"Impossible! Stop fearmongering! You think capturing our leader's son gives you the right to spout nonsense here?"
"I bet that Shibuki is a fake too! You think you can fool us? Trying to make us surrender? Not a chance!"
Watching everyone stubbornly resist, Shibuki finally snapped out of his daze and shouted, "Everyone, run! Everything he said is true! If you don't run now, you'll all die here!"
"Hey! You impostor! Don't think you can shake our morale by pretending to be our leader's son!" someone yelled.
"Enough chatter!" Uchiha Sora frowned, his expression growing impatient.
He raised his hands, formed hand seals, and created a shadow clone.
His original body turned to Uchiha Hao and Uchiha Yi beside him. "I'll leave this to you. I'll leave Shibuki here too. Find a way to make these Takigakure Ninjas stop resisting. Capture as many as you can. If there's no other choice, kill them. With my shadow clone here, they won't be able to cause any trouble."
With that, Uchiha Sora activated the Flying Thunder God Technique and left.
When he reappeared, he was back in Kusagakure.
Victory on the Takigakure front was assured.
But the forces from the Land of Rain still posed a threat to the south.
Amegakure's Ninjas were formidable, almost on par with those of the Five Great Shinobi Villages.
Moreover, Amegakure was backed and run by the Akatsuki. With its deep reserves, it was the most dangerous force to provoke.
Uchiha Sora had sent almost all of Kusagakure's original forces to hold them off, ordering them to take a defensive stance to minimize casualties and buy time.
Yet shortly after he returned, Yakushi Nonō came to report that a large force from the Land of Earth had launched an attack on the western border.
Iwagakure's forces