Chapter 309: Recruitment
Hearing the Raikage asking for suggestions, Shikasuke's face turned bitter.
"Well..."
Shikasuke hesitated before ultimately speaking honestly:
"Though saying this may damage morale, if you're asking my suggestion, Lord Raikage, my recommendation is... immediately withdraw troops. Don't engage in any conflict with Uchiha Yasushi."
"Our target is Fire Country. We can completely enter from the Land of Hot Water. Worst case—just leave the Land of Fields to Orochimaru."
"Regardless, this is merely an impoverished small nation without any specialties. Completely unnecessary wasting military strength here."
"Hm?" After listening, Ay's eyebrows rose. "What kind of joke is that? How could our Cloud Village possibly retreat without fighting when facing enemies?"
"This Uchiha Yasushi has grudges with Konoha Village, but no grudges with our Cloud Village!"
"If possible, I'm planning to recruit him!"
"That's the Uchiha clan—the Sharingan! You don't know how envious our village is!"
"Your Konoha Village doesn't want them—we do!"
"I heard his Perfect Susanoo is frighteningly massive. The intelligence reports look like complete nonsense. Have you witnessed it personally?"
"Ah..." Shikasuke paused, laughing dryly. "Though I've never seen it personally, I've chatted with many who have. I'm afraid those intelligence reports aren't exaggerating at all!"
"As for recruitment matters, I feel Uchiha Yasushi likely won't be willing."
"He dares killing even Fire Country's daimyo and nobility. He's probably already gone mad—fundamentally impossible joining any shinobi village."
"Whether it works or not, try first! What if it succeeds!"
A's personality was always stubborn. Once deciding something, even tailed beasts couldn't pull him back.
So after bitter laughter, Shikasuke stopped talking.
"Yo, yo, brothers united, their sharpness cuts through metal, recruit Uchiha, everyone becomes brothers..."
Killer B also sang terrible rap from the side, echoing A's words.
A punched Killer B's head, cursing:
"When I recruit Uchiha Yasushi shortly, just obediently shut up and listen from the side. If your rapping causes recruitment failure, I'll blow up your head."
"This is art, stupid brother." Killer B whimpered twice before obediently shutting up.
A waved for everyone to stop. Only bringing Killer B, he strode forward to Yasushi's vicinity before raising his head, loudly shouting:
"Hey, Uchiha Yasushi! Now Konoha Village is completely finished. Your revenge is also complete. Why not simply join our Cloud Village?"
"Everyone here are brothers. It's not as dark as Konoha Village. No one will discriminate against you!"
Yasushi floated in midair. Originally planning warring with Cloud Village, who knew A would suddenly approach wanting to recruit him? Immediately feeling extremely unexpected.
A's voice was loud, carrying Cloud's characteristic straightforwardness and simple, direct sincerity.
Behind these words lay Cloud Village's always-proud village cohesion—also their confidence to extend olive branches toward any strong person.
Cloud Village's environment indeed proved considerably better than Konoha Village—also the only shinobi village without rogue ninja appearing. But Yasushi didn't plan joining any shinobi villages anymore.
Days as a dog—even one day proved excessive.
Henceforth, he and Uchiha clan members would only be humans, not dogs!
Facing A's recruitment, Yasushi contemptuously curled his lip—as though hearing the world's most absurd joke.
He looked down condescendingly, speaking indifferently:
"Recruitment?"
"Are you qualified?"
"What created this illusion making you feel you're qualified recruiting me?"
"Because of your Raikage status?"
"I can destroy Konoha Village. Naturally I can also destroy Cloud Village."
"A small fry like you—trying to recruit me?"
Yasushi's words left absolutely no room. Short and sharp like an unsheathed blade, directly severing the Raikage's goodwill intentions.
His gentle questioning dripped with mockery, tone filled with scrutiny and contempt.
His statement's tone proved calm and waveless, yet possessed more intimidation than any roaring—because he merely stated objective facts.
Current Uchiha Yasushi already qualified transcending mundane power's shackles, standing at new heights overlooking all living things.
Compared to self-important Nagato, he Uchiha Yasushi was truly qualified calling himself deity.
"What?"
A wasn't good-tempered originally. Now after Yasushi's humiliation round, he immediately exploded.
"Uchiha Yasushi!"
A roared. Beneath bronze skin, muscles bulged and swelled. Lightning chakra on his body suddenly shot three meters high, shrouding his body within it. Lightning surrounded him—from afar, resembling the Thunder God descending.
Killer B saw his brother humiliated and also grew furious. Fiery red chakra on his body thunderously exploded with momentum matching A's.
Scorching tailed beast chakra and violent Lightning Release stood equally matched. The brothers' anger resonated while shooting skyward.
But Yasushi in midair didn't even blink. Merely slightly raising his hand, a ring of chakra orbs condensed from nothing.
As his fingers moved, dark blue orbs emitted low-frequency humming—like Death's doorbell—bombarding toward them both.
"B!" A roared, stepping out with earth-shaking force. His figure wrapped in countless electric arcs shot like a fired cannonball, tearing through air while charging at Yasushi.
Killer B also very cooperatively raised an arm. One octopus tail grew from his arm, coiling around Ay's waist before shaking upward, shooting skyward like a giant meteor hammer while smashing toward Yasushi's direction.
The brothers' years of joint combat made their coordination perfect as one person—this tactical cooperation proving the ultimate fusion of taijutsu and tailed beast power.
Simultaneously, seven other octopus tails also grew from Killer B's back, waving in midair like a giant sea monster.
Without Killer B saying anything, Eight-Tails knew what to do.
He thrust three tails downward, penetrating underground. As the ground cracked and shattered rocks flew, Killer B's body lifted upward, also charging toward Yasushi's direction.
The other four tails danced around A and Killer B's bodies. Flexible tentacles drew arc trajectories like four broad shields, successively sweeping away bombarding chakra orbs.
Violent explosions detonated across Eight-Tails' body, bursting with dazzling light like fireworks blooming in night skies.
But before Eight-Tails' massive chakra, these explosions resembled firecrackers—not unleashing proper power.
Clearly though A spoke lightly, he'd long treated Yasushi as mortal enemy, not daring to underestimate even slightly.He immediately unleashed his side's strongest power—opening moves proving all-out combination techniques, hoping to succeed in one strike.