Naruto: Awakening Eternal Power with My Eye Techniques

At the same time, after the great battle within the village, a Chunin Selection Exam was held in hopes of selecting enough chunin to replenish Konoha's losses and contribute to the village's future development.

Gekko Ryo and Izuno Hiroshi naturally wanted to participate as well, hoping to enhance their standings within their clans. Although during the rescue mission, Hiruzen Sarutobi had stated that anyone with sufficient strength would be promoted to chunin directly, passing the exam would grant even greater recognition. Moreover, both of them were very confident in their abilities.

The Chunin Exams had a simple requirement—three genin who had completed enough missions could form a team and sign up. After registration, participants had to successively pass the first written exam, then the Heaven-and-Earth Scroll Scramble [Scroll Scramble], and finally an individual skills match before being officially promoted to chunin by the Hokage.

Since Shiyu Uchiha had already been promoted to Tokubetsu Jonin, he could no longer take the exams together with his former teammates. However, this situation wasn't uncommon—his two teammates found another classmate from the same period, reformed into a new squad, and signed up for the Chunin Exams. Naturally, Shiyu Uchiha didn't object and accompanied them to register.

Because Konoha urgently required more chunin at the time, just as Shiyu Uchiha expected, all three candidates with adequate skill were promoted without exception. Surprisingly, even some shinobi who clearly weren't strong enough were also promoted to chunin by Hiruzen Sarutobi, which made Shiyu Uchiha think even less of him.

In the year 41 of the Hokage era, when the Land of Whirlpool fell, Kumogakure acquired many sealing techniques from the Uzumaki clan. Although their gains were significantly reduced due to the death of the Yagetsu clan's Anbu Commander from Cloud-nin, they still made tremendous progress in their own sealing arts. However, with merely these obtained techniques, it remained impossible for Kumogakure to develop a perfect sealing method capable of containing a tailed beast in the short term.

After all, the Uzumaki sealing techniques they obtained often involved specific innate talent or came in incomplete fragments. In fact, long ago, one elder from the Land of Whirlpool had deliberately leaked those techniques, hoping such dissemination might allow certain Uzumaki members to survive. Unfortunately, the plan failed right at its beginning when the elder was assassinated.

Determined to use the tailed beasts for military applications, Kumogakure continued conducting experiments on tailed beasts. However, due to the inability of jinchuriki to control the beasts and the inadequacy of current sealing techniques in suppressing Two-Tails and Eight-Tails, the beasts frequently rampaged.

These uncontrolled attacks caused massive destruction in Kumogakure. Every time Eight-Tails went berserk, stopping it came at a deadly cost. To gain perfect control over the tailed beasts, Kumogakure desperately needed an effective way to suppress tailed beast chakra.

Stuck in slow progress regarding their tailed beast research, Kumogakure began focusing intently on a particular piece of information they had discovered in notebooks taken from the Uzumaki clan—the strongest sealing technique of the Uzumaki wasn't the Four Symbols Seal but rather a bloodline-based sealing ability known as the [Adamantine Sealing Chains].

However, the situation was awkward—the Uzumaki clan in the Land of Whirlpool had recently been wiped out from the ninja world, and the Yagetsu clan had played a significant role in wiping them out.

Therefore, the Cloud-nin began searching throughout the Ninja World for surviving members of the Uzumaki clan, with particular focus on Konoha Village.

After thorough investigations, Third Raikage A concluded that besides a few individuals in Konoha, no other Uzumaki clan members could be found anywhere else in the Ninja World. The Cloud-nin then ordered their spies hidden within Konoha to gather specific information about the Uzumaki clan.

Originally planning to abduct one or several Uzumakis at random, they accidentally discovered news of Kushina Uzumaki awakening the Uzumaki bloodline. After careful consideration, Third Raikage devised a plan specifically targeting Kushina Uzumaki.

Their plan was to have their spies kidnap Kushina Uzumaki before Konoha's Anbu could detect anything and get her out of the village. Then, an elite Cloud Anbu squad specially assembled for this mission would provide backup and escort Kushina to the Land of Lightning. In fact, the Third Raikage had already prepared for the possibility of war with Konoha. Thus, this elite Cloud Anbu squad exerted tremendous effort and paid a heavy price to infiltrate the Land of Fire by scattering into small groups. However, once they reached a point far from Konoha, they dared not advance further, fearing detection by Konoha's sensor ninja team, which might jeopardize the mission. They stayed hidden nearby, waiting for contact from the spies.

Then the Cloud-nin sent messages to two jonin and three special jonin who had already infiltrated into Konoha and been hiding there for many days. Taking advantage of Konoha's insufficient defenses, they smoothly killed the Anbu guards protecting Kushina Uzumaki.

This was a mission arranged by Hiruzen Sarutobi after the Second Ninja War. So he naturally chose his own clansmen to handle it for extra security. However, due to their lack of strength, things went wrong immediately—they were quickly overwhelmed and killed.

Later, the five Cloud-nin slipped into Kushina Uzumaki's residence. In a surprise attack, they knocked Kushina Uzumaki unconscious, sealed her chakra, and took her away—she had already awakened the Uzumaki bloodline, [Adamantine Sealing Chains], capable of sealing Tailed Beast power. They even managed to steal Anbu credentials and walked right out through the main gate.

However, when the Cloud-nin fled Konoha, they were still noticed. Though the Konoha Anbu guarding Kushina Uzumaki were somewhat weak in strength, they were fully committed to their duty—constantly maintaining shifts with unpredictable rotation schedules.

After all, she was their intended Nine-Tails jinchuriki. As Mito Uzumaki's condition deteriorated day by day, Kushina's importance increased daily.

Today, after the Anbu member guarding Kushina Uzumaki was murdered, the incident was discovered within ten minutes. By that time, however, as planned, the Cloud-nin had already taken Kushina Uzumaki out of Konoha Village, though they had only just crossed the village border.

Subsequently, among those pursuing the enemy, one Anbu member remained behind to report to the Hokage while the rest set off chasing the enemy forces.

Upon receiving the report, the Anbu Deputy Commander urgently summoned a squad currently training, ordering them to track using signals left by their teammates and pursue the enemy. He gave a strict order: if they couldn't rescue Kushina Uzumaki, they wouldn't need to return at all.

The Anbu Deputy Commander personally reported this intelligence to Hiruzen Sarutobi, who was in the midst of his official duties. Upon hearing the news, Hiruzen paled in shock. He knew that if Kushina Uzumaki truly ran into trouble, he currently had no way to find a qualified Jinchuriki for the Nine-Tails. More importantly, Mito Uzumaki would most certainly turn hostile toward him.

After all, as Hokage, allowing a key ninja within the village to be captured by foreign enemies was a deeply dishonorable failure. He bore undeniable responsibility. He immediately issued orders to dispatch more personnel. This time, the operation would be led directly by the Anbu Deputy Commander, and Hiruzen gave him the exact same order — one to be carried out at all costs.

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