In the basement of Konoha, Menma's house.
Flying Thunder God Kunai hangs upside down, Menma gently strokes the precise technique engraved on the surface of Kunai.
Shadow Clone, who stayed in Konoha, reported the latest situation and research progress to Menma, who was active outside, by disengaging.
In particular, there have been some breakthroughs in the research direction of Yin-Yang Release, so the Menma ontology directly returned to Konoha through Flying Thunder God.
"This Flying Thunder God is really useful." Menma was playing with this Flying Thunder God Kunai in his hand.
In just two months, he built secret transmission strongholds in nine countries, including Land of Fire, Land of Lightning, Land of Rice Fields, and Land of Hot Water, leaving behind his own special Flying Thunder God Kunai.
They even specially sent two Shadow Clone to Land of Water, Land of Wind, Land of Earth, Land of Rainbow and other countries to build secret strongholds and set up special Flying Thunder God Kunai.
I believe that before long, the entire Shinobi World will become a chessboard for him to shuttle around at will.
In the practice room on the second floor, there are two Shadow Clone who are practicing chakra control accuracy.
Menma walked to the table, his eyes quickly wandering between the data in the experiment notebook.
"This research direction should be correct, but..." Menma touched his chin and muttered to himself in a low voice, then suddenly fell silent.
Then, he raised his right hand, mixed the Yin Release Chakra and Yang Release Chakra in his body according to a certain proportion, and gradually condensed into a short black stick.
This Black Receiver is less than twenty centimeters long, only as wide as a little finger, and is extremely unstable.
But the Yin-Yang Release contained in it has become increasingly obvious.
Ugh--
With a crisp sound of disintegration, Black Receiver in Menma's hand instantly disintegrated and turned into a ball of chakra that dissipated in the air.
Menma stared at the empty palm, recalling the operation and feeling just now.
His research on Yin-Yang Release has reached the threshold and is just short of finishing.
After leaving a few Shadow Clone to continue practicing the research on changes in chakra properties and precision control, Menma's main body released Transformation Technique and returned to the appearance of a child.
His character in Konoha is that of a young master, so he naturally has to go out for activities frequently. As for the hard training, he can just leave it to Shadow Clone.
Thanks to the Uzumaki Clan's physique and the huge chakra provided by Dark Kurama, he can support countless Shadow Clone, whether it is ninjutsu practice, Taijutsu training, or scientific research, he can do everything.
That is, when the Shadow Clone is lifted, all kinds of memories and soreness in the muscles all over the body will be transmitted back to the body, and it will be very sore.
Walking on the street of Konoha, Menma was thinking whether to go to Naruto or Hinata today.
But after thinking about it, Hyuga Clan has gone through a lot of training. If he can come out, Hinata will definitely come to find him; and Naruto has a special identity, and he is monitored by Anbu. Even though he is still a little kid, it is not good to visit him often.
"Hey, it seems I just have to go shopping by myself." Menma clasped his hands behind his head and walked boredly on the lively Konoha street.
As the largest ninja village in Shinobi World, Konoha has a population of eighty to ninety thousand, and at least one fifth of them are people who can extract chakra.
During the Fourth Shinobi World War period, various countries formed more than 87,000 ninja troops. The average Five Great Nations ninja numbered tens of thousands. Konoha was able to carry out multi-line operations with many major powers in previous Shinobi World wars. It should have the largest number of troops.
Let's assume that the number of ninjas in Konoha is over 15,000.
Based on the background that all people in Ninja Village are soldiers, and the ratio of military strength to population is 1:5, Konoha has at least more than 75,000 people.
Of course, this is a special situation of Fourth Shinobi World War. Many retired ninjas, as well as ninjas from various ninja clans who have not registered in the ninja village, have joined the coalition army, so they are calculated.
Otherwise, based on what Kishimoto said in the comics, Konoha produced a total of more than 13,000 ninjas, the registered ninjas in each ninja village would only be less than Konoha, and there would be no way to make up the more than 87,000 Shinobi Allied Forces.
"Wow! So cute!" A delighted laugh came from the nearby store, attracting Menma's attention.
He turned his head slightly and saw a somewhat familiar symbol.
The family emblem of the Uchiha Clan.
Menma stopped and looked up.
This is a weapons store whose signboard is cat ears. A Uchiha kid, about twelve or thirteen years old, with his back to Menma, is being forcibly put on a cat-ear headband by a girl ninja of the same age with two braids.
Next to the two of them, there was a leading teacher who was wearing a jounin vest and had a few scratches on his face, and another boy with a spiky head who also wore a cat-ear headband, holding a struggling cat in his arms.
Seeing passers-by looking over, the hedgehog-headed boy quickly turned his head away.
"Itachi! Look! He's obviously very cute!" The girl, eyes full of stars, said to Itachi Uchiha.
Itachi Uchiha, who was only twelve years old, did not resist, but curiously touched the cat-ear headband on his head.
The leading jounin with scratches on his face looked at the warm daily life of these three little guys very tenderly.
Several people walked into the weapons store while talking and laughing, holding a cat in their arms.
"It's Itachi's teammate and teacher..." Menma clicked his tongue twice.
Looking at the backs of these people entering the weapons store, it was like looking at dead people.
Being targeted by Uchiha Obito can only be considered bad luck for them.
And--
What does it have to do with me?
Menma hummed a little tune and continued shopping.
Land of Bears Capital.
Gato and Kakuzu, who had arrived at Land of Bears in advance, were waiting for another team in a suburban camp.
"It's strange that the people I sent out didn't find anything unusual about Hoshigakure." Gato, who was wearing small glasses, scratched his head.
On the box opposite, Kakuzu crushed a heart in disgust.
Seeing the dark heart with threads turning into black blood dripping on the ground, Gato felt nauseated.
"Return to the Jonin, thank you. I think that boy is only as strong as Chunin at most." Kakuzu was very dissatisfied with the guy he met before who claimed to be a Jonin. His heart strength was not as strong as Special Jonin from the Great Ninja Village, which made Kakuzu happy for a while.
A gust of breeze blew, and Kakuzu was the first to notice the abnormality and looked towards the camp gate.
This camp is where Gato Company stores supplies on the outskirts of Land of Bears's capital. The manpower to care for it has long since been driven away by Gato.
Gato also followed Kakuzu's line of sight and saw two women walking over with a child.
He was about to stand up and scold him, but saw Kakuzu also stood up.
Gato, who is good at observing words and expressions, immediately noticed something was wrong.
These two women with children... could it be...
"Sorry for the long wait." Uzumaki Fuka held the timid little Karin in his hand and bowed to the two evil people in front of him and saluted. "On the order of Lord Asura, I am here to support you."
"Uzumaki Fuka."
"Wuming."
Uchiha Hikari took a step forward, Three-Tomoe Sharingan turned and met Kakuzu's eyes.
Kakuzu, who was still a little contemptuous at first, saw his blue pupils trembling when he saw these eyes.
"It turned out to be--Uchiha Clan!" Kakuzu, who lived from Warring States Period to the present, exclaimed in surprise under the mask, "And...Uzumaki Clan!"