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Chapter 114: Konoha VS Kirigakure
The moment the Kirigakure forces advanced deeper into the abandoned camp, the ground beneath them lit up with sealing bombs.
"What?!" a Kirigakure captain from Group A shouted, caught completely off guard by the trap.
Chains of explosions erupted from the earth and the invading shinobi tried to run but the ground instantly wrapped around their ankles, holding them in place. Some managed to slash themselves free but others were dragged to their knees as suppressive seals activated beneath them, disrupting their chakra flow before they could even process what was happening.
"Now!" a voice echoed from the darkness and Konoha moved all at once.
From hidden trenches and elevated ridges, Hyuga shinobi leapt forward with the veins of their Byakugan bulging around their eyes. The mist that Kirigakure had relied upon meant absolutely nothing to them.
"Eight Trigrams!"
A Hyuga jonin blurred through the battlefield, palms striking against chakra point after chakra point, dropping Kirigakure shinobi mid-attack before they could even raise a defense. The Hyuga were a clan that had devoted generations to the art of taijutsu and every strike they landed sealed off another chakra pathway, shutting down the body of their enemy one point at a time.
"Left flank! Three squads advancing!" another Hyuga called out, acting as a living radar for the rest of their forces.
The other Konoha shinobi moved quickly to support the formation. They were not on the same level as the Hyuga or the Uzumaki but they were far from helpless, many of them having received enough training to hold their own and each carrying emergency seals provided by the Uzumaki Clan.
"Activate!" a kunoichi shouted, slamming a seal onto the ground in front of her.
A defensive barrier flared to life just in time to absorb a wave of Water Release bullets that would have torn through the line behind her.
Another team from Kirigakure retaliated without hesitation.
"Water Release: Great Tearing Current!"
Two hundred Kirigakure shinobi unleashed the same jutsu simultaneously and the result was devastating, a massive surge of water sweeping across the ground and smashing into the barrier with enough force to shatter it completely, sending several Konoha shinobi tumbling backward.
"Hold formation!" an Uzumaki leader roared above the chaos.
Behind the Hyuga frontline, Uzumaki shinobi worked in synchronized movement with sealing tags flying like paper birds and attaching to enemy weapons before detonating in sharp bursts. Suppression seals activated mid-air, weakening incoming Water Release techniques before they could fully form and reach their targets.
But the numbers pressing against them were overwhelming, eight thousand Kirigakure shinobi surging forward in relentless waves with no sign of slowing down.
"Press them! Break their formation!" a Kirigakure commander shouted from somewhere deeper in the mist.
The mist thickened again and swallowed visibility for everyone on the battlefield except the Hyuga. Swords clashed and bodies collided in the fog with shinobi on both sides fighting half blind, relying on sound and instinct as much as sight. A civilian shinobi barely managed to block a sword strike with trembling arms before a Hyuga palm strike came from beside him and shattered the attacker ribs entirely.
"Do not freeze!" the Hyuga barked. "Keep moving!"
On the eastern ridge, Uzumaki chains lashed out and bound entire squads together before explosive seals detonated beneath them, turning the ground into a storm of water, wind, sealing light and blood.
Kirigakure adapted faster than expected.
"Target the seal users!" one of their elite captains ordered sharply. "Cut off their support!"
A strike team broke through the outer line and headed directly toward the Uzumaki formation, moving with the kind of coordination that spoke of a unit that had drilled this exact scenario many times before. An elite Uzumaki stepped forward to meet them without any visible concern.
"You think we are defenseless?" he muttered quietly before slamming both palms onto the ground beneath him.
A massive spiral seal ignited and sucked in the incoming water techniques, dispersing them harmlessly into steam before they could reach anyone behind him. Hyuga reinforcements dropped in from above a moment later to cover his flanks.
"Protect the Uzumaki!"
The fighting grew heavier on every side with bodies falling on both sides but thanks to the healing scrolls distributed before the battle began, the wounded were pulled back quickly and patched up before being sent back into the line. Other shinobi stepped forward immediately to fill every gap that opened.
Kirigakure had come expecting to find fear and instead found something that frustrated their captains deeply.
"Why will they not break?!" a Kirigakure captain growled through gritted teeth.
A Hyuga shinobi answered without looking at him, sealing another enemy chakra point with a calm and practiced strike.
"Because this is our home and we have no intention of giving it up."
The war between Kirigakure and Konoha had fully begun with neither side willing to retreat.
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The mist thickened until it swallowed the battlefield whole. For ordinary shinobi it was suffocating, the sound becoming distorted and enemy shapes blurring into shadows that could be anywhere at once. But against the Hyuga Clan, the mist jutsu that Kirigakure had spent generations perfecting meant very little.
"Byakugan."
Veins bulged around their pale eyes as dozens of Hyuga activated their dojutsu at once and the battlefield transformed completely in their vision, every enemy position laid bare regardless of the fog surrounding them.
"They are trying to flank from the right," a Hyuga jonin called out calmly. "Three squads, twenty meters out."
"Left rear as well," another added without missing a beat. "Underwater approach."
Kirigakure had trained their entire lives to fight inside mist and it was their greatest weapon, their pride and the foundation of their identity as shinobi, but today it was doing nothing for them.
"Damn those eyes!" a Kirigakure captain cursed.
"Water Release: Hidden Mist Blade!"
Water condensed into razor-sharp projectiles and slashed forward into the fog but the Hyuga had already moved before they arrived.
"Eight Trigrams, Rotation!"
A spinning dome of chakra erupted outward and deflected every incoming water blade, scattering them into harmless spray in every direction before the Hyuga counterattacked without pausing.
"Thirty-Two Palms!"
A chunin blurred forward and struck a Kirigakure shinobi before the man could react, sealing chakra point after chakra point in rapid succession until the enemy collapsed and could not move at all.
"They can see us! Switch to pressure formation!" a Kirigakure leader shouted in desperation.
Multiple Water Release techniques erupted simultaneously, tidal waves and high-pressure bullets and spears of condensed water all launching at once toward the Hyuga line. The formation shifted seamlessly in response.
"Second rotation!"
Another dome of spinning chakra neutralized the frontal assault while rear-line Hyuga used precise palm strikes to intercept shinobi attempting to slip through from the sides. A Kirigakure assassin appeared behind a Hyuga branch member with a blade already poised for a silent kill but the strike never connected. Without even turning around, the Hyuga stepped aside and struck backward.
"Eight Trigrams, Two Palms."
The assassin vision blurred immediately as his chakra network destabilized all at once, dropping him to the ground.
The mist that had always been Kirigakure greatest advantage now felt like it was working against them, hiding nothing from the eyes that could see through everything.
"Focus on other shinobi first!" someone from the Kirigakure side shouted but even that was useless. The Byakugan granted 360 degree vision with no blind spots and no exceptions, making ambush impossible and even underwater movement clearly visible as chakra shimmering beneath the surface.
One Kirigakure elite attempted a desperate tactic and created dozens of water clones to overwhelm a Hyuga squad through sheer numbers. The Hyuga captain looked at them for barely a moment before moving.
"Clones are hollow," he said simply, dashing forward and striking only the true body among them with complete accuracy. The real shinobi dropped instantly.
Fear began spreading quietly through the Kirigakure ranks as the reality of their situation set in.
"They are reading every movement!"
"We cannot get close!"
Hyuga palm strikes found their targets again and again, sealing chakra points with an efficiency that left Kirigakure shinobi as dead weight on the ground within seconds of contact. The ground was becoming littered with immobilized enemy shinobi who had no way to continue fighting.
A Hyuga jonin stepped over a fallen enemy without slowing his pace.
"You chose the wrong battlefield to bring that jutsu to," he said evenly.
But Kirigakure refused to collapse entirely, holding their ground through sheer numbers and endurance until the fighting had stretched across an entire day and both sides had simply run out of the energy needed to continue pushing forward.
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Chapter 140: Pregnant
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Chapter 142: Shocked
Chapter 143: New Plan
Chapter 144: Danzo And Hiruzen
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