Chapter 276: The Influence of the Nine-Tails Rampage
After Danzō learned that Team Tei had been instantly killed, he recalled all his Root members. Tei was one of the stronger members of Root; if even he was killed instantly, then the blockade by the others was meaningless.
And Fugaku also gathered all his clan members.
Time passed slowly, and the chaotic night finally ended. But the thing that Fugaku Uchiha worried about most still happened.
He waited all night, only to receive the news of the Fourth's death.
After everything calmed down, Danzō also left with his Root members. He needed to understand the extent of the Anbu's losses in this battle. He had to judge whether there was a chance of successfully seizing power at this time.
Ishiro did not stay long in Konoha. After placing an obstacle called "suspicion" between the Uchiha clan and the Konoha higher-ups, he left happily.
Before returning to the village, Ishiro made a trip to Minato Namikaze's house and collected a large pile of special kunai from inside. Unfortunately, there were no ninjutsu scrolls in Minato's home. They were probably on Minato or Kushina's person.
However, as Ishiro was leaving Minato's house, he encountered an acquaintance.
"Obito Uchiha," Ishiro said softly, looking at the masked man before him.
"I am Madara Uchiha," Obito said in a flat tone.
When Obito and Zetsu saw the Seven-Tails appear, they realized a third party had intervened. White Zetsu immediately contacted other clones to gather intelligence.
When Ishiro was disguised as an Anbu, he was not recognized by White Zetsu. But when Ishiro ambushed the Root ninjas, he was discovered by White Zetsu. Subsequently, White Zetsu followed Ishiro all the way to Minato's house.
At this time, Obito, who had been taught a lesson by Minato, also received the news and rushed over.
"Hehe, the old man from whom I took a pair of Sharingan that day should be the real Madara Uchiha," Ishiro chuckled lightly.
"Obito Uchiha, I didn't expect you to personally kill your own teacher. How heartless."
"Walking the ninja world under the name of Madara Uchiha, may I ask, what is your purpose?"
Obito took out a chain and said, "What I'm going to do is none of a dead man's business."
"Hehe, after fighting with the Yellow Flash, how much of your strength do you have left?" Ishiro was not concerned by Obito's threat.
"Hmph." Obito gave a cold snort and immediately rushed towards Ishiro with the chain in hand.
Ishiro immediately focused his attention on his Mind's Eye's perception. As expected, he couldn't sense anything. The current Obito was in a phased state.
"Porcelain Release, Fine Rock Technique." Ishiro formed a seal with his left hand and cast his Porcelain Release. A large amount of fine rock particles immediately filled the space where Ishiro was.
Soon, the area within a radius of dozens of meters, including the position where Obito stood, was covered by fine rocks. Under Ishiro's control, the distance between these fine rocks was definitely not large enough to accommodate a person.
Now it was awkward. For a moment, Obito couldn't find a suitable position to deactivate his phasing.
If Obito rashly deactivated his phasing, many small rocks would immediately overlap with his body. The result would be that he would be injured the moment he appeared.
Although Obito had the First Hokage's cells, he did not have a body modified by Earth Grudge Fear like Kakuzu. It would not be easy to deal with the rocks inside his body, let alone the fact that these rocks were still under Ishiro's control.
Obito's phased body passed through Ishiro, and the chain he was pulling behind him also passed through Ishiro.
Obito's steps did not stop. He ran for dozens of meters, completely leaving the area covered by the Fine Rock Technique, before deactivating his phasing.
"How about it, Obito? This is a ninjutsu specially prepared for you. Are you satisfied?" Ishiro said with a smile.
After becoming tangible, Obito formed hand seals and shouted in a low voice, "Fire Release, Great Fireball Technique!"
A huge fireball flew towards Ishiro, directly scattering all the fine rocks Ishiro had laid out.
Ishiro smiled faintly, activated his Body Flicker Technique, and easily dodged Obito's great fireball.
Then, Ishiro continued to use Porcelain Release. This time, even more rocks quickly covered the area towards Obito.
Subconsciously, Obito chose to phase first. After his surroundings were once again filled with fine rocks, Obito knew he couldn't do anything to Ishiro today.
With a turn, Obito was about to leave.
But soon, he found that Ishiro was constantly manipulating the fine rocks to follow him around.
When Obito accelerated, Ishiro also accelerated. When Obito decelerated, Ishiro also decelerated.
Obito's gaze narrowed. Ishiro was trying to compete with him in a battle of attrition, waiting for his ocular jutsu's duration to reach its limit.
"Hah." With a cold laugh, Obito's body suddenly went down,遁 (dùn - escaping/hiding) into the ground.
This way, Ishiro's rocks could no longer track Obito. Not only could they not track him, but Ishiro couldn't even find where Obito was.
"Sigh~~" Ishiro sighed and had no choice but to leave.
He collected the porcelain rocks to prevent Konoha ninjas from confirming his identity based on the rocks, and then he left Konoha.
The Mind's Eye was still a bit lacking. If it could sense Obito in his phased state, Ishiro wouldn't have minded giving Obito another heavy blow.
But there was really nothing he could do today. Ishiro hadn't even entered Sage Mode. Not being in his peak state, Ishiro didn't dare to fight Obito head-on.
Not long after Ishiro returned to Iwagakure, the entire ninja world was once again thrown into turmoil.
The Nine-Tails Rampage broke out in Konoha. The renowned Yellow Flash died in battle to seal the Nine-Tails. The adult Nine-Tails Jinchuriki also died after having the Nine-Tails extracted from her.
Konoha had lost a Kage and a Jinchuriki that could deter the ninja world. Although the Tailed Beast was still there, everyone was skeptical about whether Konoha had found a new Jinchuriki and whether the new Jinchuriki could wield the Nine-Tails' power.
In addition, with the rampage of two Tailed Beasts, how many casualties did Konoha's ninjas suffer? How much did Konoha lose in one night? All parties were both excited and nervously gathering intelligence.
Soon, Konoha elected their Fifth Hokage: the Slug Princess, Tsunade. Tsunade, having overcome her hemophobia, first held back the Nine-Tails during the rampage and later suppressed the Seven-Tails by herself. Her strength was recognized by all Konoha ninjas. Of course, except for Danzō and the Uchiha.
After the battle, Tsunade used a large-scale medical ninjutsu without regard for the cost, which earned her everyone's love and respect.
Thus, Danzō, who had thought he finally had a chance to rise, was directly ignored by everyone.
However, although the various countries were eager to make a move, they still held back, because Konoha had harvested a Tailed Beast this time: the Seven-Tails.
Konoha certainly wouldn't dare to keep the Seven-Tails, but if they launched a war before Konoha returned it, what if Konoha threw the Seven-Tails at their own army?
Thus, all countries and villages began to condemn Konoha in unison, demanding that Konoha return the Seven-Tails to Takigakure.
But Konoha was not stupid either, directly claiming that a summoning jutsu had been placed on the Seven-Tails, and it could only be returned after the summoning jutsu on it was removed.
In addition, all parties were still guessing who had released the Nine-Tails, and who had captured the Seven-Tails and thrown it at Konoha as well.
To be honest, the fact that Konoha could seal two Tailed Beasts at once was still shocking to all parties, considering that one of them was the Nine-Tails, the strongest of them all.
Although they sacrificed a Kage, everyone couldn't help but marvel at Konoha's power.
Ultimately, everyone focused their attention on the Uchiha clan. The Sharingan symbol in the Nine-Tails' eyes had been seen by the intelligence ninjas of all parties.
Thus, the Uchiha clan, which had been given the cold shoulder by Konoha, suddenly became a hot commodity. Every day, ninjas from other countries would infiltrate the Uchiha clan's territory. All kinds of wooing and provocations were constantly staged in the Uchiha clan.
Even some small hidden villages were inviting the Uchiha clan, saying they were willing to give up the power of their own village for the Uchiha to lead and establish a sixth great hidden village.
Iwagakure also followed suit in denouncing Konoha and wooing the Uchiha, but they did not investigate the truth of the incident too much. Because Ishiro, who had participated in the Nine-Tails Rampage, had made it very clear that this matter was done by him and Obito.
Iwagakure had no time to deal with Konoha right now; they were just shouting a few "666s" behind the other great nations. Iwagakure's main energy was focused on studying the scrolls Ishiro had obtained from Konoha.
The scrolls Ishiro obtained were not all ninjutsu; there were also many ninjutsu insights. These things were extremely valuable. Ishiro gathered many Elite Jonin to study these scrolls together.
As for the most important item in this harvest, the Flying Thunder God training scroll, Ishiro made a copy to write into Iwagakure's Scroll of Seals. The original from Minato, Ishiro planned to leave for Akino Atsumi.
It took a month for Iwagakure's powerhouses to digest the scrolls Ishiro had obtained from Konoha.
It is worth mentioning that in the process of studying the genjutsu Ishiro obtained, Katsumata finally became a quasi-Jonin. This would be Iwagakure's first Jonin to major in genjutsu.
When Katsumata fully matured, perhaps he could really make up for Iwagakure's shortcomings in genjutsu.
Besides genjutsu, medical ninjutsu and Lightning Release ninjutsu were also involved quite a bit. And what excited the Iwa higher-ups the most was that Ishiro had also obtained notes on the training of Shadow Clones.
There were many types of clone jutsu. The one Iwagakure used most was the Earth Clone. It wasn't that Iwa couldn't use Shadow Clones, but Konoha's Shadow Clones had many techniques in their use. Iwa didn't know these, so when they used it, the effect was far inferior to the Earth Clone.
This time, with this scroll of insights on Shadow Clones, Ishiro, Ōnoki, and the others all seriously studied the Shadow Clone Technique.
Ishiro slammed the table and said, "List the Shadow Clone as a B-rank ninjutsu, but the contribution exchange only needs to be C-rank. Encourage everyone to learn this ninjutsu. But training this ninjutsu, like an A-rank one, requires a seal to be placed."
Ōnoki nodded and said, "The Shadow Clone is not divided by chakra attribute; its practicality far exceeds other clones. Besides Konoha, the other villages are also coveting this ninjutsu."
Ikura said, "It's a pity we didn't get any ninjutsu related to Yin-Yang Release."
Ishiro also nodded and said, "There's nothing to be done. Most of Konoha's Yin-Yang Release is in the hands of those large ninja clans. I didn't have a chance to make a move."
"Actually, at that time, I wanted to go to the Hokage Building to look for the Scroll of Seals. But the Scroll of Seals definitely has Minato's Flying Thunder God mark on it. If Minato felt that the Scroll of Seals was more important to Konoha and gave up sealing the Nine-Tails to turn around and deal with me, that would have been bad."
Ikura nodded, "There is indeed such a possibility. If Iwagakure were attacked and someone was after the Scroll of Seals, I would also hesitate."
"Alright, Ishiro, what do you plan to do next?" Ōnoki asked Ishiro about his next policy towards Konoha.
Ishiro thought for a moment and said, "The breakthrough is still with the Uchiha. We should contact the Uchiha, and it would be best to reach some agreements with them, such as secretly transferring a few Uchiha children."
"That Uchiha Sakai, now Ryōtenbin Chūkō, isn't he still attending the Ninja Academy? Have him write a letter to their clan head."
Mei said, "This child is still thinking of returning to the Uchiha clan. I'm afraid he won't write as we require."
Ishiro smiled and said, "Let him write whatever he wants. The heartfelt words of a young child are what will allow Fugaku to see our sincerity."
"If we make him write according to our requirements, it will instead cause Fugaku's resentment. The more real, the better. Anyway, we are indeed treating him with sincerity."
Ōnoki thought for a moment and also felt that Ishiro's words made sense. So he said, "Alright, I'll have the boy write a letter when I get back."
Uchiha Sakai was now living at Ōnoki's house, with the identity of Ōnoki's grandnephew.
Ōnoki had two grandnephews. The other one, whose original name was Haku Minazuki, had not yet reached the age to attend the Ninja Academy.
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