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Yugito had to keep the sadness she felt from appearing on her face. She was looking at one of her very few friends who had now turned into her enemy. All because the Raikage said so, while giving a very vague reason.
She was also confused about why she, along with Bee-sensei, was sent to the battlefield in the first wave of Shinobi. From what she learned, Jinchuuriki are seen as a strong deterrent force, who are kept back and safe while only being used in very few situations.
But here she is, spearheading Kumo's attack through the defenses of Konoha shinobi with Bee not far behind. What is the Raikage's aim here?
These were all questions in her head that she buried. Following orders like all shinobi like her are required to, no matter how they feel about the situation.
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The brief standoff between the forces of Konoha and Kumo was broken when Naruto's hands formed a single hand sign. A horse hand seal.
'Katon(Fire style)' Naruto took in a deep breath as he pulled his head back a bit away from his hands with enormous amounts of Chakra entering his respiratory system.
'Gōka Mekkyaku (Majestic Destroyer Flame)' Naruto leaned his head back to the front as he breathed out a thin line of flames while still holding the horse hand sign. After a few meters, the line of flames expanded widely into a literal sea of fire tens of meters wide and almost ten meters tall, with a force that uprooted the earth while scorching it.
"Move out of the way," Yugito shouted with horror filling her voice as she disappeared in a burst of speed enhanced by her bijuu coat. She could feel the scorching heat of the sea of fire while it was still approaching
Her horror was mirrored by the Kumo Shinobi whom were standing behind her. A large number of them hastily followed her example.
But some unlucky ones weren't fast enough.
Screams of pain and anguish sounded across the battlefield. Their screams were mixed with the sound of the roaring flames.
Some of those Kumo shinobi tried to stop the fire with water jutsu, but their efforts weren't coordinated or enough in front of the sea of flames, leading them to meet their ends in agony, surrounded by scorching fire and superheated steam.
The Konoha Shinobi looked at Naruto with awe and a bit of fear as he stopped the release of his jutsu and undid the hand sign.
In Naruto's mindscape, a pair of slitted red eyes had seen what happened. Making their owner remember a certain someone from more than half a century ago. She thanked her lucky stars that her container wasn't like that person. Only a jutsu that made her remember a person she hates deeply.
Naruto's eyes blankly roamed the battlefield as the initial aftereffects of his jutsu lifted.
Naruto had wanted to use a jutsu with a wide range effect to disperse the grouped Kumo forces. It was either a fire release jutsu or a water one. He settled on using a fire jutsu, as using a water one would be like putting a deadly trap around them. Kumo Shinobi are known for Lightning release after all.
With the steam disappearing, an image of carnage was revealed. The ground, trees, and grass are on fire. Ground was overturned by the force of the flow of the fire, burned bodies of Kumo Shinobi littered the ground.
Some Kumo Shinobi were still alive, their bodies still on fire. Some of them could smother it, leaving them moaning and groaning because of their burns. The others weren't so lucky, becoming still as fire still burned on their corpses.
Naruto took in a calming breath, trying to keep his thoughts away from the scent of smoke and burning flesh.
The jutsu he just used, is the pinnacle of Uchiha Fire release techniques. A technique that was recorded by his great-granduncle from his time in the clan war era. A b-rank jutsu that Naruto pushed to the A-rank range, but even with that, Naruto didn't make it as powerful as Tobirama had witnessed. It still lacked power and range.
Naruto couldn't perform that jutsu previously. He was able to do it after his intense training with the fire Chakra nature under Reiko's (Pakura) tutelage, so he could learn the scorch release from her.
"They have scattered. Push them back towards the land of frost. I will take care of their jinchuuriki." Naruto ordered
Hearing the order, the Konoha shinobi woke up from their daze after witnessing such a show of power.
"Yes"
"Hai"
"Kill the Kumo bastards."
"Push them back towards where they came from."
The Konoha Shinobi shouted with vengeance and renewed vigor as they rushed towards the disoriented Kumo Shinobi.
"What type of fire jutsu was that?" Mabui said with a shaky, frightened voice.
"Mabui, Konoha shinobi are closing in," Samui said with a much more even tone, but she too was shaken by the jutsu she just witnessed. She and Mabui were lucky that both were outside the range of the jutsu, but that didn't mean that they didn't feel the scorching heat.
Naruto's eyes watched as Konoha shinobi started clashing with the disorganized Kumo forces. He himself was rushing towards where he could feel Yugito's chakra signature.
"Naruto," Yugito roared as she descended on Naruto's position. Her voice was rough due to the effects of the bijuu chakra
Naruto dodged her attack as she crashed to the ground
He eyed her form, taking in the fully formed Chakra tail with the second one that was forming.
"Why?" Yugito shouted as she rushed towards Naruto and engaged him in a deadly dance of Taijutsu. Her claws are fully out, her eyes slitted, and her features becoming more animalistic by the second. Even though those Kumo Shinobi who died weren't kind to her, they were still people from her village.
"What do you mean by 'why'?" Naruto replied with a cold tone. That reply stunned Yugito, making her stop and look at Naruto with disbelief.
"You seem to misunderstand something. Any sense of understanding and civility we had with your village died the moment your Raikage sent his so-called convoy for Peace negotiations as a disguise to kidnap one of our village's children. And when that failed, the convoy killed one of our Shinobi in the middle of our village. Then he had the gall to demand compensation for locking up those 'convoy' members and releasing them." Naruto said with an ice-cold tone.
"What?" Yugito replied with disbelief in her voice. That was also mirrored by the Bijuu sealed inside her.
"Oh, it seems that the Raikage had sent his shinobi to war without telling them the cause," Naruto said with a mocking tone and smile
"Just remember, whatever happens from now on, it was Kumo who started it. Every Shinobi that dies is because of Kumo's leadership's greed. You can ask them for an explanation when you return." Naruto said with a blank tone as his hand reached for his Katana's handle and pulled it out.
"That if you returned at all," Naruto said with an unintentional sinister undertone as he rushed towards Yugito with Yamato drawn and gleaming from the light that flickered due to the still-burning fire near them.
To be continued.
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