54 Chapter 54 Ruthless Sakumo

(A Year and Half Later)

The sun hung high, its ray's day by day getting hotter, a sign of summer closing in.

Despite the seasons coming and going, the war that enveloped the whole world was still raging on, near the tanzaku bridge within the land of rain the iwa camp still present.

But the total number of shinobi were a lot less than a year and a half ago, the continuous war having engulfed a lot of lives already.

Currently majority of the shinobi in the camp had a down face, an aura of frustration and anger seemed to have enveloped the whole camp.

"It failed, the jonin squad led by lord han last night to infiltrate into tanzaku castle was all annihilated, only lord Han returned."

"Well even if it's Lord Han; Fukashi, Jiraiya and that guy, alone they are too much for him to handle."

"Especially him, that guy is clearly the biggest trouble of three"

"Yeah, The Blue Storm of Leaf! Truly turning out to be the difference maker."

Some shinobi were discussing the latest failure of iwa, sharing their thoughts on what truly lead to this failure.

There tones revealed dread and admiration for the enemy commanders, especially the emerging star in this war, the man known for his stormy presence on the battlefield, like a sea storm wherever he appeared no one could match him.

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Amegakure.

The weather was no different from any other day in this village with towering steel buildings everywhere, black clouds all over the sky and rain pouring down continuously.

In the tallest building at the center of the village,

At the top floor was the office of the leader of the village, Hanzo of the salamander.

In the office,

"Okay, we accept your conditions Hanzo but I hope you do keep in mind that iwa is not like sand, no matter what happens we won't tolerate betrayal"

Han, the jinchuriki of five tails who should be at the iwa camp near tanzaku bridge was currently here, in the office of Hanzo.

"Haha!"

At Han's words, Hanzo let out a little laugh and spoke up.

"You should have done this way earlier; but still it's not too late. I'll take care of the three leading the army stationed at tanzaku town and you destroy the rest with your shinobi"

"Um, let's do it!"

Said Hanzo to Han with an assuring look in his eyes, who for a while didn't reply and kept gazing into his eyes, looking for any possible cunning idea but agreeing after finding none.

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Sand Battlefield.

The sun nearly poured down fire from the sky, the air in the endless desert wobbly and the battle occurring only intensifying the heat.

A huge green slug and equally large purple snake was raging on the battlefield, dealing with them a man surrounded with black sand, his every move changing the terrain.

A man with pure white eyes seemed to be on the same side as the green slug and purple snake, fighting the man controlling black sand together.

At some distance from this battle, another fight seemed to be going on, a man with auburn hair and a slash mark on his closed right eye was surrounded by golden sand, fighting the famous ino-shika-cho combination of leaf.

While large scale fights were going on, a man bathed in purple lightning, holding a chakra sabre with his spiky long silver hair flying in the air moved through the battlefield like thunder.

Wherever he appeared on the battlefield, a corpse would be left behind including a trail of white chakra in the air, created by swinging the chakra sabre in his hands.

"Huh?"

Suddenly Sakumo frowned and his movements slowed down a little, his dark eyes tracing towards his left and his chakra sabre moving at the same time.

Keng!

Cutting through the air couple of sharp nails like bullets appeared near the neck of Sakumo, on the course to drill deep into it, but the chakra sabre held in his hand moved skillfully, in just a second at most all nails lying on ground.

Deflecting the nails, Sakumo stopped at his place for a second and calmly looked at the attacker, a man with red and a woman with black hair appearing in his vision.

Lightning Release: Lightning Burst!

BOOM!!!

Giving them a look, Sakumo with one hand made couple of hand signs as from under his soles, purple lightning burst out and in a blink of an eye, he was already right before the red haired man and black haired woman.

On the battlefield another exciting battle seemed to have started but turning out to be a disappointment, in less than a minute the jutsu exchange between two sides over, only one man left standing.

"I can tell you loved each other; at least you were spared from the pain of being left alone."

Said Sakumo calmly looking at the body of red haired man and black haired woman near his feet, blood pouring out of the slash wound on the neck of two, eyes white.

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