bookbashuk Chapter 116 Skilled and Daring: A Surprise Attack and Supply Operation Across the Ninja World
Chapter 116 Skilled and Daring: A Surprise Attack and Supply Operation Across the Ninja World
In Sunagakure, the village's leadership was in a state of utter chaos, already embroiled in internal strife due to the disappearance of the Kazekage and the lack of leadership.
The sudden attack by Kumogakure caught Sunagakure completely off guard.
The front lines suffered repeated defeats, losing a significant amount of territory, while the Cloud Village, riding high on its momentum, seemed poised to advance unimpeded and completely flatten the Land of Wind.
Chiyo's residence.
After learning that her grandson had gone missing and that it was highly likely that her grandson had killed the Kazekage, Chiyo seemed to age ten years.
Completely devoid of energy, Chiyo sat in her room studying the puppet left behind by her grandson.
"Knock knock knock~!"
"Elder Chiyo, I am Rasa, and I have important business to discuss with you."
Seeing that he had not received a response for a long time, Rasa pushed open the door of Chiyo's house and brought his girlfriend Karura and her younger brother Yashamaru into Chiyo's house.
They found the most senior elder of Sunagakure in the workshop.
"I apologize, Elder Chiyo, we entered without your permission."
"It's you, the Third Hokage's disciple. What's your name again?"
“Elder Chiyo, I am Rasa, this is Karura, and this is Karura’s younger brother, Yashamaru.”
Seeing that Chiyo had forgotten her name, Rasa was not angry. Instead, he respectfully introduced himself and his two companions.
"Elder Chiyo, the village is in dire straits. I beg you to help the village overcome this crisis."
"Oh, Luo Sha, what brings you here? I'm just a lonely old woman now, I'm afraid I can't help you much."
Luo Sha said somewhat anxiously.
"Lady Chiyo, please cheer up. I believe that the teacher's disappearance has nothing to do with your grandson. There must be some misunderstanding."
If I have the opportunity in the future, I will definitely investigate all of this myself and clear your grandson's name.
But now Sunagakure is facing a critical moment of survival. The Raikage of Kumogakure has launched a surprise attack on the Land of Wind from the sea, and those fools are still fighting amongst themselves. Elder Chiyo, I hope you can support me and unite all the village's forces to get through this crisis.
"Luo Sha, you..."
Chiyo turned to look at the young man, as if she wanted to say something.
"I beg Elder Chiyo!"
Rasa didn't give Chiyo a chance to refuse and bowed deeply to her.
"Please, Elder Chiyo!" *2
Karura and Yashamaru bowed to Chiyo together.
Looking at the three of them, Chiyo seemed to be thinking of something—perhaps the village, perhaps the Third Kazekage who had done a decent job, or perhaps her grandson.
Finally, he sighed.
"Alright, I understand. However, I don't know how many more people I can gather, but I will try my best."
"Great!"
With Elder Chiyo's support, Rasa felt even more confident.
Since he chose to ask Chiyo for help, he was already prepared for Chiyo to refuse, but thankfully Chiyo agreed.
In an oasis somewhere in the Land of Wind, a handsome young man with short, crimson hair was fiddling with a series of intricate mechanisms.
"It's finished! I've finally finished it, my masterpiece!"
Scorpion stared at the humanoid puppet before him, his face etched with barely suppressed excitement.
And this humanoid puppet was none other than the Third Kazekage of Sunagakure who had disappeared.
However, the current Third Kazekage is dead, and his corpse has been transformed into a human puppet by Sasori.
Sasori flicked out several chakra threads that connected to the human puppet.
Driven by chakra, the human puppet immediately came to life, as if it had come alive.
Human puppetry, the pinnacle of Scorpion's art, involves transforming the bodies of the dead into puppets while preserving the bloodstains from the deceased's body. This skill is something only legendary geniuses can achieve, and Scorpion is that genius.
Looking at the face of the Third Kazekage puppet, his joy at successfully creating a human puppet instantly diminished by half.
"Hmph, now that you're dead, the next target is Konoha's White Fang."
Thinking that Sasori had put away the human puppet, he took out the information he had collected before the start of the Ninja War. It showed that before the war broke out, Konoha's White Fang Hatake Sakumo had been invited to become a bodyguard, and if nothing unexpected happened, he should still be in the Land of Grass protecting that wealthy merchant.
After all, Konoha had not yet been drawn into the war, and the ninjas of Konoha Village had not yet been urgently recalled.
After confirming the location, Sasori immediately got up and prepared to leave the Land of Wind and head to the Land of Grass to take revenge on Hatake Sakumo.
He had made up his mind that after killing the culprits who had killed his parents, he would find a place to stay and properly study his eternal art.
Everything in the universe will one day die and decay. In Scorpion's view, only eternity can transcend everything, and eternity is art.
Meanwhile, while the Raikage personally led his team in a lightning attack on the Land of Wind, his son was not idle either.
His father had sailed around to the undefended coastline of the Land of Wind. Although their Hidden Cloud Village's technology was somewhat skewed, the fleet's transport capacity was still limited.
Aside from a group of combat units, the Raikage didn't bring much in terms of supplies.
In order to aid his father, the Third Raikage's son and his partner, with the village's arrangement, opened up a supply line. While the entire Sunagakure village was busy returning to defend the rear, they went straight to the front of Sunagakure, attacking them from both ends.
"Coo coo~!"
A white ninja pigeon appeared on Tetsuya's windowsill, and Tetsuya, who was studying the situation in the ninja world, put down the documents in his hand.
"Oh, a ninja pigeon? It's a message from Yeluka and Yurubi!"
Normally, contact with others is relayed through the intelligence network established by the Chiba Trading Company and the Yellow Weasel Clan.
The only exception is those two idiot ninjas from Kumogakure.
Tetsuya took the secret intelligence from their respective feet and began to read it.
"According to the plan of the Cloud Village's higher-ups, the Cloud Village made two arrangements for the attack on the Sand Village. First, the Third Raikage personally led a team to launch a surprise attack on the rear of the Land of Wind via the sea route."
Then another group, passing through the Land of Iron, the Land of Waterfalls, the Land of Grass, and the Land of Rain, carried supplies to resupply the Raikage who had first invaded the Land of Wind...
"Interesting. The Hidden Cloud Village is truly skilled and daring; they can even pull off such ruthless feats."
Upon seeing this intelligence report, Tetsuya laughed. A surprise attack and resupply across half the ninja world—who came up with this kind of operational plan? They're a fucking genius.
However, it must be said that without the Kazekage of Sunagakure, Kumogakure's blitzkrieg might actually have succeeded if nothing unexpected happens.
But as expected, the plan still encountered an unexpected problem.
Keep reading.
"The plan has changed. Sunagakure has selected a temporary Kazekage and reorganized its manpower for defense. The attack has been thwarted, and the front line urgently needs supplies."
Tsuchikage proposed a risky strategy: select a group of people, carrying half the supplies, to take a shortcut through the Land of Fire to the Land of Wind to support the Raikage, while the rest would proceed as planned.