Konoha Crush [3]
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Her eyes constricted as her heightened senses finally understood exactly the true horror of what was pointed towards them.
That is a NUKE!
Taking no chances, Tsuyu activated her Cursed Seal as well. Dark markings with eyes like leaves pattern spread across her body, weaving into and combining with her dark red chakra cloak. The dark patterns spread to cover half of her body, even turning one of her eyes entirely black with red slitted iris. Her already demonic appearance turned even darker and demonic, causing everyone around her to felt so much fear they couldn't move.
She felt her body was brimming with dark, potent boiling chakra - but her entire body was subjected to severe burning pain from the destruction of her own body tissues. The combination of the two was too strong for her body.
But she didn't care. Because it's this or death!
Amidst Tsuyu's transformation, everyone around was shocked, scared, bewildered, and had so much emotions on them, thinking Tsuyu had turned into a monster.
She quickly made a set of hand seals and slapped both of her hands into the ground, pouring as much chakra as she could not give a damn about what people think or what this jutsu would cause.
"Earth Release: Colossus Earth Wall!"
As dark red chakra channeled into below, the ground shook as if an earthquake was happening. The ground split open - buildings shook and collapsed from the movement of the ground as hundred meter high wall of earth rises from the ground. Many people were caught up in the jutsu, civilians and shinobi alike were buried and smashed alive from the collapsing buildings, earth and rubble. But Tsuyu never cared about such insignificant matters.
The Great Earth Wall continuously grew, covering almost half of the entire village at one front. Some of the shinobi even thought Tsuyu was attacking the village.
But before they could even condemn her, the bright unnatural star from Ancor Vantian finally released its restraint.
Shinno pressed the button with a look of madness.
Click.
...
The bright star in the sky dimmed for a split second…
...
KABOOOMMM!
A beam of light tens of meters thick shot down straight from the sky to the dead center of Konoha. The beam hit the gigantic earth wall barely erected in time! The mass of light crashed into the wall head on!
Crumble! Crumble! Crumble!
The great wall was constantly breaking apart and repairing under Tsuyu's chakra input.
All of Tsuyu's 6 tails attached itself to the walls and the ground, flood of chakra outputted to support the technique with red chakra layer.
The powerful blast was deflected to the surrounding sideways and upwards, constantly destroying and disintegrating everything. Kyubi inside Tsuyu was also pouring as much as he could because he wouldn't want to die either. The wall of earth became smaller and smaller as Tsuyu couldn't output enough chakra to support all sides of the Great Wall, causing the beam to eventually destroy the sides of the walls and passed through.
The laser blast finally stopped after what felt like minutes when it was only 5 seconds in reality. Only the centre portion of the Great Earth Wall was left intact, protecting the middle centre of Konoha from complete destruction.
"Cough…" Tsuyu coughed out blood from overexerting her body. The curse mark receded, and Kyuubi chakra dispersed.
She shakily stood and tried to hold herself together for a few seconds.
After minutes, she at least caught her breath. Her entire body was limp, in severe level 9 pain and blood were pouring from all her orifices and tears in her body and on her skins.
Tsuyu caught another mouthful of blood. Damn it. She gritted her teeth and still raised her hands to make a hand seal.
Secret Art of Regeneration!
Not caring about a few days of lifespan, she forced her body to heal using her life force - healing her physical body in a matter of seconds at speed naked to the eye.
After her skin and tissues regenerated, the pain and fatigue receded. Standing upright, she ran towards the top of the remaining hundred meter earth wall.
When he oversaw the entire village, she was shocked, and followed by the emotion, extreme rage bubbling in her heart.
It's not even about the sentiment of home, or the feelings for people. It's the fact that this destruction was nothing but a barbaric act that caused a complete loss for the village! And really, what did those people achieve by doing this?!
They are killing manpower, destroying buildings and infrastructures, and mindlessly using a NUKE right on one of the most populated town in the Land of Fire!
Soldiers exist as a tool to prevent such waste and unnecessary loss! And why assigned battlefields exist so people don't mindlessly go to war in the middle of a populated place and bringing civilians who were the ones contributing to economy and society to their death!
THIS IS A WAR CRIME! AND USING A NUKE WITHOUT ANY WARNING TOO?!
Even Tsuyu never committed such a crime blatantly and find loopholes to use. But they don't even bother! Tsuyu wasn't sure if there was such a thing as the Geneva Convention in Shinobi World, but what they had done was a war crime by her and anyone's standards!
Danzo that was hiding underground felt the chakra fluctuation above and the earthquake shaking the entire Root HQ. He was deeply shocked, and even assumed Tsuyu lost control of Kyuubi or something for some reason.
He quickly went out to see what happened after everything seemed to calm down after minutes. He noticed the giant Earth Earth Wall that cast a giant shadow over everything his eyes could see. The situation was unclear. Many Shinobi also began to climb the walls. But as soon as they reach the top; all of them showed horror in their faces. Danzo also make his way to the top and had the same expression on his face.
His eyes widened in disbelief at seeing the destruction. Two-third of Konoha were completely destroyed. Only the center, which Tsuyu had protected with this massive Earth Wall, remained intact.
"No… No... THIS CAN'T BE…!"
Danzo felt his knees wobbled seeing two third of his village was in ruins.
"Damn it… Orochimaru! Land of the Sky!"
Danzo felt rage and anger bubbled in his heart, mirroring Tsuyu's. He will do everything in his power to kill and eliminate them completely from the surface of this planet! The only good thing was the center of Konoha which was most populated and where all Shinobi clans stayed were at least saved. Thankfully, his decision to give power to Tsuyu had saved the village from total annihilation; he thought to himself.
Tsuyu noticed Danzo tens of meters away and quickly went to his side. He kneeled on one knee, respecting his authority still.
"Danzo-sama. I failed to protect all of Konoha. Please forgive my incompetence."
Tsuyu was still respectful, given that Danzo was the highest person in command in Konoha after Hiruzen's death.
Danzo raised his hand to dismiss her trying to suppress his anger and even grief at the losses. And he could see already what would be the consequences of the damage done to Konoha this time around.
"You did well to save what you could. Land of the Sky… to think they still had such a weapon. I would have completely eliminated them if I had known they were a threat to this extent…"
The Shinobi that remained on the wall had a variety of emotions in them. Sadness, anguish, hatred, loss, and also grateful to Tsuyu, though that was the last thought.
All of their gaze turned to see the still flying fortress above that was close to them.
Just then, a group of ANBU appeared and went to kneel in front of Danzo. The commander of ANBU that survived spoke with a hoarse voice.
"Danzo-sama… Lord Third… he was killed by Orochimaru… and our village…" He clenched his fist, as if holding back tears.
"Danzo-sama, lead us to fight against them! You are now the one in command!"
Danzo never planned such a scene. It was just a coincidence. And he rather not go fight personally. But somehow all the Shinobi standing on the walls also followed after the ANBU, all asking Danzo to lead them and make a move, and so he had to.
"We will avenge the death of our comrades and the people! But first, assemble the team to save the people and any survivor! You, gather all the remaining ANBU and Jonins in the village! And anyone who had any methods to fly!"
"Yes!"
Everyone dispersed accordingly. The main counter-assault team was formed within minutes, with ANBU, Root, and a few Jonin members riding on summoning flying beasts.
Tsuyu rode a giant beast eagle painting with Sai, looking at the flying fortress with unhidden rage. Just how much would it cost to rebuild the village? And close to half of the population was gone too! This is unacceptable!
The commander of ANBU lead the charge in madness, wanting to avenge his fallen comrades and the village. Tugging at the gryphon like beast he rode, he took off and rushed towards their greatest enemy at this moment.
"Tatakae!"
"TATAKAE!!!
"TATAKAEEEE!!!"
The group of tens of people riding various flying beasts charge towards the sky, heading towards Ancor Vantian to settle the score.
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