The war with Sunagkure came quickly and ended quickly. In just over three months, Konoha and Sunagakure declared a ceasefire and signed a 'peace agreement' again.
Asahi remembered that in the original history, Konoha should have been dragged down by Iwagakure and Sunagkure for a long time, until the famous Battle of Kikyo Mountain and the Battle of Kannabi Bridge broke out, and Konoha defeated the two major ninja villages and reached a ceasefire with Iwagakure and Sunagkure.
However, during their battle, both Konoha and Sunagkure consumed a lot of their resources, so that later when Sunagkure faced Kirigakure and Konoha faced Kumogakure, they had to choose to compromise and were simply unable to take a tough stance in war once again.
The reason why Sunagkure compromised with the Kirigakure was because they wanted to declare war on Iwagakure. This meant that in the history of the original work, a war also broke out between Sunagkure and Iwagakure.
Asahi thought about the reason carefully. He concluded that perhaps it was because in the war with Konoha, Sunagkure was once plotted against by Iwagakure, which led to the breakdown of the alliance between the two villages and the outbreak of war between them.
But now this war was ended early because of Asahi. Both Konoha and Sunagkure have retained a considerable amount of their combat power. Asahi was now incapable of predicting how the future war would develop.
In other words, the course of the Third Great Ninja War had been changed by Asahi. Whether this incident would change the future of the ninja world in a big sense, Asahi does not know. But it was undeniable that as he takes more and more actions, he would gradually lose his advantage of knowing the future.
Perhaps in some major events, the course of history would not change, but the specific details were needed to be checked.
However, Asahi no longer had the mind to care about these things. On the way back to the village, as he watched the outline of Konoha become clearer and clearer, Asahi's heart gradually became excited.
It doesn't matter now that he couldn't grasp the future. As long as he possessed strong strength and was cautious, he would be able to face any kind of situation.
This time, Asahi obtained evidence that Sasori assassinated the Third Kazekage, and made a great contribution to Konoha. Therefore, the village leaders directly summoned Asahi back to the village. At the same time, the medical ninjas from the medical team and some ordinary ninjas also returned to the village.
The war with Sunagkure was over, and now Konoha could focus on dealing with Iwagakure. Asahi guessed that after he returned this time, it would not be long before he would be sent to the Iwagakure battlefield to participate in the battle over there.
And this was also what Asahi expected.
The battlefield commander of Iwagakure-front was Jiraiya, and Minato was also on that front line. Going to the Iwagakure battlefield could not only allow Asahi to temporarily get rid of Orochimaru, but also allow him to take the opportunity to ask Minato for advice on the [Flying Thunder God Technique].
Of course, the premise of all this was that Asahi could obtain the [Flying Thunder God Technique] from Hiruzen.
As for the handling of those photos, the Konoha high-level officials did not expose the contents of the photos. Instead, they chose to secretly contact the Fourth Kazekage Rasa and reached some kind of agreement with him.
It was a huge scandal that the Third Kazekage was assassinated by Sunagakure's own ninja. If this matter became known to the entire ninja world, the humiliated Sunagakure would definitely bear a grudge against Konoha. Even if they temporarily ceased fighting with Konoha, they might still launch a war against Konoha in the future just for this.
However, by reaching a secret agreement with Rasa, they could establish a good relation with the Fourth Kazekage. At least after Rasa had dealt with the civil strife in Sunagkure, he would not easily declare war on Konoha.
And the Konoha high-level officials might also have other plans.
If Rasa wanted to use the assassination of the Third Kazekage by Sasori to undermine Chiyo's prestige, he would definitely make the matter public in the village. As long as Sunagkure ninjas knew about this, it would mean that all the ninjas in the ninja world would know about it.
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The Konoha higher-ups never hesitated to praise the heroes who return victoriously.
It was another grand welcoming ceremony, and Asahi, who had ended the war, naturally walked in front of everyone to greet the cheers of the villagers.
To be honest, this scene was indeed exciting. The ninjas who returned to the village with Asahi all had flushed faces, and their sense of belonging and honor as a ninja of the village was greatly enhanced. Even the calm Asahi couldn't suppress the emotions in his heart at this moment.
His efforts were recognized, and his desperate fighting on the front line was also recognized by the villagers.
Returning to the village as a hero and accepting the cheers of the villagers, no one could remain calm in such a scene.
Although everything Asahi did was not for Konoha but for himself, and the welcome ceremony arranged by the Konoha high-level officials was just to better control the Konoha ninjas.
"Asahi, you did a great job!" Hiruzen looked at Asahi with a kind face and a gratified smile, as if he was very proud of this grand-disciple of his, who had made such a great contribution.
"This is all thanks to the teachings of Tsunade-sensei and the help of the village. If there were no village, there would be no me today. It is my honor as well as duty to make contributions to the village." Asahi said humbly with a very respectful expression.
After a few polite words, Hiruzen patted Asahi on the shoulder and said with a smile, "Asahi, you must be tired after traveling all the way back. Go back to take rest today, and come back tomorrow to submit the battle report from the front line."
"Yes!" Asahi responded.
With a large number of ninjas from the front line returning to the village, the top leaders of Konoha would definitely hold a meeting to discuss how to negotiate with Sunagkure and to discuss how to support the Iwagakure-front.
Since the ceasefire between Konoha and Sunagkure, the Third Tsuchikage Onoki changed his previous attitude and directly ordered five-thousand ninja reinforcements to the front line to continue confronting Konoha.
Onoki also knew that once Konoha broke away from Sunagkure's battle, it would definitely put all its strength into Iwagakure-front and prepare to end the war with them as soon as possible.
Onoki was a shrewd man. Since he had already anticipated Konoha's next move, he immediately decided to strike first and push the battle line into the border of the Land of Fire.
What Asahi hoped most now was that Kirigakure could also declare a war on Konoha at this time. In this way, the Konoha high-level officials would send Orochimaru to the Kirigakure front-line, and Asahi would use his connections to go to the front-line to temporarily get rid of Orochimaru and buy more time.
It's a pity that since the Fourth Mizukage took office, Kirigakure had not joined the war. Asahi couldn't help but complain now, 'Madara is not strong enough!'
Perhaps Madara's mind was not on Kirigakure at all now, but rather, he was more concerned about Obito who was rushing around on the battlefield in the Iwagakure-front. After all, Obito was Madara's hope.
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