Naruto: All My Targets Are Ninjutsu

Chapter 120: Recapture of the Stronghold, and the Encounter with White-Masked Obito (Two-in-One)

Judging from the slash that just killed the Sand Ninja, the actual combat effect of the 75% increase in destructive power is actually not bad.

However, it took three tries to get a "small win," so it's hard to say that it was a profit.

After all, each "gamble" consumes 5% of chakra, and three of them are enough to unleash two ninjutsu, yet the damage output isn't significantly higher. It's fair to say that compared to ninjutsu that require hand seals, sword techniques inflict damage faster, but the uncertainty remains somewhat high.

Regular matches with small bets for fun are fine; you can win no matter what.

However, it's still important to be cautious in crucial matches.

Of course————

This is merely the effect of "gambling" during the "friendly" phase.

Theoretically, as affinity increases, it will undergo two more upgrades and one final promotion. At that point, whether the upgrade results in reduced chakra consumption per dice roll or an increased probability of winning, it will enhance the technique's practicality.

Even if the chance of a "big win" is only 20%, after a dozen or so slashes, it should trigger at least once, right? If it could unleash a "kill-all" attack with a 10% chance, that would be even stronger, with a 225% power boost and a critical hit penetration effect. I estimate that few ninjas could withstand it with their bare hands.

At this time.

Kakashi and his companions also dealt with their enemies one after another.

Kakashi originally wanted to keep them alive to interrogate them about the situation in Oborozuki Castle, but these Sand Ninjas were all tough nuts to crack and refused to say a word. Moreover, Mikami Yu and the others did not have the interrogation methods of the Yamanaka clan, so they had to give up.

After cleaning up the battlefield once again.

The group rested for five minutes before speeding off toward Longyue City.

As they approached the town entrance, another squad came into view. The headbands were too far away to see clearly, but the silhouette of the large black dog lying on all fours was distinctly visible: "Huh, it's Inuzuka-senpai and the others!"

opposite.

Inuzuka Tsurugi and the others also noticed Mikami Yu's group. They turned around and rushed over, stopping when they were about ten meters away. They glanced at the blood-soaked appearance of Mikami Yu and the others and looked surprised: "Oh, you moved so fast? I thought you would take a while to get here."

"How's it going? How many Sand Ninja did you take care of?"

"Twelve."

Kakashi succinctly stated, "Eight at the watchtower, and four reinforcements on the way, have all been eliminated."

"----How many?"

Inuzuka Tsuru looked surprised.

The Konoha Chunin behind her also changed their gaze towards Mikami Yu and the others. They had to admit, she was indeed a disciple of that great one.

Even their team, consisting entirely of Chunin with their captain, Inuya Tsuru, being a Special Jonin, struggled a bit when dealing with the five or six enemies at the Northwest Outpost. They never expected that Mikami Yu's team would achieve such an even more impressive result! And they are all still so young.

If he's already this good at just over ten years old, what will he be like in two more years?

"Well done, you little devils from the Watergate crew."

Inuzuka Tsuru patted Kakashi on the shoulder, grinned, revealing a set of white teeth: "Come with me! Sunagakure shouldn't have many people left at the base, and Minato's probably arrived by now. Let me show you the strength of a Konoha Jonin!"

soon.

The group crossed the long street and arrived near the former Konoha camp, the stronghold of Oborozuki Castle.

The main gate was closed, and several barricades were placed at the entrance.

Inuzuka Tsuru jumped off Kuromaru and landed on all fours like the latter: "Beast Mimicry Ninjutsu: Four-Legged Technique!"

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"Tooth-to-teeth—!"

The man and the dog transformed into two terrifying, rapidly spinning tornadoes, slamming into the heavily closed tent doors like drills with a sharp, piercing sound!

Boom! ...

With the collision between Inuyazuka and Kuromaru, the sturdy tent door, along with the surrounding wooden structure, was torn open by the violent force, leaving a huge gap! Wood chips mixed with shards of iron flew everywhere!

"Wow—that's amazing!"

Nohara Rin couldn't help but cover her mouth and gasp.

Obito was also dumbfounded: "Wow, is this the strength of a Jonin? He can even transform in combination with a ninja dog, that's amazing!"

Strictly speaking, Inuzuka Tsurugi should be classified as a Special Jonin, as his clan's secret techniques have brought him to the Jonin standard in taijutsu and sensory perception, though he lacks in other areas. However, the impact of his "Fang Over Fang" technique is considerable, making Obito and Rin, who currently lack a finishing move, quite envious.

With the main gate breached, Inuzuka Tsurugi and Kuromaru charged into the dust-filled camp without hesitation. The other Konoha Chunin followed suit, ready to throw kunai or unleash ninjutsu.

However----

The expected fierce resistance did not materialize.

When Mikami Yu and his group entered, they saw that the camp was in a mess. There were more than a dozen Sand Ninja corpses lying around. Most of the corpses had wounds on their throats, as if they had been slit in the throat with kunai, leaving only a line of blood.

A few people had wounds on other parts of their bodies, but they could not be seen to have been in a prolonged battle. It seemed that they were killed after a very short fight. Blood flowed on the ground, and the heavy smell of blood was almost suffocating.

"Are we too late?"

Yu Mikami had already guessed what had happened, but he didn't say anything. Instead, he followed the Inuya Tsurugi and the others ahead for a while and saw several Sand Ninja tied to pillars with their hands and feet bound in a large tent in the middle of the camp. They seemed to be prisoners.

In front of them, with his back to Mikami Yuichiro, a blond figure was wiping a kunai.

"Minato-sensei!!"

Obito's shouts broke the silence.

Minato Namikaze turned around, his face still bearing that gentle and harmless smile, as if everything around him was irrelevant: "It's Claw, and also Yu, Obito, and Kakashi. Sorry, I might have arrived too early. I originally wanted to wait for you all to come together."

".——"

Inuzuka Tsurugi had already dispelled his fusion with Kuromaru. He glanced at Namikaze Minato with a complicated expression, and finally just sighed: "Minato, you bastard—just like back in the Ninja Academy, you're a monster. But your disciples are pretty freaks too."

"Oh?"

"You don't know yet, do you? Before they came here tonight, they took care of three Sand Village squads, and they arrived at the city gate around the same time as my squad—"

While Inuzuka Tsurugi was explaining the situation to Namikaze Minato.

Kakashi silently glanced again at the spot he had just passed, then turned his gaze to Mikami Yu—although they were quite different, the scene before him did indeed remind him of what he had witnessed at the northeastern watchtower. Mikami Yu and Namikaze Minato's fighting methods were exactly the same.

so----

Is Konoha about to produce a "White Flash" that is slightly inferior to the "Golden Flash"?

For a fleeting moment, Kakashi felt a strange sense of unease.

soon.

Minato Namikaze and Tsurugi Inuya finished explaining their respective intelligence.

Minato Namikaze handed the Sand Village prisoners over to Tsurugi Inuzuka, who was in charge of interrogating them and gathering information. He then went to Yu Mikami and the others, offering them verbal praise. For a team nominally consisting of one Chunin and three Genin, their performance was indeed outstanding.

However, the reactions of Mikami Yu and the others were all indifferent.

Yu Mikami didn't want to stand out, Kakashi felt pressured, and Obito felt he hadn't achieved anything significant and had only won by default, so he wasn't happy. Only Rin Nohara responded with a few words of laughter, which eased the awkwardness of the situation.

"Alright, it's already past midnight, you guys should go back and get some rest."

Minato Namikaze clapped his hands: "Although we've recaptured this base from Sunagakure, they should get the information soon and may come back. Until a new squad is sent from Wildfire Castle, we need to temporarily take on the responsibility of guarding this place. Getting enough sleep won't do."

"it is good."

Yu Mikami and the others nodded, found an empty tent nearby in the base, tidied up briefly, washed up, and went to sleep.

The next day.

Early in the morning, Mikami Yu woke up under the influence of his biological clock, greeted Kakashi and the others who woke up at the same time, and went out to brush his teeth and wash up.

Inuzuka Tsurugi left early.

She was going to take her men back to the southeast outpost to bring back the wounded soldiers who had been left there, as well as a batch of supplies.

After sending out the intelligence, Minato Namikaze, along with Yu Mikami and the others, began repairing the fortifications inside and outside the base in preparation for a possible attack.

In theory, with Minato Namikaze, a Kage-level ninja, in charge, the defenses of Oborozuki Castle, while not impregnable, are equivalent to having thirty to fifty men stationed there. Unless the Sunagakure forces send out a hundred or so elite troops, they simply cannot pose a threat to this place, let alone breach the stronghold again.

However, the Water Gate team couldn't stay here forever.

For the sake of the Konoha ninjas who will come later, it still needs to be repaired.

For Mikami Yu and his friends, this could be considered a form of training. They could use these purely physical tasks to practice their "superhuman strength" and "shadow clones"—

News of the recapture of the Oborozuki Castle stronghold, along with some of the captured Sunagakure intelligence, was quickly relayed back to Wildfire Castle via ninja pigeons.

Wildfire City, the main base of Konoha's southwestern front.

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"Oh? Minato and the others did a really good job!"

Jiraiya gripped the newly received intelligence scroll, a satisfied smile spreading across his rugged face: "Overnight, not only did we successfully recapture the stronghold, but we also inflicted five or six squads of casualties on the Sunagakure forces. Now, we've completely removed this thorn in their side in the northwest corner!"

next to.

Nara Kashima nodded, calmly analyzing, "That's indeed good news. It seems the name 'Minato's Yellow Flash' is about to become famous in Sunagakure. And those kids he brought are quite capable; they played crucial roles in the assault on the stronghold and the blocking of reinforcements."

"Haha, of course! Minato's eye for selecting disciples is all learned from me, otherwise how could he have found so many geniuses!"

Taking this opportunity, Jiraiya subtly praised himself, then cleared his throat and asked, "So, Kashima, what's the plan for the next steps?"

"————Oborozuki Castle is in an important location and cannot be left empty. I suggest sending two elite Chunin squads in good condition and with rich experience to take over. Before that, Minato's team and Inuyasha's Claw team will temporarily rest and serve as guards there. After the handover is completed, they can take on new reconnaissance or harassment missions."

"Okay. You decide on the candidate, the sooner the better."

at the same time.

The atmosphere inside the Sunagakure front-line camp was heavy.

"What?! The Oborozuki Castle stronghold was recaptured by Konoha overnight? And the outer watchtowers were also completely destroyed?!"

"How could this happen!"

Ishikawa Tetsuyan slammed his fist heavily on the table, his face turning ashen.

"It's said that Minato Namikaze personally took action, killing more than a dozen of us in an instant. Even Lord Kuroda, a Jonin, was like a greenhorn in front of him, barely managing to parry a few blows before being defeated. It's terrifying!"

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Hearing the survivor's account of his narrow escape, Ishikawa Tetsuyan felt a chill run down his spine. He had initially questioned Minato Namikaze's record, believing it was merely a matter of opportunistic trickery using space-time ninjutsu, but now it seemed that the opponent was likely a threat no less than "Konoha's White Fang".

but----

"Since 'Golden Flash' is here, his disciples should be here too, right?"

Ishikawa Tetsuyan looked at his advisor: "Quickly go and fetch Elder Chiyo. Tell her we've discovered Hatake Yu's whereabouts. This is a golden opportunity to avenge Sunagakure!"

Compared to the turbulent outside world, the atmosphere inside Longyue City is relatively relaxed for the time being.

With the arrival of the Konoha ninja from the southeast watchtower, the base became more lively.

Although there are fewer people than before the attack by Sunagakure, only a dozen or so, at least five small teams can be formed to handle daily patrols.

With the manpower pressure reduced, the Mikami Yu team, who had been busy for several days in a row, were given a day off and were free to go out and wander around.

Seeing that the weather was nice, Obito clamored to go out and "investigate" the local conditions, and dragged along Mikami Yu and Nohara Rin, who shared the same idea. Kakashi, on the other hand, used training as an excuse, but actually hugged his orange-covered book and quietly read it in a corner of the base, showing no interest in shopping.

Although it is called Oborozuki "City", it is actually more like a large town that developed based on a major transportation route.

The streets, paved with bluestone slabs, are lined with wooden and stone houses of varying heights, and shops stand side by side. Although the shadow of war has fallen, the lives of ordinary people must go on. Most people on the street are in a hurry, and when they see a ninja wearing a Konoha headband, they will subconsciously avoid eye contact.

"Wow, Lin, look at this!"

Obito was drawn to a roadside stall filled with all sorts of masks.

He looked at them for a while, then picked out a white mask with a spiral pattern from a pile of animal and Noh-style masks. He put it on his face, then turned to Yu Mikami and Rin Nohara and called out, "Yu! Rin! Look at me! Aren't I handsome?"

"Holy crap!"

White-masked Obito?!

When did you arrive?!