146 Chapter 146: Natsuo's Siege - Mizukage's Blushing Retreat
Terumi Mei sighed inwardly, but her responsibility towards Kirigakure did not allow her to turn back, so she could only run forward.
Her sexy and elegant figure stood outside the Kirigakure fortress, her strong back seemed immune to any setback.
"Natsuo! Who gave you the audacity to dare to attack Kirigakure alone?"
Terumi Mei said loudly: "Today, I will teach you a lesson!"
After speaking with righteous indignation, he immediately lowered his head and ordered the ninjas next to him: "Listen to my orders, immediately evacuate with all Kiri ninjas, destroy all supplies, and leave nothing for Konoha."
The higher-ups were puzzled and asked, "Mizukage-sama, why should we retreat?"
"Now that Natsuo has come alone, with our help, you can kill him here."
'Kill him? Do you think you can do it? Also, if he comes alone do you think that matters at all?' Terumi Mei screamed inwardly, but on the surface, she remained calm and said, "You don't understand. I am not his match yet. I need enough intelligence support to have a chance of defeating him..."
"So you are worried about intelligence!" The ninjas understood and assured her: "Mizukage-sama, please rest assured. Even if we have to risk our lives, we will find his weaknesses for you!"
Terumi Mei's mouth twitched, her expression became serious, and she said: "Good!"
"The Kirigakure I want to establish will not sacrifice its companions easily."
"Even if you can investigate his intelligence, what then? There will inevitably be a large number of casualties!"
"Until we find a way to quickly defeat him, as the Fifth Mizukage, I will not allow unnecessary sacrifices!"
"I would rather slow down the pace of the war than increase the casualties of our ninjas!"
"I, Terumi Mei, will never give up the life of any Kiri ninja, nor do I want any Kiri ninja to sacrifice themselves for me!"
Terumi Mei stepped forward, her voice filled with determination: "I don't want that kind of victory!"
Upon hearing this, everyone was moved to tears.
In Kirigakure, where strength is valued above all, high-ranking ninja have always used the lives of their subordinates as tokens to increase their own chances of success.
Our great Mizukage-sama is really too kind. She really is the most suitable Mizukage for Kirigakure. She is our hope, our light!
"Listen to my command! Everyone, retreat!" Terumi Mei shouted loudly. "I don't need your help, I can escape from his hands on my own!"
"And I don't need you to influence his state with your lives!"
"Leave everything here to me!"
"Are my orders clear?"
Upon hearing this, many Kiri ninjas, with tears in their eyes, shouted in the loudest voice possible.
"Yes, Fifth Mizukage-sama!"
With that said, they looked at Terumi Mei fanatically, then turned decisively and left. They believed in their Mizukage-sama. A Mizukage-sama like this will definitely not lose to a mere Uchiha.
Natsuo: "...?" He was a little confused. What's the situation with the Kiri ninjas below? The retreat is understandable, but why is their morale so high?
Without looking at their actions, but only at their expressions, it seems that they are the victors, and that Natsuo is the one who is fleeing.
However, he doesn't really care, especially since his target once again jumped into the Susanoo.
"You've come?" Natsuo raised an eyebrow, with a brilliant smile.
"Why would not?" Terumi Mei spoke firmly: "Natsuo, as long as I, Terumi Mei, am here, you won't be able to harm a fellow member of Kirigakure!"
"Oh... is that so?" Natsuo's expression was strange: "Then you'll have to try harder."
As he spoke, the crystal Natsuo was standing in began to open a space.
"For Kirigakure, I, Terumi Mei, will stop you at all costs!" Terumi Mei's voice was full of righteousness as she leaped directly into the crystal space of Susanoo.
The next second, Natsuo waved his hand. The extremely dense chakra dyed the surrounding space black. He had used this method before, after all, he wasn't interested in others observing his playtime. Pure high-density chakra could even block the observation of the Byakugan, concealing all internal activities.
Even though there were countless shinobi with perception abilities among the army at this moment. But no one could see the movements inside that black space.
The people of Kirigakure looked at the pure black space and sighed.
"Mizukage-sama is once again in a death match with Uchiha Natsuo, who is a quite dangerous opponent... She has sacrificed too much for Kirigakure!"
"Brothers, let us not waste the time that the Mizukage-sama has fought to win for us!"
"Retreat! Retreat quickly!"
As they spoke, they burned the stored military supplies and the Kiri ninjas retreated quickly.
And inside Susanoo's crystal space.
Terumi Mei whimpered, 'Lava Release' has already been released, while using both hands to desperately stop Natsuo's attack. But her breathing became faster and faster...
After all, even though she is the Mizukage, she is just a girl in her twenties, in the prime of her youth. She hadn't even been in a relationship before, but now...
Although she has a very open attitude, she is actually a girl without any experience.
Her body quickly starts to heat up, her breathing becomes heavier, and the faint male scent in her nose makes her heart pound.
Meanwhile, due to the influence of her subconscious, she continues to justify her actions in her mind.
'Okay, okay.' Terumi Mei tries to calm down and maintain her composure. 'It's just a bit of physical contact, plus this time there are no idiots who want to come and 'help', so this time they will manage to retreat quickly."
'It only takes a few minutes, and the Kiri ninjas can escape Natsuo's attack range.'
'It's only a few minutes, what can he do?'
'I just need to endure a few minutes, as a Mizukage I can still handle it.'
Terumi Mei justifies her actions, gathers her courage, and begins to find her actions reasonable, so her belief strengthens.
However, it hasn't been long, and she immediately realizes that something is wrong.
"Wait!" Terumi Mei's expression changes slightly, she tilts her head back and angrily questions Natsuo: "I've clearly held you back, so why is your Susanoo still able to move?"
Yes, the Susanoo is actually chasing after the Kiri ninjas. Although some time has passed and the Kiri ninjas have escaped for a while, most of the Kiri ninjas are still within Susanoo's field of vision...
"I've already put in so much effort, why are you still pursuing them?" Terumi Mei angrily questioned.
But Natsuo simply smiled and said, "Of course I'm chasing them. It's reasonable that I can multitask, right? I'm enjoying...cough, I mean, I'm distracting you while I control the Susanoo."
"But compared to yesterday, this level can no longer distract me like it did at the beginning."
Natsuo looked at Terumi Mei's delicate figure with a look full of desire: "Obviously, you have to try harder so you can distract me."
Terumi Mei: "..."
She, a seemingly open-minded but actually innocent girl, still possesses some resistance to going further with Natsuo. But she knows how powerful the Susanoo's sword is, which begins to slowly rise to make an attack.
"Fine! Fine! Fine!" Terumi Mei's face was filled with shame and anger: "I will try harder!"
Saying that, she walked over, placed her arms around Natsuo's neck, and then began to take the lead…
Natsuo smiled slightly and the Susanoo's movements stopped at that moment...
A bitter 'battle' of about twenty minutes. Which concluded with Terumi Mei, with a blushing face, escaping from the Susanoo.
This time, she still maintained her bottom line and tried some methods to successfully protect her own purity and the lives of the Kiri ninjas. But the shame on her face was hard to hide.
She quickly retreated to the Kirigakure fortress in the rear and was immediately greeted with enthusiastic applause from the Kiri ninjas.
"Our Mizukage-sama has once again rejected Uchiha Natsuo!"
"This is the strength of our Mizukage-sama!"
"The strongest Mizukage! Long live!"
Listening to this, Terumi Mei couldn't help but wish to use Lava Release on everyone present and burn them all to ashes.
But as she looked at the Kiri ninjas, regardless of their status or background, embracing each other and celebrating together, she could only force a bitter smile and swallow her frustration. After all, this was his responsibility.
She just wanted to protect the Kiri ninjas and try to wait for an opportunity for the tide of the battle to change.
Although it was based on his own lies and was a fragile illusion that depended on Natsuo. But this was her duty as Mizukage!
'What should we do next?' Terumi Mei thought as she forced a smile. 'Will Natsuo come again tomorrow?'
'Do I have to...'
Just as Terumi Mei had expected, Natsuo came again the next day. And just like before, Terumi Mei had to personally intervene and suppress Susanoo's actions.
Although the Kiri ninjas had the experience from before and could evacuate in an orderly and swift manner.
But Natsuo's demands this time were even more demanding than before. Terumi Mei had to sacrifice herself again to protect the lives of the Kiri ninjas...
But after Terumi Mei's blushing retreat, on the third day, Natsuo attacked the Kirigakure camp again...
"You came just to intimidate me, didn't you?!" Terumi Mei's eyes were red, but because of her responsibility as Mizukage, she had to step forward and fight for the Kiri ninjas.
Of course, although Terumi Mei was affected by the manipulation of her subconscious, she had still considered changing this situation.
So this time, she switched her weapon to explosive tags. As long as she could get close enough and attach the explosive tags, there might be a chance of victory!
As for whether she could get close, Terumi Mei wasn't worried. After all, Natsuo couldn't isolate her too far away if he wanted to intimidate her, right?
It turned out that Terumi Mei's guess was correct, but she didn't think about what would happen if her plan failed.
When she hugged Natsuo and attached the explosive tags to his back, the explosive tags exploded as she had hoped. But they were useless.
Because without her realizing it, between the position where she placed the tags and Natsuo's body, an additional Susanoo defense had appeared.
The explosive tags had considerable power but were unable to penetrate the Susanoo's defense.
Terumi Mei's attempt failed. But that was normal, after all, she didn't believe that this little attempt could easily solve Natsuo. She was simply struggling to find a glimmer of hope to escape this situation.
But the problem was that the cost of failure was too high.
Because when the explosive tags exploded, Terumi Mei naturally moved away from Natsuo's side.
Then Natsuo, who 'didn't need to divert his attention to fight Terumi Mei', directly controlled the Susanoo to attack the Kiri ninjas.
That attack was a true representation of destruction itself, capable of demolishing a mountain.
Even if Terumi Mei realized in time that something was wrong and quickly approached Natsuo, trying to divert his attention to reduce the power of the attack. However this attack killed a large number of Kiri ninjas.
"You bastard!" Terumi Mei's eyes were bloodshot, wishing she could fight Natsuo to the death. But in the end he had to surrender to the devil.
When she returned to the Kirigakure camp, the Kiri ninjas did not blame her. After all, when high-level experts clash, it is normal for low-level ninjas to be affected by collateral damage.
As ninjas, they didn't expect the Mizukage to be able to completely block all of Natsuo's attacks.
They even comforted Terumi Mei, saying that this is the fate of a ninja, and they hoped that the Fifth Mizukage wouldn't let this loss affect her state of mind and subsequently affect her battle with Natsuo.
But the psychological pressure that Terumi Mei had to endure was immense. Because only she knew that she could actually stop all of Natsuo's attacks. If she was willing to pay the price.
Terumi Mei lightly bit her red lips and finally the last barrier in her mind, which did not allow the manipulation of her subconscious to affect her completely, collapsed.
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