hanging from his waist.

He looked at him and grinned charismatically,

Yoshi just looked at him like he was observing some kind of a rare animal instead.

'His chakra aura is still so small...'

"What's that strange jutsu you used to get up here so fast?" Yoshi asked curiously and a bit greedily all of a sudden.

"Rude, you should first introduce yourself when seeing someone for the first time!" Ryoto replied seriously and hummed a little.

"Do you not see my mask on? What does that tell you?" Yoshi mentally facepalmed and replied seriously.

"Ah, yes, it's my bad!" Ryoto scratched his handsome face embarrassingly then.

"That means... we must fight now, right?"

He asked carefreely, but Yoshi managed to catch a dangerous light flashing in his eyes for a second.

"If you don't give me every last bit of information about your strange movement speed jutsu..."

Yoshi's eyes presently also flashed dangerously, "... Then yes! ... And, I'll break you right here and take it out of your mouth by force instead!"

"Scary. ~" He replied livelily, but the next moment his face suddenly turned serious and he astonishingly already appeared right in front of Yoshi, already thrusting his fascinating black sword directly towards his head.

However, as soon as his sword slightly touched his head, Yoshi's whole body suddenly exploded in a torrent of flames. Somewhere else, the real Yoshi was hidden well and thought seriously all of a sudden, 'I'm already pretty sure that this current guy uses only kenjutsu.'

'And he does it alongside that mysterious movement jutsu together in combination...'

Ryoto on the field, simply moved back quickly, dodging the Yoshi's exploding clone, "Exploding clones? Yoshi Uzumaki, the 'Crimson Blast'?

That was Yoshi's new shinobi nickname he got after the famous Suna battle!

But, suddenly Ryoto changed his face.

"Uzumaki Wind Formation Technique!"

Instantly, Yoshi's already prepared blue chakra barrier formation suddenly rose up in the air, entrapping Ryoto from all sides completely.

He used sixteen different shadow clones to entrap him this time and start this formation,

His clones continued to manipulate the wind-chakra walls of the formation, making it dangerously sturdy and sharp.

Passing through or touching this barrier, means certain death!

This technique can only be achieved by combining these three things together: Wind chakra nature and shape transformations,

Uzumaki clan's fuinjutsu expertise,

Mulitple Shadow Clones Jutsu.

Furthermore, that's not all,

Looking even more closely, there were now fifty different Yoshi clones trapped together in the wind formation together with Ryoto!

The potential of these two things combined together is even scarier!

It's like a death chamber of only fierce flames and explosions!

You can't go out, you can only perish inside, all alone in agony!

Yoshi grinned a bit and gestured his clones to start next.

Ryoto who was inside the barrier looked very worried, he knows about this exploding jutsu and he doesn't want to be cooked alive inside this formation, nor stretched around by explosions like a bloody human ragdoll.

'There is still more!' Yoshi thought while sensing the situation inside excitedly.

One of his clones from the inside suddenly did a strange hand seal while looking at Ryoto.

Ryoto suddenly felt endless darkness forming from everywhere around him.

He felt like he was suddenly trapped in an endless black hole.

Bringer-of-Darkness Technique, an A-rank genjutsu technique Yoshi learned after getting the specifics of it from Anko recently. As for the Hokage's prohibition of not spreading the techniques they got from merits to other people, they didn't care about any of that.

"I must get out of here fast!" He suddenly turned serious and started concentrating really hard.

He placed his hand on his blade and took a deep breath from the deep within his lungs.

He braced his feet, rapidly propelling himself forward in no particular direction, faster than ever before.

In the next moment, he suddenly wondrously pulled his sword out, thrusting it forward.

Using all his body energy efficiently for this magical thrust.

"Soaring Tiger Sword Thrust!"

His black sword suddenly directly poking at Yoshi's wind barrier.

He continued pushing it forwards as creating a door for himself to escape outside of this infinite darkness.

'That strange jutsu again...?'

'And how on earth does his sword endure all of that wind pressure and chakra?'

'Just who is this guy!?' Yoshi thought urgently, his eyes wide.

'Oh no, he's breaking out!'

'If he gets me, it'll be all over in one strike!'

'I must use another approach fast...'

Ryoto suddenly felt like he broke out the barrier, but his vision was still blurred by darkness.

And, just when he started concentrating hard to dispel the genjutsu, he felt like he was trapped once again!

But, this barrier was more limited in space than the previous one.

This one was made by only three shadow clones and was around ten times stronger and deadly than the last one. By decreasing its range, hardness could be increased instead!

This barrier was only about two meters wide in its perimeters...

Yoshi was currently high in the air propelled by his Adamantine Chains.

Some of his chains were also on the ground, where the previous barrier was.

They were absorbing all the chakra from those previous fifty shadow clones back into him, then transporting it to the three clones currently entrapping Ryoto efficiently.

After all, he only needed three of them now for this barrier to function.

He learned about absorbing and transporting chakra with Adamantine Sealing Chains during these past six months. It's really an extremely useful ability to have for chakra management!

He looked down at the scene in the distance with a smile on his face.

This approach wasn't just about making the barrier stronger.

He introduced something new this time around, instead of the explosive clones.

This barrier formation is in fact a real air vacuum in its entirety too.

While creating this barrier, his clones also simultaneously sealed all the air in its space,

He learned how to seal air, thanks to his natural wind chakra affinity recently!

On the floor of this barrier prison were also some kind of black runes and kanji symbols.

Those were all written there by his clones, to make his enemy's movements even harder.

'If you manage to escape this one too, then I'm really done for!'

'That's why I will choose to tactfully leave now!'

'Maybe you manage to survive or maybe not...'

Yoshi thought suddenly. Ordinary people can take only about fifteen minutes without air before they completely perish, how much can he hold on without any air, Yoshi truly doesn't know.

Yoshi swiftly left the scene, his clones still remaining there to keep the formation going.

But, he first filled them with a lot of his juicy chakra before he left.

While on the run he thought dazedly again, 'Truly a very mysterious guy...'

Back, inside the barrier, Ryoto fell into some kind of meditative position shortly after being entrapped here in the cage with no air.

He thought about something gravely, 'I can only escape from here if I use that move...'

'But, I can only use it once per day, that's why I hope that the guy outside already left...'

'Truly a dangerous guy, that Uzumaki...'

'He didn't even give me a chance to get close to him...'

'Konoha is much stronger than we previously thought, I must increase my training hard if I leave here alive today!'

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(A/N: The MC is already on a Kage level after this chapter!)

(A/N: Ryoto is not a transmigrator like the MC!)

(A/N: The MC couldn't learn FTG during the six-year time skip, because S-class secret techniques don't grow on trees, and aren't easily obtainable!)

(A/N: The MC built a solid foundation for himself now, unlike Itachi Uchiha, who overexerted himself when he was young and paid a heavy price for that later!)