Tengai Shinsei Versus the Chakra Dragon: The Masked Man Appears

"They're here! The vanguard is all Uchiha Clan, with some Takigakure ninja among them. What do we do? Attack?"

Might Guy kept his voice low.

Kakashi Hatake shook his head. "Not yet. Our first job is to gather intelligence: find out the Uchiha's route and the vanguard's strength. If we charge in now, there aren't enough of us to take them on."

The Uchiha vanguard numbered only thirty, but five of them possessed the Mangekyō Sharingan. The rest were Takigakure ninja.

Five Mangekyō Sharingan users meant five Kage Level fighters.

Even if Kakashi used everything he had, he figured he could only hold off one of them. He could not fight all five.

His friend Might Guy had not used his full strength in earnest for years, but from what Kakashi knew of the last Ninja World War, Guy's ultimate move could certainly hold off one Mangekyō Sharingan user.

That still left three no one could stop, not to mention the Takigakure ninja.

Their best choice was to stay put, not rush into battle.

"We should withdraw," Gekko Hayate said. "If we stay here, they might spot us. Those are Mangekyō Sharingan, not ordinary Three-Tomoe Sharingan."

"He's right. Fall back."

Kakashi and the others withdrew and brought their intelligence back to Konoha.

When Hiruzen Sarutobi learned the Uchiha Clan had even more Mangekyō Sharingan users, regret spread across his face. If he had not joined forces with Shimura Danzō to suppress the Uchiha—even tried to wipe them out—perhaps the clan would never have left the village. All those Mangekyō Sharingan users could have been Konoha's strength.

Now Konoha had not just lost the Mangekyō Sharingan users. Not a single person named Uchiha remained.

The Uchiha army advanced swiftly. When it came within a little over a hundred li of Konoha,