Minato looked at the blood-soaked boy, his expression complicated.
Perhaps he should not have brought Obito here. After killing so many people, could he truly bear it mentally?
Obito Uchiha panted, unable to stand steadily. After moving so many times, almost none of his Chakra remained.
Just as Obito was about to collapse, Minato Namikaze instantly moved to his side and supported him.
"Thank you, Teacher Minato."
Obito Uchiha wiped the corner of his mouth.
"Obito, perhaps I shouldn't have brought you here..."
Minato Namikaze said guiltily.
"It's fine, Teacher. I would have had to face this sooner or later. Didn't you walk this same path back then?"
Obito Uchiha slowly stood on his own and adjusted his breathing.
Minato Namikaze looked at the sea of people around them.
"This battle will probably have a tremendous impact!"
Land of Earth, Iwagakure.
The Tsuchikage's office in Iwagakure.
Iwagakure's senior officials had all gathered here!
"Hahaha, Konoha surely never expected that our Iwagakure troops were not prepared for the Land of Wind, but for Konoha!"
Ōnoki said with a hearty laugh.
That crafty little old man was delighted by the strategic victory he had achieved!
The senior Tsuchikage officials studied the map. Dong Shiren's troops had driven straight in, and Konoha was steadily retreating under Iwagakure's lightning offensive!
"The situation is excellent! Have my son, Kitsuchi, lead reinforcements to support them once more! Do not stop! Keep attacking!"
Ōnoki gestured grandly at the map!
"Lord Third Generation! Should we transfer the two Jinchuriki from the eastern border to attack Konoha as well? Konoha also has a Jinchuriki."
One of Iwagakure's senior officials suggested.
Ōnoki frowned slightly, then shook his head. "No. The two Jinchuriki are needed to guard against the Land of Lightning!"
With his keen eye, Ōnoki could naturally see that the Land of Lightning would certainly not stand idly by.
He still needed to hold something back against the Land of Lightning!
Just as Ōnoki was rejoicing, an Iwagakure ninja stumbled into the room!
"Third Generation! Terrible news! Urgent intelligence from the front!"
Every senior official's expression changed at once!
"What happened?"
Still looking confused, the old man Ōnoki accepted the report.
The instant he read it, Ōnoki's expression drastically changed!
"How is that possible? Fifty Jonin and three hundred Chunin—the entire vanguard force led by Dong Shiren has been wiped out!"
Ōnoki stared at the intelligence report in shock, disbelief written across his face.
"Looks like Konoha's reinforcements have arrived. Who did Konoha send this time? Someone capable of doing this must be one of the Three Sannin, right?"
"Or perhaps Hiruzen Sarutobi or Shimura Danzō personally took command!"
"It is probably Konoha's main force. Although Dong Shiren's vanguard was not large, fifty Jonin are not so easily dealt with!"
The Iwagakure senior officials all talked at once, guessing who Konoha had dispatched.
Some guessed one of the Three Sannin, some guessed Konoha's main force, and some even believed that Hiruzen Sarutobi or Shimura Danzō might have personally gone to war.
Only Ōnoki stared darkly at the report in his hands.
The report told him that it was not one of the Three Sannin, not Hiruzen Sarutobi or Shimura Danzō, and even less Konoha's main force!
It was two people named Minato Namikaze and Obito Uchiha!
Minato Namikaze—he had occasionally heard that name before.
The last time had been during the Second Shinobi World War.
His two Jinchuriki, Roshi and Han, had encountered Jiraiya's and Minato Namikaze's squad, and the two sides had clashed!
(Regarding Roshi and Han, I know their ages may be a little off, but in Minato's story, they really already looked like that at the time, so I set it according to that timeline.)
"Shut up, all of you!"
Ōnoki roared!
With Dong Shiren's troops annihilated, his fantasy of steamrolling all the way forward had naturally been shattered!
The many Iwagakure senior officials immediately fell silent!
It had to be said that compared to Hiruzen Sarutobi, Ōnoki lived far more comfortably.
Hiruzen Sarutobi had to consider every major clan in Konoha—the Hyuga Clan, the Uchiha Clan, Shimura Danzō, as well as Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura keeping him in check.
But on Ōnoki's side, whatever he said went.
"Find the intelligence on Minato Namikaze and Obito Uchiha!"
Ōnoki said flatly.
When Ōnoki called out those two names, the Iwagakure senior officials froze slightly. It seemed they had all guessed wrong...
Before long, Iwagakure's ANBU placed the files on the desk.
Minato Namikaze, lover of Konoha's Nine-Tails Jinchuriki, inheritor of the Second Hokage's teleportation Technique, and direct disciple of Jiraiya, one of the Three Sannin.
"No wonder he is so strong..."
Ōnoki continued flipping through Obito Uchiha's file.
The moment he read the first line, Ōnoki completely lost it!
Because he had just learned that this so-called Obito Uchiha!
Was only ten years old!
"What the hell? Ten years old?!"
Ōnoki simply could not understand how his troops had been crushed by a ten-year-old brat!
With a grim face, Ōnoki continued reading. The rest was brief.
It only stated that Obito Uchiha was a rising genius and Minato's disciple. That was all.
The rest was merely public information.
For example, Obito Uchiha had graduated at five, become a Chunin at six, and a Jonin at ten. Not only was he Konoha's youngest Jonin, he was also the youngest Jonin in the entire Shinobi World!
After reading it, Ōnoki let out a long sigh after a while!
"Konoha truly has geniuses as numerous as fish crossing a river!"
The Iwagakure senior officials could all see that Ōnoki had been shaken.
"A ten-year-old brat can actually achieve this. Konoha still has the Three Sannin, the heads of its major bloodline clans, and a huge number of main-force troops that have not even been deployed yet..."
For a moment, Ōnoki was somewhat dispirited.
But then, from the corner of his eye, he suddenly saw that stone!
For an instant, his teacher appeared before him!
His teacher Mu, dressed in the finest mummy wrappings and the finest single-character outfit!
Konoha might indeed have many geniuses and powerful experts!
But! So what?!
Back then, his teacher and grandfather had faced Madara Uchiha and Hashirama Senju head-on!
Hadn't they endured it all the same?
No matter how great his pressure was, could it possibly be greater than what his teacher and grandfather had faced back then!?
Ōnoki took the stone from his pocket and pondered for a long time!
He had brought this stone back when he visited Konoha years ago!
When he had faced Madara Uchiha's oppression back then, he had picked up a stone and refused to retreat. Though he had been beaten, the spirit it gave him remained immense!
The Will of Stone! Unmoving as a mountain!
So what if it was the Yellow Flash?
So what if it was the Blood-Red Flash?!
Ōnoki abruptly raised his head, startling all the Iwagakure senior officials!
"The Yellow Flash? The Blood-Red Flash? Are they really that strong?"
"Back then, my teacher, the Second Tsuchikage Lord Mu, led several hundred ninja in an attack on the Hidden Mist Village. They suffered grievous losses and returned in crushing defeat!"
"The following year! My teacher sent five times as many troops! Even someone as formidable as the Second Mizukage, Gengetsu Hozuki, still perished!"
"If three hundred and fifty ninja are not enough!"
"Then use three thousand! Thirty thousand! Three hundred thousand!"
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