Chapter 64: Conquering The Star Ninja Village
Hoshigakure, this small ninja village hidden deep within the mountains, actually only had a combat force of just over two hundred ninjas, with only about forty chunin, and elite jonin like Akaboshi, Shizang, and Yoruya numbering no more than a mere five.
The other so-called elites were at best special jonin in strength, and under Uchiha Hikari’s overwhelming assault, these ninjas were swept away as easily as autumn leaves in a gale!
If Menma hadn’t wanted Hoshigakure to serve him, the entire village might have already been turned into a field of corpses by Uchiha Hikari!
Watching his own ninjas continuously sent flying on the battlefield, Third Star Shadow Yoruya struggled to rise from the ground, bitterness in his heart.
If it had been a year ago, Hoshigakure could still muster eight jonin-level combat forces.
But ever since last year, when Natsuhi and Hotaru, two jonin, defected, the village’s jonin were left with only a scant few.
“Stop!” Yoruya clutched his right shoulder wound, roaring hoarsely, his voice drowned in the explosive crackling of flames.
In the center of the battlefield, Uchiha Hikari stood with arms crossed amid the ruins of the Star Shadow Building, her foot stepping on a bald ninja, with the Star Shadow Building behind her still burning fiercely, the firelight illuminating her figure and instilling deep fear in the onlooking Star Ninjas!
Yoruya recognized the Star Ninja under her foot; he was Yoruya, the young generation’s jonin in the village, quite accomplished in taijutsu.
Yet he couldn’t even withstand her casual kick.
Looking around, on the battlefield centered on the Star Shadow Building, dozens of Star Ninjas lay scattered, mostly gravely injured but alive, clearly the girl had no intent to kill.
“You want the star! I give it to you!” Yoruya clutched his wound and struggled forward.
The surrounding Star Ninjas tried to crawl up but could only lie on the ground watching their ‘Shadow’ submit to the enemy due to their severe injuries.
“Who said I wanted that broken stone?” Uchiha Hikari lifted her foot and kicked the bald one flying away.
The bald ninja crashed into the rubble and passed out completely, motionless.
“You didn’t come to steal the star?” Yoruya was stunned.
The most important thing in all of Hoshigakure was that meteorite that fell here two hundred years ago; the ninjas of their village had gathered under this meteorite, using its ability to vitalize chakra in living bodies to comprehend the Peacock Myōhō.
For Hoshigakure, their star was a treasure coveted by the entire ninja world!
Yet now it was scorned by the girl as worthless.
“Hmph, if your star can only give you this level of strength, then it’s indeed not worth coveting.” Uchiha Hikari had also gauged Hoshigakure’s combat power.
She naturally disdained the so-called ‘star’.
“Then what exactly do you want by attacking our Hoshigakure!” Yoruya was baffled.
“I want your entire Hoshigakure—submission!”
In the firelight, the girl’s voice was cold as a blade, severing Yoruya’s last shred of hope.
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The next day.
When Kado’s merchant caravan and the Uzumaki Kushina mother-daughter pair arrived, Hoshigakure had already changed banners.
Deep in a forest not far from Hoshigakure, at the center of a meteorite crater several kilometers wide and over a hundred meters deep, a training room stood quietly.
Inside the room, Uchiha Hikari, Uzumaki Kushina, and Little Karin sat on one side, while Kakuzu and Kado sat on the other.
The group curiously eyed a purple meteorite held aloft on an altar in the center by branches resembling claws.
The now over forty-year-old Yoruya had also changed his attire, discarding the so-called ‘Star Shadow’ robe and ‘Star Shadow’ hat.
He knelt below, anxiously awaiting the arrival of these powerful ninjas’ revered ‘Lord’.
Uzumaki Kushina respectfully took a Flying Thunder God Kunai from her ninja tool pouch, infused it with chakra using both hands, and placed it on the cushion of the main seat.
Seeing this Flying Thunder God Kunai, even the experienced Kakuzu trembled slightly.
The Flying Thunder God Technique researched by Second Hokage Tobirama Senju and its later user, the Yellow Flash Minato Namikaze, were legendary existences in the ninja world!
With the chakra infusion, the Flying Thunder God Kunai vibrated slightly.
A figure appeared out of thin air on the main seat’s cushion, picking up the specially made kunai in hand.
“Lord Shura!” Uchiha Hikari, Kakuzu, Kado, and Uzumaki Kushina holding Little Karin all bowed to the figure.
Even Little Karin clumsily imitated them.
Yoruya, kneeling below, nervously raised his head slowly and saw the mysterious person wearing a black robe and a white three-eyed fox mask.
The ‘Shura’ who had risen to fame in the ninja world in recent months!
Even a small ninja village like Hoshigakure had heard of Lord Shura’s exploits.
He had caused chaos in Konohagakure and Cloud Village, yet safely withdrew under pursuit from both major ninja villages, with Cloud Village placing a seventy-million-ryo bounty on him at the underground bounty exchange!
The Kusanagi Village incident hadn’t spread yet, or it would add another feat to Shura’s record.
“Lord Shura… this old man of Hoshigakure… leader, Yoruya.” The little old man wisely avoided the ‘Star Shadow’ title and prostrated in prostration to show submission to this lord.
Menma glanced around and noticed the purple meteorite enshrined in the center of the room.
He removed his fox mask, revealing his youthful face.
Kakuzu and Kado had never seen Lord Shura’s true face, so they both showed curiosity and surprise.
Kado secretly compared him to the orphan Menma whom the lord had ordered him to shelter in Konohagakure, becoming even more convinced that the orphan named Menma was absolutely Lord Shura’s child—they looked too alike!
“From now on, Hoshigakure is mine to use!” Menma looked at Yoruya kneeling on the ground, his tone authoritative.
“Yes, Lord…” Yoruya dared not resist; his entire ninja village couldn’t even defeat one organization member, let alone this fame-shaking ninja world figure who left two major villages helpless!
Menma walked to the meteorite and picked it up.
He probed it with chakra.
This meteorite was radioactive, enhancing chakra activity, but its reflectivity would gradually erode people’s bodies.
However, Menma didn’t destroy it but stored it away.
Perhaps this meteorite was related to the Otsutsuki Clan that planted trees everywhere in the universe; he could research it later.
In the following period, Menma stayed in Hoshigakure, overseeing its reconstruction.
Uzumaki Kushina served as Hoshigakure’s administrative advisor, implementing sweeping reforms to the ninja village.
Uchiha Hikari served as jonin team leader, commanding all ninjas and retraining the entire Hoshigakure’s ninja force.
Kakuzu served as Anbu Captain, reorganizing Anbu and handling counter-espionage.
Menma instructed Kakuzu that anyone attempting to flee Hoshigakure could be hunted down.
Kado served as financial advisor, investigating and compiling Hoshigakure’s financial situation.
Yoruya served as construction advisor, assisting the organization in Hoshigakure’s transformation.
Various supplies brought by Kado entered this barren ninja village deep in the mountains; Menma used a stick of forceful suppression and a carrot of benefits.
Under this carrot-and-stick approach, Hoshigakure’s ninjas and villagers gradually accepted being ruled by a powerful ninja.
And conquering Hoshigakure was merely Menma’s first step in unifying the ninja world.
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