The Kirigakure Battlefields (2)

Yoshi who was currently running back towards the safety of Konoha's main base flinched a little all of a sudden.

'He already broke through it?'

Just now, Yoshi sensed his clones vanishing from a great distance.

'It seems like he truly can change his body's chakra density and runniness internally, on will, by utilizing some kind of mysterious technique...'

'It almost reminds me of...'

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As soon as he came back, Fugaku called a meeting with the other two Vice Commanders, Hiashi and Hizashi Hyuga.

Even though the two of them were twins, their positions in the Hyuga clan, and status in the village were completely different.

Hiashi was born only seconds before his twin brother Hizashi, making Hiashi the head of the clan and Hizashi a member of the branch house, whose only purpose in life would be to protect members of the main house.

They were mirror images of each other. Except for Hizashi having been branded with the Hyuga Main Family's juinjutsu on his forehead. They had long, black hair and featureless white eyes, the latter trait shared by all members of his clan.

It is somehow a rare occurrence for both successors of the Uchiha and Hyuga clan heads to be sitting on the same table together.

Even though the Uchiha and Hyuga clans weren't exactly hostile to one another at the moment, there was still a clear rivalry going on between them, considering that both of the clans were essentially famous for the same thing, their exceptional dojutsu - eye prowess'.

The three people mentioned, currently sat on a wooden table in a hidden room, alongside another clear-faced young man who had red hair.

All four of them appeared serious at the moment.

"If this is all correct, then we simply don't stand a chance.."

Hiashi, the future leader of Hyuga, suddenly said somberly.

"Wasn't their village internally torn before, how could've all of this happened?"

Hizashi, his twin brother, asked solemnly.

"I really have no idea..."

"... but I'm sure, a lot of things happened there during the past six years!"

Yoshi replied helplessly, realizing that there really are some serious differences going on between this world and the original canon.

If it was because of him, or because of some other variables, he simply didn't know yet.

"Then what do we do now, any ideas?"

Fugaku replied indignantly, even though he didn't carry on the Will of Fire completely, his clan was also in a really big danger right now, due to them currently being dispatched here in considerable numbers.

Hiashi and Hizashi thought the same thing.

'Actually, not everything is so grim!'

Yoshi thought while sensing many of his old acquaintances currently being in this building too, considerably stronger than ever before as well.

"Konoha is now losing on both the Iwa and Kumo fronts as well."

"You also know my purpose for coming here..."

"I was given the task by the Lord Hokage to help you all achieve a swift victory here, helping relocate some forces from here onto the other two fronts in that way..."

"But the Hokage was clearly wrong!"

Fugaku suddenly stood up angrily and hit the table with his hand a little.

"He had no idea about the strength of the enemy this time!"

"This war was clearly a mistake from the very beginning!"

'You won't mess with me, Hokage! I know exactly why you placed the Uchiha on this battlefront!'

Fugaku thought angrily, realizing that this situation could be catastrophic for his clan right now.

Yoshi sighed a little, even though he disagreed with the Hokage on many things before, this time he felt like the Hokage really had no choice in this matter.

'Fugaku just wants to protect his clansmen from dying...'

'I don't blame him as well...'

Hiashi suddenly also stood up angrily, "Fugaku, what is the meaning of this!? Do you want to defy the orders of the Lord Hokage?"

'This should be a little interesting.'

'The Hyuga clan is clearly much closer to the Hokage, and the village center of power, than the Uchiha.' Yoshi looked at the scene with interest, wondering what could happen next.

"Do you not realize the situation we're in right now, Hiashi? Do you want your whole clan to perish here?" Fugaku fired back, still resolute in his opinion.

"My clan won't perish here!"

"And you still didn't answer my question, Fugaku!"

"Do you want to defy the Lord Hokage's orders?"

The Hyuga clan was really in a better position right now than the Uchiha clan, their eye powers clearly countered the enemy's famous Hidden Mist Jutsu, unlike the Uchiha who got countered instead with Kiri's Water Release.

"No, I just want to say that we don't need to be so hasty!" Fugaku finally sat down, calming the situation a bit.

"That won't do, we must deal with the Kirigakure fast, otherwise Konoha will surely lose in the big picture!" Hiashi also sat down but continued arguing.

"And just how are we going to deal with them?"

"We have Byakugan on our side, but that's not nearly enough, we don't have enough elites!" Fugaku said firmly, still not convinced.

Hiashi knew that too, but his love for the whole Konoha village was so overwhelming, that he would still fight bravely in the end.

"I think that we still have a chance, we still have enough elites!"

Yoshi suddenly said loudly, all three of them turned around to look at him.

"Think about it, we have my team, we have you three, and we have..."

"...Kosuke Uchiha, my friend."

Everyone looked at him stunned.

Hiashi and Hizashi didn't really know much about Kosuke, and Fugaku looked at Yoshi because he was surprised.

"Sigh... How did you remember Kosuke?"

"I must admit that he is in fact on an elite level right now..."

Fugaku sighed and looked at Yoshi a little indignantly, he really wanted to hide the information about Kosuke from the twins.

'I'm sorry Fugaku, but I still need Konoha to exist for my plans...'

'But I really wouldn't have expected you to be so decisive in choosing your clan over the whole village, judging by the original...'

Yoshi thought, he guessed that Fugaku clearly wanted to take it slowly on this battlefront, until the Konoha was completely destroyed from the other fronts, saving his Uchiha clansmen in that way.

And then later relocating to the war's winner village or something along those lines.

"But, they have the Seven Ninja Swordsmen, so we're still falling short!"

Fugaku came back from his thoughts and continued carrying his rhetoric resolutely.

"No, it's not just Kosuke, we have someone else here too!"

"Other elites?" Fugaku asked skeptically.

As the Commander of this whole battlefront, he basically knew all the strong players here, and he is sure that there are currently no other elites present here at the moment.

"Yes, and they are called Might Guy and Might Duy!"

"Might, what!?" Even Hiashi who was advocating for a more aggressive war approach looked skeptical at the moment. Did the elites start growing on trees?

In Konoha, every elite is basically already pretty well known, and as the future clan patriarch, Hiashi always paid close attention to matters of that nature.

But, he never heard of the two people mentioned by Yoshi before.

"Yes, Might Guy was my classmate and a sparring partner before."

"I can personally vouch for his strength!"

"And judging by the fact that his father personally trained him before, he can't be too weak either!"

"And why didn't anyone hear of such capable shinobi before?"

Fugaku continued to probe further.

"I'm not sure of the specifics either..."

'I really can't remember...'

Yoshi honestly wasn't sure about why Might Duy wasn't famous nor respected for his strength before the Third Ninja War when he heroically defeated the Seven Swordsmen of the Mist.

'It seems like they are truly no-names at this time...'

"I'm sorry, Yoshi, it's not that I don't respect you, but I just really can't believe this..."

Hiashi also sighed and continued skeptically.

'No, I really can't allow Konoha to be destroyed!'

'At least not until I do that...'

Yoshi suddenly stood up from his chair and stated confidently, "Their strength speaks for themselves!"

"Let's go and test them right now, I don't believe that they'll be weaker than any of you three!"

They all opened their eyes wide, but looking at Yoshi's serious expression, they realized that he was clearly not joking.

"Alright, let's go then!"

"If their strength is really not lower than ours, then we have no reason to delay this war any further!" Hiashi also stood up and said seriously while looking at Fugaku, his brother followed too.

Fugaku just snorted and also stood up indignantly.

Yoshi nodded satisfied while seeing this, and they all went outside the room promptly.

However, there were already some people standing right outside!

They were Kakashi and Anko who were waiting for Yoshi.

And Kosuke Uchiha, who was Fugaku's personal bodyguard in this shinobi army.

Probably made that way, so that Fugaku could hide his strength more efficiently.

Kosuke got taller than before, also reaching the adult height. He had the same hairstyle and expression as before, quite similar to his cousin, Fugaku.

But, instead of his usual Uchiha clan attire, he currently wore the Konoha's green uniform.

Yoshi went outside the room first.

Seeing the three of them standing there together, he suddenly smiled and said, "Kosuke? Didn't see you for a long time, how have you been?"

Kosuke replied surprised, "Wow, Yoshi is that really you? Look how tall you've gotten!"

"Haha, yes, and I'm still growing!"

"Sorry for not visiting you before, I was quite busy with missions and all of that..."

'Just kidding, I don't want to spit Konoha's high-level in the face by going to the Uchiha clan headquarters...'

Kosuke just nodded meaningfully, he already understood many things about that village's inner workings during the years.

"Alright, Kosuke, you two can talk on the way," Fugaku said after he got outside the room and went ahead promptly.

The Hyuga twins also followed closely behind him.

"Wait, where are you all going?" But suddenly, Yoshi abruptly stopped them.

The three of them all stopped and looked at him weirdly.

"Aren't we going to meet your friends?" Fugaku asked a little irritable.

'Uncle Duy is not my friend...'

"Yes, but they are not on this floor, they are on the base floor..."

"What!?" All three of them exclaimed at the same time shocked, and Fugaku replied angrily, "Are you messing with us, Yoshi?"

"Only on this floor are all of our jonins stationed!"

Yoshi sweatdropped a little and replied a bit meekly, "Who said that they're jonins..."

"What!?" All three of them exclaimed even more shocked now.

Is this talented junior only messing with them now?

Was what they thought at the moment.

"Everything will be clear later, let's go for now, just follow me..." Yoshi sighed helplessly and took a step forwards.

'Well, I have nothing to lose...' Hiashi nodded and also went ahead with his brother, following Yoshi.

Fugaku sighed and also went ahead indignantly.

Anko, Kakashi, and Kosuke also started curiously following them.

After a while, Anko went ahead a little and whispered to Yoshi, "Where are we going, Yoshi?"

"You'll see," Yoshi just smiled and winked her a little.

"Hmh, hateful!"

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In the Konoha's Kiri war shinobi main base, first floor.

Presently, it was lunchtime there.

The lunchroom was full of commotion.

Shinobi seated there while eating were talking about various topics such as their patrolling shifts, their families back at home, and this whole world war situation.

On one of the tables sat a young man and his father in the same unique green outfits.

They both had really thick eyebrows and black hair.

"Guy, remember, just because it is war, it doesn't mean that you can't train!"

"After this meal is over, we'll go and run a thousand laps across this whole base!"

"That is youth!", "For youth!"

They suddenly stood up, gave high-fives, and then hugged each other comically.

Other shinobi who were seated close to them looked at this scene mockingly and suddenly laughed.

However, their laugher soon stopped, as they heard a loud opening sound of the lunchroom doors.

A stern-looking man in the commander's uniform entered first, followed by a group of other people.

"Lord Commander!" They all suddenly stood up and shouted respectfully.

Fugaku just nodded at this scene and motioned them to sit again.

"Are the Might Guy and Might Duy here?"

Everyone suddenly held their breaths together and looked towards a particular direction.

All of them wondering how on earth did these two nonsensical guys manage to provoke this famous Uchiha commander!?

Kakashi, Kosuke, and Anko got really surprised and looked at Yoshi.

He just shrugged his shoulders and replied obscurely, "Everything will be clear later."

Seeing the direction they were looking at, Fugaku realized something and went ahead towards that same direction.

Seeing him coming towards them, Guy and Duy stood up respectfully, "C-Commander..."

Looking at them from the head to toe, Fugaku became more convinced that Yoshi was just messing with him before.

'That guy is truly too much, messing with us in such a serious situation...'

'But, it's good this way...'

He just sighed and thought successively, feeling a little relieved.

He promptly nodded and said seriously, "Come with me!"

They looked at one another unsurely but just followed.

Everyone watched their backs with some pity, even though those two guys are really silly, they have somewhat good hearts inside and not many people truly hated them, they just made fun of them.

Coming towards the door of the lunchroom, Might Guy suddenly opened his eyes wide in surprise.

He saw many familiar acquaintances and friends standing there.

They also looked at him in surprise.

Yoshi suddenly took a step forward and said warmly with his body language showing openness.

"Guy, uncle, how are you two?"

"Don't worry it's nothing serious now, we just need your help on something."

Duy and Guy looked at him surprised.

Yoshi often trained together with Guy from when they were little, he also made him a special fuinjutsu weight training seals before.

He also met with Duy many times before when they were training, hence the reason why he called him uncle.

"Yoshi, what shall we do!?" Duy asked energetically after regaining his composure.

All shinobi in the lunchroom looked stunned, they didn't expect this prodigy to appear on this battlefront all of a sudden.

Since Kiri already learned about his presence here, there is no need to wear a mask anymore.

"Just follow us," Yoshi smiled and replied.

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Underground, there was an improvised training area for shinobi to use.

But, it was still large enough to get the job done.

The surface of this area is earth, and the terrain is rugged.

"Are you sure this was a good idea?" Anko asked the red-haired guy beside her unsurely.

She was looking at the four figures in the distance and thought.

'No way that idiot and his father will be able to beat the Commander and the Vice Commander!'

Kakashi also wasn't much confident in his friend, Guy.

"I'm sure they will beat them, wanna take a bet Anko?"

Yoshi suddenly asked abruptly, a mischievous light flashing in his purple eyes.

Anko suddenly blushed, already understanding what kind of bet that will be...

'B-But maybe this is a good opportunity...'

'There is no way they will win...'

"A-Alright..." She replied in a mosquito-like quiet voice and buried her head in Yoshi's tall shoulder embarrassingly. Yoshi just grinned, already feeling like he already won.

Over time, Kakashi learned to turn the other way around when stuff like this happens between the two of them, as to not cause any awkwardness.

Kosuke looked at this surprised and gave Yoshi a secret thumbs-up, 'They already developed so far...'

Hizashi was the referee of this match.

And he finally gave the signal to start.

Fugaku and Might Duy looked at each other.

Hiashi and Might Guy looked at each other.

Fugaku didn't waste any time and immediately started firing a barrage of shurikens at Duy seriously.

Seeing this, Duy immediately reacted, dodging them all successfully.

However, Fugaku was already beside him using his Body Flicker, attacking him with the kunai in his hand.

Duy barely managed to dodge Fugaku's next blow.

On the other side, Hiashi immediately sprung into taijutsu combat with Guy.

Starting to dominate him easily without using any of his signature techniques.

The spectators just sighed, already expecting this result.

Anko looked at Yoshi secretly, suddenly noticing that he still had a confident look on his face.

She then resumed watching the battles in the distance curiously.

All of a sudden, subtle changes started taking place in the father and son's bodies.

They suddenly got considerably faster than before.

Fugaku didn't manage to catch the reason for that, but Hiashi did thanks to his eyes.

'Impossible, their inner chakra gates started opening up somehow all of a sudden...'

Seeing that he gradually fell into the losing position, Fugaku abandoned close combat tactics and decided to use some ninjutsu, "Fire Release: Great Fireball Jutsu!"

Fugaku kneaded chakra in his stomach and then turned it into the fire.

The more chakra the user expands, the more powerful and sizable flames are produced.

That's why the Fugaku's current Fireball looked enormous, almost taking up the fourth of this large field. Duy looked at this gravely.

On the other side, Hiashi also used his strongest technique when Guy suddenly appeared in front of him in an attack, "Eight Trigrams: One Hundred Twenty-Eight Palms!"

This technique is used to close off the flow of chakra through one hundred and twenty-eight chakra points of an opponent's Chakra Pathway System. This eliminates their ability to use chakra for quite some time and makes it difficult for them to move.

Fugaku's ninjutsu hit the Duy, and Hiashi's technique connected with Guy.

However, just when the majority of the current spectators thought it was all over, an astonishing thing happened then, "The Fifth Gate: The Gate of Limit - Open!"

They both suddenly overcame the attacks delivered upon them.

Their whole bodies changed in an unexpected manner.

Their faces also became fierce and their pupils disappeared, pronounced veins popped all over them.

Everyone looked at the scene shocked, even Yoshi.

But, Yoshi was shocked for a whole different reason.

He suddenly got sudden goosebumps all over his skin.

'T-This, this...'

'How could that be?'

He thought while his face started sweating a little.

'Now I understand why it was so familiar...'

Yoshi suddenly realized many astonishing things in a second when he looked at their chakras.

He realized that the guy he fought just recently, actually used the same technique as these two guys here were currently using.

However, instead of leaving the gates wide open during the battle; He used this technique on an, on, and off principle.

He turns the targeted gates on when he wanted to thrust his sword forward or take a quick step somewhere; Then in the next second, after he finishes his move, he turns it off instantaneously.

Substantially minimizing the side effects of this technique in that way.

'But this begs even more questions from me...'

'How did he learn that move?'

'What are the specific biomechanics of it?'

'How was his sword able to keep up with all that pressure and even destroy my wind barrier?'

'How many gates can he currently open?'

'Where was he in the original series?'

Yoshi suddenly felt as if a whole new world opened in front of him, just waiting to be explored.

'I must reorganize my plans and add him in the equitation too.'

'Depending on how smart he is, he could truly become one of my final enemies...'

Back on the field, the fights were still raging.

Guy suddenly appeared in front of Hiashi ready to punch him.

Hiashi quickly parried the attack with his Rotation.

But eventually, Guy broke it successfully and held his punch in front of Hiashi.

"I surrender!" Hiashi held his hands up and said seriously.

Guy nodded and stopped, soon both of them turned around and looked at the other battle currently still going on.

Seeing the upcoming fierce attack coming towards his way, Fugaku took a deep breath and suddenly looked Duy in the eyes.

'What is this?' Duy looked surprised, this was his first time experiencing genjutsu.

'I can't move...'

'I'll try to open another gate and see what happens.'

"The Sixth Gate: The Gate of View - Open!"

A good way to break genjutsu is to disrupt your own chakra flow.

The opening of gates is removing the limit of chakra constraint naturally operated by the body.

Meaning that it disturbs the enemy's genjutsu too.

Considering this, Duy managed to successfully break Fugaku's genjutsu.

Realizing that he broke out, he quickly reappeared in front of Fugaku ready to end their battle.

"I surrender!" Fugaku sighed before exclaiming indignantly and then continued curiously,

"But can you explain this technique to me, Duy?"

"Sure..." The four of them remained to chat on the field, they started talking about various things, like their peculiar technique, the upcoming war, their role in it, and everything else.

Yoshi looked at the now shy, purple-haired girl, beside him meaningfully and just said teasingly, "We'll talk about it later..."

"Uhm..."Her whole face was very red and almost steamy-like now, she buried herself in Yoshi's shoulder even further.

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Later that night, on Konoha's main base's balcony.

Fugaku Uchiha stood up there, all alone.

He looked at the dark sky and the glowing stars lost in his thoughts.

'Those two guys are truly the most interesting people I've ever met in my life.'

'What an amazing spirit and ingenious technique...'

'With them here, I'm pretty confident to enter this war.'

'If I must do it, then I'll do it all the while protecting all of my clansmen, to the end!'

He looked really resolute and even a little extreme.

Moonlight reflecting on his eyes,

Showing a different pattern of red and black colors now on them, different than the usual Sharingan...

Just what could this new pattern represent?

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At the same time, on a completely different balcony in the same base.

A tall red-haired boy with a large frame and a purple-haired cute petite girl stood there together while looking at the stars quietly.

"I'm curious, why did you agree to this kind of bet all of a sudden, this time?"

Yoshi asked while looking at the girl affectionately.

"I won't say!" She turned to the other side as if ignoring him, but her whole face was blushing very hard and it could be seen that she just turned away because of the shyness.

This just made Yoshi even more intrigued,

"I promise not to tease you if you say it, and I promise that I will agree with it, no matter what it is!"

He suddenly gently turned her around and looked her in the eyes sincerely.

'Yoshi...'

"Y-You promise not to tease me, If I say it...?"

She asked really quiet, feeling even more shy and unsure than before.

"I promise on my Uzumaki clan's dignity that I won't tease you if you say it!"

'I'm sorry, Uzumaki clan...'

He thought, but outside he appeared even more sincere to Anko right now.

"W-Well... T-The last time you teased me about being your girlfriend..."

"I thought about it... and I agree..."

She said almost inaudibly near the end.

"But I wanted to make you stop teasing me with that bet!"

"In fact, I want to try and do the things those normal couples do too!"

"Like going on normal dates, being serious about it, not teasing me all the time, and stuff like that..."

She gathered all of her courage and finally said everything that was on her mind in one go bravely.

Yoshi looked really surprised, 'It seems like Anko thinks that I'm not serious about her...'

'But, she couldn't be more wrong...'

"It was that simple?"

"E-Eh?"

"We'll start doing everything you want after this war is over!"

"But, before that, to show you that I'm really serious about you..."

The next second, Anko suddenly felt a really warm and gentle sensation on her lips.

Her whole mind went blank at the moment, this was clearly her first kiss!

"What are you so dazed for?"

"I won that bet didn't I...?"

Yoshi smiled teasingly while looking at her, but then turned serious promptly, "I admit that I may appear to be a little playful at times..."

"But, Anko, I'm very serious about you, to be honest..."

"Actually, you were the only girl in my eyes from the moment I was born,"

"And, it will probably remain that way until I die!"

'Yoshi...' Anko's eyes got really watery from all the happiness, she suddenly understood everything.

In fact, she was the only girl Yoshi ever teased from the very beginning!

That was Yoshi's main way of previously showing affection...

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(A/N: I'll make Ryoto's existence fit well into the original Naruto setting. Neither his powers nor his background will feel even slightly AU, believe me! Just be patient enough for his backstory to get slowly revealed into the future.)

(A/N: Like Might Guy and Duy, Ryoto will also be basically immune to genjutsu. He dispelled the MC's genjutsu in this way during the last chapter. They'll still suffer from genjutsu like the Tsukuyomi that can f. them up in a second though.)