Konoha: Starting the Game as Yoriichi

After finishing off the Akatsuki duo, Kusuo crossed the desert beneath his feet and soon saw the Sand Village standing on the ground. The buildings here were all made of sand and some kind of special earth, like carrots pulled upside down and stuck in the ground.

Due to the village's own size, coupled with the large number of personnel lost in the battle at Konoha, Kusuo actually didn't sense any breathing sounds as he walked on the road. There wasn't even a single guard. It was too easy. He had broken in just like that.

"It seems the Sand Village has either lost a large number of ninja in that operation, resulting in a true decline in talent, or they've all laid an ambush, waiting for the Konoha ninja to walk into the trap," Kusuo thought to himself, rubbing his chin. He looked at the circular Sand Village wall and, with a leap, jumped in.

It was completely different from the bustling streets of Konoha. Walking on the streets of the Sand Village, not only were there no various vendors shouting on both sides, but there were not even many shops. The pedestrians on the road were also pitifully few. The occasional villagers he saw were all in a hurry, as if they had something urgent to attend to.

"What a depressing atmosphere. What kind of policy are the higher-ups of the Sand Village even pursuing?"

The purpose of Kusuo's trip was already quite clear. According to the list on the mission scroll the Land of Wind had issued to the Akatsuki, he would kill them one by one. First were the Sand ANBU and various high-ranking officials. Finally, he would head straight for the Daimyo of the Land of Wind in the capital city.

Since they dared to go back on their word, and even colluded with a missing-nin organization to annihilate Konoha's ninja, then they naturally had to bear the tragic price of their mission's failure.

With a flick of his thumb, the blade in Kusuo's hand was instantly unsheathed.

VMM!

The blade trembled slightly, letting out a humming sound.

The few scattered villagers on the road only now noticed that there was a boy in red standing with a sword. They took a closer look, and their faces turned pale with horror. The headband on this sword-wielding boy's forehead was Konoha's.

This was... a Konoha ninja, he's here!

Looking at the pedestrians' expressions as if they were facing a great enemy, Kusuo just glanced at them briefly from the corner of his eye. He didn't even have the thought of moving his sword. They were just some ordinary people; killing them wouldn't even reward him with any role-play percentage.

Kusuo had broken in openly and had no intention of hiding his identity.

One glance. He gave them a faint look.

BOOM!

Without holding back, the aura he had condensed from a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood shot out like a sword, piercing through the hearts of the Sand villagers. At that moment, it was as if everyone had been targeted by the God of Death. The powerful aura made their livers and gallbladders split, their legs tremble, and they were filled with a fear as if they had been plunged into an ice cellar.

After two or three breaths, their bodies went limp. Many people couldn't bear the psychological pressure and directly fainted.

Only one girl, it seemed, was still barely holding on.

Kusuo walked in front of this girl and lifted her chin with his sword. This girl had a nice figure, even comparable to Tsunade's.

"What's your name?"

Faced with the immense, cold aura Kusuo was deliberately emitting, the girl's teeth chattered. "My... my name is Yuna."

Yuna? Now that she said it, Kusuo had some impression. She seemed to be an insignificant Sand medical-nin from the Fourth Great Ninja War. Well, since she's a genin, there's no need to kill her. Kusuo's targets were not these civilians and genin.

Immediately, he continued to walk forward. Yuna's face was slightly pale, her lips having lost their color. She had even thought her life was about to come to an end. These past few days, the village had been constantly portraying how terrifying and hateful the Konoha ninja were. That this time they had come to the Sand Village for a slaughter. The higher-ups and the ANBU had encouraged everyone to take up arms and bravely attack any Konoha ninja they saw to protect their homeland.

Therefore, Yuna's first reaction upon seeing Kusuo was that this boy was very handsome. Her second reaction was that he was actually a Konoha ninja. The third was her final thought. His strength is too great... an instant kill. I'll be instantly killed. I'm no match for him at all.

However, until the very end, this boy did not use his sword to harm anyone on the street. Instead, he left without looking back. His destination seemed to be—the location of the Sand ANBU.

...

The Sand Village's ANBU was very different from Konoha's. It wasn't built underground, but above ground like a large building. The sand here was too loose, making it difficult to support the excavation of underground caves.

Looking at the towering gray building in front of him, Kusuo let out a faint laugh. He just walked straight in with his sword.

In the Sand ANBU building, almost half of the Sand Village's elite ninja were gathered. At this moment, the sensory-type ninja responsible for guarding and defense had their eyes almost popping out of their sockets. What had they just sensed? Someone was breaking into the Sand ANBU building alone? Are you kidding me? And it's a boy?

After getting a clear look at the Konoha headband on the intruder's forehead, they immediately went on high alert. They all drew their weapons and sounded the alarm. In an instant, the sound of alarms blared. Countless ANBU members all poured out.

And then they found... the enemy was just one person.

They were dumbfounded. This astonishing discovery almost made them look silly. This was the Sand Village's ANBU! The ANBU of a hidden village under one of the five great nations, and today someone was openly breaking in alone?! This was the first time in their recorded history. No one had ever been so arrogant, so bold.

ANBU ninja were already a cut above ordinary ninja, and with the addition of all sorts of strange and unusual abilities, as well as various barriers... even a Kage-level powerhouse wouldn't dare to invade single-handedly.

This red-clothed boy from Konoha, was he arrogant or ignorant?

The next second, they got their answer.

Kusuo quietly gripped his sword. Seeing that basically everyone who was coming had arrived...

VMM! He swung his sword.

Schlick.

A crimson-gold, scorching sword aura. With devastating force, it instantly broke through the various facilities on the first floor.

Fast. Too fast. Everything happened in a short period of time. These ANBU ninja only felt a heat in their bodies, a burning pain in their abdomens, and then they saw their legs and heads growing further and further away, before finally falling to the ground.

Blood splattered, flowing all over the floor. Everyone was cut in half at the waist.

One slash. He had killed all the defending ninja.

"This guy!"

"It's that sword-wielding Asura from Konoha."

"Dammit, Konoha actually sent that monster here."

Before they died, having witnessed the power of that one slash, they finally realized Kusuo's true identity. But no matter how shocked and surprised they were in their hearts, they were powerless to express it.

Calmly sheathing his sword, Kusuo walked past their corpses with an expressionless face, calmly heading deeper inside. They were all just chunin-level ANBU. No one could withstand the might of his one slash.

Due to the sandy ground, the entire ANBU building couldn't dig a deep foundation for a basement, nor could it build a tall building upwards, as it would be prone to collapse. Overall, it was a one-story, long, huge building. The further one went inside, the darker the lights became, and the higher the level of secrecy. This meant that the strength of the ninja was also higher.

At this moment, an ANBU captain in the middle of the building was looking at an intelligence scroll with suspicion. The message on it, which automatically displayed an intruder alert, hadn't been updated for a long time. It should be known that he had sent out all the chunin squads. Even a jonin-level powerhouse couldn't possibly fight one against a hundred. Even a Kage couldn't possibly do it without making a sound.

This... what's going on?

An ominous guess rose in the captain's heart, but he didn't dare to be sure. Until... he was sitting at his desk and saw Kusuo walk in with his blood-stained sword.

"You! How did you get in here?!" The Sand ANBU captain was greatly horrified. He looked at Kusuo's face as if he had seen a ghost. His whole person was scared silly. Someone had single-handedly broken into the Sand ANBU, and even made it this far inside. If word of this got out, all the other ninja villages and countries would laugh at them.

He immediately took out a shuriken and held it in a reverse grip, his two eyes cautiously staring at Kusuo.

Unfortunately... SWISH!

A sword aura attacked. Fast! The captain was shocked. The speed of this one slash was so fast it was hard to parry.

"Wind Style! Great Breakthrough!" A fierce wind spewed from his mouth. A C-rank ninjutsu, enhanced by jonin-level chakra, its power and range were greatly increased. However, the moment the fierce wind hit the sword aura, it shattered, unable to even block it for a moment.

Schlick!

The sound of a sword cutting through a human body was heard. The Sand ANBU captain's head fell to the ground, his two eyes wide with unwillingness. He had also realized it. The rumored sword-wielding boy Asura from Konoha, the monster comparable to a Tailed Beast... had arrived.

"Are you the only one here? I thought I could kill a few more jonin-level figures," Kusuo said, shaking his head with disappointment. If anyone else had heard these words, they probably would have coughed up blood and died from anger. To fight a jonin-level powerhouse from the ANBU, and still complain that there aren't enough?

At this moment...

[Current Role-Play Percentage: 70%.] Note: This number is inconsistent with previous progression.

Just like a few years ago, the situation where swinging his sword could increase his role-play percentage no longer existed. The current him killing genin and chunin also barely added any percentage. It wasn't even enough to make the progress bar move. The template breaking through seventy percent was because he had killed Kimimaro. But that had directly jumped by more than two percent. This meant that the system had defaulted Kimimaro's identity as a Kage-level powerhouse. As long as one had the strength, regardless of their state—whether seriously ill or on the verge of death—the role-play percentage would only increase according to their strength. Therefore, Kusuo could only hope to encounter more jonin-level figures.

On the other side, the news of him single-handedly breaking into the Sand ANBU had already completely spread throughout the entire Sand Village. The outside was already surrounded by all sorts of villagers and genin and chunin holding weapons. There were even more powerful ninja continuously rushing over.

Among them, a sensory-type ninja was reporting on the situation inside the building. Temari and Kankuro stood to the side, sternly asking what was going on inside.

"He... he killed everyone on the first two floors and is now heading for the innermost part!"

The moment these words came out, everyone was stunned. What does this Konoha Asura want to do? Does he plan to slaughter his way through the entire Sand Village, back and forth, all by himself?

This thought was absurd and laughable. But no one present could laugh. Because Kusuo had already powerfully completed the feat of slaughtering his way through the Sand ANBU. Next... would naturally be the others...

"Everyone! All ninja of chunin rank and above, gather! Charge in and block his retreat!"

"No matter what the cost, we cannot let him kill his way in and then retreat completely unharmed!"

"This is a provocation to the Sand Village!"

"To dare to do this, this is an insult to the Land of Wind! The honor of the Sand will not be tarnished!"

An ANBU captain, after receiving the news, immediately brought the squad he was leading on a mission and rushed over. After learning the specific situation, he was furious. He commanded the scene.

"Temari, Kankuro, go get Gaara."

Hearing this, Temari and Kankuro's faces were filled with alarm. They quickly said, "Gaara, he can't..."

"Do as I say!" The captain's face darkened. The aura of an elite jonin instantly erupted.

Temari and Kankuro looked at each other, their faces filled with helplessness and worry. In the end, they had no choice but to agree. "Yes."

On the way, "What do we do? How can we call Gaara?" Kankuro's brow was furrowed. Temari's expression was no better.

"There's no other way. Besides Captain Baki and Granny Chiyo, only the power of Shukaku can withstand that man's sword." The two of them recalled the scene from that day, and they were still deeply shocked. If the captain responsible for monitoring the One-Tail inside Gaara hadn't ordered a retreat in time to avoid being caught in the battle, they probably would have been killed by a single slash as well. They would have been completely unable to resist.

It was ironic. Of all the ninja in the Sand Village, besides them, the deserters, no one else had survived. They were either killed or captured.

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