"If I told you the reason, would you surrender?"
Chiyo said, "...No. Whatever your reasons, for Sunagakure's sake, I won't surrender so easily."
"There you have it." Tsunade knocked her fists together, making her chest bounce. "You won't surrender no matter what we say, so just be good and let us beat you up."
In her eyes, defeating Sunagakure by force would do more to make them accept their defeat.
At the very least, they wouldn't dare rebel.
If they dared, I'd chop their claws off!
The Senju's resistance didn't surprise Tsunade in the slightest.
After all, she and the Senju were old friends.
But despite the Senju's firm stance, Sunagakure's ninja continued to die one after another as time passed.
The Hidden Leaf Village's losses, by comparison, were remarkably light!
At first, Sunagakure had managed to hold out for a while against the Uchiha Clan's ferocious offensive by relying on their puppets.
But as their puppets were destroyed, they could only attack with ninjutsu and Taijutsu.
Their casualties instantly shot up.
Initially, it had taken three Sunagakure ninja to bring down a single Konoha Ninja.
As time passed, the gap between the numbers of Sunagakure and Konoha Ninja grew wider and wider.
The three thousand ninja Sunagakure had hastily assembled had already dwindled to just over two thousand!
How long had it even been? They had already lost so many people!
The powerful Itachi Uchiha, on the other hand, hadn't killed all that many. Of those nearly one thousand dead ninja, he had killed only a few dozen, somewhere between seventy and ninety.
Because Itachi's performance on the battlefield had been so conspicuous, Temari and Kankuro had stepped forward to stop his slaughter.
With strength that, at the absolute most, might qualify them as Jonin, they couldn't possibly stop