"You must be tired."
Rong Lin sighed, looking at the slight fatigue on Uchiha Diqin's face. It wasn't easy for a young lady from the Uchiha clan like Uchiha Diqin to do these things.
One must know that even during wartime, female members of the Uchiha clan rarely left the village to fight. What you usually saw were men.
"Yes, a little, but I feel very fulfilled inside."
Uchiha Diqin smiled and nodded, a satisfied and happy smile on her face: "But I feel like you're growing taller and taller."
Girls develop earlier, and she was older than Rong Lin. Their heights used to be similar, but now Uchiha Diqin was depressed to find that Rong Lin had surpassed her and was continuously widening the gap.
"I'm a man!"
Uchiha Diqin's speechless question made Rong Lin a little frantic.
As a grown man, if he was even shorter than a woman, what the hell was he doing at 19?!
His body's rapid growth made Rong Lin feel much more relaxed. At least he no longer looked like a snot-nosed kid.
"Hehe, you're a boy, not a man."
Uchiha Diqin was amused by Rong Lin's answer. Rong Lin rolled his eyes: "Do you want to try?"
"Try then, it's just..."
Uchiha Diqin didn't react and immediately retorted, but halfway through her sentence, she realized something was wrong. Her beautiful eyes widened as she looked at Rong Lin's mischievous smile, and her face instantly turned red:
"Nonsense, what nonsense are you talking about?! We're still young!!! You're not allowed to think dirty thoughts!"
"You're the one overthinking it. I wasn't thinking dirty thoughts. Help me prepare water, I want to take a bath."
"Are you treating me like a maid?!"
"Do you want me to go outside and find someone else to help?"
"..."
Despite the suspicion of being treated as a maid, Uchiha Diqin obediently went to prepare water for Rong Lin to bathe. She kept muttering something, which made Rong Lin laugh out loud when he overheard it.
"Treating me like a maid, I'll beat you to death! Just you wait!"
These were the words Uchiha Diqin kept muttering.
Smoke filled the air, the smell of blood drifted with the wind, and killing intent soared. The cruel side of war completely erupted. Both Konoha and Sand Ninja Village suffered heavy losses, and countless people remained on this battlefield, becoming history.
Some could recover some remains, while others couldn't even find their bodies.
Konoha's reinforcements arrived as Sakumo Hatake had hoped, and the war began to fully erupt. With sufficient personnel and supplies, Sakumo Hatake launched a counterattack, driving the Sand Ninja back step by step. This showed how strong Konoha's foundation was.
"Where the hell have you been, you bastard?! You're the supreme commander, do you know that?!"
"But what did I see?! The supreme commander is gone!! Personally carrying out a mission, couldn't someone else go?"
Konoha driving back the Sand Ninja was good news. The news spread back to the village, enveloping Konoha in joy, because in the villagers' minds, when Konoha continuously won during wartime, the war would soon end. Unfortunately, this time they guessed wrong; the Sand Ninja were not just tenacious.
At this time, Jiraiya, who had been out on the run, returned to the camp, and the first thing he was met with was Sakumo Hatake's roar.
"Hehe, a secret mission. I needed to confirm whether the Land of Wind would use any forbidden powers to join the war."
Facing the furious Sakumo Hatake, Jiraiya laughed it off. He had made up his mind that at this moment, he absolutely couldn't confront Sakumo Hatake. He needed to soften him up first, to avoid Sakumo Hatake's wrath.
Rong Lin watched Sakumo Hatake roar at Jiraiya, sitting to the side as an observer. Although Rong Lin also wanted to beat Jiraiya up right now, he didn't show it.
"What power?"
The furious Sakumo Hatake's attention was immediately diverted.
Jiraiya secretly breathed a sigh of relief, feigning seriousness:
"These past few days, I've infiltrated the Land of Wind to investigate some confidential intelligence, to prevent the Sand Ninja Village from using the power of Tailed Beasts against us. That would be good."
Tailed Beasts were considered a village's ultimate power and wouldn't be easily used. Konoha also had its own Tailed Beast, the Nine-Tails, but the Nine-Tails had never appeared on the battlefield.
The appearance of a Tailed Beast would cause heavy losses to the enemy, but the attacking side wouldn't fare any better, unless they could completely control the Tailed Beast. Otherwise, deploying a Tailed Beast would only bring greater disaster.
"Tailed Beast?"
Sakumo Hatake frowned deeply. He admitted that Tailed Beasts were a huge threat, but would such a war make the Land of Wind willing to unleash Tailed Beasts?
Sakumo Hatake felt that the Sand Ninja Village people weren't that foolish. Tailed Beasts were forbidden weapons of the village, but if you wanted to use their power, you had to constantly guard against their retaliation.
One must know that these Tailed Beasts were forcibly confined, so one could imagine how angry they would be. Historically, there were many instances of Tailed Beasts rampaging and causing countless casualties in villages.
All the Tailed Beasts in the major villages were like this. Relatively speaking, Konoha's Nine-Tails was more stable. The Uzumaki Clan's jinchuriki were very stable. Did the Nine-Tails want freedom? Difficult!
The probability was small, but they still needed to be wary. Jiraiya's words calmed Sakumo Hatake. Sakumo Hatake was angry, but being angry now was useless. However, what Jiraiya investigated was worth pondering.
"I think the probability of that isn't very high."
Sakumo Hatake remained relatively optimistic, not thinking of everything as so serious. After all, controlling a Tailed Beast was too difficult. Otherwise, why didn't Tailed Beasts participate in previous wars?
He didn't know if Sakumo Hatake was particularly tragic, but his predictions usually ended up being the opposite. The Land of Lightning and the Land of Water basically wouldn't join the war, but they did in the end. Tailed Beasts were not easy to control and basically couldn't participate in the war, but they still appeared in the end.
"The probability isn't high, but we still need to be prepared."
Jiraiya's thoughts were different from Sakumo Hatake's. Sometimes, preparing for the worst was actually the best approach.
"What do you think, kid?"
"Kid!"
Jiraiya casually asked, hoping to deal with Rong Lin in the same way and minimize the impact of his running away.
"Lord Jiraiya, did you call me?"
Rong Lin blinked blankly, looking up at him, as if he hadn't heard anything.
"..."
Jiraiya's face immediately darkened with exasperation.
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