When Rasa heard Chiyo's order to retreat, he frowned. Chiyo giving such an order over him made Rasa a bit displeased.
But this was not the time to dwell on it. Rasa glanced at Uchiha Fugaku, who had been entangled with him for a long time yet always seemed at ease, and also chose to retreat.
Thus, the Sand Ninja followed their Village's high-ranking officials and withdrew from the battle.
Konoha, naturally, would not let them go so easily. Jiraiya and Uchiha Fugaku led their teams in pursuit.
The remaining Ninja were left for Orochimaru to deal with.
However, Mount Kikyo was at the border between the Land of Earth and the Land of Fire, and the battle location was closer to the Land of Earth.
After the Stone Ninja realized that this war was lost, many Ninja had already retreated, and the number of Stone Ninja remaining on the battlefield was not large.
Since these Stone Ninja remained, they had no intention of returning alive. They were there to hold back the Konoha Ninja and buy time for their comrades in the Village.
These Stone Ninja charged at the Konoha Ninja fearlessly, displaying a desperate resolve.
To reduce casualties among the Konoha Ninja, Orochimaru called Uchiha En and the high-ranking officials of the Uchiha Clan to join the battle.
With the addition of these high-level combatants, the Stone Ninja left to hold back Konoha were nothing. They were completely annihilated in a short while.
Next was clearing the battlefield, which had nothing to do with the Uchiha Clan.
However, Orochimaru specifically called Uchiha En over, and the two of them patrolled the battlefield together.
Seeing Orochimaru and Uchiha En's good relationship, Uchiha Chizan showed a thoughtful expression.
While patrolling the battlefield, Orochimaru and Uchiha En took the opportunity to chat about the first hokages cells and Danzo.
Orochimaru voluntarily revealed that his first hokages cells came from Danzo.
Uchiha En, on the other hand, expressed that he did not want Danzo to know that he and Asana were involved in the research of the first hokages cells.
Orochimaru naturally agreed wholeheartedly. He hoped that Uchiha En could work with him to find a way to make money and establish a laboratory outside Konoha Village that Danzo didn't know about. Their research would then be conducted in this laboratory.
Uchiha En hesitated for a moment before nodding in agreement.
While discussing the details of their cooperation, the two looked around at the bodies of the Konoha and Stone-Sand Allied Forces. If any Stone-Sand Allied Forces were playing dead, they would finish them off. If there were any surviving Konoha Ninja, they would send them for treatment.
As they walked, Uchiha En noticed a small figure's arm move near a pile of Konoha Ninja bodies.
A female Medical Ninja nearby spotted the struggling arm.
Uchiha En was stunned when he saw this Medical Ninja.
Because this Medical Ninja looked somewhat familiar to him, very much like someone from the original work.
So Uchiha En stopped, and Orochimaru also stopped with him.
"What's wrong?" Orochimaru asked.
Uchiha En raised his finger and pointed at the small figure next to the bodies of several Konoha Ninja, saying, "There's a child over there who seems to be alive."
Even if it was just a child, one had to be vigilant on the battlefield.
Orochimaru summoned a large snake and had it bring the child over.
Upon seeing the child, everyone, who had been somewhat wary, relaxed.
What threat could a child who looked only 3 or 4 years old pose to them?
The female Medical Ninja immediately began to treat the child.
The child's injuries were not severe; he had only been knocked unconscious by a heavy blow to the head. With the Medical Ninja's treatment, he quickly regained consciousness.
At this point, Uchiha En noticed that this child also looked somewhat familiar. His appearance aside, he felt like he had seen that silver-gray hair somewhere before.
When the female Medical Ninja saw the child awaken, she asked gently, "Little one, who are you? What's your name? Where are your family?"
The child lay there blankly, like an idiot, staring at the sky, not answering the female Medical Ninja's questions.
After a long time of questioning with no results, Orochimaru told the female Medical Ninja to stay and take care of this child of unknown origin, then continued searching for survivors with Uchiha En.
When Orochimaru and Uchiha En returned after a large round, the female Medical Ninja was holding the sleeping child, humming an unknown tune.
"How is it? Have you figured out the child's identity?" Orochimaru asked.
"Lord Orochimaru, this child has amnesia and remembers nothing. The Yamanaka Clan members have already checked, and his mind is completely blank. He is definitely not a spy, so I would like to adopt him into my orphanage. I hope you agree," the female Medical Ninja replied.
Uchiha En had already felt that she resembled someone from the original work, and now hearing her mention an orphanage, this possibility increased.
To verify his guess, Uchiha En asked the female Medical Ninja, "Your orphanage? What's your name?"
"My name is Yakushi Nono. I am the director of the Konoha Orphanage," the female Medical Ninja replied.
Hearing this name, Uchiha En sighed, thinking, "It's her indeed. Then this familiar-looking child should be Yakushi Kabuto, no surprise there?"
Yakushi Kabuto, speaking of him, was a talent. In Uchiha En's view, looking at all the Ninja with bloodlines, if Guy was the ceiling of Taijutsu, then Yakushi Kabuto was undoubtedly the ceiling of Ninjutsu.
Yakushi Kabuto, not a protagonist, was able to cultivate Snake Sage Mode and launch the Fourth Great Ninja War using Edo Tensei, utilizing terrain and his understanding of Ninjutsu to fight against the Uchiha Itachi and Sasuke brothers.
If not for Itachi's Izanami, Kabuto might have erased Itachi's consciousness and subdued Sasuke, and the fate of the Ninja World could have been rewritten.
Uchiha En still admired Yakushi Kabuto, so Uchiha En put in a good word for Yakushi Kabuto. Orochimaru, for Uchiha En's sake, told Yakushi Nono to handle it as she saw fit.
Afterward, it should be as in the original work: Yakushi Nono named the child Yakushi Kabuto and took him back to the Konoha Orphanage.
When the battlefield was mostly cleaned up, Jiraiya and Uchiha Fugaku also returned.
In this pursuit, they successfully killed over 500 Sand Ninja. Konoha could be said to have achieved a great victory this time.
The only battle that had not yet been decided was Minato Namikaze's.
At this time, Kakuzu had also developed the intention to retreat. The Stone Ninja and Sand Ninja had both fled, leaving him alone to fight against the Shinobi Allied Forces of Konoha was clearly unrealistic.
So Kakuzu released a large-scale combination Ninjutsu to force Minato Namikaze back, then quickly fled the battlefield.
Minato Namikaze did not choose to pursue. Compared to Kakuzu, he was more concerned about Kushina's condition. He had just sensed Kushina using Nine-Tails Chakra to fight against Ichibi and Five-Tails, and he now only wanted to quickly confirm Kushina's status.
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