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"The light of the new generation of Konoha #Hatake Akira #Kakashi"
"Konoha's Model Ninja#Hatake Akira#Kakashi"
"Other people's children#Hatake Akira#Kakashi"
Topics like these are once again flooding the streets. If people don't know the whole story, they might think that Hatake Akira has used some power to manipulate public opinion.
But the fact is that this kind of public opinion was formed spontaneously by the villagers of Konoha.
However, the Uchiha clan, which was gradually forgotten in the corner of Konoha, quietly added a new life.
On June 46th of the 6th year of Konoha, Uchiha Itachi, the most filial son of the Uchiha clan, was born.
This also indicates that there is only more than half a year left until the Third Ninja World War, and the great era that Hatake Akira has been longing for is about to come!
Chapter 107 The beginning of the third great war in the ninja world. (Subscription, monthly ticket)
The sky was filled with yellow sand, and the hot wind blew up dust that hit people's faces like knives, scratching them painfully.
This kind of environment that is relatively unfriendly to humans can be seen everywhere in the Kingdom of Wind.
A single example can reveal the whole picture. It can be seen that the Wind Kingdom is very poor. Apart from the income from ninjas performing missions, the taxes that the Wind Kingdom can obtain from civilians are pitifully small.
Unlike the Fire Nation which owns large tracts of fertile land, the impoverished Wind Nation relies on commissions from ninja missions for most of its fiscal revenue.
Then, the amount of ninja missions performed will directly determine whether the financial revenue of the Wind Kingdom is healthy.
The amount of ninja missions a large hidden village has to perform depends on whether the overall strength of the country it belongs to is weak or strong.
Not to mention being too weak, the number of ninja missions is pitifully small. After all, no one will joke with their own life and property.
Wealth can be earned again if lost, but life is only once. Many wealthy businessmen would rather spend more money to hire more expensive and powerful ninjas than to settle for second best and hire weaker ninjas.
The Sand Village in the Land of Wind is also one of the five hidden villages. Its strength is unquestionable, and the amount of ninja missions is naturally maintained at a very objective number every day.
But I am afraid of comparison in everything.
Compared with the Hidden Leaf Village in the Land of Fire, the daily volume of ninja missions in the Hidden Leaf Village is at most a little more than half of that in the Hidden Leaf Village.
In addition, the Fire Country and the Wind Country are neighboring countries, so the Sand Village is not living a happy life and is always thinking about bringing down its rival, the Konohagakure Village.
But the strength of the ninjas in the village is just so-so. Although it is more than enough to bully some small countries and small and medium-sized ninja villages, it is still not enough to compete with the powerful Konoha.
But there is one thing that the Wind Kingdom has never forgotten, and that is that in addition to them, the other three countries also covet the rich land of the Fire Kingdom.
So, if everyone attacks together, the Wind Country will definitely be happy to get involved!
In the last two Ninja World Wars, although the Wind Country lost, the Fire Country did not win either, and at most both sides suffered losses.
It’s just that the Wind Kingdom suffered greater losses than the Fire Kingdom.
But after recuperation after the Second Ninja World War, the Wind Kingdom's national strength has regained its peak and is even one step closer than before.
Moreover, as the violent organization of the Land of Wind, the Sand Village's head Kazekage is known as the Third Kazekage, the strongest Kazekage in history. This makes their confidence unprecedentedly inflated, and they feel that they can do it again.
But before the Kingdom of Wind could take any action, bad news suddenly arrived.
The third Kazekage is missing, and all the accompanying Kazekage guards are wiped out!
This incident undoubtedly stirred up a hornet's nest. The Wind Country and its violent organization, the Sand Village, became the first suspects of the Fire Country's violent organization, the Konoha Village.
Although this may seem like judging others by one's own standards, regardless of whether it is true or not, this is a good opportunity, an opportunity to provoke the four major countries to re-besiege the Fire Nation, and then divide up the Fire Nation's rich land!
As a result, the Sand Village, representing the violent organization of the Wind Country, launched a series of military operations.
Under the pretext of searching for the missing Third Kazekage, they sent troops to invade the River Kingdom, a small country struggling to survive between the Wind Kingdom and the Fire Kingdom.
As a small country, its strength is limited and it soon collapsed. The River Country turned to the Fire Country for help.
The fundamental reason why the River Nation exists is that it is a strategic buffer zone deliberately left behind by the Fire Nation and the Wind Nation to prevent the war from directly affecting their own territory in the future when a war breaks out between the two countries.
Although it is a bit cruel to the River Kingdom, in the world of Naruto, weakness is the original sin.
It is good enough to be alive. Being regarded as a strategic buffer zone by big countries, the small countries sandwiched in between can only accept it with tears.
The River Kingdom, which is a strategic buffer zone between the Fire Kingdom and the Wind Kingdom, was invaded. The Fire Kingdom naturally could not sit idly by. Otherwise, once the Wind Kingdom completely occupied the River Kingdom, war would surely break out within the borders of the Fire Kingdom.
Although this possibility is not 100%, it is still necessary to nip it in the bud.
Even if they don't intervene directly, they should at least send heavy troops to garrison on the border between the Fire Kingdom and the River Kingdom.
However, at this critical juncture, the Third Hokage, who was in power in Konoha, hesitated once again.
"I know the Daimyo's concerns, but the problem now is that the Kingdom of Wind is under the pretext of searching for the whereabouts of the Third Kazekage. We can't intervene directly, otherwise it will easily give people a reason to criticize us, leading to a full-scale war between the two countries, and even becoming the fuse for the start of the Third Ninja World War!"
"Huruzen, you are confused, you are confused!"
In a high-level meeting of Konoha, Shimura Danzo slammed the table and said, "The River Country has now been occupied by the Wind Country for the most part. Although the reasons are sufficient, if it is delayed any longer, the troops of the Wind Country who are looking for the whereabouts of the Third Kazekage will enter the territory of the Fire Country!"
"When the time comes, will you also do the same as the River Kingdom and allow the Wind Kingdom to march straight in and invade under the banner of searching for the Third Kazekage?!"
"Danzo!" Sarutobi Hiruzen also slammed the table, "I am the Hokage!"
Bah, bah, bah.
After taking two deep puffs of his cigarette, Sarutobi Hiruzen made a compromise decision. "Send a small group of troops to the border to station there. At the same time, recall all ninjas who are out on missions to the village to wait for orders. Prepare war supplies as soon as possible in case of emergency."
"If the Wind Country insists on sending a large force into our territory to search for the whereabouts of the Third Kazekage, and if persuasion fails, the ninja stationed on the border can expel them or even fight back."
"But if it's just a small group of ninjas, you should be patient and try your best to cooperate with the search of the Wind Country ninjas, and do your best to eliminate the tension between the two countries and prevent the situation from escalating further."
It can be said that Sarutobi Hiruzen had thought of almost all situations, and his original intention was not to allow a war to break out between the two countries. After all, the previous two sieges of the Fire Nation were lessons learned.
Overall, although the decision made by Sarutobi Hiruzen hurt the feelings of some passionate people, it was undoubtedly an act of considering the overall situation.
But Sarutobi Hiruzen still overlooked that the Wind Country's move was actually for ulterior motives, so although this resolution seemed like a foolproof plan, it was actually a fatal act that delayed the opportunity to fight!
Shimura Danzo left with a vicious look in his eyes, and at the same time he kept cursing Sarutobi Hiruzen in his heart for being weak, and completely lacking the domineering and decisiveness that a village kage should have.
How can you become a qualified leader if you are always worried about what is ahead and what is behind?
As the high-level meeting of Konoha ended, there were new moves in the Kingdom of Wind.
Under the pretext of searching for the whereabouts of the Third Kazekage, they dispatched troops to invade the Kingdom of Birds, which was sandwiched between the Kingdom of Wind and the Kingdom of Earth, thereby provoking the sensitive nerves of the Kingdom of Earth, which was adjacent to the Kingdom of Wind.
Therefore, the Land of Earth decided not to engage in direct conflict with the Land of Wind for the time being, and instead turned its attention to the Land of Grass and the Land of Taki, which were sandwiched between the Land of Fire and the Land of Earth.
This is a tacit understanding between the two countries. They will temporarily avoid the more difficult Rain Country and conquer other smaller countries with weaker strength first.
The Kingdom of Lightning, which has always had a feud with the Kingdom of Earth, naturally cannot sit idly by. If the Kingdom of Earth conquers the Kingdom of Grass and the Kingdom of Taki, then the strategic buffer between the Kingdom of Earth and the Kingdom of Lightning will be close to nothing.
Some people may say, aren’t there the Frost Kingdom, the Sound Kingdom, the Soup Kingdom, and the Moon Kingdom sandwiched between the Earth Kingdom and the Thunder Kingdom?
But what are these four small countries to the big country? Will it take a long time to break through their defenses?
Then, the Land of Lightning also started to move...
At this point, under the constant provocation of the Wind Country, the ninja world became a mess in a very short period of time!
Chapter 108: An acquaintance, but she is dead. (Subscription, monthly ticket)
The border between the River Kingdom and the Fire Kingdom.
"Brother, we have to hurry!"
"I know, but we also need to conserve our energy. We have already avoided several waves of Sand Village ninjas along the way. We may encounter conflicts later."
The two brothers, Akira Hatake and Kakashi, who were hurrying along and talking in low voices, were just finishing their mission and preparing to return to the village.
If you look closely at the two brothers, you will find that they have matured a lot compared to last year, their faces look more weathered and their bodies are stronger.
Moreover, the White Fang short sword behind Kakashi has been put on his waist, and it has been replaced by a 1.3-meter-long ninja sword.
This was at the end of last year. Tsunade, in accordance with the agreement she had made with Hatake Akira, spent most of the Senju clan's surplus wealth to make a ninja sword made entirely of chakra metal tailor-made for Kakashi.
This long sword comes from the country of craftsmen and is forged by the country's top blacksmith masters. It is a ninja sword born to serve ninjutsu.
Its advantage is that the chakra conductivity reaches almost 100%, but its disadvantages are also extremely obvious.
It's so crispy!
Chakra metal only has excellent chakra conductivity, but its hardness and flexibility are far inferior to other metals.
In theory, all ninja tools that can conduct chakra will have some other metals added to them before forging in order to pursue other performance or save costs to improve the durability of the blade.
However, the power of blood elimination cannot be applied in the above-mentioned situation, because the attribute of blood elimination is annihilation.
Chakra metal can survive the disaster due to its unique chakra conductivity, but if the power of blood elimination is not transmitted in time, it will still cause great harm to the user.
Therefore, in order to cooperate with the Blood Elimination Sword Technique, the ninja sword used by Kakashi can only be made entirely of chakra metal.
But then again, although the ninja sword on Kakashi's back cannot compete head-on with other metal weapons, why does Kakashi need to compete head-on when using the bloody elimination sword technique?
I'm afraid that before the swords even come into direct contact, the enemy will have been turned into dust under the overbearing power of Blood Elimination.
It can be said that this ninja sword is a divine weapon in Kakashi's hands, but in the hands of others it is just a defective product that will bend or break if it is swung with a little force.
For this purpose, Hatake Akira turned into a naming expert and gave Kakashi's new ninja sword a more elegant and punning name.
No snow.
The ninja sword Bu Jianxue, combined with Kakashi's bloody elimination sword technique, can really kill people without leaving any blood!
But unfortunately, so far, Kakashi has not tried to carry out the fusion of blood elimination, but has resorted to using many derivative ninjutsu of Chidori Ryu to cooperate with Bu Jianxue.
Although it lacks in power, it is more than enough for Kakashi to use at this stage.
Let’s look at Hatake Akira. With a 31.5% bonus to all his ninjutsu talents, his strength is improving by leaps and bounds.
And with the 25% attack speed and reaction speed bonus from the swift combat boots, Hatake Akira can now skillfully use the second stage of Flying Thunder God, and has become the second generation of Minato Namikaze.
The two men, who are only 9 years old, have combined fighting power that allows them to occupy a place among the shadow-level strongmen. Even if they cannot win, no one can stop them if they want to retreat!
The reason why the two ignored the small group of ninjas from the Sand Village that had begun to invade the territory of the Fire Country was not because they were afraid of them, but because of Sarutobi Hiruzen's orders.
Sarutobi Hiruzen still has beautiful fantasies. He thinks that as long as he does not provoke the sensitive nerves of the Wind Kingdom, peace will be achieved.
In response, Hatake Akira sneered, saying that even appeasement has a limit, and if it is exceeded, it becomes weakness.
In Hatake Akira's opinion, Sarutobi Hiruzen is now weak and has wasted too many opportunities to counterattack.
But even if Hatake Akira dislikes Sarutobi Hiruzen's decision, he is still the Hokage now. It is impossible for Hatake Akira to make a mistake and bear the blame for the war between the two countries for no reason.
So hide when you need to, retreat when you need to, and make plans after returning to the village.