Shocking the Five Kage into Setting Rules, Madara Uchiha Breaks Out of His Coffin!
The Land of Iron, the Five Kage Summit Hall.
At noon the next day, the wind and snow outside were still raging, and the charcoal fire inside burned extremely brightly, but it could not break the deadlock that had solidified in front of the round table.
"Let Hidden Leaf dominate the Allied Shinobi Forces' intelligence network? Absolutely not!" Ōnoki hovered in mid-air, his mustache bristling with anger, his withered fingers slamming heavily on the table. "Who knows if Hidden Leaf will use this opportunity to plant spies in Iwagakure's Anbu? Joint operations are fine, but intelligence must be handled independently by each village!"
"Old Tsuchikage, is that all you have left in your head—that moldy scheme?" Tsunade crossed her arms and sneered. "You can't even find the enemy? Are you planning to go into battle with Iwagakure eyes closed?"
"I've fought more battles than you've eaten rice!" Ōnoki roared in fury.
"Bang!"
The two heavy, iron-clad oak doors shattered with a deafening roar, sending splinters and icy snowflakes swirling into the hall and instantly extinguishing several charcoal fires nearby.
All the guards drew their swords in unison.
In the wind and snow, Naruto stepped across the threshold. His protective cloak was tattered, ice crystals clung to his golden hair, and his azure eyes shone with a cold, emotionless light.
"You've fought a lot of battles?" Naruto casually grabbed his cloak and threw it on the ground, striding towards the round table. "Then I'd appreciate it if the Third Tsuchikage could teach me how to fight a hundred thousand dead men who crawled out of the ground."
As soon as he finished speaking, Naruto raised his right arm and slammed the charred half of his Wood Release arm and the deciphered black iron box into the center of the conference table.
The solid wood tabletop emitted a muffled thud as it succumbed to the weight, revealing several noticeable cracks.
"How dare you! You brat from Hidden Leaf, you have no right to interrupt here!" Raikage A suddenly stood up, his body crackling with lightning.
"Lord Raikage, I advise you to take a look at the contents of that box before deciding whether or not to get angry."
Kakashi stepped out from behind Naruto, his deadpan eyes sweeping across the room. He reached out and pulled open a hidden compartment in the metal box. "This is what we intercepted in the underground icefield mine of the Land of Iron. That guy is not only alive, but he also used the First Hokage's cells to clone 100,000 mindless White Zetsu soldiers. Currently, these monsters are advancing through underground tunnels towards the rear of the Five Great Nations."
The entire arena fell silent. Even the most volatile Raikage froze in place.
Ōnoki scoffed, about to refute the exaggerated number, when his granddaughter Kurotsuchi squeezed in from outside the door and slapped the snow water off Ōnoki's body.
"Grandpa, don't force yourself. What this madman is saying is true." Kurotsuchi pulled off her soaked gloves. "I saw it with my own eyes in that underground cell, where five hundred prisoners had their Chakra drained to feed a corpse with the face of the First Hokage. The Akatsuki never intended to play a positional war with us."
This blatant defection left Ōnoki's old face stiff.
(That brat, why is she siding with Hidden Leaf! But... mass cloning of the Hashirama Cells, this is a huge problem.) Ōnoki cursed inwardly, but his body honestly returned to his seat.
"That's not all." Naruto stepped forward, pressed his finger against the yellowed parchment at the bottom of the metal box, yanked it out, and flung it in front of Ōnoki and the Raikage.
"Look at these names. Obito not only created 100,000 cannon fodder, but also found a snake charmer to cooperate with. This is the list of Impure World Reincarnation. Everyone, please recognize some familiar faces."
On the parchment, the dark red blood-written words were glaring and alarming.
The Raikage's gaze swept across the room, his eyes instantly settling on the name in the third line— the Third Raikage, A.
"Crack!" The armrest of the pure steel chair that Raikage sat on was crushed to pieces by his grip.
Ōnoki's initially disdainful gaze vanished the moment he caught sight of "Second Tsuchikage Mu," causing him to shudder violently, cold sweat pouring down his back.
Terumi Mei glanced at the Second Mizukage's name, covering her mouth with a giggle, but her eyes were as cold as ice. "How interesting, they don't even spare the dead, are they trying to dig up the ancestral graves of the Five Great Nations?"
The Five Kage, who had just been bickering over their interests, now felt a chill run down their spines.
Personal grudges, border clashes, and military spending allocations all became worthless in the face of this list. Obito overturned the table of the living and directly dragged a bunch of dead people to reshuffle the deck.
"Now, who still wants to discuss whether intelligence should be independent?" Naruto placed his hands on the table, his aggressive gaze sweeping across the room. "I'll set the rules. If you win, you can continue scheming; if you lose, everyone will go to the Pure Land to kowtow and apologize to our ancestors."
The hall was completely silent.
After a long pause, the Raikage wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, his voice booming. "Hidden Cloud agrees to information sharing. All movements in Eight-Tails Lightning Cloud Gorge, where Killer B is located, will be made available to Hidden Leaf."
Gaara rested his fingers on his chin, his voice calm yet powerful. "Hidden Sand will provide all the puppet troops for logistical support, establishing supply lines along the way."
Terumi Mei tossed her long hair aside and smiled alluringly, "The Hidden Mist has mobilized all its naval fleets and sensory ninjas to blockade the surrounding waters, ensuring that not even a single Akatsuki traitor can infiltrate by sea."
Ōnoki gritted his teeth and coughed twice. "Iwagakure has deployed its elite Earth Release engineers and Barrier Team to seal off the Leyline."
Tsunade leaned back in her chair with satisfaction, spreading her hands. "The Hidden Leaf medical team and Sealing Squad are fully deployed to all fronts. We'll provide the majority of the supplies."
Seated in the main Mifune, Mifune gripped the hilt of his sword and solemnly nodded. "All warriors of the Land of Iron are ready. As the witness, I will oversee the alliance's military orders. Anyone who violates the alliance will be executed!"
In just three minutes, the distribution of profits, which had been a day-long squabble, was resolved as smoothly as a hot knife through butter in the face of an absolute survival crisis.
A scribe from the Land of Iron quickly drafted the alliance treaty scroll and respectfully presented it.
The Five Kage stepped forward one by one and bit their fingers.
The five bright red finger marks of the Raikage, Mizukage, Tsuchikage, Kazekage, Hokage signify the formal establishment of the largest military alliance in the history of the Shinobi World.
Just as the scribe was about to put away the scroll, a bloodstained hand suddenly pressed down on the end of the scroll.
Naruto drew his Kunai from his waist, the tip of the blade aimed at the blank space on the parchment.
"The alliance is formed. I'll add one last clause." Naruto didn't even look up, the blade slicing through the paper with a piercing sound. "No village may use war as a pretext to force Jinchūriki to participate in the war. Jinchūriki have the right to refuse forced conscription."
These words immediately caused the atmosphere to plummet to freezing point.
"Naruto Uzumaki! Don't push your luck!" Raikage A slammed his hand on the table, his violent Lightning Release Chakra instantly coursing through his body, blue arcs of electricity even scorching the tablecloth. "Killer B is the ultimate weapon of Hidden Cloud, and also my younger brother! Protecting the village is his destiny!"
"He's your brother, so you should treat him like a human being, not a Chakra battery that could explode at any moment!"
Naruto suddenly raised his head, and pure, dazzling Golden Yang Release Chakra erupted, directly colliding with the Raikage's oppressive aura.
"Boom!"
Two extreme Chakra collided in mid-air, creating a shrill explosion that shattered the surrounding teacups. Even the moisture in the air was evaporated by the Yang Release, becoming scorching and acrid.
Naruto stood his ground, his golden vertical pupils fixed on the Raikage: "The Akatsuki's goal is to collect the Tailed Beast. Putting the Jinchūriki at the forefront is like delivering a package to Obito. Anyone who dares to use them as bait, I, Naruto Uzumaki, will be the first to wipe them out!"
The Raikage gritted his teeth, his muscles bulging. But looking at Naruto's unwavering gaze, and recalling the image of that kid from Lightning Cloud Gorge taking his Lariat head-on, he knew very well that in a real fight, the current Hidden Cloud wouldn't have the slightest advantage.
"... You brat, you have too many rules." Raikage snorted coldly, slowly withdrawing his lightning and turning his head away from the scroll.
It's been accepted by default.
The other figures exchanged glances, none of them uttering a word in rebuttal. Gaara's lips even curled up in a barely perceptible smile.
The tip of the knife pierced my fingertip.
Naruto pressed his blood-stained thumb heavily next to the rule he had added.
At this moment, the mark of the Uzumaki Clan carries no less weight than that of any other Shadow.
"Hidden Leaf will take this job." Naruto put away his Kunai, turned and walked towards the door. "You can choose Allied Shinobi Forces commander-in-chief yourselves. I'll just go and find that masked bastard and kill him."
Just as Naruto was about to step out the door...
Hinata had been standing at the back of the group with her eyes closed, suddenly covered her eyes.
"Naruto-kun!" Hinata's voice was filled with suppressed pain, and the veins around her pure white pupils bulged, as if her optic nerve had been ignited by an invisible thread of fire.
Naruto instantly appeared beside her, his golden Chakra flowing into her meridians through his palm. "What's going on?"
"The Land of Lightning... towards Lightning Cloud Gorge." Hinata gasped for breath, her Byakugan fixed on the southeastern horizon. "Such immense... such malevolent Chakra. There's an extremely chilling spiritual fluctuation that directly severed the Leyline in that area!"
Meanwhile, the old site of Lightning Cloud Gorge.
Sasuke stood on the broken rock, gripping the Kusanagi Sword. Not far away, Itachi Uchiha's black robe embroidered with red clouds fluttered in the wind.
The two brothers hadn't uttered their first words yet.
The sky suddenly tore open.
A dark red blood coffin, which should have been located underground in the Land of Iron, crashed through the dome of Lightning Cloud Gorge like a meteorite, accompanied by a piercing sonic boom.
"Boom!"
Most of the mountain peak was flattened, and dust billowed into the sky.
Immediately afterwards, a pale white root of Wood Release rose from the ruins, piercing through the clouds like a sharp sword.
A man clad in dark red armor, with long hair reaching his waist, slowly emerged from the shattered coffin. He twisted his cracked neck, his crimson Sharingan coldly surveying Sasuke and Itachi below.
"That brat Obito, finally decided to release me, huh?" Madara Uchiha brushed the dust off his shoulder, a haughty smile curving his lips.
Deep within Lightning Cloud Gorge, the Eight-Tails, which had just awakened, let out an extremely shrill roar.