Hanzo's Death

The ninja of Amegakure suffered heavy losses after the end of Second Shinobi War.

Although the number of participants was increased many times afterward, the quality never recovered.

It wasn't for any other reason than that the Rain Village, along with Hanzo, lost their vitality as Hanzo.

Over the years Amegakure, any Rain Village with some strength and talent have chosen to leave Amegakure because they couldn't find a way out there.

Some of them joined Akatsuki, some chose to become missing-nin, and some established ninja organizations in other parts of the Land of Rain, hoping to change the Land of Rain.

These people first went through the conflict between the Akatsuki Organization and Hanzo Danzo.

Afterwards, Hanzo, with the support of the Iwa ninja, carried out another extermination operation.

After Danzo returned to the Land of Rain, he carried out another purge of these missing-nin.

Of course, Danzo did this not for Hanzo good; it was merely part of his obligation to cooperate with Hanzo.

In short, although there are quite a few ninjas in Amegakure now, their strength is really not that great.

Let alone facing the Six Paths of Pain, even if it were Yichen's disciples, they could easily reach the core of Amegakure.

To better train the younger generation, Nagato deliberately left out some strong Rain Village to practice on.

They advanced without encountering any effective obstacles, and Yichen and his companions had no chance to make a move.

Although there were quite a few ninjas that Nagato had let in, they were all wiped out by the younger generation led by Kawakita.

Until Six Paths of Pain arrived at the building where Hanzo was located.

Looking down at Hanzo from the rooftop, and then at the ever-growing number of Rain Village around him, Yichen's lips twitched. Hanzo was still not giving up.

Even at a time like this, they still can't let go of the so-called Amegakure, can't let go of that tiny bit of power.

If Hanzo had escaped earlier, he might have been able to shake off Yichen and his group, since Yichen and his group had a large number of burdens with them.

However, Hanzo chose to send a large number of Rain Village to their deaths.

After a while, perhaps feeling that there were enough ninjas around, Hanzo his hand and gave the order to attack.

However, before the Rain Village Ninja could make a move, Yichen and Nagato activated their Ninjutsu.

Among Nagato's Six Paths of Pain, the Deva Path used Shinra Tensei, which required no Hand Seals, and was even faster than Yichen.

However, Yichen was only slightly slower than Nagato. With the enhancement of Senjutsu, Yichen's C-rank Ninjutsu could reach the power of A-rank. Yichen rapidly released C-rank Sage Jutsu with his despair-inducing Hand Seals speed.

Then, one after another, large-scale Five-Attribute Ninjutsu covered the surrounding Rain Village.

Seeing how Yichen Nagato, the other five Paths of Pain ignored the Rain Village and focused their attention directly on Hanzo.

Seeing that his presence or absence wouldn't make a difference, Deva Path Pain followed him and flew onto the building in front of him.

"Boom boom boom boom." After wave after wave of Ninjutsu attacks, the Rain Village suffered heavy casualties. The rest either ran away or were too injured to escape.

Yichen gestured to Kawakita to deal with the injured Rain Village, then turned his attention to Hanzo and Six Paths of Pain, who were fighting on the high-rise building.

Looking at the missiles flying everywhere upstairs, the huge Summoning Beast, the continuous explosions, and then looking around at the ruins with severed limbs everywhere after being bombarded by waves of Ninjutsu.

Yichen and the children that Yahiko brought were all deeply moved.

Yichen took a closer look at Deidara. With such a powerful Ninjutsu before him, he figured Deidara wouldn't start launching terrorist attacks just because he learned Explosion Release.

Suddenly, with a loud "bang," Yichen saw a giant Ibuse appear on the roof.

Without saying a word, Yichen stretched out his hands and made a cross in front of him.

Yichen aimed the cross at the Ibuse in the air. After a while, a blue light appeared in Yichen's hand and then shot out quickly.

The next moment, the blue light struck the giant Ibuse on the distant rooftop, which hadn't even had a chance to unleash its power yet.

It's not that the Ibuse was careless; the scene created by Six Paths of Pain was simply too chaotic.

Having just been summoned and still not understanding the situation, the Ibuse's main focus was on the giant Summoning Beast, and it completely failed to notice that Yichen was gathering his strength.

By the time it sensed the danger, it was already too late.

To others, this was the scene: Hanzo summoned a giant Ibuse Hanzo expending a large amount of Chakra, and then, half of the Ibuse's body disappeared.

Seeing the remaining majority of the Ibuse carcasses crash to the ground, everyone was so frightened that they dared not even breathe.

"Yahiko, keep an eye on them for me." Yichen called out to Yahiko, then took Kawakita into the air.

Once airborne, Yichen and Kawakita could finally see the battle taking place on the rooftop.

Hanzo was in a sorry state. Faced with Six Paths of Pain's sudden attack, he didn't even have time to reach the Ibuse. He could only dodge in all directions, constantly using his swordsmanship to deflect various attacks.

Yichen flew over to Nagato Kawakita, who had followed them, and gave Nagato a look. Nagato immediately understood.

Therefore, they slowed down the pace of their attack slightly, maintaining pressure on Hanzo while preventing him from having a chance to counterattack.

Kawakita's attention was now completely drawn to Hanzo. In Kawakita's mind, a ninja of Hanzo's caliber should be invincible, but now he was being driven to the brink of despair by Nagato's puppet.

"Just how strong must Nagato be?" Kawakita wondered to himself.

But soon, his attention was diverted. He gradually noticed Hanzo's countermeasures. Apart from Hanzo Hand Seals, Hanzo mostly fought with a long sword. Every time Hanzo swung his hand, he would thwart one of Nagato's attacks.

Whether it's Summoning Beast, missiles, or Taijutsu attacks, there's no problem Hanzo can't solve with a single Hanzo.

After watching for a while, Nagato's attacks were nothing new, Yichen began his performance.

"Water Release - Water Style: Water Wave, Fire Release - Great Fireball Jutsu, Earth Release - Earth Style: Earth Rising Spear, Water Release - Water Style: Water Line Jutsu, Water Release - Water Flow Whip, Lightning Release - Lightning Conduction, Wind Release - Wind Release: Breakthrough, Wind Release - Vacuum Sphere..." Yichen made his move, adding dazzling colors to Nagato's monotonous attacks.

However, as expected, Yichen's Sage Techniques, which were no less powerful than A-rank Ninjutsu Senjutsu, were also shattered by Hanzo's sword strikes.

However, each of Hanzo's attacks, though seemingly simple, actually contained a large amount of Chakra, constantly depleting his stamina.

Although this consumption was less than that of Yichen and Nagato, it was still no match for the way Yichen and Nagato had abused themselves.

After a while, Nagato finally hit Hanzo, whose reaction was slightly Hanzo.

Seeing the Demigod of the Ninja World lying on the ground, coughing up blood, Yichen knew that his journey to broaden his disciples' horizons was coming to an end.

Hanzo ignored Nagato and Yichen, instead turning his gaze to Kawakita. After catching his breath, Hanzo said, "Your name is Kawakita, right? I remember you. I have a sword technique scroll for you."

As he spoke, Hanzo reached for his Ninja Tool Bag, but ultimately failed due to his severe injuries.

Seeing that he had tried several times without success, Yichen smiled slightly and created a Shadow Clone.

The Shadow Clone approached Hanzo, carefully opened his Ninja Tool Bag, took out a large number of items, and then, at Hanzo's signal, picked up one of the scrolls.

The Shadow Clone opened the scroll, carefully examined it, and only put it away after confirming that Hanzo hadn't done anything wrong.

Even though Yichen put it away, he didn't hand it over to his main body; instead, his Shadow Clone kept it.

In short, Yichen's message was the same: Hanzo is alive, he will not be careless for a moment.

"Truly... truly cautious... as expected of the Fox of Stone, cough cough..." Hanzo said Hanzo, then took a few more heavy breaths and spat out a mouthful of blood.

Then, turning to Kawakita, he said, "Your swordsmanship talent is good, but you've matured too late. Otherwise, if you had a life-or-death battle with me today, you might have been able to Wind Release: Breakthrough."

At the last moment, Hanzo finally turned his gaze to Six Paths of Pain and Nagato, and said with difficulty, "Akatsuki, you have won after all. The Land of Rain is now yours."

After saying this, Hanzo closed his eyes. The Demigod of the Ninja World for decades died so simply.

After confirming that Hanzo dead, Yichen handed the scroll to Kawakita and said, "Make a copy and give it to Yahiko tomorrow."

"Yes, Teacher Yichen," Kawakita replied.

Then Yichen looked at Nagato and said, "Nagato, let's split up and purge Hanzo's cronies."

Nagato nodded. He was habitually not very talkative and controlled the Six Paths of Pain to search in one direction.

Yichen then led Kawakita back to the surface, and only then did he lead his disciples to begin eliminating the remaining Rain Village Ninja.

The attack on Amegakure went very smoothly; the only one to watch out for in the entire Amegakure was Hanzo.

After Hanzo's death, most of the Rain Village who had been hiding in the shadows fled.

Those who couldn't escape were also cleaned up by Yichen and Nagato. This was something Yahiko and Konan were unwilling to do.

Yahiko and Konan, wanting to avoid seeing it, took their men directly to inventory the Rain Village's belongings.

When Yichen and Nagato returned from their battle, they had already tidied up most of the things that needed to be sorted out, along with a group of children.

It was getting late, so Yichen and the others rested for the night in Amegakure.

The next day, the rain in Amegakure still hadn't stopped, but the sky over Amegakure had changed.

The common people of the Land of Rain hid in their homes, afraid to come out, while Yichen and his group began dividing the spoils in a relatively intact building.

No, Yahiko calls it spoils distribution.

All written records are easy to handle; just copy them down if needed. Anything deemed useless can be burned with a single Fire Release.

The disposal of the items was relatively simple. Although Amegakure wasn't a major power, it was still a ninja village, and it had quite a few valuable items.

Yichen didn't ask for much; each person who came only needed to pick one or two items, and the rest were left for Yahiko and the others.

Yahiko and his group need to rebuild two ninja villages, which requires a lot of resources.

Finally, there was the division of territory. Originally, Yichen had no intention of taking any territory, a point that even Ōnoki agreed with.

However, Nagato insisted on ceding a portion of the Land of Rain's territory to the Land of Earth.

Nagato felt that Yichen needed to increase his influence in Iwagakure.

He felt that although Yichen was now the Tsuchikage, there were still many advisors at the higher levels who were sharing Yichen's power, and Yichen needed to increase his authority through military achievements.

After considering it for a moment, Yichen agreed. He said to Nagato, "I will choose the narrow strip of land that borders the Land of Earth and the Land of Rain. I plan to give this land to the Land of Grass."

Nagato understood the territory Yichen had chosen. Although the area wasn't wealthy, Yichen certainly wouldn't choose an enclave, even though the small size of the territory made Nagato feel a little embarrassed.

But what Nagato couldn't understand the most was why Yichen would hand that place over to the Land of Grass.

Yichen smiled and said, "Nagato, do you know why the Five Great Nations don't border each other? Because being too close would easily lead to conflict."

"I plan to trade this land with the Land of Grass in exchange for a small area within the Land of Grass that is sandwiched between the Land of Fire and the Land of Earth."

I plan to make the Land of Earth and the Land of Fire border each other, so that even if we defeat the Land of Fire later, we won't be unable to annex their land.

At the same time, the Land of Earth and the Land of Rain are not allowed to border each other in order to reduce conflict between the two countries.

Nagato thinking about it, Nagato decided to leave it to Yichen; how Yichen dealt with his territory was his own business.

For him, the most important thing now is how to rebuild Amegakure.