Naruto: People are in Konoha, the system arrived 20 years earlier Chapter 099

Bunta drew his large short blade, bent his knees, and leaped directly into the main battlefield to deal with the Iwa shinobi.

Katsuyu, meanwhile, split into smaller slugs, attaching themselves to the Konoha shinobi to help heal their injuries.

This immediately supplemented some of Konoha’s numerical disadvantage.

The Iwa shinobi quickly began to suffer casualties, and in a short while, two of them had already been lost.

On the other side, Ōnoki, seeing the summoning beasts of Jiraiya and the others appear, frowned slightly, but he didn’t just sit there and wait.

His hands quickly formed seals, and then he continuously spat out clay from his mouth.

“Earth Release: Golem Technique!”

Before long, the clay spat out by Ōnoki transformed into a clay giant.

“Go!”

He then manipulated the clay giant to stop Bunta.

The two large figures soon met, and the clay giant wrapped itself around Bunta from behind, hindering his movements.

Bunta’s movements were obstructed, and he looked back at the clay giant pulling at him with its two thick clay arms.

“So sticky and disgusting, I’ll have to take a bath when I get back!”

And the other Iwa shinobi, relieved by Ōnoki’s support, quickly shouted.

“Now’s our chance, everyone attack together!”

Several Iwa shinobi formed hand seals together and slammed their hands on the ground.

“Earth Release: Moving Earth Core!”

The ground around Bunta instantly sank. Due to the entanglement of the clay giant, Bunta couldn’t leap up immediately to escape the deep pit.

And the Iwa shinobi on the ground, seeing Bunta trapped in the giant pit, began to spit out rocks to attack.

“Earth Release: Stone Golem!”

Solid cannonballs flew towards Bunta. He tilted his head slightly, then swung the short blade in his hand, blocking the incoming projectiles.

Immediately after, Bunta stabbed the clay giant behind him with his short blade, severing one of the arms wrapped around him, and then kicked it away.

After breaking free from the clay giant’s control, he leaped upwards, escaping the giant pit trap.

“This height isn’t even worth looking at,” Bunta said coldly, a hint of disdain in his voice.

The battle dragged on for a while, and finally, other Konoha squads arrived one after another. The pressure on Jiraiya’s squad greatly reduced, and Jiraiya eventually captured Ōnoki alive.

In the end, this skirmish concluded with Konoha losing eight combatants and Iwagakure losing thirty-three.

The remaining seventeen Iwa shinobi were all taken prisoner.

Konoha’s losses were so small mainly thanks to Tsunade and her medical squad.

Jiraiya let out a long breath, gazing in the direction of the Land of Grass, and murmured, “Old man, it’s up to you now.”

Tsunade walked to Jiraiya’s side. “The old man will definitely be fine.”

Jiraiya nodded slightly, then turned back to his teammates. “We should head back.”

Soon, news of the skirmish between the two sides reached Hiruzen.

“Excellent, the initiative is now entirely on our side,” Hiruzen said, his eyes gleaming as he looked at the scroll in his hand.

It was unclear whether the Iwa shinobi were simply unlucky, encountering precisely Konoha’s strongest squad dispatched this time.

If it had been another squad, the outcome might not have been so perfect.

“It’s been a while since I had a chat with Ōnoki,” Hiruzen stood up from his chair, a pipe clenched in his mouth, and ambled out the door.

Not long after, Ōnoki was invited into the conference room.

He saw Hiruzen’s triumphant expression and his heart involuntarily skipped a beat.

Could it be that Ōnoki and his team had failed?

Indeed, there had been no news today. Could something really have gone wrong?

Ōnoki, full of apprehension, sat directly opposite Hiruzen and tentatively asked, “Hokage, is there something you suddenly invited me for?”

Hiruzen, who had been smiling, suddenly dropped his smile and spoke with a serious expression.

“Tsuchikage, that’s what I wanted to ask you. What, you haven’t changed your ways? Sending people to harass our Konoha again?”

Damn it, it seems they were caught. Ōnoki felt a surge of irritation within him.

But he still had to put on a show.

“What are you talking about? I don’t understand.”

“Hmph, a new battle report has come from our front lines. They encountered a fifty-man squad of your Iwa shinobi. After an intense battle, our side suffered heavy losses.” Hiruzen paused for a moment, then his sharp gaze fell on Ōnoki.

“Since this is your attitude, I don’t think there’s any need for our negotiations to continue. Let’s go to war.”

Then, Hiruzen made a move to stand up. Ōnoki quickly reached out to stop him. “Hokage, please wait. I think there might be some misunderstanding here.”

Declaring war now would surely mean that Kitsuchi and his team would be executed as a warning, and that was not what he wanted to see.

“Misunderstanding? Which matter is a misunderstanding, the previous one or this one?” Hiruzen said faintly.

“It’s definitely this one. I remember I dispatched this squad to the Land of Water. I don’t know why they would conflict with your Konoha. This was not my intention,” Ōnoki stood up and said softly.

“We just wanted to borrow your Land of Fire’s path, and I also informed the Daimyo of the Land of Fire about it,” he continued to explain. “Did the Daimyo’s office not communicate with you in time, leading to the conflict?”

This was a contingency plan Ōnoki had prepared. As for the communication with the Daimyo of the Land of Fire, it was done simultaneously when that squad departed.

Calculating the time, it should have just arrived at the Daimyo’s office yesterday, so it certainly wouldn’t have been able to notify Konoha.

Hearing Ōnoki’s explanation, Hiruzen frowned slightly. This old fox, he thought things through quite thoroughly.

Hiruzen immediately switched back to a smiling face. “So that’s what happened. However, no matter what, since we didn’t receive any message, your people approached our village without authorization. Our people were also acting for the sake of the village, which is why a battle broke out between both sides.”

Ōnoki spoke with an apologetic expression. “It was indeed our oversight. We should have discussed it with you first before borrowing the path.”

Hiruzen sat back down. “Alright, even though the misunderstanding has been cleared, you are at fault in this matter. Compensate us for our losses.”

Ōnoki forced a smile that was uglier than a cry and slowly sat down. “Of course, just name your price.”

Hiruzen turned and glanced at Sakumo, who immediately understood.

“In this skirmish, our village lost nearly a hundred combatants. The total compensation for their families amounts to roughly ten million.”

Ōnoki’s mouth twitched. What was going on? No matter how much you exaggerate, you can’t be this ridiculous.

They only sent out fifty people this time. How could they possibly take out so many Konoha shinobi?

Could it be that the people you sent out were all genin?

But there was nothing he could do. History was written by the victors; they could say whatever they wanted.