Sasuke tilted his head at her, still dubious.
Izumi sighed and flicked him on the forehead, causing him to stare at her angrily.
"Hmph! Fine, but I want to know why... he did that."
She nodded before focusing back on her surroundings.
Sasuke maneuvered around the stands before hopping out and running in the direction of the Hokage's administration building.
Kakashi tried to avoid Pakura who was intent on maiming him, and shouted at his running student.
"Sasuke! What are you doing!?"
If Sasuke really harmed the Hokage's trusted advisors, he would almost surely be executed or kicked out of the village.
Suddenly, a handful of kunai intercepted him, forcing him to dodge and create distance, between him and Sasuke.
Thud!
The kunai got stuck in the wall as Izumi appeared going for a grab.
"Please, don't get in the way."
Kakashi slipped a smoke bomb out of his shinobi uniform and muttered in astonishment.
"That was Minato-sensei's Flying Thunder God technique. Earth Release: Mobile Core!"
The ground beneath the copy ninja shifted him back.
He noted that Pakura had disappeared somewhere before a kunai almost penetrated his head.
He cautiously scanned the area around him, trying to figure out where his opponent would appear from next.
"It seems slightly different. A weaker version, maybe?"
He tried to think back and recall any moments, his sensei might have mentioned a flaw in the technique but failed to find any.
Stumped, he could only entrust his last student in the vicinity to retrieving Sasuke.
"Sakura, go chase after Sasuke!"
The few other jonin sensei repeated similar orders, "Leave quickly, you'll be more useful elsewhere."
Roaarr!!!
A terrifying, animalistic battle cry, coming from Shukaku sounded out in the distance.
"I'll kill you!"
Boom!!!
A gapping hole was created in the stadium wall, as a battered Naruto struggled to keep standing.
Hachiro flashed over to him and said, "Hey brat, you confident you can take this thing on?"
Naruto reigned in his conscience and looked at him.
Recognising who it was, he nodded and gave a wide smile.
"It's you, uncle."
He clearly remembered the big sister and brother from a few years ago, who had showed him kindness.
The simple minded Ashura reincarnation wasn't aware of the commotion from earlier or the hostility that was being thrown about.
Hachiro proceeded to create black iron sand bars with pointed ends and casually asked, "I wonder whether you mice will end up dead before Hiruzen."
There was no reply.
He could sense well over fifty, sixty people dressed in black clothing with the exact same dull emotions were trying to hide from his perception.
The Root!
With a wave of his hand, the hundreds of poles dashed towards the ninja failing miserably at hiding their presence and executing them.
A few of the survivors knew their cover was blown and tried to run closer for a kamikaze attack.
That was easily solved as Hachiro dashed forward and cut their necks with a sword created from iron sand.
With that, the shinobi wanting to sneak attack him were dead.
He started to observe the Cyclops corps clashing with the rest of the leaf shinobi and remaining Root.
A Leaf ninja had a blade stuck in his throat while he looked at his comrades body in grief.
"No! Not Patrick-"
He then looked at the Scarlet glow emitting from Atsui's eye with even greater despair.
He fell to the ground in a daze, muttering like a madman.
"Is this my retribution? But, the Uchiha were evil..."
As a spectator, Hachiro thought that their combat style was extremely bloody and violent, it almost seemed like they had been possessed by the dead Uchiha.
Well... until he heard Atsui's comment.
"Huh, so cool~"
He honestly, felt a little creeped out that he was enjoying the slaughter.
He walked over and asked while looking at the decapitated body on the ground.
"This guy... looks familiar?"
S-Sai? That was his name right?
"Uhm, should I have left this guy alive?"
Atsui asked tentatively while continuing to stab some other shinobi.
Hachiro shook his head and said, "No, just thought I seem him from somewhere else."
A leaf shinobi let out a war cry and swung his blade towards his head.
"Aahhh!!!"
Unfortunately, his actions were cut short by a fire jutsu.
Beside his charred corpse, Izumi appeared.
"Hachiro-sama, since Orochimaru is taking Jiraiya, can I have Danzo?"
The current name, highest on her hit list, was Danzo.
She had gotten an explanation of what led Itachi to do what he did in the past.
While, she disagreed heavily with his actions, she nonetheless, carried an enormous hatred for all of the elders.
"The old thing may be old, but don't underestimate him. If you get hit by Kotoamatsukami, no one can save you."
Hachiro said to her and ordered a few of the members from the Cyclops corps to follow behind her.
Suddenly, a loud shout came from the Hokage.
"I will never let you do as you wish in Konoha.
He shouted in indignation before biting his thumb and slamming his hand down.
"Konoha has stood its ground for years, it wont fall to you people! Summoning-"
Clang!
Orochimaru grunted as his evil smile froze.
He narrowed his eyes in annoyance at the shinobi that had stopped his sneak attack with the Kusanagi blade.
Standing in front of Hiruzen was a white haired shinobi, who accepted the blade into his body.