Chapter 66: Multiple Factions

[Outskirts of Konoha Village]

Many bounty ninjas were wandering around this area; some had their eyes blinded by the five hundred million bounty. Some were spies from other villages, preparing to observe Konoha's situation.

While the number of people was gathering, they were still like a heap of loose sand.

No other reason, everyone cherished their lives.

After all, Konoha was one of the Five Great Ninja Villages.

In the past, at most, they only fought up to Kikyo Mountain. No ninja village had ever attacked into Konoha Village itself.

So everyone was waiting, waiting for the strong ones to take the lead.

They could then fish in troubled waters from behind.

As bounty ninjas, waiting for a few days wasn't an issue.

After all, as more and more people gathered, someone would eventually lead the charge.

Everyone knew the people coming here had their eyes on Konoha.

Even if they probed each other, they restrained themselves and didn't start conflicts.

They quietly waited for more and more people to gather.

On a tree nearby, stood two people, one holding a tin staff, his head full of white hair, a long scar running across his face.

The other had long, straight, waist-length black shiny hair, delicate willow eyebrows, black eyeliner, and purple lip color revealing maturity.

These two were Kazuma and Fuen. [T/N: Kazuma AKA Furido]

Kazuma was once a member of the Twelve Guardian Ninja, insisting that the Hokage was an unnecessary existence, believing that real power should lie with the Daimyo of the Land of Fire, and opposed people like Asuma.

Three years ago, he launched a coup at the Daimyo's mansion and failed, was defeated by Asuma, faked his death, and fled.

Fuen, by his side, was one of the subordinates he recruited.

Skilled in Earth Release and Genjutsu, a powerful trap specialist.

They were operating in the Land of Fire. After Uchiha Itachi's bounty intel was released, Kazuma also became interested.

However, his primary target was not Danzo.

After all, Danzo was heavily guarded by numerous Root members, he wouldn't go head-on.

His primary target was the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki.

Kazuma had started a plan seven years ago, which was to collect the chakra leaked by the Nine-Tails, to create an artificial Nine-Tails Jinchuriki.

And he succeeded.

The artificial Nine-Tails Jinchuriki he created was his son, Sora.

Now he was being raised in the Fire Temple of the Land of Fire. His monk appearance was also to be able to enter the Fire Temple at any time.

Currently, the Nine-Tails chakra within Sora was very little, growing extremely slowly.

At the current pace, it would take at least five more years to reach combat standards.

But if more Nine-Tails chakra could be added, it would be a different story.

Sora could then grow rapidly, becoming a qualified artificial Nine-Tails Jinchuriki.

Kazuma specialized in sealing techniques and could easily make the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki go berserk if prepared in advance.

As long as the Nine-Tails went berserk, Konoha would suffer heavy damage, and he could collect enough chakra.

"Fudo and Fuka won't make it in time?", Seeing more and more people gathering nearby, Kazuma also felt conflict was about to break out.

Fuen calculated the time, "They can only arrive the day after tomorrow."

Kazuma shook his head, "Can't wait for them. By tomorrow night, or at the latest early morning, we need to be ready."

Fuen looked at Konoha in the distance and said, "The Eight Gates formation hasn't been completed yet, we can't seal off Konoha."

Kazuma's expression was also very cautious, "We're not the main actors this time, forget about destroying Konoha."

"We just need to make Konoha deploy the Nine-Tails, and our goal will be achieved."

"You go use earth clones to organize people who can use Earth Release. There are too many guards at Konoha's main gate; it's safer for us to go in through the walls."

———

[Konoha Inn]

"Orochimaru-sama, someone outside is organizing those bounty ninjas," Guren reported the intel she had gathered to Orochimaru.

Orochimaru was taking out a scroll from a snake's mouth at this moment.

Upon hearing it, he didn't even raise his head, while opening the scroll, he replied, "Looks like it'll be lively tonight."

After reading the scroll, a thoughtful look appeared in Orochimaru's eyes.

This scroll was from Danzo contacting him.

Danzo didn't know Orochimaru was already in Konoha Village and had already received the message.

"Hashirama cells, huh?", Orochimaru did indeed have this thing in his possession.

But Danzo also had them, though not in large quantity or good quality.

What kind of experiment required such a large amount of Hashirama cells?

A glint of thought flashed through Orochimaru's eyes.

Given Konoha's current situation, Danzo was probably adding some cards to his hand.

However, Orochimaru was currently building Otogakure, and he happened to lack money. Now that Danzo came to him on his own, he had no reason to let it go.

After all, he still had Hashirama cells. If he couldn't turn them into power, turning them into money and supplies was fine too.

But it would have to wait until tonight had passed.

'Looks like the old man has put some pressure on Danzo?'

'Interesting, I must see it with my own eyes.'

———

[Night Fell]

After the sky darkened, at the north and south walls of Konoha, once the patrolling people left, gathering immediately began.

Konan stood on a tree watching the growing crowd below; it looked like she wouldn't need to show up right away.

Fuen took out a giant scroll and opened it on the ground.

He stood in front and began forming hand seals.

The Hyuga clan members on top of the wall quickly noticed the large chakra reaction below.

Warning flares and illumination rounds were immediately fired into the sky.

The three Hyuga members above had been instructed by Hyuga Sota, their mission was to observe, not to fight.

After sending the alert, they immediately went to find reinforcements.

The people on the wall pulled out kunai with explosive tags and threw them toward Fuen.

The people beside Fuen formed hand seals.

"Earth Release: Earth-Style Wall!"

A rising earth wall tightly surrounded Fuen.

Outside the wall, after a full minute of hand seals,

Fuen pressed both hands onto the scroll, "Earth Release: Rock Soil Conversion!"

RUMBLE!

With the muffled sound, under this section of Konoha's wall, an enormous quicksand pit began to form.

As if the bottom was hollowed out, rocks and soil all began leaking downward.

"THOSE WHO CAN USE EARTH RELEASE, COME FORWARD! The more chakra, the faster!"

Someone shouted from the crowd, and everyone who could use Earth Release jumped next to Fuen.

Both palms pressed onto the scroll.

As the quicksand pit in the ground grew bigger and bigger, the people on the wall of Konoha could already clearly feel the wall shaking.

"Summoning Jutsu!", A bounty ninja directly summoned a huge black bear.

"ROAR," The ten-meter-tall black bear stood up and struck the wall fiercely, but the wall only shook, showing no signs of collapsing.

Seeing Konoha's reinforcements were about to arrive.

Inside Konoha's wall, with a bang, thick smoke billowed as three giant summoning snakes appeared.

They stood upright, even taller than the wall.

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

The already unstable foundation of the wall quickly collapsed under the impact of the giant snakes.

Countless figures leapt in from outside the village.

Whether they wanted Danzo's head or wanted to probe Konoha's true strength, they all rushed in through this breach.

Konoha descended into CHAOS.

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