Chapter 128 - War Begin!

After a few hours Onoki's team finally reached their destination, the Shinobi Allied Force Headquarters, and after landing and letting down, Genbu the giant Island Turtle, he patted his back and said "Ow, ow, ow, ow! My back!!" and Kurotsuchi comments "You overdid it again".

At the same time Mei walked closer and said "Thank you for your hard word, how'd everything go?" and Onoki replies "The Hachibi and the Kyubi are safe, but the mokuton user who was guarding the kyubi was captured" and Mei who realized the implication lost her composure for a moment and says "So then... The enemy has even more intel on us!!" and Onoki replies "Anyway, I'll tell you more inside!" then Onoki told to the other Kage about his meeting with Suigetsu and that strange masked beast.

Hearing the details Tsunade explains to the other Kages and Mifune, what Ren told her about these Masked Beasts "From what Ren told me those masked beast are called Hollow and they are some kind of evil spirits that eats everything with chakra to grow stronger, and where here even before we had the ability to control chakra... they are divided into many levels... the normal ones have various form and dimension but act more like animals driven by instinct even if he said that others can be as smart as us..."

Tsunade's face then turned grave and continued "Then there are the Menos... they are divided in Gillian, Adjuchas and Vasto Lorde, the Gillan have huge bodies and all have the same aspect and a level of strength that is comparable with jonin, the Adjuchas takes a more animal form and their level varies from Quasi-Kage to Kage... and the Vasto Lorde have a humanoid form and are a lot stronger than the average Kage... From what the Tsuchikage said I think that he met with an Adjuchas... and if more Hollows joined force with Madara it could be bad for us..." then they passed the rest of the meeting thinking how to deal with the new threat.

Later that day the Five Kages and Mifune once again reunited to discuss the last intel that came from a team of Konoha that was able to find Obito's position in Mountains Grave, so Shikaku put a map on the table and started explaining "This X marks the enemy's hideout... It's in a place called the Mountains Grave! If we go by Land, we'll have to pass through the Land of Frost, Hot Water, and Sound..." And A says "Send an evacuation alert to these countries!".

Then Shikaku nods and continues "According to the scouting party, the enemy is about 100.000 just like Ren said... but we also have to be prepared for more in case the Hollows really join forces with Madara... They'll probably only send a fraction of that by sea, but we don't want to find ourselves surrounded" and Mifune comments "This means victory will be determined by whoever makes the first move!".

And A starts giving his orders to his assistant "Form an ambush squad! Then split the rest of the troops into squads and get them in formation!!" Tsunade does the same "And Make sure the medics are properly equipped! Shikaka, work with the intel squads to double check their routes!".

After them Mai says to Chojuro "And contact Ao in the sensor Squad! And be quick about it!" who simply replies "Y-yes ma'am!" at the same time Gaara shows to Onoki the new crest that they'll put on the protectors and Mifune says "I designed them myself... You once fought amongst yourselves, but now you are all just Ninjas! And we Samurais will join force with you! Now the time has come!!".

Meanwhile, in a corridor made of a mixed purple-black mist, the figure of Ren can be seen running while gritting his teeth withstanding the painful feeling all over his body that was growing bigger and stronger at each step he made, soon he once again heard Senbonzakura's encouraging voice that said "Come on Ren-dono, just a little bit more and you will reach the Pure Land!".

Ren didn't reply he was focused on his objective, and soon he saw the light at the end of the tunnel, literally a few meters in front of him a bright white hole appeared, Ren stopped in front of it and took a deep breath, steeling and preparing himself for what to come, then he took one last step forward and passed through the hole.

Once on the other side, Ren didn't even have the time to look around, that a terrible pain, unlike anything he ever felt before assaulted his very being, it felt like his own Chakra became the most powerful mix of acid, poison, and at the same time molten lava, and corrupted, melted, and burned every fiber of his being, but at the same time recreating the same thing it destroyed, stronger than ever before.

Ren fell on his knees with his face contorted in a soundless scream, while all the Chakra Pathway of his body could be seen shining in a strong blue light through his skin, and as the light grow stronger and stronger, the blue started to change in a bright white color and started covering the rest of his body, until all of Ren's body was covered in a bright white cocoon of Chakra.

At the same time, back in the world of the living, in Kumo where the Shinobi Alliance Headquarters is located, in front of the Five Different Battle Divisions, stood their commanders, Darui leader of the Mid Range Division, a fairly tall, dark-skinned man with a slightly bulbous nose, black eyes that usually look bored, and shaggy, white hair which covers his left eye.

Kitsuchi, the leader of the Short Range Division, is a very tall and brawny shinobi. He has dark eyes and short dark-grey-colored hair as well as a beard and a bulbous nose, Mifune leader of the Special Division, Kakashi leader of the Short-to-Mid Range Division who turned to the leader of the Long Range Division and said "Now... As Commander General of the Alliance, Gaara why don't you give the troops a little speech once they settle down".

At the same time, in the Mountains Graveyard, Obito, Suigetsu, and Orochimaru, walk out of their hideout followed by an army of White Zetsus, once outside, Orochimaru did a simple gesture and opened a huge Garganta, where from hit an uncountable number of different anguished roars could be heard, and at the same time Obito says "Let's go the war begins now!!".