Naruto: I'm Nine-Tails and My Host is Kushina

Chapter 175 - 175 : The Will Of Otsutsuki Kaguya

There were too many clues left behind from this battle.

Black Zetsu could already pinpoint which shinobi from the Leaf had been involved.

"Hmm, Blood-Red Habanero?"

She had an interest in tailed beasts.

No, it wasn't just her. There were others involved.

It seemed like an entire group had committed this act. That was... interesting.

Zetsu smirked as he murmured to himself, then sank into the underground to disappear.

A day later, Iwagakure's shinobi arrived at the site.

The sheer destruction had caught the attention of the surrounding residents, who wasted no time reporting it to Iwagakure.

The battlefield was a massive crater.

The remnants of this clash were nothing short of apocalyptic.

A distant mountain had completely vanished.

This was not an ordinary skirmish.

A battle of this scale could only mean one thing—monsters, not men, had clashed here.

The locals relayed everything they had seen and heard to the Rock Village.

But most importantly, there was a corpse on the battlefield.

A red-haired man.

Upon receiving this news, the Third Tsuchikage, Onoki, felt his entire body tense.

"No... it can't be..."

This was serious.

Without wasting time, he ordered his son Kitsuchi to take a team of elite shinobi to investigate.

When Kitsuchi and his squad arrived at the site, they were left speechless by what they saw.

Was this really the result of a fight between shinobi?

The devastation was absurd.

They all took a deep breath, attempting to steady their nerves.

Whoever had fought here... was no ordinary ninja.

But when they saw Roshi's lifeless body lying in the rubble, they let out a sigh of relief.

"Oh... it's just the Four-Tails Jinchūriki. Then it's understandable."

Jinchūriki couldn't be measured by normal shinobi standards.

They wielded power far beyond the ordinary.

Every great nation treated their Jinchūriki as living weapons of mass destruction.

Even smaller villages, if they managed to get their hands on a tailed beast, could use it to bargain with the major nations.

"Take Roshi's body back."

"Yes, Lord Kitsuchi!"

Land of Earth, Iwagakure.

A forensic team of Iwagakure's sensory and intelligence division confirmed the time of death.

Roshi had been dead for two days.

Onoki clenched his fists.

Though he and Roshi had their differences, and though Roshi had long distanced himself from the village, he was still one of theirs.

And more importantly... he had been their Jinchūriki.

Now, Iwagakure had lost its tailed beast.

Onoki knew Roshi had never ventured into foreign lands.

The other great villages wouldn't have allowed it, anyway.

Roshi had always remained within the borders of the Land of Earth.

And yet, someone had managed to extract the Four-Tails from him.

Now, Iwagakure had lost its greatest deterrent.

It was an unforgivable loss.

A humiliating loss.

Crack.

Onoki's fists trembled as they clenched tightly, his knuckles cracking under the pressure.

"What a disgrace... what a fucking disgrace!"

An enemy had infiltrated the Land of Earth, taken their Jinchūriki, and waltzed away with their tailed beast.

And Iwagakure hadn't even noticed.

Not only had they been caught completely off-guard, but they didn't even know who was responsible.

That was the true shame of it.

In Onoki's mind, he could already hear the sneering voices of the other Kage.

"Tch. The so-called Great Nation of Earth couldn't even protect its Jinchūriki?"

"That decrepit old fossil Onoki is losing his edge. Can't even defend his own territory."

"What a joke. Iwagakure is no longer a threat."

And even worse, the whispers among his own people.

"Tsuchikage-sama allowed this to happen? And he calls himself our leader?"

"Hah! The great Onoki is getting old. Time for him to step down."

The thought alone made his head pound.

"FIND THE CULPRIT!" Onoki roared.

"Mobilize an investigation unit immediately. Search for every possible clue. We cannot let this go unanswered!"

"Yes, Tsuchikage-sama!"

Elsewhere, in a dark underground chamber...

A figure slowly emerged from the earth.

Zetsu grinned.

"Lord Madara, I have some very... interesting news."

"Tch. Speak up, Zetsu. My patience wears thin."

"It seems Konoha has begun collecting the tailed beasts. And among the ones involved... Uzumaki Kushina, the Blood-Red Habanero, and Uchiha Mikoto, the matriarch of the Uchiha Clan."

Uzumaki?

Red hair?

A descendant of Mito Uzumaki...

"Tch, tch. It seems I'm bound by fate to the Uzumaki Clan."

Madara's withered lips curled into a smirk.

After all, it had been an Uzumaki woman who had stolen his man Hashirama from him.

Bah—no.

It had been an Uzumaki who sealed his Nine-Tails away.

And even now, the Rinnegan he had entrusted to Nagato... was within another Uzumaki.

The irony was almost poetic.

And now, not only was an Uzumaki involved...

But an Uchiha as well.

Whoever had fought Roshi and taken the Four-Tails was not an ordinary Uchiha.

At the very least, they had the Mangekyō Sharingan.

Madara's smirk deepened.

"Interesting. Very interesting."

When he had abandoned Konoha, he had assumed his Uchiha brethren would be destroyed.

He had never expected them to flourish.

To not only survive but thrive.

"Madara-sama, should we intervene? If they are collecting tailed beasts—"

"Intervene?"

Madara chuckled darkly.

"Why would we interfere? If Konoha wants to gather the tailed beasts... let them. They are merely doing the hard work for us."

"Oh? I see."

Zetsu's eyes gleamed with understanding.

Why struggle when Konoha could do it for them?

All they had to do was watch from the shadows.

And when the time came... reap the rewards.

That was why Madara had entrusted the Rinnegan to Nagato.

That was why patience was key.

"As expected of Madara-sama. Your vision is unparalleled."

"Continue monitoring Konoha," Madara commanded. "My instincts tell me there is more to this."

Two little girls collecting tailed beasts?

No.

There had to be more to this.

Was it truly their own will?

Or had the Hokage given the order?

Could Konoha be plotting to seize control of all the tailed beasts and unify the world under their banner?

It was a possibility.

A very real possibility.

Zetsu chuckled.

"Yes, Madara-sama. I will keep a close watch."

Then, he sank back into the ground.

"Soon, mother. Very soon..."

Zetsu's lips curled into a sickening grin.

When all the tailed beasts were gathered, his mother would be reborn.

That was all that had mattered for a thousand years.

Not Madara's will.

But Kaguya's.

His true mother.

And when that day arrived...

The world would finally bow before her once more.

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