Flashback:What I do is for Konoha(Aftermath)

(Akio POV)

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Moving towards the location while using area scanning technique, I slowly dragged the Ryuka clan's fallen patriarch with my shadow alongside the woman I used to trap him.

"So, what did it feel like to be so close to death?" Sibu chuckled with his human head.

"Just dispel the sandstorm," I sighed, palm on my face, not bothering to retort as I wasn't in the mood.

After knocking out each Ryuka clan member within their residence through my shadow, I collected intel from the minds of Ryuka clan members, I understood and confirmed the characteristics of the poison they were suffering from. I also learned about the Ryuka clan leader's personality and laid distractions before attacking him through my Phantom Clones, by killing weaker ones and hanging them on buildings and laced an olfactory barrier around them to intensify the smell of blood when Ryuka clan entered to search, making him less likely to remain calm and be emotionaly enraged, making him more prone to mistakes. I thought I was well prepared when I threw the woman's body near his Residence.

After knocking out the guards who came to someone's residence and sending their bodies near Sibu, I hurriedly put her body inside that residence to capture my last target.

So when I began to fight him, the last thing I expected was to see him with far more chakra and a far more mobile body than most of his clan!

He was undoubtedly the least affected by the poison. 

I failed to outspeed him. (I doubt can decrease latency of controlling Phantom clones any more than thus). 

I couldn't exhaust his chakra in time through the phantom clones I sent to fight him. 

Despite his rage, he fought extremely well, contrary to what I had initially planned.

He rendered the poison useless by burning it through the flame shield he formed. 

He simply escaped from explosions when I ignited black powder on each Phantom clone. 

He even figured out how to escape from iron that was weighing down his flame shield by separating his shield from himself and tossed it in the air that carried the iron snad to dodge my sneak attack from below the ground. 

He was undoubtedly far more skillful.

Hell, if I hadn't been fighting him through the last remaining Phantom clone while controlling it from a safe distance inside a building, I wouldn't have noticed the doomsday sphere he was slowly forming in the sky.

Even as I slowly moved away from the location to escape the attack radius while maintaining the Phantom clone, I couldn't fully escape. I unsealed all the iron sand I had from the scroll in the last seconds where I used it alongside the shadow I could afford to use, fortified with the earth grudge technique, to survive the attack.

Granted, I did come out alive and unscathed, but most of the iron sand I used had melted, making it unusable until I turn it back into grains. My chakra was also depleted where Hideo must be worried since I had to dispel my shadow clone that was with him near the caravan where the One-Tailed Jinchuriki was placed.

 I had to use all the chakra I could to protect myself while maintaining the sound barrier. Otherwise, everyone in Sunagakure would have had their attention drawn here, making my actions well known.

(Though I think some have noticed it already if they looked towards the sky near the clan compound, as the attack radius was long, wide, and visible like Deidara's C0, so I need to move fast.)

Luckily, the Ryuka Patriarch was also in bad shape after bracing his own attack. He obviously didn't expect me to come out alive, considering how leisurely he walked. This allowed me to recover some of my chakra.

Knowing the safety protocol of their clan, I laid my trap beforehand in the same residence. I anticipated he would go there to meet with Kaen, the strongest of the current generation whom he trusted, to inquire about the woman he sent there for her safety. I even made backups in case he went to other residences.

Noticing the sandstorm had finally subsided, I opened my eyes and looked at the Ryuka clan leader's face before putting my hand on him to access his memories.

'Ryuka Hinote,' a name now burned in my memory alongside the moment I fought him. 

I knew he could have become the Third Kazekage and could have ultimately killed me through that attack if only he had known that raising the temperature of his jutsu, rather than focusing on raw power output, would have allowed him to beat the elusive power of Magnet Release that prevented him and his clan from claiming the throne.

If the fire jutsu I flimsily created out of curiosity was able to demagnetize iron sands at the cost of internally damaging organs and chakra points in the body while having minimum raw power and speed output, I doubt they wouldn't be able to use this fact far more effectively without any side effects where theur attack would have had respectable power and speed output. 

My iron sand becoming unusable due to his attack is proof of it where the structure of the attack resembled the core of a star, naturally increasing the temperature where chakra was fueling nuclear fusion inside the core, similar to hydrogen atoms. 

I narrowly escaped death because the temperature was not quick enough to melt iron sand before reaching my earth grduge enhanced shadow.

It's funny how such a clan was never even mentioned or seen from Sunagakure in the series, where only Pakura from their clan was known to me when she was resurrected by the Reanimation jutsu after she was already dead.

Maybe they were indeed killed off, just like what eventually happened to Pakura, by the Sunagakure council where the poison they were inflicted with was from Lady Chiyo, based on its properties, meaning the council considered them enough of a threat to risk weakening the village during wartime. (I didn't bother seeing all of their memories and don't care reason why the considered them the threat atbthus point..)

Anyway, I guess I did the Sunagakure council a favor by removing their 'Uchiha' from their village in advance, making their future subordination to Konoha much smoother.

It's a pity I didn't say my actual name when he asked for it aftee fortified my belief to be even more careful when fighting anyone sublimely stronger than me and gave me a good impression to justify my plan. However, it would have made my previous effort of framing Sunagakure useless when I had been doing attacks only found in this village through my phantom clone. 

It would be difficult to use him otherwise  through the Reanimation jutsu when the time comes where if he knew my true identity, he might hold a grudge and disobey orders to completely wipe me out, where removing his consciousness would be necessary to make him usable, though this would also make him far less effective in the process. Anyway, I am allowing descendants of his clan to exist in the future, so I suppose my previous offense is now cleared.

"Stop thinking too much, you scaredy cat. Send me back as I can't wait to feast on them!" Sibu interrupted my thoughts who were eyeing them especially the women.

Ignoring his words, I waited for Arata to arrive, as his bugs stationed here should know this 'little' operation had just ended.

After five minutes, he finally came.

Initially scared by my summoning of Sibu, which was understandable as you don't see a humanoid giant monstrosity with four heads resembling a jaguar, eagle, serpent, and human every day, he informed me that everything went smoothly where no one had tried to enter through the sound barrier, though we need to escape fast as Ryuka's clan leader S rank worthy attack was too visible for anyone to see.

Relaxed, I dispelled my summoning that took the unconscious Ryuka clan members with him and handed Arata the scroll.

"You should inform the others to attack the puppeteers guarding the caravan outside. You should go back to Konoha with this scroll and give it to Sandaime-sama."

"If he asks what it is, say it's a sealing formula inside the scroll from me and carry my message,"

"What I did is for Konoha..."

I had already discussed with Sibu, allowing him to feast on everyone from the Ryuka clan that I managed to bring and keep alive, except for the strongest four, based on their memory, their potential, and the effort needed to knock them out who can be used for an insemination program, and the children below age eleven for  re-education program( my mother's clan would be really busy for this). 

Using the summoning seal infused with my blood inside the scroll, Sandaime-sama should be able to summon the spoils of my mission.

Surely he won't mind the favor I'm doing for Konoha(him) by strengthening the village(ANBU) long-term while decreasing the chance of him 'reluctantly' sacrificing (giving away) Tsunade and Nawaki's cousins for the Wood Release experiment with a 'heavy heart'. The funds and resources needed for the experiment would be diverted towards the insemination and re-education programs, ultimately slowing down the experiment.

After Arata nodded, both of us left Sunagakure and split ways.

'Of course I should feel a bad premonition,' I sighed. Warned by my sixth sense, formed after completing countless unpleasant missions, I quickened my pace to the caravan where the fight should be taking place by now.

'Let's see whether knowing his name alongside teaching how to demagnetize iron sand would be enough to convince Shukaku to fire a Tailed Beast Bomb at the Ryuka clan compound...'

I had already collected all the scrolls and books from their clan when capturing them and detonated a couple of specially made explosive tags that used Mutually Multiplying Explosive Tags technique before disabling the sound barrier to ensure no one was left behind I failed to notice due to some obscure mistakes.

The Tailed Beast Bomb would just cover my tracks.

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Anyway questions of the day:

What is your opinion on the fight in previous chapter? Unlike most fights I written so far , I written it quite long and hoping to see her some feed back.

What us your opinion on Akio's(MC) and Hinote(Ryuka clan leader) moveset I showned?

And at last, what is your opinion on Akio(MC) character ?