Chapter 41 - Pride...

Iwagakure...

"Tsuchikage-sama, we should strike them harder for offending our pride!" One of the elders shouted as the others nodded. Onoki sighed, he knew where they were coming from.

Konoha had almost lost their hero and they still ask Iwa to sue for peace?!

"Never will I surrender to the likes of those tree huggers!" He thought mentally and spoke up "You are correct we must trample on them!Let our spokesmen take more men and kill them to show our stance!".

The elders cheered happily not knowing that in another two years, they would lose against Konoha...

Three days later near the border of Suna...

"Oi, look at that Uchiha babe!" Said one of the Iwa jonin who was next to his friend.

"!!" His friend looked and gasped.

"Isn't... isn't that Uchiha Yuki?!" He said fearfully as his friend looked at him weirdly.

"Hn! What's the point? He only has one arm he can't do his ninjutsu now!" He said as his friend visibly calmed down.

"From the Hokage to the Tsuchikage, Accept it!" Yuki said calmly and observed the facial expressions of the spokesmen from Iwa.

"No need! This is our answer!" The spokesman at the front said and took out a kunai and pointed at Yuki, grinning maliciously as the rest followed suit.

"Sensei..." Shisui spoke in a low voice as Mikoto glanced at Yuki who was still calm and staring at the Iwa group.

"Charge!" He shouted as nearly thirty Iwa jonins came out of hiding however before they could do anything they all heard a voice.

"I don't care if you fight here! However if even one shuriken or kunai lands in our territory we will fight!" Shouted the fourth Kazekage who appeared with an army of around fifty Suna jonins.

Yuki smirked inwardly "so this is Hiruzen's plan!" He thought and stood still with a mocking smile looking at the shocked faces of the Iwa.

"Exactly as it sounds! Go back home and give the scroll to the Tsuchikage!" Yuki said with a hint of mock as the Iwa jonins glared at him.

"Disperse!" Said the spokesmen who held the scroll as they all disappeared from their spots.

"Kazekage-sama we should kill him now!" A Suna jonin gave out his opinion as Rasa sighed solemnly and retorted "Do you really think we can kill him knowing that he survived against an army of a ten thousand shinobi?!".

The Suna ninja looked down in shame and sighed as some others clenched their fists, some of them were close to the ex-Suna commander who was killed by Yuki.

*woosh* however one rebellious Suna jonin rushed to attack him however was killed in a flash as Yuki stared at the Kazekage and spoke in a cold voice.

"What is the meaning of this Kazekage?" he asked as Rasa sighed and apologised.

"Apologies, Uchiha Yuki." He simply stated as the Suna ninja glared at Yuki with bloodl.u.s.t.

"If it were another Konoha shinobi, I believe you would have turned a blind eye on this matter!" Yuki said and continued "I haven't forgotten Suna for what they have done and I'll definitely make you suffer for it..." Yuki threatened and walked away.

"That bastard! I'll kill him!" The Suna ninja thought and went back.

Back to Yuki...

"Was it really alright?" Asked Mikoto who looked at him with worry, Yuki smiled and replied "Yeah it's quite alright, they tried to kill us remember?".

"Yuki does that mean?..." Mikoto paused and glanced at Yuki who nodded

"The war will continue on and I believe Iwa will be more aggressive now that we have hurt their so called 'pride' " Yuki continued as they set out on their journey to back home...