Fearless puppets and close call

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During the time Bakorio was training his eye powers (Mainly Jikininki for now to deal with the seed of darkness) His Shadow clones kept training and studying The various Jutsu Orochimaru had in his library.

Meanwhile, the squad of elite Anbu Konoha sent led by Tsunade herself finally found some clues about the location of where the remaining forces of the village hidden in the sky were hiding. It was a small island east of the land of fire.

To the east of the land of fire, there's the small land of whirlpools (Where the Uzumaki clan used to reside). This place was named this way because the sea that surrounded it was filled with weird whirlpools that requires great navigation skills for ships to traverse them making it a naturally protected hideout. The place is also filled with small islands, so the village hidden in the sky took advantage of this location to set up its bases.

Tsunade's squad discovered that these ninjas took it a step further and only had very few well-hidden sentries to keep a lookout on the situation on the surface of the island.

As for the rest of their forces, they were all hiding in a cave that can only be accessed from an opening that was hundreds of meters below the water surface. This made it very hard to find them, but not impossible with the variety of skills and bloodlines the ninjas of Konoha had in their arsenal.

However, they still didn't make any moves yet waiting for reinforcement to arrive, and it didn't take long to come as Hiruzen brought with him a squad of 10 Jonin and a 100 elite Chunin that had some mastery with water style, and once they made sure they surrounded the island from all directions to hinder any possible escape. Tsunade finally made her move and started infiltrating the island with the Anbu squad that had a certain Kakashi as well as Shisui and Itachi in their ranks.

However, they soon encountered a huge surprise as the expected houses weren't found, instead, they found a huge military base and a factory waiting for them with all kinds of scientists doing experiments on metallic devices. Some looked like wings, others looked like cannons and some were huge ships which caught Tsunade and the rest off guard for a moment before they immediately took action and started neutralizing the people from the village hidden in the sky silently without alerting the rest while Kakashi signaled to one of the Anbu to go back and report their findings to Hiruzen which he immediately did…

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Back at the surface, Hiruzen received the news about the base and immediately frowned 'Don't tell me… this is just one of their hideouts'

With this conclusion, he immediately gave orders for his people to enhance their focus in case someone tries to escape or signal to the rest of their enemies what was happening, but just as he was giving his orders, a huge explosion that shook the sea sounded from the bottom of the island he was observing and huge waves like that of a tsunami started traveling in all directions making Hiruzen's face turn pale instantly before he screamed. "Tsunade!!!"

The rest of the ninja beside him had similar expressions on their faces until one of the Jonin approached him and asked "Lord Hiruzen, what should we do?"

Hearing him, Hiruzen was brought out of the shock of possibly losing one of his dear students and some of the greatest talents in Konoha and immediately ordered "Send people to search for them immediately and prepare a squad of medical-nin to stay at the ready"

"Yes, sir" Said the Jonin before he disappeared to follow his orders leaving Hiruzen to mutter to himself "What kind of craziness is this? They would even kill their own people just like that?"

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Meanwhile, inside the factory, a few seconds before the explosion happened, Tsunade and the rest found it weird how their operation was going smoothly… in fact too smooth! And they noticed how the workers appeared almost emotionless even after being immobilized and captured by the Anbu or even killed which made them feel that something wasn't right!

So, at the last minute, Tsunade ordered a retreat and to continue the exploration with shadow clones only even if it lowers their efficiency, and the rest of the Anbu immediately executed. However, not before bringing with them two of their captives.

However, just as they reached the entrance of the cave, they all felt a hand gripping their hearts and they sensed their shadow clones dissipating one after the other and in an instant, they all received the information of what happened to them, so without any hesitation, they jumped out of the cave while deploying their best defensive Jutsu. Water walls, earth walls, wind walls, they used everything they could but it wasn't enough to hold back the huge explosion that was weakened by their shadow clones.

And at the last second, just when Itachi and Shisui were about to summon their Susanoo for additional protection, Tsunade bit her thumb and summoned Katsuyu, her legendary huge slug, which without hesitation swallowed them in its stomach before the smoke of her summoning even dissipated as a moan of pain escaped her mouth and the explosion engulfed her huge body.

Fortunately for them, they were underwater, and as the body of the slug was being pushed away by the power of the explosion, the damage it was receiving lessened quite a bit thanks to the protection of the water. However, this still ended up with Katsuyu suffering serious injuries, feeling that she was about to dissipate, she instantly spat the ninjas in her mouth out before dissipating under their thankful eyes and Tsunade's worried look.

However, Kakashi's hand soon landed on her shoulder reminding her that not everyone had a strong enough body to withstand the pressure underwater for a long time and realizing this, she shot a look at young Itachi who was forced to cast a water bubble to protect himself from the pressure but was still struggling with the lack of oxygen so she immediately nodded and lead them to the surface where they found some ninja searching for them...

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After this small dance with death, Hiruzen and Tsunade decided to not underestimate the cruelty of their enemy anymore, as well as their technology since they were clearly aware of their arrival and yet even someone as experienced as Tsunade didn't notice how they were discovered at all.

However, they didn't come out of this without anything as they still had with them the two captives they got, which still seemed to be in some sort of trance and would only attack them the moment they woke them up leaving them no choice but to use forceful methods to check their memories from which they discovered the location of other bases which they attacked using shadow clones or directly used earth style Jutsu to make them collapse on those people. However, every time the bases would end up exploding rather than surrendering and they never any information regarding the zero tails as if someone wiped it out intentionally...

This continued for three whole days before they concluded that there were no survivors and they retreated back to Konoha with heavy hearts since this incident left a weird taste in their mouths as if they were fighting puppets…

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As the situation in Konoha was going back to normal, Bakorio was still cultivating his eyes abilities. He felt it could have been faster if his Uchiha bloodline was stronger, unfortunately, It was only 50% percent at this point…

However, his efforts were still effective and after another week of training, he was able to raise Yomi no Kuni all the way to level 100 granting him the passive skill: Rebirth from the ashes: grants the user one more chance in life after death. Cooldown: 1 year]

A broken ability which although had a long cooldown of one year, was still a life-saving trump card that would be the dream of any person! Plus, unlike other people, he can always level it up!

So, with another trump card in hand, and far more enhanced abilities, Bakorio decided to head to Konoha to deal with the troublesome beast called zero tail and further increase his power to deal with the darkness that's targeting him while Orochimaru and Kabuto kept working on his bloodline experiment…