In the forest barely a few miles east of Uzushiogakure, a bloody battle was underway.
The Uzumaki and Senju ninja, led by Uzumaki Hiro'umi, were struggling to withstand the fierce assault of the Kaguya clan, led by Kaguya Wanlü.
What a sharp and fierce fighting style it was, exactly like the Kaguya.
If they entered the Land of Fire, they would likely become one of the top five great clans. It was a pity that the drawbacks brought by their bloodline disease caused the average lifespan of their clan to be extremely short, a difference like heaven and earth compared to the Uzumaki, known as the "Longevity" clan.
To prevent the Uchiha and others from causing trouble during this wedding banquet, the Uzumaki had deployed quite a few people to garrison the west.
But even so, the combined number of Senju and Uzumaki ninja currently fighting the Kaguya was more than fifty percent higher than the opposing Kaguya forces.
The reason they were fighting so passively was that their morale and psychology had suffered a massive impact.
Kaguya Wanlü held a bone spur in each hand, battling Uzumaki Hiro'umi. While wielding the bone spurs, he laughed rampantly, "Hahaha! Uzumaki Hiro'umi, Uzumaki Wakou, have you used all your remaining combat power to deal with us? Is that really wise?"
Uzumaki Hiro'umi frowned, intercepting Kaguya Wanlü's bone spurs while asking, "What do you mean!?"
Kaguya Wanlü deliberately concentrated Chakra in his throat, shouting words that could be heard across the entire battlefield. "Do you think only my Kaguya clan made a move this time? Let me tell you! The Uchiha have come too! Our two clans are attacking from both east and west in a pincer movement. You Uzumaki are finished this time!"
"What!?"
Just as Kaguya Wanlü expected, after hearing these words, many Uzumaki and Senju ninja turned pale with shock, revealing flaws in their movements.
The opposing Kaguya ninja seized these openings, stabbing through heads or necks, reaping countless lives in a single breath.
"Don't be deceived!"
Uzumaki Wakou shouted loudly. "If the Uchiha wanted to come here, they would have to cross the Senju clan lands and my Uzumaki's two western defensive lines. How could they attack here so quickly?"
"Hahaha! Uzumaki Wakou, I say you're stupid and you still won't admit it?"
Kaguya Wanlü's wild laughter was even more rampant than before. "Did you not consider that if my Kaguya could silently enter a position so close to your village, why couldn't the Uchiha?"
"Let me tell you out of the kindness of my heart! The signal flare just now was for the Uchiha to see. They must be about to attack into your village by now, right? Hahaha!"
"Shut your mouth!!!"
Uzumaki Hiro'umi was furious and struck out with his palm.
"Hmph! Flying into a rage out of humiliation?"
Kaguya Wanlü gave a disdainful snort, pulling a large bone spur about a meter long from his shoulder and dancing forward.
Dance of the Camellia!
Just as the two sides were about to crash into each other.
Everyone instinctively felt a sense of fatal crisis.
They braked with their feet and retreated rapidly.
Buzz~~~
A piercing screeching sound rang out.
Immediately following it, a high-speed rotating Wind Release advanced ninjutsu with a Chakra sphere at its center plummeted down.
Boom!!!
The moment the ninjutsu hit the ground, the wind blades and Chakra sphere erupted instantly, forming a super-large spiraling storm sphere a hundred meters in diameter, destroying everything inside with the force of decaying dry weeds and rotten wood.
Looking at the technique before them, Uzumaki Hiro'umi and the others were startled and subconsciously said, "This is... Uchiha Izuna's..."
"You actually dodged the Wind Release: Rasenshuriken."
A teasing voice drifted over. "As expected of the Uzumaki clan, whose sensory abilities are second to none, and the Kaguya clan, experts in Taijutsu."
Everyone looked in the direction the voice came from. They saw Izuna standing leisurely on the branch of a large tree in the rear, grinning. "Sorry about that, Uzumaki Grand Elder. I didn't intend to attack you. I just had confidence in your sensory abilities, that you would absolutely be able to avoid it."
"Uchiha Izuna!?"
Many people cried out in alarm.
Uzumaki Wakou and the others gritted their teeth even harder. "Damn it, so the news that the Uchiha came is actually true?"
Kaguya in the east, Uchiha in the west, and Senju Hashirama's reinforcements nowhere in sight. This was truly troublesome!
"First time meeting, Vice-Clan Head Izuna."
Kaguya Wanlü tried to get cozy. "Our two clans joined forces to attack the Uzumaki this time, but we didn't plan beforehand how to carve up the Land of Whirlpools. How about we discuss it slowly after we thoroughly capture Uzushiogakure?"
Uzumaki Hiro'umi's face was dark to the extreme.
Victory and defeat hadn't even been decided yet, and they were speaking as if the outcome was already set.
He even had the audacity to talk about carving up his Uzumaki clan!
"Oh, Clan Head Wanlü of the Kaguya. First time meeting."
Izuna leaped down from the tree branch and strolled to the center of the battlefield. Not a single person dared to block his path.
"That sounds very tempting, but unfortunately, let's forget it."
Izuna feigned a look of regret.
Everyone's expressions changed again, unable to figure out what Izuna wanted to do.
But this answer was definitely not good news for the opposing Kaguya clan.
Kaguya Wanlü's face darkened. "Vice-Clan Head Izuna, what is the meaning of this?"
Izuna smiled. "To be honest with everyone from the Kaguya, the Uzumaki have just reached an agreement with me. They are willing to marry Princess Uzumaki Mito to me as a wife. In exchange, I will repel you, the Kaguya."
"On my wedding day, I don't really want to see blood. Everyone from the Kaguya clan, please leave."
Kaguya Wanlü and the others stared until their eyes were round as bronze bells. But before they could respond, Uzumaki Hiro'umi in the back couldn't help but roar, "Spouting nonsense! When did this old man agree to such a thing!?"
"I don't need the Grand Elder's agreement. When I visited Uzushiogakure just now, Princess Mito agreed to it personally."
Izuna turned to face Uzumaki Hiro'umi. "It was also at her request, on the condition that she return with me to the Uchiha to be married, that I came to support you all."
Uzumaki Hiro'umi still didn't believe it and scolded, "No, impossible! Even if that's the case, you definitely threatened Mito!"
"Oh my, Grand Elder, you're really getting senile as you age. By saying that, do you want Uzushiogakure to be conquered by the Kaguya today? It makes no difference to me."
As Izuna spoke, he wiped the corner of his mouth.
From kissing Mito just now, a little lipstick had stained it.
Seeing Izuna's action, and especially that streak of crimson at the corner of his mouth, Uzumaki Hiro'umi had more or less guessed the situation.
That was the lipstick his daughter had worn at her wedding, which was then passed down to Mito.
Now that a bit of it was stained on Uchiha Izuna's mouth, Uzumaki Hiro'umi wasn't senile; of course he could guess what had happened.
Because of this, Uzumaki Hiro'umi was even more furious, roaring, "Mito is the fiancée of Clan Head Hashirama! How could a brat like you defile her!?"
Even though the other party was Mito's grandfather, Izuna couldn't help but feel a bit annoyed at this moment.
Using the Body Flicker Technique to return to the tree branch he sat on earlier, Izuna raised his hand. "In that case, please continue, everyone. Come, Clan Head Wanlü, I support you in killing this old coot."
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