Seven Days Later — Somewhere in the Land of Fire
"Ahem, it's been three months since the establishment of our organisation—Tengoku. Although we have decided the goals and basic structure of our organisation, we are still lacking something. Tell me, what is it?" Natsuki stood on a huge, beautiful mountain facing a pair of children, speaking in a commanding manner.
"The number of people." Naruto answered confidently.
"No, we can fill the numbers even later, we will not let any rabble join our organisation."
"Then, salary???" Naruto answered with hesitation. As much as he knows, all organisations give their members a basic salary. He didn't get any salary.
"Shut up, what we lack is individuality. We have ten members, and just naming them by numbers is too plain. Every member or seat should have a specific name or position." Hearing this, Naruto nodded; as for Sasuke, well, he didn't care much about this. He only wanted to defeat Natsuki and get position number 1.
"Then, what do you suggest?" Naruto by now knew that Natsuki had already decided the situation and they were only going through the motions, so he asked with curiosity.
"We will go by Chess positions. Number zero would be King, which is big brother Itachi. Number one would be queen, the strongest and most important piece after King, which would be me. After that, two and three would be rook, which are filled by Sasuke and XYZ. Four and five would be bishop, six and seven would be knight, and finally eight and nine would be pawn, which is you. How is it? Do you have any questions?" Natsuki, after saying her part, asked with an expression that didn't welcome questions.
"I do not have any problem. Sasuke, then you want to be queen?" Naruto first answered Natsuki and then teased Sasuke. In the last few days, Naruto, observing Sasuke, knew that he wanted to take Natsuki's position, but now that position is queen. Although he didn't mind it, the face-saving Sasuke would definitely get annoyed.
"Hmph, who cares. I will take the King's position. Only that is worthy of me." Sasuke didn't take Naruto's words to heart and said with disdain.
"Whatt... You can dream onn. I will be the king..."
"You both idiots, if you want to become king, first go through me first.... Take this... Fire Style: Great Fireball Jutsu...."
"Ahhh, you then take this.... Wind Style: Great Wind Breakthrough"
While Natsuki was teaching Naruto and Sasuke humility, on the top of the mountain Itachi, Obito, and Shisui were watching this farce with peace.
Itachi heard about this scenic location, which resembled the mountains of Switzerland in his previous life, from Obito. In his previous life, all he could do was see these things on Instagram and envy those people. Now that he got a chance, he would definitely not miss it.
As for why Natsuki, Sasuke, and Naruto were also present, it's because they have been expelled from the Ninja Academy. Well, only Sasuke and Natsuki were expelled, then they played and trained in their free time. Naruto, seeing this in envy, also left the Ninja Academy. Today, hearing that Itachi and others were leaving the village for a picnic, Sasuke and others also followed.
"PfthhahHHahahha, Itachi, it's really your dear brother. It hasn't even been a minute since you became a king and your brother is already thinking of snatching your position. Is this the attraction of the throne, brothers fighting to the death?" Obito, who wanted the world in fire, laughed out loud.
Sasuke, hearing this, just looked away. He didn't want to be queen, so he could only let his big brother suffer. Anyway, Itachi wasn't very interested in becoming the leader of Tengoku; he, Sasuke Uchiha, would succeed Itachi and conquer the world.
"Hey, Obito, what's happening in the Ninja world? I thought that Konoha and Sunagakure would fight to the death and I would appear as a hero and bring world peace. Why isn't anyone fighting?" Itachi ignored Obito's remarks and asked with curiosity. It's been seven days since Sunagakure attacked Konoha, but until now the war, which should have engulfed the Ninja world, hasn't even started. Although this was a good thing, Itachi felt that all this was weird.
"Ohh, Itachi, I have to say you couldn't be more wrong. Previously, after hearing your plan, I thought that you were smart, but now it seems I overestimated you. Let's start in order.
Seven days ago, Sunagakure captured Mount Kikyo and began preparing to face Konoha. However, news spread throughout the ninja world that Sunagakure had massacred the Fire Daimyo mansion and looted all the money. Sunagakure, who were innocent, wanted to prove themselves so, but their Daimyo did not believe them. Instead, he summoned the Fourth Kazekage to the Daimyo mansion and humiliated him in front of all the nobles, wanting to show Rasa his place.
Afterward, the Wind Daimyo imposed several sanctions and even ordered Sunagakure to return and obediently guard the Land of Sand. Rasa, who had been humiliated for nothing, reflected on the label of "Daimyo killer" that had already been placed on him by the rest of the world. Everything finally broke when the Daimyo demanded that all the looted money be sent to the Daimyo mansion, or else Sunagakure would be declared traitors and lose all support from the Daimyo.
Rasa did not have the money, and in his anger, he massacred the entire Daimyo mansion of the Land of Sand and took control of the country. The next day, Rasa declared that Sunagakure was willing to fight the entire world. Even if it meant their destruction, Sunagakure swore they would destroy all Daimyo and nobles if war broke out.
Hearing this news, the Daimyo were initially furious. However, remembering the fate of two Daimyo, they became afraid and ordered their respective ninja villages to halt the war and focus on protecting the Daimyo mansions. They even pressured Konoha not to attack Sunagakure.
Konoha, which had deployed over a thousand ninja to search for the missing money, naturally failed to find it. Without the financial support, they could not proceed with an attack on Sunagakure. Seeing that Sunagakure has already retreated and under pressure from the rest of the world, Konoha also called for peace.
This is how the Fourth Great Ninja War ended before it could even begin."
Itachi, hearing this, became silent. Although he predicted many outcomes, he didn't predict this. Maybe Nagato got transmigrated into Rasa? If this isn't nuclear deterrence or Ten-tails deterrence, then what is it? We will die, but we will take you as well. From now on, Sunagakure will definitely be known as the most ruthless village.
The Daimyo of all other countries will fear it, fear that if they wage war against Sunagakure they will die, but they will also not be relieved with the protection of their own Ninja village. The trust between the Daimyo and their village is already cracked when Sunagakure dared to exterminate its own Daimyo. From now on, all Daimyo will try to create their own loyal ninjas like the Twelve Guardian Shinobi. Until then, Sunagakure will be in peace.
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Author's Note
Hello everyone,
With this chapter, the Fourth Great Ninja War, which had almost already started, comes to an end. I could have expanded this part into two or three proper chapters instead of writing it more like a conclusion or summary. But first of all, doing that would have been quite a tiring task for me. Secondly, I would have had to write multiple POVs — Sunagakure, their daimyo, then other villages, and many more perspectives. And I also thought that you readers might want to move on to the next parts of the story, since this arc has already been going on for around 17–20 chapters, if I am correct. So I decided to end this arc here.
Although I have already written everything above in the chapter, I still wanted to give a quick conclusion and explanation in case something was unclear. Also, the above chapter was written normally by me, but this author's note is written with the help of AI/ChatGPT to better explain things.
So, to explain simply: with Yatagarasu's blessing, you could say Sunagakure's luck exploded. When the news of the Fire Daimyo's death spread across the ninja world, Sunagakure was forced by the Wind Daimyo to retreat and guard the village. The Wind Daimyo also tried to intimidate Rasa. Previously, Rasa was easily manipulated and ordered around by the Wind Daimyo, so this time the Daimyo expected the same. He also demanded that all the money from the Land of Fire be handed over to the Land of Wind. But Rasa didn't actually have the money, and in anger, he massacred the Daimyo mansion, took control of the entire Land of Wind, and publicly threatened.
As for Konoha, they searched for the thief using thousands of ninjas across many areas, but when they heard that Sunagakure had retreated, they realized the money was probably lost. However, when Konoha was preparing to march toward Sunagakure, they received threatening messages from multiple Daimyos. The Daimyos did not want another war to start until they are completely safe. Also, if Konoha starts another war and failed to win quickly, it would show weakness, which might encourage other ninja villages to attack Konoha which neither had money nor strength to fight called for peace.
Now moving on to the other ninja villages — Iwagakure and Kumogakure mostly just listened to their Daimyos. And as for why they didn't kill their Daimyos like Rasa did and control their country… well, let's just call that a plot hole for now.
So with this, the war arc has ended. Uchiha gained many things in this arc, like the death of Jiraiya, gaining more independence, money, Seven-tails and the overall political changes in the ninja world.
I would really like to hear your review of this war arc.
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