347 347. WE ARE FREE BEASTS

Alexander and his party arrived at the scene where the battle was going on. Saying it was bloody was be an understatement.

Alexander saw a single man fighting thousands of ninjas. But the exhaustion was clear on his face now. He looked like he would fall down any minute.

"That is the third Raikage, what is going on here?" Shisui recognized the man.

"Oh, let's ask him then."

Alexander jumped beside the third Raikage who was surrounded by his enemies from all sides.

Everyone stopped for a second due to his sudden appearance. "Well, hello everyone. I need you all to stop fighting." He ordered them.

"Who are you to order us? We only take orders from Hokage/Tsuchikage" A few Shinobi voiced.

"Hmm, good. But I was not asking."

Alexander waved his hand and huge cages made of metal fell from the sky over the ten thousand Shinobi.

"Stay silent while you're in it. The more you speak the more cramped it will become." He warned them.

Obviously, they were on an adrenalin rush and didn't think from the head and continued shouting. But after a while, the cages got so cramped that none of them had space to even turn. They finally understood the trouble they were in and finally stopped speaking.

"Good, now you tell me why you were here fighting alone?" He asked looking at Raikage(His name is just the letter 'A'. It might get confusing if I use it so I'm going to stick with Raikage.).

Raikage was very exhausted but he still had his proud act going, "Who are you?"

"Oh, yeah, I am Alexander Maxim Universe, you see there, those guys are with me."

Raikage looked where he pointed and saw a man, two kids, and a few animals waving at him.

"Those are actually the tailed beasts. I go by the name Sage of Beasts too. Whichever you want to use." He added.

"So you're the guy that's making so much noise these days? What do you want from me?" Raikage asked.

"Well, I saved your life, so you're welcome first of all. Second, aren't you the Raikage of Kumogakure? Then you have the authority to release the tailed beasts. I need you to do that." He politely told him.

"And why would I do that? We bought them from Hashirama fair and square. They are Kumogakure's property." Raikage blurted.

His words earned him the anger of all the tailed beasts behind Alexander, he had to stop them from throwing a Bijuudama at him.

"You own them you say? You bought them from Hashirama you said. Why? Because you have them chained? Well, if that's the case, what's stopping me from chaining you down and selling you to someone because I own you." Alexander said scornfully.

Raikage felt thick chains appearing out of nowhere and tying around his body. No matter what he did he couldn't break it. He felt he'd rather die than be made a slave and started doing all he could. He used his lightning and other techniques but nothing helped. It only exhausted him again.

*SLAP*

Alexander walked up to him and slapped him on his face, "Calm down, human. That's right. You don't have a name from now on. You are just a powerful human, my slave. Because I caught you, now I own you. Just like this beetle."

He picked up a beetle from the ground. "You two are the same for me."

"Anybody want to buy this human from me?" Alexander loudly asked. All the Shinobi in cages were still silent. They were already shocked by how easily he restrained the Third Raikage.

Hats were the one who jumped to buy him, "I will, I'm going to use him as my light bulb."

Third Raikage had enough and shouted, "You can't do this with me. How can you compare me to an insect."

"Oh, what makes you so different? As far as I can see, I caught you so I own you." Alexander refuted.

Raikage was getting agitated, "I am intelligent, I can speak and do things that insects can't, unlike this beetle."

"Oh, now you're talking about intelligence. Then I can say that too. Tailed beasts are intelligent, can speak, and do things that others can't. They are even better than humans in many aspects. Shukaku, how much is 1234 times 876." He questioned.

Shukaku cutely jumped and answered, "It is 1,080,984, G-Chan"

"Good, see that Raikage. Do they seem like something that can be kept as a property? They have feelings and thoughts too. You call them mindless beasts because you are the reason they act like mindless beasts.

"Tell me, how would you feel like after being constantly hunted for your powers and then being locked inside another human for hundreds of years, being passed from one body to another. Of course, you will be angry and try to kill your captors when you find any chance. If you can enslave them then what is stopping me from enslaving you? If you think you should be free then the tailed beasts deserve to be free too." He lectured.

"Yeah, Chomei is a free beast," Chomei shouted at him, following him, the other tailed beasts did the same.

"WE ARE FREE BEASTS" They shouted

Raikage had no words to refute. It was true that the tailed beasts were intelligent beasts just like humans and he knew it.

"The deaths caused by human wars were a lot more than any tailed beast attack. So, who is the real beast here?" Alexander added, making everything go silent.

"What will you do once you have all the tailed beasts?" Raikage asked in defeat.

"Give them a home and protection. They won't become a tool of war ever again. No one will ever own them." Alexander replied.

Raikage sighed and nodded, "Okay, I agree to give you the two-tails and eight tails. But you must vow that their Jinchuriki will not die."

"I can promise that. So, care to tell me why you are here alone?" He asked again.

"I wasn't initially. I had my army with me but then Iwagakure and Konoha's Shinobi jointly attacked. They didn't even let us retreat and tried to kill everyone so I stayed behind to stop them. It had been 3 days and I was near death due to exhaustion." Raikage briefed him.

"Ah, such brave Shinobi and great villages that won't even stop from attacking a retreating army. You all know no ethics, it seems. Well, I declare this war over. If anybody wants to fight then find me. But do that at your own risk." He warned them and at the same time sent out a huge amount of natural energy (to Alexander, Chakra is Force but Force is natural energy, so what Alexander has been using from the start was Natural energy).

The area within a few hundred kilometers was swept with his Natural Energy. It was suppressing people's body's chakra and showing who the dominant one was.

The tailed beasts were unharmed with it as they were the embodiment of natural energy. To them, Alexander's Natural energy release was like a nice hot bath after a long day of work.

But for those who don't know about Natural energy and didn't know how to use it, it felt like their bodies became heavy suddenly.

Except for Jiraiya. He felt the surge in Natural Energy around him. He was on his way back to Konoha with Sakumo and Shikaku because they weren't able to stop their army from attacking the Raikage and didn't know who was pulling the strings. They wanted to tell Hokage about this.

Killing the Raikage would just sow the seeds of hatred in Kumogakure for Konoha and lead to more conflicts in the future.

"What is this? I feel like I am deep underwater," Sakumo exclaimed.

"It's Senjutsu, Natural energy. Something happened at the battle site. Only I can sense Natural energy among us. You two go back to Konoha and report everything. I will go and see what is going on." Jiraiya advised them.

"*Sigh* What a drag, good luck, Lord Jiraiya," Shikaku wished him.

They decided on this plan and Jiraiya was quickly on his way back to the battlefield at full speed.

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