Chapter 47: The Attack II

I apologize for the past few days. I got sick, and some things happened. I couldn’t write anything. I spent the days reading some fanfics, but now I’m back. I just hope I’m still in the writing mindset I was before. Before I start writing again, I’ll reread the last ten chapters just to make sure I won’t write anything wrong.

At the ritual site, Tsunade and Mito were conversing in hushed tones, while Yujin stood a little apart, watching Hiruzen giving orders. The attack had begun, and all the decoys created to confuse the enemies were being attacked simultaneously, including the base they were in.

Hiruzen’s priority was to maintain the confusion so that the main force wouldn’t attack the correct location.

Yujin looked over at Tsunade, who seemed worried. They had finished talking as the ritual was beginning. From what Yujin overheard, thanks to his keen hearing, Mito explained her plan and the potential problems, making it clear that there were real chances of everything going wrong.

Seeing Tsunade approach after the conversation, Yujin remarked.

“The attack has started. It seems Iwagakure is also attacking along with Kumogakure. They’ve divided their forces and are attacking the six locations that the Hokage created as decoys, including this one.”

Tsunade nodded, lost in thought. She didn’t seem to have heard, her attention on Mito, who had begun the process of sealing the fox.

Yujin continued to listen to the Hokage, paying attention to the details of the battle outside. He wanted to be prepared with all the details in case he needed to enter the fight.

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At the same time, on the outskirts of the village, the Raikage and the Tsuchikage had just entered the village with some subordinates.

Next to the Raikage was a young man who resembled him; tall, muscular, dark-skinned, blond, with a goatee on his chin. Next to this young man was a small boy, who couldn’t have been more than ten years old, dark-skinned and blond.

“B, does the Hachibi sense anything?”

The Raikage asked as he looked at the boy. He was having trouble finding, among the six locations, the location of the ritual. The forces he had sent were not enough to defeat the forces at the locations, and he wasn’t willing to waste more of his troops in futile battles.

The ritual was what mattered.

He tried sending some sensory ninjas to see if they discovered anything, but they felt nothing. Clearly, the Hokage was prepared and had placed seals at all the locations. Unless they enter the locations, it will be impossible to know what’s inside.

“Whee, whee, yo, yo, he said, yo, so far nothing, yo, wheeee.”

The Raikage rolled his eyes as he saw the boy start to rap.

“When Hachibi senses the Kyuubi’s location, let me know.”

Ignoring the boy who continued with his rap, the Raikage looked at his temporary ally, the Tsuchikage, and commented.

“Do you have any way to find out the correct location?”

The bandaged man remained silent upon hearing the question, thinking of solutions. Unfortunately, it wasn’t so simple. The Third Hokage is known to be experienced in fuinjutsu, not to mention that Mito Uzumaki herself is the greatest fuinjutsu expert from Uzushiogakure. The only thing he could think of was the obvious, to send a larger force to one of the locations and enter the place.

“Unfortunately, no. I think we have to go with the obvious while we wait for a reaction from the Hachibi.”

The Raikage grunted an affirmation, dissatisfied with their incompetence. Unfortunately, they don’t have many fuinjutsu specialists in their villages.

He only has three solutions, although only one of them is currently possible:

Brute force, Hachibi’s senses, or the mysterious contact in the leaf village.

Going for brute force would take time and waste the lives of his subordinates, something he wasn’t willing to do easily. Hachibi, who is also one of the tailed beasts like the Nine-Tailed Fox, has a special connection with the fox, and so they can sense each other through Chakra, but maybe because of the seal, Hachibi still hasn’t felt anything.