My ninjutsu is not right

Chapter 209 Captive
Sand Village, Kazekage Building, the newly built sand iron workshop.

"Click~"

Scorpion put the scroll into his sleeve and walked out. He stopped when he saw an old woman sitting on a chair opposite the door with her head down and no breath, as if she was dead.

"..."

"I fooled you." Chiyo raised her head, and a smile appeared on her old face.

"Boring." Scorpio commented expressionlessly.

Chiyo slowly stood up and said, "My grandson, what exactly do you want to do? Does it have anything to do with Link of Konoha Village?"

After monitoring her for this period of time, she was sure that her stupid grandson was still the same as he was back then.

[Even if I transformed myself into a human puppet, I was unable to get rid of many disturbing emotions, and instead my heart remained in the past]

"My affairs don't seem to have anything to do with you." Scorpion's tone was no different from before.

Chiyo stared into her grandson's eyes, took out two scrolls from her sleeves, paused slightly, and threw the scrolls over.

She didn't care whether Sasori was a member of Akatsuki before, how many evil things he had done, how many people he had killed, or how many people he had made his puppet.

He just couldn't accept that his grandson attacked the village's shadow and betrayed the village.

It took her so long to come to terms with what had happened.

"Snapped"

Scorpion took the scroll, opened it and took a look, then his eyes fell on the old woman opposite him and said, "This is my old work. You actually still have my outdated work."

He said this, but still held the scroll in his hands.

"..."X2
The grandfather and grandson looked at each other quietly.

Scorpion walked away sideways and said, "Don't meddle in other people's business, old woman." He had gradually begun to get tired of the feeling of the old woman staring at him all the time.

If he hadn't been able to use psychic powers to leave the village, he wouldn't have been able to even witness Link's abnormal growth with his own eyes.

Watching her grandson leave, Chiyo never said what she wanted to say to her grandson until the end.

They haven't communicated for too long.

At her age, she no longer cares about her own life. The purpose of developing the forbidden technique of Jisei Reincarnation is to resurrect one of her father and mother so that her grandson can return to the village.

But it was too late.

Will her grandson ever come back?
The identity of a human puppet and the past of killing the Sandaime Kazekage, even though he has become the pillar of the village because of the trade, everyone in the village still looks at Scorpion with disgust and fear...

But what could Chiyo say? Ask everyone to accept and tolerate the sinner of the village?
Or should we persuade Scorpio to give up his ideals and goals and work hard for everyone's recognition?
As people get older, they tend to hope for more impossible things.

Chiyo stood alone in the corridor, as if she had turned into a statue, and did not move for a very long time.

"Do you want to go over..." Kankuro, who had been promoted to Chunin, asked in a low voice at the corner in the distance.

Temari shook her head and sighed, "Let's just let Grandma Chiyo be alone for a while." She was the one who could best understand her grandma's feelings.

Because she also has a relative whom she cares about very much but is rejected by everyone in the village, that is——

"Where is Gaara?" She suddenly discovered that her brother, who had just returned with her to report, was missing.

Kankuro hesitated for a moment and said, "It seems that he followed that 'Scorpion' out."

Temari was shocked, thinking that a fight had broken out, so she pulled her brother after them and soon found the two in an alley near the Kazekage Building.

"Da!" She landed in front of Gaara, holding the fan. Kankuro landed beside her. She originally wanted to take out the scroll or use puppet strings to connect the puppets to a state of alert like her sister, but she remembered that when she faced Scorpion before, either her precious puppets were destroyed or stolen, so she remained silent.

The atmosphere seems a little tense.

Temari was about to ask when she felt someone touch her shoulder and looked sideways.

Gaara used very little force to pull his sister and brother apart, looked at the expressionless boy on the other side, and said, "You must be lonely too."

"That's just a boring emotion that only humans have."

Scorpion's eyes were filled with indifference, and the corners of his mouth slightly raised, saying: "Puppets will not decay. My heart is just like my body. There is no such boring thing."

"If you really want someone to accompany you, just create a puppet."

"If it breaks, we can always make a new one."

"However, the quality of the puppet is also very important..."

"Let me be your friend." Gaara interrupted Scorpion's narration, "I can understand your feelings."

"Is he suffering from dementia at such a young age?"

The smile on Scorpion's face grew wider. "If you want to understand how I feel, transform yourself into a puppet first."

After saying that, he disappeared instantly.

"What a scary guy! He's totally not a human being." Kankuro muttered.

Temari glared at him fiercely.

Kankuro spread his hands and defended himself for standing there stupidly, "There's nothing I can do. My puppet is of no use to that kind of guy." After being hit continuously, he has not yet built up his confidence again.

"Gaara..." Temari looked at her brother with a little worry. It must be hard for him to be frustrated the first time he wanted to make friends with others after completely untying his knot.

Gaara was silent for a while, then slowly revealed a very normal smile, looked at his sister, and said, "I'm fine."

He looked in the direction where the scorpion left, put his palm on his chest, felt his heart beating, and the sand surrounding his body, which brought about wonderful emotions, and said:

"Sure enough, even if he transformed himself into that form, he would still be just as lonely."

"I can understand a little bit of what Mr. Link feels."
-
A few days later, over a small island.

"Finally found."

Link stood on the back of the earth dragon, overlooking the island below which looked exactly like the one in the photo.

It was so quiet here that it was a little scary. There was nothing but the sound of the wind. Looking down from a high place, there was no sign of any wild animal activity.

The wild beasts in the Naruto world are species with extremely strong reproduction and vitality, but they have become extinct on this small island.

Let the earth dragon fly around the island and find a group of connected buildings. After all, there is no need to build an underground base on an island with few people and surrounded by the sea. The target is quite obvious.

After finding the target, Tulong quietly landed on a cliff overlooking the base.

"Partner, this place has a strong stench..."

Hinata sniffed, scurried away from Shadow, and led the way into the forest on the island.

Link and Bubble followed behind, and soon saw a giant beast that had rotted away to the point that only its bones were left in the woods near the base. The bone spurs exposed on the soil were nearly ten meters long, which was enough to give people an idea of how big this thing must have been when it was alive.

I'm afraid it's a monster on the same level as the giant psychic beast.

What's weird is that the bones are black in color, and if you look a little closer you can see many tiny holes on them, like a honeycomb. The appearance of the holes could make people with trypophobia faint on the spot, and the stench is so bad that even ordinary people can smell it.

An old-fashioned shadow stood up, broke off a branch and touched it, but there was no response. He hit it again, without using much strength, the bone spur broke with a snap, hit the ground and turned into ashes with a bang.

"Whoosh!" Black dust scattered everywhere.

Even the bones are rotten?
Link did not rush over to observe it in person. He planned to catch a few fish in the sea to test the waters before considering sealing the bones and returning to the village to investigate the cause of death.

The two men and the cat passed over the rotten bones and quickly arrived at the entrance of Orochimaru's base.

"It's still the same rotten smell, and it's much stronger. It should be full of corpses like the ones just now. There's no...wait, I think I smell the breath of the living."

Hinata showed a surprised expression and started running ahead.

"I'll just go in with it." After saying this, Bubble took the initiative to follow in.

Link asked Shadow to stay in the shadow of the man and the cat to provide support at any time, and stood quietly on the tree branch waiting for news.

About ten minutes later, Bubble carried two people out, an adult male and a red-haired girl about thirteen or fourteen years old. Both of them had fallen into a coma, with pale faces and thin bodies, and looked like they were about to be dried up.

The adult male had lost both legs and was breathing very weakly, and was about to die. The red-haired girl's left arm was empty, and her right arm was covered with bite marks, both new and old.

"They are both covered in wounds. They have lost their chakra and have no place to replenish their nutrients, so they fell into a coma." He was releasing chakra to simply heal the two people, and explained without looking up: "There are skeletons of various shapes everywhere in there. There are no living people except them."

Link threw the healing medicine and ration pills over and said, "Rest and prepare to leave here."

Shadows are invading the base in full force, collecting whatever experimental equipment and electronic equipment they can take away.

He almost recognized the red-haired girl among the two captives. It seemed that this base had been abandoned.

[Even the Uzumaki clan's bloodline has been abandoned, what on earth are you doing, Orochimaru? ]
-
In the Land of Earth, in a dark base, in an empty duel arena.

"Stab!"

"Hahahahaha!"

The young man laughed wildly as he tore his opponent into pieces. Blood splattered on his skin covered with orange lines and evaporated with a hiss, making the air a little turbid. He roared with a ferocious face, "Orochimaru, come out and see me!"

"Get out!" His body instantly turned into a series of afterimages.

"Boom!"

The huge sealed iron door was deeply dented by a punch, and the dull sound it made proved that it was actually a solid and heavy iron door. He raised his hand again, but before he could put it down, his wrist was grabbed.

"?!"

The young man looked sideways in surprise.

Pharmacist Dou pinched his wrist with one hand, pushed up his glasses with the other hand, and said, "Don't get excited, your body..."

"Ah ah ah ah ah!"

"Snapped!"

The young man who was just alive and kicking and killing his opponent exploded into a pool of blood, howling.

Yakushi Kabuto stepped back at some point, looked at the pool of blood on the ground, and shook his head slightly.

Even though he had used many methods to pre-transform his body and had used precious materials, he eventually lost control of his emotions and broke through the threshold of the curse.

Failed again.

(End of this chapter)