Naruto: Immortal Spirit

War always needs a reason. No matter what you want to gain, you always need a purpose. If this purpose can no longer be achieved, war will lose its meaning.

In the jungle near Konoha's third training ground, there is a small stream that is not even a river. The rain clouds have already dispersed at night, and the extraordinarily bright starlight shines on the slowly flowing water of the stream, with a silver halo. It echoes with the tinkling sound of colored stones.

Kushina likes to sit by the stream. There is always an inexplicable remoteness in the quiet night, which makes her heart slowly calm down. However, since being with Minato, she rarely comes here again.

"Minato...why aren't you back yet?"

She tilted her chin and threw small stones randomly into the stream out of boredom. The tinkling sound spread far in the silent night.

Although she is usually a bit irritable, she rarely shows any obvious expression when she is alone. The truth hidden deep in her heart is that she is a mature woman who knows everything and seems to have seen through the world, and she is a bit more sad.

The ANBU ninja hidden in the woods in the distance looked at Kushina sitting by the stream quietly, with a familiar yet distant complex in his eyes.

The protection of implicit vigilance and surveillance is their responsibility, but after so many years, they have become the ones who know Kushina best, except for Minato and a very few close people, and they are also the very few who know Kushina's true identity. people.

"Master Kushina..."

"Lord Minato should be back soon..."

The sound coming from the forest made Kushina stunned for a moment. She looked at the masked ANBU who emerged from the forest with a bit of surprise and a bit of confusion.

These people have been following her like shadows for so many years. Except for Minato who would stay away from them for a while, they almost never had any communication with her. Sometimes she even forgot that these ANBU existed around her.

"Is this true?"

Kushina's eyes like willow leaves, slender and bright as ice, looked straight at the ANBU in front of her, but as if this was the limit, the ANBU ninja jumped into the jungle again without a word.

"Is Konoha going to win? How is Minato? He's not injured..."

There are some news that ANBU always know earlier than ordinary ninjas. Kushina, who knew the rules of ANBU, did not catch up to ask. She just walked around the stream with a bit of nervousness and excitement, and her calm heart suddenly became a mess.

"No! I have to ask the third generation old man!"

The night slowly completely surrounded Konoha, and Kushina's figure hurriedly disappeared from the stream and jumped towards the Hokage Building, which was still brightly lit.

The next day, Minato and Jiraiya fought against the Eight-Tails and Ai, and the news of their victory spread throughout Konoha. Hiruzen Sarutobi even personally gave a speech at Konoha School, praising Minato's achievements...

"Huh, third generation old man...stinky old man..."

Kushina sometimes didn't know whether Hiruzen Sarutobi did this deliberately or unintentionally, and always seemed to be waiting for her to express her stance.

It seems that they are not interested in Minato's talent, but just in his relationship with him, but sometimes it seems to make sense. Concealing information about the war is just to protect Minato, and he seems to be extremely optimistic about Minato.

She had already awakened Kagura's inner eye and understood the good and evil in people's hearts, but Hiruzen Sarutobi always seemed to be wandering between good and evil, making it unclear what his purpose was.

"As long as Minato is fine..."

Sighing slightly, she didn't want to think too much. People who can see things that others can't see are always troubled by these things. She was like this before, and suffered deeply from it, so now unless it is related to intimacy As a person, she almost never takes the initiative to use Kagura's Heart Eye...

The news of the victory of the Kumo Ninja War made the other Iwa Ninja battlefield seem to be in embarrassment. If there was any bad news, it would be magnified countless times.

"Kato-kun, it seems that your mission went successfully..."

Orochimaru, who was far away in the west of the Fire Country, also obtained detailed information about the Kumo Ninja battlefield through his own channels, which was even more detailed than the news from Konoha.

Orochimaru paid special attention to the information about Kato Oo. After all, Kato Oo was considered his nominal disciple.

Thousands of Konoha ninjas gathered on the western battlefield of the Land of Fire. Under the ultra-long-distance visit of the Hyuga family, there were not many casualties, but there was no great achievement either.

Orochimaru, who followed Sarutobi Hiruzen's defensive counterattack policy and mobilized his troops, faced off with Onoki for a long time on the Iwa Ninja battlefield, but unexpectedly no major battle broke out.

Onoki was as cunning as a piece of candy. He could advance and retreat freely in the mountainous area. When Konoha attacked, he retreated. When Konoha defended, he led his team to harass him, but he never engaged in any direct combat with Orochimaru.

Although this was in line with Konoha's wishes, Orochimaru was already impatient and handed over the command of the team to Hinata Hizu, hiding in the laboratory alone to study his own immortality technique.

The closer you get to the Kingdom of Earth, the more you see the strange rocks and jagged mountains. The shadows of distant mountains shrouded in gauze are vague and distant in the misty clouds. Onoki's camp is set up in these steep mountains.

But at this moment, Onoki, who was floating in the air, had a gloomy face.

"The son of the Third Raikage is such an idiot!"

The news of the Kumo Ninja battlefield came, making Onoki, who was temporarily an ally with the Kumo Ninja, furious. The Iwa Ninja battlefield was in a good mood. This war had just begun, but he never thought that the Kumo Ninja seemed to have been defeated.

"The commander of the Sand Ninja Battlefield is also an idiot! Why...why do Cloud Ninjas always have idiots like this as the top leaders of the village!"

The defeat of the Kumo ninja on the Konoha battlefield was not what angered him the most. What angered him the most was the Suna ninja battlefield. Because the distance was closer, it was much easier to collect intelligence. Onoki couldn't understand at all why the sworn Kumo ninja. , but couldn't even defeat a sand ninja that had been weak for a long time?

If the Kumo ninja can gain an advantage over the Suna ninja, contain Konoha, and even win some victories, then they can take advantage of the situation and force Konoha to bow with the Kumo ninja.

They even united with the Kumo ninja to launch a thunderous strike against the ninjas on the Konoha Iwa ninja battlefield, instead of like now, it doesn't matter whether they hit or not...

Iwa Ninja was like a clown, accompanying the ninjas of Konoha to play various war games of repeated horizontal jumps.

"Stupid Kumo Ninja! Why didn't you send the Eight-Tails to the Suna Ninja battlefield! Instead, you made the Suna Ninja brats unable to fight back!"

Onoki knew in his heart that it was impossible for Kumo Ninja to send the Eight-Tails to a place so far away from Kumo Ninja Village and deep behind enemy lines, but he was still angry. If the commands of the two battlefields were exchanged, this would never be the case.

After punching the wall of the camp made of rocks, the rock and soil layer gradually cracked, and the rustling rock and soil continued to slide from the gaps...

"Come here! Send me a message to Raikage!"