Chapter 702: Fighting Future Wars All at Once
"Do you really intend to destroy the Hidden Sand Village?"
The First Hokage looked at Shikamaru's unwavering gaze, feeling very puzzled. Why must they destroy the Hidden Sand? Wouldn't it be enough to defeat them and force them to surrender? This kind of extermination was just...
"Lord First Hokage seems to have a different opinion on our Konoha's battle plan?" Shikamaru asked proactively. Hearing this question, although the First Hokage felt he shouldn't interfere in the current Konoha's affairs, he still felt it was necessary to try and persuade him.
"I don't think there's any problem with your strategy, but it's not necessary to wipe out a ninja village. You just need to defeat them and make them surrender!"
Surrender?
Shikamaru sighed helplessly.
"Perhaps this question can be answered with Naruto's words, Lord First Hokage!" With that, Shikamaru stood up and turned to face the First.
"The shinobi world of today is a problem left over from the past!"
"If you, Lord First, had flattened all the other ninja villages back then, leaving only Konoha, then this situation would never have occurred!"
"And since we are going to war this time, we might as well fight the wars that future generations would have to fight, and finish them all at once!"
"Let our generation bear all the blood, tears, and sins!"
"That way, what we leave for the children of the future is a single, peaceful, and unified shinobi world!"
"Even if some small problems arise again, they will never be able to easily shake the roots of the great tree that is Konoha!"
Hearing this, the First Hokage was initially unconvinced, but the latter part of the speech made him pause. Konoha's Sixth Hokage intended to fight all of posterity's wars at once? To shoulder all the sins himself to create a pure paradise for future generations.
Was this the resolve of Naruto Uzumaki?
The First Hokage smiled. "I see. My own resolve was too weak!"
"Indeed, if I had unified the shinobi world when I was alive, these problems wouldn't be happening now!"
The First Hokage smiled, but at this moment, the Second Hokage, Tobirama, was very frustrated. No matter what he had said back then, his elder brother wouldn't listen. He never expected that Shikamaru would be able to persuade him with such words now. Why hadn't he thought of that back then? Otherwise, the shinobi world would have been unified long ago. And Konoha would be the greatest ninja village in history.
And the only ninja village. No other villages would exist.
"What do you plan to do? Do you need our power?" the First Hokage proactively asked Shikamaru.
But Shikamaru just smiled. "No, the two of you should remain in Konoha!"
"The Konoha of today needs powerful ninja to guard it. Let's leave the problems on the front lines to others!"
"Konoha's two great Dōjutsu Kekkei Genkai clans! They should have finished assembling by now, right?"
A Konoha jōnin at the side nodded.
Then, the office doors opened, and two rows of ninja walked in in an orderly fashion. The one leading the left row was Neji Hyuga, leading the Hyuga clan's ninja. The right row was led by Itachi Uchiha, leading the Uchiha clan's ninja.
A total of twenty ninja walked in. Ten from the Uchiha and ten from the Hyuga.
Itachi and Neji glanced at each other, then looked towards Shikamaru.
"These are the ninja we found within the clan, based on our clan's history!"
"We have selected the nine strongest, and in addition, we have elite ninja units from our clans, one hundred and fifty strong each!"
"A total of three hundred and twenty men. Besides these eighteen, the other three hundred are all of jōnin-level combat strength. Furthermore, their fighting ability is far superior to that of an average jōnin, though they haven't quite reached the level of elite jōnin!"
Hearing Itachi's words, Shikamaru nodded and waved his hand. "Good!"
The First and Second Hokage glanced at the eighteen ninja in the room. The chakra signature of every single one of them was strong. Moreover, they were all ninja who possessed Dōjutsu Kekkei Genkai, which meant their combat power would be even more formidable. Against ninja of the same level, they were basically unrivaled. Such a force of over three hundred could likely complete the mission of annihilating a small country.
"Excellent. On the border of the Land of Wind, our Konoha has already prepared a ninja force of three hundred and fifty thousand. You will lead them directly to the Land of Wind."
"My request is simple. The war with the Hidden Sand this time will be entirely under your command. Itachi, you are the commander-in-chief, and Neji, you are the second-in-command."
"I want you to completely destroy the Hidden Sand Village within one month!"
Hearing the command, even Itachi's heart couldn't help but skip a beat. To completely destroy the Hidden Sand Village! Since the emergence of the Five Great Shinobi Countries, no ninja village of the five great nations had ever been utterly and completely destroyed.
Once one of the villages was destroyed, the other villages and nations would probably understand. The true unification was coming. Under the tide of this era, no country would be able to remain unscathed.
"I understand!" Itachi nodded.
He would lead this army of three hundred and fifty thousand, plus the elite force of three hundred and twenty composed of Konoha's two great Kekkei Genkai clans. In terms of top-tier combat power, they were in no way inferior to the Hidden Sand, and in terms of basic combat strength, the army of three hundred and fifty thousand completely suppressed the Hidden Sand in numbers.
This time, Konoha was determined to destroy the ninja village of a major nation.
"I will set out immediately!"
A month was an extremely tight schedule, so Itachi didn't want to waste a single second.
However, with Itachi gone, there would be no one left in Konoha to restrain the Uchiha clan. At least, at this stage, no one in Konoha could. And the Uchiha clan had used the opportunity of dispatching their ninja to successfully snatch three seats among Konoha's high command. This was equivalent to a transaction.
After Itachi and the others left, Shikamaru turned to an Anbu ninja. "Have you found Naruto?"
"We are dispatching personnel to the Land of Whirlpools to search. For now... there is no news yet!"
"That guy Naruto, has he still not heard that the Great Ninja War has begun?" Shikamaru was very frustrated. "To not even come back at a time like this!"
As the Sixth Hokage of Konoha, the current pillar of the village, could that guy be a little more reliable?
However, at this very moment, Naruto was facing a terrifying enemy. This enemy, wielding a weapon that glowed with a silver-white light, could effortlessly send Naruto flying. Faced with such a situation, Naruto couldn't return to Konoha with peace of mind without figuring out who the other party was and what their purpose was.
And the current Naruto had already been pulled into some other dimension by the enemy, with no way to return to Konoha at all.
"Just who are you?"
Naruto activated his Nine-Tails Sage Mode. Yet, even in this state, he couldn't do anything to his opponent. On the contrary, he was being completely suppressed.
"If you can touch my clothes, I might consider telling you my name. Otherwise, you are not worthy of knowing it!"
Being looked down upon like this, Naruto's fighting spirit ignited.
"Then get ready to talk!"
Swoosh!
Naruto vanished in an instant, appearing directly behind his opponent. The opponent gave a cold smile. "Too slow! You want to touch me with this?"
Bang!
A deafening roar sounded as Naruto's fist slammed directly onto the silver-white light. But in the next second, chakra arms shot out from behind him, grabbing directly for the opponent!
"I will catch you..."
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