66 Chapter 66 Spared

Boom!!!

Huff…

An explosion rang on the clear field full of pits and rain from the sky filling them, bodies of konoha jonin lying around dead and just four figures and a huge beast standing on the battlefield.

Tsunade, Jiraiya and Orochimaru were on knees next to each other, gasping for breath with pale looks and helpless eyes stuck on the man who stood on top of the huge brown salamander.

"You three did a lot better than I expected and managed to make me go all out; now I can understand why Sunagakure was defeated."

Looking down at the trio before him, Hanzo standing on top of Ibuse with his hands across his chest couldn't stop himself from praising them.

Even after facing his full strength the trio had managed to stay alive, making Hanzo acknowledge them.

"But now it's time for me to end-

"Huh?"

Just when Hanzo was announcing the death sentence of trio who could hardly muster strength to fight back anymore, suddenly he stopped talking halfway and looked in a direction where dark clouds were concentrated the most.

"This…no way…"

Muttered Hanzo with a look of shock in his eyes as a chakra he was very familiar with suddenly disappeared and a realization of what might have happened hit Hanzo.

"They truly are the strongest shinobi village for a reason; who would have expected this."

But with his strong nerves Hanzo quickly got over the shock of what happened and with a wry smile on his face under the mask, said his thoughts honestly.

Killing them now won't benefit me much and would only increase the enmity between me and hidden leaf, I guess it was in their fate to survive today

Thinking of that the intent to kill disappeared in Hanzo's eyes as once again he focused on the trio on their knees, his lips parting.

"I predict Konoha's victory in this war so I shall let you three live and for the valor you displayed in this battle, I, Hanzo, grant you the title of "Hidden Leaf's Sannin"

Poof!

The words fell and in the shocked eyes of Tsunade and other two of the sudden change, the huge beast burst into smoke disappearing along with Hanzo as well.

"What just happened?"

Asked Jiraiya with a look of confusion and disbelief on his face, he was prepared for death already but Hanzo suddenly changed his mind, not only sparing and granting them a title, but also predicting the victory of konoha.

"He was just about to kill us; there's no way he would change his mind unless something really big happened"

"Let's first tend to our wounds and then regroup with others"

Said Orochimaru in a solemn tone, his pale face drenched from rain and blood.

Supporting each other, the three slowly walked away from the battlefield and soon found a cave to rest and shelter them from the continuous rain.

"Who is it? Show yourself!!"

 But it didn't take long for the trio to figure out someone else was in the cave as well, Tsunade looking towards a wall and shouting.

Thup!

A small figure with orange hair donning shredded clothes and a huge basket on his back walked out from behind the wall, behind him two kids of similar age as the orange hair kid, having blue and red hair.

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BOOM!!!

An explosion rang and a figure surrounded with lava and the other with lightning around the saber in his hands separated from each other, both blown back couple of steps due to the impact created by the explosion.

"Huff…he moves too quick and his every attack is lethal enough to kill me; truly a troublesome enemy"

Said Roshi who was coated in lava with his breathing heavy, his angry eyes locked on Sakumo at some distance.

Roshi clearly displayed wounds all around his body and had stopped blood flow forcefully with lava to burn and close the wounds, Sakumo on the other hand aside from the sweat due to the heat hardly had a wound on his body.

He was too quick for Roshi to land a hit and up till now has clearly had the upper hand in this fight.

"Huh…. Impossible!!!!"

Roshi who was thinking of a way to deal with Sakumo's speed suddenly frowned and yelled out next second with a look of disbelief on his face.

"I can no longer feel Kokou's chakra; Han is dead Roshi!"

But the words of four tails worked like a final nail in the coffin, Roshi like suffering from a paralysis attack still on his spot.

Sakumo at the same time as Roshi also felt the huge chakra disappearing suddenly, a big grin appearing on his face.

"What a wonder-maker, truly the hero of this war."

Said Sakumo with an emotional look on his face, mad respect and acknowledgment for kazuki in his tone.

The war between konoha and iwa shinobi that raged on land of rain, met a huge twist as the lifeless body of han the jinchuriki of five tails was displayed on top of a huge earth wall that rose up suddenly for every shinobi to see, standing next to the lifeless body a figure with his silver hair rustling in the air.

The morale of iwa shinobi was crushed the moment they saw the body, and a one-sided killing starting on the battlefield, eventually the attack ending up in konoha's victory.

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