Kazuo had to wait for another twenty minutes before he felt the very ground shaking.

Hundreds of ninjas were about to come into this very clearing, their eyes blazing with fury and hatred as they would look at the other party.

'The greatest motivator of humankind, hatred.' Kazuo thought to himself before showing a light smirk on his face.

'I wonder how many people will curse me to death by the end of today.' Kazuo wondered to himself.

2 explosions rocked the ground, shaking even Kazuo who was twenty meters underground.

'The signal' Kazuo thought as he looked at the white paper string in his hand.

Before he had left, Kazuo had told Shikaru to cause two large explosions above a specific spot in the clearing where he would be hiding as a signal for Kazuo to launch the explosives.

Looking at the paper for a moment longer, Kazuo felt slight doubt appear on his face before it was quickly squashed by his mind.

'They would have done worse if they could.' Kazuo thought before channeling his chakra into his hand and into the paper string.

It traveled at immense speeds though it had lost the majority of its energy.

The explosion tags thankfully only needed a sliver of chakra to activate as they were made from extremely chakra-sensitive seals.

For a moment, Kazuo thought he had failed as nothing happened.

And in the next second, Kazuo finally felt it.

The very earth shook as if a nuke had been dropped, causing Kazuo to smash onto the earth around him as if he were a ping-pong ball for a few seconds.

After that, the rocking of the earth stopped and silence overtook the place once more.

Quickly Kazuo made a handseal and using the Hiding like a mole technique, he brought himself above ground.

Looking around Kazuo quickly spotted Shikaru who was looking at him with a certain glint in his eyes.

No, it wasn't just Shikaru, it was the entire leaf camp.

Turning to face the other direction, where the explosions had taken off, Kazuo couldn't see anything because of the dust that had covered the entire clearing.

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Thankfully, Aoki Hyuga came forward and after making four seals quickly, he inhaled a large amount of air and then blew it out, completely clearing the dust on the battlefield.

'Wind Style: Great Breakthrough Jutsu' Kazuo thought as he quickly analyzed what the man had used.

'A wind jutsu is said to have the potential of being an S-ranked jutsu if the user has enough chakra to supply it.' Kazuo thought before quickly turning his gaze back onto the enemy lines.

At that moment, Kazuo finally understood the expressions of his leaf comrades.

His own eyes grew wider and his mouth hung slightly ajar.

There was nothing left, no enemy.

They were gone and in their spots, only charred remains of limbs, organs, and blood remained.

*Gulp*

'Am I actually strong?' Kazuo thought to himself jokingly for a moment before turning to look at Shikaru, the man didn't smile at him, still holding that strange look on his face.

The rest of the shinobi seemed to come to their minds once more as they quickly roared in triumph, hundreds of curse words spouted out of their minds as they looked at the dead cloud ninja.

Tens of the shinobi even rushed to Kazuo and started giving him words of encouragement and pats on the back.

Kazuo however still felt a bad premotion.

'Something isn't right.' Kazuo thought before shaking his head a moment later.

'They are dead, the thing is that this big of a loss won't be accepted easily.' Kazuo thought as he gazed at the enemy side of the battlefield.

His eyes focused as he observed everything.

At that moment, he saw it.

Lightning flashed from far in the distance, The lightning looked as if it had a mind of its own as it flew threw the air.

'Its...'

'It's coming toward us!' Kazuo thought as his mind immediately started thinking of possibilities and thankfully he found the answer quickly.

The answer he had gleaned however was grim.

'The lightning jutsu that the cloud uses to transport supplies over long distances, what if it can be used to carry a person.' Kazuo thought as his body started shivering.

Quickly his head turned toward Shikaru.

"RUN!" Kazuo screamed as he immediately used the bodyflicker jutsu and disappeared from his location.

There was no time to think about dealing with that guy, with their strength it was like a bug trying to kill a human.

It was possible however you needed thousands of bugs to sacrifice themselves and they clearly didn't have thousands of shinobi on their side.

As Kazuo thought of this, using his jutsu to get further and further away.

He saw the world tilt.

The Ground and Sky switching places.

'Genjutsu?' Kazuo thought before realizing it wasn't merely a moment later.

A large Burly man with dark skin and a tattoo on his right shoulder was next to a headless body.

'It's me' Kazuo realized as his head fell on the floor and rolled for a few moments.

Silence had overtaken the clearing whilst the dark-skinned man turned to face the Leaf ninjas.

*Gulp*

Tens of gulps were heard, as the eyes of the shinobi shook whilst looking at the man.

Finally, he opened his mouth and said with a deep gruff voice that sounded so furious, they felt like he would spontaneously erupt into lightning.

"That bastard kid actually killed hundreds of my shinobi, you fucking tree huggers always spawning geniuses as if they are grass found on the roadside." The man said before disappearing from the shinobi's eyes.

A moment later, screams erupted all around the clearing.

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*Huff* *Huff*

Releasing deep harsh breaths, Kazuo found himself back at the tree with a paper string inside his palm.

'I fucking Jinxed it didn't I?' Kazuo thought as annoyance coursed through his mind.

'Just you wait, ill fucking make your life hell.' Kazuo thought to himself as he remembered the cocky furious look on the Raikage's face.

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