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Kushina was finally brought back to Konoha by Anbu. The battle was fierce on battlefield, and the command team couldn't extract a ninja to protect her.
With the return of Kushina, the impact of the kidnapping incident slowly dissipated, and no one mentioned Hidden Cloud Village again, as if it had never happened before.
Third-Tsuchikage worthy-of is rigorous schemes and deep foresight. Although he is far away in Hidden Stone Village, he clear sight of Sarutobi Hiruzen's mind earlier than anyone.
Since Konoha has no plans to do anything, he will continue to attack Land-of-Earth sooner or later when Third Raikage understands it, so Onoki took the opportunity to send troops to make a pair of forces to flank Konoha against Hidden Cloud troops. In a posture, the bluffing other side quickly retreated and gave up a large area of occupation.
When Third Raikage reacted, the two villages fought again, but the advantage of Hidden Cloud Village was not as great as Early-Stage.
As a chain reaction, the battle between Konoha and Hidden Sand has become more fierce.
In August, Third-Kazakage alone attacked Konoha's material forces, causing food shortages on the frontline.
In September, Chiyo developed a new poison that caused huge casualties to the Konoha forces while stalling the advancement of the front.
But soon the new poison was cracked by Tsunade. In the next two months, poisoning and detoxification became a new way of fighting on battlefield.
After this contest was over, Tsunade's medical sacred hand's reputation became louder. Although she was very proud, she was very humble.
"Where is genius, I just spend the time other people eat ramen on detoxification."
Of course, there is another sentence after the complete version: "hahahaha , Don't call me the title of "Ninja World's first female ninja" in the future, you must be low-key. Oh, by the way, have you seen the Land-of-Rivers at four in the morning?"
Low-key and modest Tsunade Hime, that's probably what happened.
Of course, Tsunade is right about one thing. She does spend all her meal time on cracking Chiyo's poison. At the same time, as her Medical-Ninjutsu matures, the destructive power of Hidden Sand Village's poison is becoming more and more limited.
So at the end of the thirty-one years of Konoha, there were new changes in battlefield. The number of ordinary ninjas in Hidden Sand Village gradually decreased, and the elite Puppeteer began to support in large numbers.
In order to deal with Puppeteer, Konoha began to reformulate the combat policy: with ten Elite Jonins as the core, 60% of the ninjas were divided into ten parts according to the strength division, specifically to snipe Hidden Sand's Puppeteer on battlefield. As for the remaining 40%, it is used for replacement and defense when the defensive line shrinks.
Uchiha Tatsumi naturally took a position, but considering his very young age, some ninjas in the list are familiar to him.
Including a part of the ninja rescued by the Land-of-Rain battlefield, as well as the companions who once performed the mission together.
So Orochimaru's move has reduced the instability in the team he leads to a minimum.
When Uchiha Tatsumi returned to Konoha's camp from battlefield with scars, it was already two months later.
The team he brought was attacked by troops diverted from Hidden Sand in the last section of the road because of the distance.
A total of more than 40 Hidden Sand carried out a carpet-like encirclement to the 20-person team he led. After nearly two days of hard fighting, the team paid the price of ten ninjas. All 40 Sand Ninjas were killed.
Since then, Uchiha Tatsumi's name has become more prominent, and there have been many more fans in the Konoha army.
Konoha's White Fang was the last hot one, and now his grave head grass is...no, right, Sakumo is not dead yet.
Uchiha Tatsumi, who returned to the camp, including the ninja in his team, quickly underwent medical-nin treatment.
Two days later, most of the ninjas who completed the mission, including Tsunade and Orochimaru, returned to the camp.
But a week later, Sakumo, who came back with a wound and the words "Mission Failure", cast a shadow over this action.
Hatake Sakumo's mission is different from others. It is a very difficult and dangerous mission. If it succeeds, the war can basically be said to be over.
But sorry, Konoha's White Fang, who has a 100% completion of the mission, has also fallen into such a mission.
Although Orochimaru felt very sorry for this, he didn't say much. Everyone has the first time, the original mission success rate is not high.
Orochimaru patted Hatake Sakumo's shoulder, tell him not to take seriously, and ordered the serious injury ninja to be sent to the medical area for treatment.
However, a serious question began to linger in every Konoha Ninja's heart-when will the war end?
Peace, what is the road to peace? !
...........
Shua!
Nagato, wearing a practice suit, pushed the door open and walked in.
There is only Jiraiya in the room. He is lying on a low table eating hot ramen, and the books on the table are all messy piled on the tatami.
"Teacher."
Nagato sits casually on tatami.
"What's wrong?"
Jiraiya sucked and sucked Ramen into his mouth.
"Is there time now?"
"Ah, I'm just about to write a book." Jiraiya troubled look: "But I can't think of any good ideas."
"We should fill up the stomach first, and rest now."
He ate a few more bites and asked:
"What's wrong?"
"There are some things."
Nagato looks up to the gazed gray sky, as if seeing Land-of-Rain destroyed by war, maybe the poor, maybe orphan, maybe waiting for death For the ordinary person, the wind turns the tears of these people into rain, which is brought here from far away.
Looking very hard, a crow that was soaked by water drops moved towards the sky to the west and flew away. In this kind of weather, where is it going to do what? The silhouette of the crow looked inexplicably heavy.
"About what the Teacher said before, the hatred in this world."
Nagato paused.
"I thought about it myself."
"Oh, is there any good way?"
Jiraiya lifts the head asked.
"Peace, I don't know the path to peace yet."
Nagato turned around and looked at Jiraiya seriously and said, "But, there will come a day, I will understand. Open this curse."
"If there is peace, I will hold it tightly in my hand."
His tone became firmer and firmer.
"The power of conviction is more important than method!"
Jiraiya sink into contemplation, after a while, nodded and said: "Is that a good idea, indeed It may be so."
"Yes!"
He suddenly yelled.
"What's the matter, Teacher?"
"It seems that thanks to you, I can write a good book."
"Really? "
"Then in that case, first confirm the name of the protagonist."
Jiraiya rubs the ramen in front of the gazed chin.
"Did you figure it out, Teacher?"
"I thought it out."
"What is it?"
"Confidential "Jiraiya smiled triumphantly. "When the novel is written in the future, you will understood."
He laughed and drank the ramen soup in the bowl.
..........
At the end of June, the wisteria trellis from the transplant next to the cabin bloomed. The flowering time this time was one month later than last year, and it was out of season, as if waiting for something.
The bright purple flowers glowed in the abundant rain, and the crystal water droplets stayed on the petals and then slipped down one after another, which looked extremely beautiful.
"The next step is to rely on you"
Jiraiya stood in the rain and looked at his three disciplines.
"Don't cry Yahiko, you will be treated as a coward."
Since Konoha 30 years to the present, I have been living together for two years. Jiraiya is also very reluctant to three people.
"Here you are, Teacher Jiraiya."
Konan handed over a bunch of folded paper flowers.
"I will keep it well. Konan, you will be a beautiful woman in the future."
"When you grow up, we will see you again."
Jiraiya turned and left.
"This country is very poor, and there will be many painful things in the future.
But...
In the future, you will rely on your own strength It's time to change this country."
"You all have grown up."
Yes, Nagato (Naruto).