Escape From Konoha

The land of fire, Konoha.

Under the quiet night, there were a large number of people moving around in the streets and alleys.

After the residents were relocated, and only a thousand ninjas were left stationed in Konoha, it could be said that it was extremely weak.

Considering that this place is located in the rear of our own camp, patrol troops are also deployed along the coastline of the Country of Fire. It is impossible for the enemy's large forces to quietly bypass the patrol troops and the fifth alliance of the Alliance Army in the west. .

Therefore, the Jonin captain stationed in Konoha was just patrolling the security issues around Konoha Village according to the previous rhythm, and the expression on his face was quite relaxed, without any sense of heaviness.

Rather, in such a fierce battle, being assigned to garrison in the rear area was undoubtedly an easy job. After all, the enemy is very powerful this time, and even a jounin may die inexplicably on the battlefield. There is no safer place now than the rear of the position.

"Asuma."

Kurenai Yuhi, a jounin of Konoha who was already married to Sarutobi Asuma and started to show her belly slightly, saw her husband's behavior tonight was very strange.

Sitting at the window of the study without saying a word, the expression on his face appeared at the intersection of darkness and light, making Hong suddenly feel uneasy.

At least in her memory, she had never seen her husband look so solemn.

Involuntarily, she gently caressed her belly with her palms and screamed softly.

"It's Hong, what's the matter? You should go to rest at this time."

Asuma turned his head and looked at his wife, the expression on his face softened slightly.

"I just came over to check on you. You seem to have been feeling a little off since you had dinner today."

Hong stared at her husband.

If it weren't for the problem with her breath, she would have suspected that the husband in front of her was transformed by someone else using a transformation technique.

But unfortunately, this is Asuma.

It's just another form of Asuma.

"..."

"Are you worried about the war ahead?"

Seeing Asuma's silence, Kurenai walked over slowly and asked.

If Asuma could feel heavy, it was the war on the front lines.

Unlike most of the Konoha jounin who went to fight on the front lines, Asuma took the initiative to take over the task of transferring supplies from the rear and became one of the few jonin guarding Konoha.

First of all, he has a special identity. He is the son of the third Hokage Sarutobi Hiruzen. In this situation, guarding the village can stabilize people's hearts.

Secondly, her wife was pregnant, and as a husband, she did not want to leave Konoha at such a time.

Although the rear is stable, it does not mean absolute safety. Otherwise, when the Hokage left Konoha, he would not have taken away a large number of Konoha ninjas, leaving only more than a thousand people to garrison the village.

It is obvious that the tight fighting on the front lines has led to the emptiness in the rear.

As one of the jounin of Konoha, Kurenai is very aware of the importance of this war, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is the survival of Yuguan Konoha.

"Yes." Asma did not deny it, admitted it, nodded and said: "As expected, the frontline is already fiercely fighting at the moment. The issue of victory or defeat is really worrying. Not I know how Shikamaru and the others are doing."

"Yes, Choji and Ino are fine. I heard that Shikamaru kid took refuge in Gen. I don't understand how Shikakujounin would let this happen."

Maybe it opened up the topic, and Hong hoped to be able to feel more or less her husband's true mood at this time, and a soft smile appeared on the corner of her mouth.

"In order to maintain the balance of the village... Tsunade-sama, no, it seems that with the new Hokage, Konoha will still be like this."

Asuma sighed.

He took out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket, took one out and bit it in his mouth, then picked up a lighter and lit it, his brows furrowed, looking a little more mature and troubled than usual.

"That's enough. Konoha has been experiencing turmoil these years. Wouldn't it be better to let it calm down? I don't want people in the village to kill each other."

Hong lowered his gaze and stroked his slightly bulging belly, a trace of sadness flashed in his eyes.

As a Jonin, she has been exposed to the internal situation of Konoha over the years. She is also a ninja who has been in power through the Third Hokage, the Fourth Hokage and the Fifth Hokage. Compared with the Fourth Hokage, who only ruled for less than a year. , the governing styles of the Third and Fifth Hokages were very different, but in the end, they both made compromises in some places.

These things cannot be hidden from a Jonin.

Her three disciples were from the Hinata, Inuzuka and Aburame clans, plus Asuma, a ninja from the ninja clan and the son of the Hokage. Although she did not participate in the Fifth Hokage's reform plan, as a bystander, she saw Not a lot of things arrived.

Perhaps because of her marriage and pregnancy, she was very dissatisfied with the internal fighting and only hoped that the situation in the village could be stabilized.

After hearing this, Asma just nodded and did not make any comments on his wife's words.

Even he is constantly changing his position through learning and growth in the turbid world.

He smoked a cigarette and blew out a puff of smoke, which dissipated in the night wind outside the window, making his expression look even more melancholy.

After a long time, he stood up from the chair by the window, put out the cigarette butt that was about to reach the end, and placed it in the ashtray on the window sill.

"Are you leaving?"

Kurenai moved closer to Asuma.

She knew she couldn't be careless while stationed in the village.

Asuma is one of the jonins who are in charge of Konoha. Unlike her, who can only manage logistics at the moment, her burden is not easy even at this moment.

"Don't worry, I'm fine."

Asuma hugged Kurenai's body in his arms, feeling each other's heartbeat and temperature.

Hong closed her eyes tightly and leaned against Asuma's shoulder, wanting to feel more of her husband's body temperature before leaving.

"Sorry, Hong, just have a good sleep tonight."

Kurenai suddenly heard this and realized something was wrong. As a result, her consciousness suddenly fell into darkness. She lay on Asuma's shoulder and fell asleep.

Asuma picked up Kurenai and walked towards the bedroom. He gently placed her on the bed and covered her with the quilt.

"Then you wake up and it's all over."

Asma looked at his wife's peaceful sleeping face after a sound sleep. Where the shadows and moonlight met, her expression flickered.

From the darkness in the corner of the bedroom, two figures, a man and a woman, came out.

"Is it time?"

Asuma asked two of his close relatives in the family.

Since the Fifth Hokage ascended the throne, various divisions have occurred even within the Sarutobi clan.

No, this kind of separation existed as early as the reign of his father, the Third Hokage.

It has been going downhill, the external battles have continued to end in disastrous defeats, and internal suspicions and purges have been encountered. The third Hokage wants to take care of both ends, but nothing can be done. No matter who it is, they will feel sorry for such high-level officials and such a village. People are panicked.

In the final analysis, Tsunade should not have come back to inherit the position of the Fifth Hokage. When she came back, she should do her job well and not always irritate the people below.

If this continues, Konoha can continue to survive and delay the split.

Once he comes back, he still thinks about internal stimulation, and the external environment is extremely unstable, which can only continue to accelerate Konoha's death. Especially the first thing after returning, being forced by the last of the Sannin and the other senior officials to start a war with the Kingdom of Demons was also a bad move. After all, a newly returned Hokage caused the village to suffer a disastrous defeat and the road ahead was blocked.

The dirty political games of adults.

But if you say dirty words, you won't be much better. After all, he was the first to open the gap for the Sarutobi clan, and then through the gap on the Sarutobi clan's side, he bridged the gap with the three Ino, Deer, and Butterfly clans.

"Yes, Asuma-sama."

Two close relatives of the same clan replied respectfully.

"Hong, please take care of me. Stay here tonight. No matter what you see or hear, don't think about going out. This way, you will be safe and there won't be any accidents."

With these words, Asma's figure disappeared from the bedroom.

…

The roaring explosion sounded under the empty and quiet night sky.

The fire that shot up into the sky instantly became a sea of ​​​​fire, engulfing an area of ​​land and immediately attracted the attention of the patrolling troops in Konoha.

"What's going on? Why was there an explosion there?"

"That's the territory of the Hyuga clan. Has it been attacked?"

The patrol that stopped looked towards the area where the fire was burning, and they immediately recognized the clan land belonging to the Hyuga clan there.

Like most ninjas, many ninjas from the Hyuga clan have also been deployed to the front lines, using their Byakugan to eliminate traps for the Alliance's reconnaissance and patrol forces. It can be said that they are the most important eyes of the Alliance.

And it's not just the split family, I heard that even the Zong family sent many people there, which shows how tight the battle situation on the front line is.

Therefore, just like Konoha's rear area was empty, the Hyuga clan's defensive power also became empty at this time.

There are less than thirty ninjas left in the branch who are defending the clan area, and the rest are from the clan.

"Go over and have a look!"

The patrolling Jonin captain couldn't figure out what was happening in the Hyuga clan's territory.

Were you attacked?

No, not possible.

With the existence of Byakugan, how could the Hyuga clan's territory be raided.

That is beyond the limit of the exploration-type blood inheritance of sensory ninjutsu. It is absolutely impossible for anyone to hide from the Byakugan's detection and attack the Hyuga clan.

But this sudden fire, the pillar of fire that rushed into the sky, did not look like a simple fire, but a scene that only appeared after being attacked by some kind of powerful fire escape.

The Jonin captain was confused and had no choice but to take people there in person to find out what happened to the Hyuga clan.

Of course, not only the patrol unit he led, but other patrol units also began to gather towards the Hyuga clan with purpose, and they all wanted to find out the truth of the matter.

Was it a simple fire or was it attacked?

The Hyuga clan's territory was now surrounded by endless fires, and all the darkness and coldness were driven away by the blazing fires.

A large number of wooden buildings were illuminated by firelight, and every street was eerily quiet. There was not a single human figure, and only the crackling sound of burning wood could be heard clearly in people's ears.

The mansion in the deepest part of the Hyuga clan is where the elders of the clan usually gather.

When war comes, the elders of the Zong family basically stay at home and control the situation remotely.

However, at this moment, all the clan elders fell down on the wooden floor of the room with no strength. From their slightly blue faces, it could be seen that they were collectively poisoned.

In the entire room, there was only one figure intact, standing in the center of the conference room, looking with a smile at the group of senior figures from the clan who had fallen on the ground and were usually aloof.

"Hana...Hanabi...what are you doing?"

"Why……"

Looking at the young girl who was only eleven or twelve years old in front of them, the elders of the clan were all shocked and incredulous. They did not expect that the would-be heir of the clan was extremely respectful to them in Pingdi and handled the things they arranged well. , will poison them collectively at this time.

They really couldn't understand why Hanabi did this and what the reason was.

You must know that most of them here are supporters who agree with her taking over the position of head of the clan.

Perhaps thinking of something, a clan elder reluctantly opened his mouth and said:

"Okay, Hanabi, stop playing around. Even if part of you disagrees with you, you don't have to use this method. It's enough to stop the prank. If you continue to play around, it's really too much..."

Up until this point, some people still thought it was Hanabi's prank.

The reason lies in some clan elders who did not support her becoming the heir of the clan, and the rest of the clan elders could only be innocently involved.

However, Hanabi still stood there, holding a kunai tied with a pink doll in her hand, playing with it as if nothing had happened, turning a deaf ear to the words that came to her.

"Hanabi! Stop messing around!"

"Get rid of the poison quickly! We agree to abolish Hinata's status as heir and make you the head of the clan!"

"Do you want to rebel? Don't forget, you will also be a member of the Zong family!"

The clan elders' voices came and went, either scolding or threatening Hanabi.

At this moment, the door of the conference room suddenly opened, scorching wind blew in from the outside, and the light of the fire burning outside illuminated the dark room.

Tokuma, Hanabi's guard, walked in with several Hyuga ninjas.

Their expressions were cold, and their faces, hair, and clothes were all stained with fresh, warm blood that they had no time to wipe off.

"You're late."

Hanabi, who had been laughing and saying nothing, finally turned around, played with the kunai in his hand, and looked at Tokuma and the others, whose bodies were filled with the smell of blood.

Perhaps the smell of blood on their bodies was too strong, causing Hanabi's brows to frown slightly, expressing dissatisfaction.

"Uh... I'm sorry, I wasted a little time to deal with the patrol ninjas who came over. After all, there are jonins inside. Even with the convenience of a sneak attack, it's not something that can be dealt with in a few or two strokes."

Tokuma walked over and said with a smile.

As he was speaking, there was a buzzing sound in the sky outside, and a flying ninja tool carrying people, like a group of angels of death descending gracefully, appeared in the sky above Konoha.

Explosions and fire became the only theme of Konoha tonight.

Even the ground could clearly feel the vibration.

The sound of fighting in the distance gradually began to get louder, and it was unknown how many people had joined tonight's hunting ceremony.

But the only thing that can be known is that Konoha has become a prison that only people can enter and cannot leave.

The bursting firelight and the continuously blooming fireworks illuminated the wooden leaves as bright as day.

"you……"

After hearing the conversation between Hanabi and Tokuma, as well as the fighting and explosions outside, some clan elders finally realized that something was wrong, and their expressions changed.

Unfortunately, even if they realize something is wrong, they cannot activate the curse seal of the caged bird at this time.

The chakra in their bodies was in a stagnant state, their body limbs were weakened, and the poison was more erosive than imagined. Some of the weaker clan elders found that they had lost the strength to even speak, and strange things even appeared in front of their eyes. Hallucinations, dull eyes and expression.

Illusion poison.

The elder of the clan, who was still awake and well-informed, could immediately tell what kind of poison Hanabi was using to deal with them.

It is a specially formulated poison that can produce illusion effects and is specifically targeted at ninjas.

"Is this all?"

Tokuma ignored the glares of the clan elders, just looked at them and asked aloud.

"Yes, because they are too scared, they have been hugging each other here to keep warm since the beginning of the war. It's a good thing they are like this, otherwise they would have wasted a lot of energy if they wanted to catch them all."

Hanabi held a kunai with a pink doll tied to it, and skillfully trimmed her beautiful nails. From time to time, she spread them out to admire them. She felt that her hands were so pleasing to the eye, and they looked fuller and slender under the light of the fire.

Tokuma nodded, knowing that these clan elders usually bossed the branch family around, but when they encountered someone who was afraid, they were no different from ordinary people. Maybe like ordinary people, they would still behave badly when faced with a more terrifying power.

Many of them have been living in the clan since the establishment of Konoha, gnawing on the flesh and blood contributed by the branch families. Their wills and souls are almost rotten.

Arriving next to a clan elder, Tokuma stretched out his palm and roughly grabbed the other person's pale hair.

The rough force made the clan elder feel as if his scalp was being torn open by Tokuma, and he let out a scream.

"Do you want to vent your dissatisfaction by torturing them? After following me for so long, I didn't know you actually had this kind of hobby."

Hanabi glanced at Tokuma strangely, as if she was meeting him for the first time.

Tokuma smiled bitterly and said: "I'm not that bad-tempered. Although these guys are indeed hateful, venting on a group of dying people is meaningless. But there are a few guys here who were nominated by Ayane-sama. I heard that When Ayane-sama was still in Konoha, she received a lot of 'care' from these people, so she wanted to personally 'repay' them in the future. More than thirty years ago, the caged bird mark on Ayane-sama's forehead was This old guy planted it himself."

Hanabi nodded understandingly.

To resolve the cause and effect, it is definitely more meaningful to do it yourself.

"I know that being petty is a common problem among women. I didn't expect that more than thirty years later, she would still be obsessed with this kind of thing."

"Uh... Hanabi-sama is also a woman, right?"

"No, I am still a pure and harmless girl."

Hanabi replied seriously.

"..."

Tokuma was speechless, not knowing how to answer.

"Hyuga Ayane! Are you that bitch——"

At this time, the clan elder whose hair was grabbed by Tokuma suddenly went crazy.

It was as if he had seen something extremely terrifying and suddenly went insane. He began to speak incoherently.

After all, the name 'Hyuga Ayane' has too great destructive power for the Konoha Hyuga clan.

Over the years, Konoha has been taken care of by the Kingdom of Ghosts. Similarly, the Hyuga clan of Konoha has also received similar treatment, and that person has no intention of hiding his traces, and directly tells the clan members who they are. While taking advantage of the momentum of the Kingdom of Demons to deal with Konoha, he took the opportunity to target them.

Before the clan elder could continue to curse madly, Hanabi turned her head sharply and looked at him with a pair of white eyes.

"shut up!"

Buzz!

The clan elder's brain suddenly trembled, and blood spurted out from his mouth, nose, and ears. The severe pain made him take a big breath, but he was still unable to breathe. It was as if all the pain was choked in his throat and could not be transmitted smoothly to the outside of his mouth.

This kind of stimulation that wanted to scream in pain and relieve the pain, but ended up hoarse and silent, made fear appear in the eyes of this clan elder.

Especially when he looked at Hanabi's emotionless white eyes, which had a strange light and a faint murderous intent, this fear became even more deeply rooted in his heart.

Vaguely, the young image of the other party began to overlap with the figure of someone else.

Although he is still very immature, his tendency has already changed.

Tokuma looked at Hanabi's eyes with lingering fear. Although he was not targeted, the invisible wave that spread just now still made his body tremble.

"Hanabi-sama, this person is..."

Tokuma whispered, fearing that if the other party got excited, he would throw the kunai in his hand at the clan elder and kill him with one blow.

"I know, I won't mess around. Anyway, I'll leave this to you. I have something else to do, so I'll take the first step."

Hanabi put the girlish kunai holding the pink stuffed doll back into her ninja bag and walked outside.

In the corridor outside the door, there were two Jōnin from the Kingdom of Demons wearing chakra armor, waiting respectfully.

And these two people both have white eyes. They come from the Hyuga clan of the Kingdom of Demons.

…

Fighting and screaming.

The buzz of flight, the detonation of bombs and ninjutsu.

Houses are collapsing, streets are being damaged, it's happening in Konoha every moment.

But there is also a place to stay out of the matter, and that is the realm belonging to the ninja clan.

Compared to the area where the fighting was going on, this place seemed particularly quiet, and it was eerily quiet.

There was obviously a considerable amount of manpower gathered, but no one went out to support the battle.

All tribesmen were ordered not to leave the tribe's territory, and they would bear the consequences if they left to join the war.

But even so, there were still ninjas who participated in the war, but their resistance was later met with more violent treatment by the flying troops in the sky. A large number of bombs were dropped, and the entire clan was blown to pieces, with no bones left.

Even if you drill dozens of meters underground, you can't escape.

The ninja clan who failed to participate in the battle just watched helplessly as they saw the Konoha ninjas covered in blood who came to ask for help. As a result, they were blocked in front of the gate of the clan and died in the encirclement and suppression of the enemy, bleeding in front of their eyes.

Countless figures were moving in the streets, running through the fire. Ninjas holding ninja tools, ninjas performing ninjutsu, and non-ninja troops. They moved like locusts destroying the world.

No matter how brave the Konoha ninjas participating in the war are, as long as they have not put down their weapons and still have the thought of fighting, they will be drowned in the sea of ​​people and unable to make a splash.

How many people are attacking Konoha now?

Ten thousand people?

Or 100,000 people?

Or more?

In short, there were sounds of fighting everywhere. When Konoha was invaded to this point, it was meaningless to count the number of enemies.

Naturally, not all of the attacking enemies are fighting. Most of them are just passing through Konoha and rapidly advancing towards the west of the Fire Country.

The city walls were shattered, the armored tanks rolled, and the steel cannons stood upright, crushing the road and advancing.

Their target is self-evident, the Fifth Regiment of the Confederate Army.

Seeing their former comrades die in front of them, while he went beyond the limits because of his family's orders, this feeling of pain and anger made all the ninjas from the ninja clan sit on the ground in despair, with blank eyes, Looking at the village that is about to perish in the war.

In the end what happened?

How did this group of people get in?

Why didn't the clan elders let them join the war?

Obviously half an hour ago, the village was as peaceful as ever, but the next moment it was plunged into a fierce war.

Everything happened so suddenly that everyone was caught off guard.

The Konoha ninjas who participated in the battle behaved like a mantis using its arms as a chariot. Before they could get close, they were reduced to ashes and disappeared under the attack of shells and ninjutsu. Their resistance was as weak as that of a baby.

The horn that tore apart the sky was recited throughout Konoha.

The commander standing high up, twirling the flag in his hand, guided the action route for the infantry and mechanical troops filling the streets below.

Different from the outside world where artillery fire is everywhere, in the deepest part of the ninja clan that has not participated in the war, the elders who control the fate of the family gather together, listening to the roar of artillery fire and ninjutsu, and the sound of horns that continue to attack, their expressions are silent .

"Elder, more than ten members of our three clans have left their clans and gone out to join the war."

Outside the room, a figure fell down, lowered his head, and reported softly to the elders of the three clans of Pig, Deer and Die in the room.

Judging from his depressed expression, he must be in a very gloomy mood, with an atmosphere of sadness covering his whole person.

The elders in the room just stared at the floor in front of them, as if they didn't hear anything.

Even if there are tribesmen outside who question their decision and want to live and die with Konoha from the bottom of their hearts, they remain silent like wooden people, not praising, not scolding, and not explaining.

"Haha, this night is really long."

For a long time, only the old man's hoarse voice came, and a burst of self-deprecating laughter.

The figure outside the house who was responsible for delivering the order lowered his head, hiding his figure in the darkness.