Kushina was finally brought back to Konoha by Anbu. The battle was fierce on the battlefield, and the command headquarters could not spare any ninjas to protect her.
With the return of Kushina, the impact of the kidnapping incident slowly dissipated. No one mentioned Hidden Cloud Village again, as if it had never happened.
Third Tsuchikage is truly scheming. Although he is far away from Hidden Stone Village, he can see into Sarutobi Hiruzen's thoughts earlier than anyone else.
Since Konoha had no intention of taking action, Third Raikage would sooner or later continue to attack Land of Earth, so Ōnoki took the opportunity to send out troops, pretending to attack Cloud's troops with Konoha, and bluffed the opponent into retreating quickly, leaving a large occupied area.
When Third Raikage reacted, the two villages started fighting again, but Hidden Cloud Village's advantage was not as great as it was at the beginning.
As a chain reaction, the battle between Konoha and Sunagakure became increasingly fierce.
In August, Third Kazekage attacked Konoha's material troops alone, causing food shortages on the front line.
In September, Chiyo developed a new poison, which caused huge casualties to the Konoha troops and stalled the advancement of the front.
But soon the new poison was cracked by Tsunade. Over the next two months, poisoning and detoxification became new ways of fighting on the battlefield.
After this battle, Tsunade's reputation as a medical master became more and more famous. Although she was very proud, she was very humble.
"What kind of genius is that? I just spent the time that others eat ramen on detoxifying."
Of course, there is another sentence at the end of the full version. "Hahahaha, don't call me something like 'Shinobi World's number one female ninja' in the future. You must keep a low profile. Oh, by the way, have you seen Land of Rivers at four in the morning?"
Low-key and humble Princess Tsunade, that's about it.
Of course, Tsunade was right. She did spend all her meal time cracking Chiyo's poison. At the same time, as her Medical Ninjutsu becomes more mature, the lethality of Hidden Sand Village's poison becomes more and more limited.
Therefore, at the end of Konoha Year 31, there were new changes on the battlefield. The number of ordinary ninjas in Hidden Sand Village gradually decreased, while the elite Puppet Master began to provide support in large numbers.
In order to deal with Puppet Master, Konoha began to re-formulate the combat policy: with ten Elite Jonin as the core, 60% of the ninjas were divided into ten parts according to their strength, and Puppet Master specialized in sniping Sunagakure on the battlefield. As for the remaining 40%, it is used for replacement and defense when the defense line shrinks.
Uchiha Chen naturally accepted a position, but considering his extremely young age, some of the ninjas on the list were familiar to him.
Including some of the ninjas rescued by Land of Rain on the battlefield, as well as companions who once performed missions together.
Therefore, Orochimaru's move has reduced the instability in the team he leads to a minimum.
When Uchiha Chen returned to Konoha's camp from the battlefield with scars all over his body, it was already two months later.
The team he led was attacked by troops separated from Sunagakure on the final stretch because the journey was too far.
A total of more than forty Sunagakure carried out a blanket roundup of the twenty-man team he led. After nearly two days of hard fighting, the team paid the price of ten ninjas and killed all forty sand ninjas.
Since then, Uchiha Chen's name has become even louder, and there are many more fans in Konoha's army.
The last one who was so popular was Konoha's White Fang, and now his grave has been... No, no, Sakumo is not dead yet.
Uchiha Chen returned to the camp, including the ninjas in his team, who quickly treated Medical Ninja.
Two days later, most of Ninja Pouch, including Tsunade and Orochimaru, who had completed their tasks, returned to the camp.
But a week later, Sakumo came back with injuries and the words "Mission failed" cast a shadow over this operation.
Hatake Sakumo's mission is different from others. It is a very difficult and dangerous mission. If successful, the war can basically be said to be over.
But I'm sorry, as Konoha's White Fang, who has 100% completion of the task, also stumbled on such a task.
Although Orochimaru felt very sorry for this, he didn't say much. Everyone has a first time, and the success rate of missions is not high.
Orochimaru patted Hatake Sakumo on the shoulder, telling him not to take it to heart, and ordered the seriously injured ninja to be sent to the medical area for treatment.
However, a serious question began to linger in the hearts of every Konoha Ninja - when will the war end?
Peace, what is the path to peace?!
Uh-huh!
Nagato, wearing training clothes, opened the door and walked in.
There was only Jiraiya in the room. He was lying on the low table eating hot ramen. The books on the table were all piled up on the tatami mat.
"Teacher."
Nagato sat casually on the tatami.
"What's wrong?"
Jiraiya Take a sip and suck the ramen into your mouth.
"Do you have time now?"
"Ah, I was just thinking about writing a book." Jiraiya said with a sad face, "But I haven't been able to come up with any good ideas."
"It's better to fill your stomach first and rest now."
He ate a few more hurriedly and then asked:
"What's wrong?"
"There are some things."
Nagato looked up at the gray sky, and seemed to see Land of Rain destroyed by the war. Maybe they were poor people, maybe orphans, maybe ordinary people waiting for death. The wind turned the tears of these people into rain and brought them here from far away places.
As far as the eye can see, a crow, soaked by water drops, flies towards the western sky. In this kind of weather, where is it going to fly to and what is it doing? The figure 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 idea?"
Jiraiya raised his head and asked.
"Peace, the path to peace I don't know yet."
Nagato turned around and looked at Jiraiya seriously and said, "But one day I will break this curse."
"If there really is peace, I will hold it tightly in my hands."
His tone became more firm.
"More important than methods is the power of belief!"
Jiraiya fell into deep thought. After a while he nodded and said, "Really? It's a good idea. It may indeed be the case."
"Yes!"
he suddenly shouted.
"What's wrong, teacher?"
"It seems that thanks to you, I can write a good book."
"Really?"
"In that case, let's confirm the protagonist's name first."
Jiraiya rubbed his chin and looked at the ramen in front of him.
"Have you figured it out, teacher?"
"Think about it."
"What is it?"
"Confidential." Jiraiya smiled proudly. "You will know when the novel is written in the future."
He laughed and drank the ramen soup from the bowl.
At the end of June, the wisteria transplanted next to the hut bloomed. The flowering time this time is one month later than last year, blooming out of season, as if waiting for something.
The bright purple flowers glow in the abundant rain, and the crystal water droplets stay on the petals and then slide down one after another, looking extremely beautiful.
"Then it's up to you."
Jiraiya stood in the rain and looked at his three disciples.
"Don't cry Yahiko, you will be considered a coward."
From Konoha Year 30 to now, we have been living together for two years, and Jiraiya is very reluctant to let go of the three of them.
"Here you go, Teacher Jiraiya."
Konan handed over a bunch of folded paper flowers.
"I will keep it well. Konan, you will definitely become a beauty in the future."
"Let's meet again when you grow up."
Jiraiya turned and left.
"This country is very poor and there will be a lot of pain in the future.
But...
From now on, you will have to rely on your own strength to change this country. "
"You've all grown up."
Right, Nagato (Naruto).