Naruto - Light Ninja

Chapter 54 - World News 02.

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Third Person POV
The Land of Sound.
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While the Namikaze family was dealing with the new news, in Kiri, the Fourth Mizukage was reading reports at his desk.

"This..." he murmured, looking at the photos on his desk. The news was not good at all as he saw numerous casualties in his ranks with a civil war ongoing.

"Leave," he said, and numerous ANBU, who were hidden in the room, left their hiding spots as the village's Kage remained alone in the room.

A shadow appeared behind him at that moment, approaching the papers while closely examining the information.

"It's him! He was with Kaguya the whole time!" Obito still held the memories of that night in his mind, the day he almost died to a child in Konoha. He had never been so close to death as in that moment, so he couldn't help but feel a certain rage when he saw the description of the child.

"He left Konoha and is working as a mercenary... How strange. I'll put a Zetsu after him; he is a threat that must be eliminated," Obito concluded with a tone of anger, while the Mizukage remained silent, seeming like a puppet.

"I will eliminate him as soon as I finish destroying Kiri!" Obito concluded, his Sharingan gleaming with pure blood-red. He had to deal with the rebels first to begin his plan and bring Infinite Tsukuyomi to all beings in the world and create the perfect world.

Meanwhile, in the same country, there was a camp many kilometers from the village. This camp housed thousands of ninjas, as it was a war camp. Kiri had split into two sides when the Mizukage started purging all clans with Kekkei Genkai. The resistance rose against this genocidal regime, gathering survivors and people who didn't sympathize with the current Mizukage's ideas to overthrow him. This struggle had been going on for years and caused many ninjas to flee Kiri, like Zabuza Momochi, who left the village after enduring numerous macabre trials that the village's new regime had imposed for him to become one of the Seven Swordsmen of the Mist. Even the jinchuuriki of the Six-Tails, Utakata, also left the village with his newly known apprentice, Hotaru, along with many other ninjas.

In the command tent of this camp, Mei Terumī led the entire resistance as the main leader and the strongest member. However, there was still a great war council with the main ninjas, some being clan leaders who survived the purge, and older ninjas like Ao, who possessed a Byakugan he gained during the Third Ninja War. He served as Mei's principal advisor, always by her side, along with Aka, one of the resistance leaders.

"We lost our supplies again!" shouted a ninja around the table.

"We were ambushed by the Mizukage's forces..." another murmured.

"We should launch an attack, we've been in this for years!" another exclaimed, dissatisfied.

"We can't be so reckless..." Aka spoke at that moment.

"Don't you think this is the moment? Haven't you seen the bingo book? Our fallen Kage is losing some strength in the Land of Hot Springs!" another exclaimed, also calling for an attack.

"We should wait until we get more reinforcements. This is not the time to face the Jinchuuriki of the Three-Tails," Mei finally spoke.

"Do you think we can wait, Mei? Do you still believe we can recover Utakata to help us? Who knows where he is right now!" one of the clan leaders exclaimed.

"We'll have a better chance with Utakata," she said, wanting to have the Six-Tails in the fight against Kiri's purge.

"The longer we wait, the faster the Mizukage will attack us or whoever is controlling him..." someone said, and the room grew somber. After all, this was a strong theory to justify the Mizukage's behavior for some years, where he started eliminating the clans and convinced all his supporters that this was the way for Kiri. There was a strong theory that it was a Sharingan user, but no one knew who had really done it.