Kazekage, Have You Really Betrayed Us?

"Kazekage, will we fight or surrender? Say something!"

"Kazekage, why are you just watching? Have you really decided to let the village become the spoils of that evil Tenseigan brat?"

"Kazekage, with a single command from you, we'll immediately protect you at the front."

"Kazekage..."

The other Sand Ninja also focused their gazes on Rasa, waiting for his decision.

"Damn it!"

Seeing this, Rasa's mood sank to rock bottom.

As the Kazekage, he should have protected Sunagakure.

If Sunagakure truly became someone's personal spoils, it would be an immense disgrace not only to Sunagakure, but to him as well.

Even before activating Tenseigan Chakra Mode, Hyuga Chiba had already been difficult for Rasa to deal with.

Not to mention that Chiba had now activated Tenseigan Chakra Mode and made up for his greatest current weakness by absorbing everyone's Chakra, as well as Shukaku's Chakra.

"Very well. I understand your attitude now."

At that moment, Chiba suddenly spoke, his voice gradually turning cold. "It seems I was too lenient before. I made you think you still had the right to bargain with me, and I also made you fail to clearly recognize your own situation."

"Since that's the case, remember well everything that happens next."

Before his words faded, a green Chakra Orb formed in Chiba's hand and flew into Rasa's body at tremendous speed.

Magnet Release: Gold Dust World Method!

The light in Rasa's eyes vanished the next instant, and with a lift of his hand, he summoned a vast number of Gold Sand spikes.

This time, however, his targets were no longer Chiba, but Sunagakure's Sand Ninja.

Especially those Sand Ninja who had not clearly expressed surrender, and who even intended to keep charging alongside Rasa.

"Ah!"

"Kazekage, why are you attacking us?"

"Have you really betrayed us?"

"You idiots, can't you see that the Kazekage has already been controlled by Hyuga Chiba?"

"As long as we defeat Hyuga Chiba, the Kazekage will definitely break free of his control, but..."

"Then we can only find a way to seal the Kazekage."

"..."

Rasa's "betrayal" caught the Sand Ninja completely off guard.

Countless Sand Ninja were either killed or crippled beneath his Magnet Release: Gold Dust World Method.

It also made many Sand Ninja, who had seen that Chiba had not caused much slaughter so far and thought they had an opening to exploit, abandon their lingering hopes.

"Go help the Kazekage. Kill everyone who has not clearly expressed surrender."

At the same time, after a brief moment of thought, Orochimaru gave an order to the Sound Four, Kimimaro, Senju Hashirama, and Senju Tobirama beside him.

"Yes, Orochimaru-sama!"

The Sound Four and Kimimaro were all utterly loyal to Orochimaru, so naturally they would not resist his orders.

Senju Hashirama and Senju Tobirama were currently in a state of Impure World Reincarnation and under his control, so they likewise would not defy him.

"What?"

"Orochimaru actually chose this moment to..."

"No, Kazekage, those people from Otogakure, along with Konoha's First Hokage and Second Hokage, are far too strong."

"I surrender! I surrender! Don't continue!"

As Kimimaro and the others joined the battle, the Sand Ninja became increasingly desperate.

Rasa himself was Kage Level, and the Sand Ninja could not simply kill him.

Every member of the Sound Four possessed strength equal to Jonin, or even Elite Jonin.

Kimimaro could threaten someone at Kage Level when striking from the shadows.

Senju Hashirama and Senju Tobirama were even more formidable. Although the current imperfect Impure World Reincarnation prevented them from displaying their peak strength, they still amounted to two Kage Level combatants.

Within the current Sunagakure, aside from Hyuga Chiba standing in the air and watching the show, no one could fight this lineup.

For that very reason, the Sand Ninja, whose morale had already been poor beneath the terrifying strength Hyuga Chiba had displayed time and again, gradually gave up resisting.

Quite a few Sand Ninja even directly knelt toward Hyuga Chiba.

When Rasa, Kimimaro, and the others saw them, they simply passed them over and continued attacking the other Sand Ninja.

Thus, in order to survive, more and more Sand Ninja chose to live on their knees.

Of course, there were still Sand Ninja who would rather die than yield, and they soon truly died.

After watching for a while, Hyuga Chiba lost interest in continuing and descended before Gaara.

Gaara had already awakened from the False Sleep Technique, but having lost over ninety percent of his Chakra left him in poor condition.

Fortunately, Shukaku had also suffered considerable losses this time and would not temporarily fight him for control of his body.

As for the miserable state of the surrounding Sand Ninja?

Gaara, who had yet to receive Uzumaki Naruto's Fist of Bonds, did not care in the slightest.

To be precise, anyone of sound mind who had always been treated as a monster by their village, while their own biological father had tried every possible way to kill them, would not care too much whether disaster befell that village.

"What do you want?"

Gaara watched Hyuga Chiba land before him and asked warily.

Unlike the others, Chiba was someone who could truly injure him—or even kill him.

"Of course, I'm helping you."

After saying that, Hyuga Chiba offered no further explanation. He used Universal Pull to draw Gaara to a point not far in front of him, then slapped a hand against his abdomen. Eight Trigrams Seal!

Within the Ninja World, when it came to mastery of sealing techniques, the Uzumaki Clan was universally acknowledged as the strongest.

After the Uzumaki Clan was destroyed by the joint forces of several ninja villages, Konoha possessed the strongest sealing techniques.

Later, the Fourth Hokage, Namikaze Minato, combined two Four Symbols Seals to create the Eight Trigrams Seal.

This was also the sealing technique on Uzumaki Naruto.

The Eight Trigrams Seal not only prevented the Nine-Tails from influencing Uzumaki Naruto under most circumstances.

It could also gradually transform part of its Chakra into Uzumaki Naruto's own Chakra.

Perhaps this was another reason Uzumaki Naruto possessed so much Chakra?

By comparison, the seal on Gaara was far inferior. Not only could it not convert Chakra, but it would also constantly fight him for control of his body, making it difficult for him to sleep normally and causing him to lose control easily.

At that moment, Chiba naturally used the Eight Trigrams Seal recorded in the sealing techniques to make up for the shortcomings of the seal on Gaara.

There were two reasons. First, although Gaara was rather easy to hate in the early stages of the original story, he became much more likable in the middle and later stages.

Second, the ninety percent of Chakra Shukaku had lost would recover over time.

When that happened, he could still become part of Chiba's fighting force.

And if that did not work, he could once again serve as a Chakra battery for Chiba or the New Tailed Beast.

The only problem was that Chiba's current method was rather hard on Shukaku.