Konoha Crush Plan in Motion (Part Eight)

Meanwhile, on the other side of Konoha, Kaguya Shū had already led her team to the Hokage Tower.

At this time, most of the Anbu Ninja who were originally stationed here had been transferred to deal with the various chaos caused by the Konoha Crush Plan, and there were not many people left to guard the area.

When Kaguya Shū led nearly a hundred members of her Royal Guard into the building, the remaining personnel and some civilian staff were powerless to resist and died instantly.

"This way! The Book of Seals is on the third basement level, behind the iron gate."

One of the guards responsible for carrying the intelligence identified the direction inside the Hokage Tower and then began to give directions.

This intelligence was obtained at a great cost.

A moment later, the group arrived at the location indicated by the intelligence.

Several former Kirigakure Sealing Squad ninjas quickly stepped forward and carefully inspected behind the iron gate.

"It's protected by Sealing Jutsu; it will take time to break through."

"Then hurry up!" Kaguya Shū said impatiently.

He originally thought that such an important place as the Hokage Tower would definitely have many enemies.

But to his surprise, there were only a handful of people, which left him far from satisfied with his killing spree.

Although he longed to go outside and fight other Konoha Ninja to his heart's content, the past five years of being locked up in a dark room and beaten up by Feng had allowed him to overcome his desire to fight with physical fear, enabling him to restrain his impulses and use his brain before acting.

"Unravel it here, disassemble it here..."

The Sealing Squad ninjas ignored Kari's impatience and frantically manipulated the seal on the iron gate with both hands.

"Boom...!"

A few minutes later, with a muffled thud, the iron gate collapsed, revealing a secret room.

Inside the secret room, several file racks were placed on both sides, and the contents recorded on them were mostly secrets known only to a few people in Konoha.

As for what Kaguya Shū and the others most wanted to obtain— the Book of Seals —it was on a stone platform directly in front of the secret chamber, where a huge scroll lay quietly.

Hunting quickly stepped forward, grabbed it, and opened it.

The Setsuna he opened it, he could clearly feel that some kind of Chakra mark remaining on the scroll had sent out a signal. Although he didn't know what the signal was, he figured it was probably sent to the Konoha High Command, or even to the current Hokage Hiruzen Sarutobi.

But at this moment, Hiruzen Sarutobi was engaged in a heartwarming master-disciple relationship with Orochimaru, and the other powerful figures of Konoha were also facing their own opponents, so no one had time to stop him.

' Multiple Shadow Clone Technique '

' Mutually Multiplying Explosive Tags '

Kaguya Shū glanced at a few of the Ninjutsu recorded on the scrolls and confirmed that this was indeed the true Book of Seals.

"Pack your things and take them with you, then leave!"

He then quickly handed the Book of Seals to a guard who was skilled at sealing things, and then helped move all the other documents from the file shelf over, so that they could all be packed up, sealed, and taken away.

A few minutes later, Kaguya Shū led the group, who were laden with spoils, out of the Hokage Tower. Just as she was about to return to meet up with Feng, she suddenly froze, feeling as if she were locked onto by a chilling killing intent.

"Who goes there!"

With a loud shout, a silver-white figure leaped from the street corner in front of him, blocking everyone's path.

The newcomer had silver-white hair, Forehead Protector covered his left eye. He had originally been holding a copy of "Icha Icha Paradise," but now he had put the book into his ninja tool pouch and was instead tightly gripping Kunai.

"Kakashi Hatake!"

Kakashi is currently one of the more well-known ninjas in Konoha, so Kari and the others recognized him at a glance.

"Who... who are you? How did you get in?"

Kakashi frowned, his only exposed right eye fixed intently on Kari and the others.

Kari sneered, "Hmph, we don't need to explain to the ninjas of Konoha. Charge!"

After saying that, he led the charge towards Kakashi, and a bone armor covered in sharp spikes began to form on his body with a series of cracking sounds.

Behind Kari, two other guards quickly Hand Seals. One of them, a ninja from the Yuki Clan, added a layer of ice armor directly to Kari's bone armor.

The other was a ninja from the Himi Clan, who unleashed several hand seals in a second and then spat out a large amount of highly corrosive acid to attack Kakashi.

However, the main purpose of the Himi Clan ninjas was not to kill the enemy, but to blockade. So, although the acid he spat out seemed to come from all directions, it left an opening directly in front of Kaguya Shū.

"Earth Release · Earth-Style Wall!"

Kakashi used his classic dog-head-shaped Earth-Style Wall to block the acid, and then, taking advantage of the moment when the Earth-Style Wall blocked the enemy's view, he quietly slipped into the ground and retreated.

But he left a clone behind in the same spot.

Although he didn't know Shou and the others, and had no intelligence on them, he knew that the more the enemy wanted to achieve their goal, the less likely he was to succeed.

Therefore, he did not choose to fight his way out through the opening left by the acid to face the enemy covered in bone and ice armor.

"Bang!"

By this time, Hunti had already recklessly charged straight to the spot where Kakashi had just been standing and destroyed the clone that Kakashi had prepared.

"Explosive Tag! Explode!"

Kakashi's voice rang out from behind, detonating several Explosive Tag that had been pre-attached to the clones.

"Boom! Boom!"

Hunting was instantly and completely engulfed in Kakkō.

Just as Kakashi was waiting for the outcome of the explosion, the explosion ended, and Kaguya Shū suddenly emerged from the still-lingering smoke and fire, slamming her fist, which was covered in sharp bone spikes, towards Kakashi.

At this moment, the ice armor on Shou's body was almost completely blown apart, and his bone armor was also somewhat damaged, but he himself was unharmed.

Kakashi hadn't expected the enemy to be able to charge forward unscathed from the explosion of the Explosive Tag. His pupils dilated instantly, and he barely managed to dodge the sudden attack by rubbing his fist.

The instant he successfully dodged, blinding lightning condensed on his left hand, ready to counterattack.

"Raikiri!"

"Ice Release: Ice Rock Demon Armor!"

The lightning bolt, like a shooting star in broad daylight, aimed straight for Hunt's chest.

Hunt recognized this technique—it was the Lightning Release Ninjutsu that Konoha's Copy Ninja Kakashi was known for being able to cut through lightning.

But at this moment, he chose to ignore Kakashi's Raikiri, and without dodging or avoiding, he threw a punch directly at Kakashi's face, seemingly intending to die together with Kakashi.

In reality, he trusted his teammates behind him. Just as the lightning was about to hit him, frost condensed on his chest first and quickly formed a breastplate.

"Not good!" Kakashi was startled when he saw this, but the speed of his attack with the Raikiri was too fast, and he didn't have time to change his move.

"Bang!"

"Bang!"

With two consecutive sounds, Kakashi's Raikiri struck Gari first, but Gari's ice armor on his chest had been improved countless times under Feng's numerous beatings, and its defense could almost ignore regular B-rank Ninjutsu and withstand A-rank Ninjutsu.

Kakashi's S-rank Ninjutsu Raikiri, could penetrate it, but behind the ice armor was the bone armor formed by Kari himself using ' Shikotsumyaku '. The combination of the two could not completely defend against Raikiri, but it could certainly hinder it.

Having successfully thwarted his plan, Kari's Yuki Clan companions immediately replaced his ice armor with new ones.

So in the end, Kakashi, who had the upper hand first, was helpless against Kaguya Shū.

After Kariya attacked Kakashi, Kakashi, who was alone, was not so lucky.

Despite his best efforts to dodge and defend himself, having sensed the danger beforehand, the distance was simply too close. He managed to avoid the bone spikes on the hunter's fist by tilting his head, thus avoiding instant death, but his face was struck squarely by the fist.

Then, Kakashi was blasted away by the enormous impact, his feet carving two deep furrows in the ground. After crashing through several walls, he was obscured by the flying dust, and his condition is unknown.

"Copy Ninja Kakashi, nothing special." Kari clenched his fist, then prepared to charge at Kakashi.

"Hunter, forget about that guy, getting the stuff back is more important."

The Himi Clan ninja, who had initially helped Gari but hadn't intervened afterward, suddenly spoke up and stopped Gari.

"..." Upon hearing this, Shou was taken aback. After a moment of internal struggle, he turned around with difficulty and said, "Let's go!"

The Master's dark room and Training Camp were too terrifying; he didn't want to relive those nightmares by neglecting his duties while chasing Kakashi.