Konoha, Year 8, September.
After a month of preparations, Hyuga Hoshishaku, the head of the Uzumaki clan, and Uzumaki Huaxin secretly infiltrated the Land of Water.
Their objectives were crystal clear.
Hoshishaku's Paper Clone would accompany Uzumaki Huaxin to assassinate the Land of Water's daimyo.
His main body would head to the Land of Water's capital to destroy the shipyard.
And his Shadow Clone would accompany the head of the Uzumaki clan to destroy the shipyard in Kirigakure.
One thing needed to be made clear: Paper Clones could share thoughts with the main body, but Shadow Clones only brought back their memories when they were dispelled.
To avoid disrupting the operation, Hoshishaku usually created only one Paper Clone.
Only if a Shadow Clone decided something had to be reported to the main body immediately, but couldn't dispel itself, would it spend a great deal of chakra to enter the "God of Paper" state and become a Paper Clone of the main body.
So, aside from the main body, the younger Uzumaki Huaxin had a Paper Clone protecting her, while the older Uzumaki Ashina directed his Shadow Clone's actions.
The three had agreed to begin their operation at three in the morning.
As night fell, Hoshishaku infiltrated the shipyard in the Land of Water's capital alone.
Entering the "God of Paper" state, he took the form of an Inorganic Lifeform and evaded detection by the guards.
Then he moved through the seawater, watching what was happening above the surface with his Byakugan as he carefully attached Explosive Tags to the enormous ships and arranged them according to the requirements of the Mutually Multiplying Explosive Tags technique.
He had to make sure the explosion pulverized every single ship!
He had been working ever since sunset, and by the agreed-upon time, he had