Starting with Naruto, I'll become stronger through my own efforts.

Chapter 316 Chiyo in Despair

Hiruko has been continuously modified by Sasori for more than ten years, and its performance and functions have reached a new level. In particular, its compatibility with Sasori is perfect.

The addition of Hiruko provided Sasori's puppet army with a strong tactical core, and Chiyo's pressure increased dramatically.

Not only could the old woman not keep the two puppets on standby, but even the Chikamatsu Ten Guards began to show signs of injury.

Soon, Chiyo began to breathe heavily; she couldn't hold on much longer.

Might Guy suddenly spoke up and asked, "Kakashi, are we just going to watch like this?"

Kakashi looked around and said, "The Fifth Kazekage has been found, our mission is complete."

"Moreover, Chiyo and Sasori are biological granddaughter, so it would be inappropriate for us to interfere no matter what we do."

Jiraiya added, "Kakashi is right. This is a civil war, and it has little to do with us Konoha ninjas."

Might Guy frowned and said, "Lord Jiraiya, and Kakashi, I can't refute the path you're talking about, but I feel that it's wrong to look at it this way."

The third class leader, Tian Tian, ​​stepped forward and said, "Teacher Kai, you're right. It's absolutely wrong of us to just stand by and watch. It's inhumane to witness a tragedy like this, where a grandfather and grandson kill each other."

Jiraiya frowned but gently advised, "Tenten, this is a matter for Sunagakure. If we directly interfere in family matters, it will damage Konoha's reputation and be detrimental to everyone—"

Tenten glanced at Jiraiya: "Lord Jiraiya, my brother, the Fifth Hokage, Sasuke, leads Konoha to become the strongest ninja village in the world. We can do whatever we want!"

Kakashi Hatake was stunned, while Jiraiya angrily scolded, "Nonsense!"

"How can you, a young girl, say something like 'I can do whatever I want'?"

Tenten snorted coldly: "I don't know who Jiraiya learned this from. He's so timid and hesitant. He's not like a Konoha ninja at all."

Hyuga Neji also stepped forward: "The captain is right. Konoha ninjas only recognize the words of the Fifth Hokage."

"The Hokage said that when Konoha ninjas are not given orders, they only need to act according to their own hearts."

"The fight between Sasori and Chiyo makes me uncomfortable. I think I should intervene and defeat Sasori of the Red Sand."

Xiao Li also stepped forward: "Me too!"

Matt Kai grinned proudly: "Me too!"

"Hehe, me too!"

Suddenly, Naruto's voice came from behind the Konoha ninjas.

Sasuke Uchiha, standing next to Naruto, said, "Letting the enemy attack our allies is not the style of Konoha ninjas."

Naruto Uzumaki pouted and said, "Sasuke, you interrupted the line. You should have said I did too."

Uchiha Sasuke: "Hmph!"

Sakura Haruno covered her mouth and laughed, "Sasuke said: You're such a chatterbox."

Six young Chunin, aged 16 or 7, stood shoulder to shoulder with Might Guy, ignoring Jiraiya's frown and Kakashi Hatake's deep thought, and strode towards the battlefield of the two puppeteers.

As they walked, Tenten asked, "Naruto, did you defeat Itachi Uchiha?"

Naruto Uzumaki didn't answer the question; instead, he looked at Sasuke.

Sasuke said, "We defeated Itachi Uchiha, but we couldn't kill him."

Naruto said, "Later, another enemy of the Uchiha clan came, the one-eyed Mangekyou Sharingan who attacked Konoha when I was born."

"What?"

Naruto's words startled Kakashi, Jiraiya, the Ino-Shika-Cho trio, and Aburame Torune, the Konoha Jonin. They looked at each other, somewhat at a loss.

It's important to know that this guy manipulated the Nine-Tails to attack Konoha 16 years ago, causing heavy casualties in the village. The Fourth Hokage even died fighting for the Kazekage, the Nine-Tails.

In the eyes of older generations of ninjas, this guy was practically the embodiment of Madara Uchiha, the strongest enemy of Konoha, and one of the most terrifying ninjas in the ninja world.

But for the younger generation of ninjas, that guy is a formidable enemy, an enemy that must be eliminated in the future.

That's it.

Sakura Haruno added, "That guy is incredibly strong; he forced us to reveal all our trump cards in just a few rounds."

"Sister Tiantian, look, I even used up [Yin Seal - Release], but I still couldn't defeat that monster."

Naruto Uzumaki and Sasuke Uchiha exchanged a quick glance, but neither of them said a word.

Sakura has indeed used up all her trump cards, but the two of them don't have any. However, it's not appropriate to say that at this time.

Hyuga Neji asked in surprise, "How did you guys deal with such a powerful guy?"

Sakura Haruno then looked bewildered: "I don't know, Naruto stayed behind to intercept him, and then Naruto followed."

All eyes were on Naruto Uzumaki.

That enemy with the Mangekyou Sharingan was able to fight the Fourth Hokage and escape unscathed; his strength is definitely Kage-level. How exactly did Naruto get rid of him, and will he follow up and attack the Konoha ninjas?

Naruto Uzumaki thought for a moment and decided not to hide it anymore: "I didn't defeat this enemy. The Fourth Hokage suddenly appeared and took over the battle."

"I think that with the Fourth Hokage's strength, that guy is definitely no match for him, so everyone doesn't need to worry."

All the Konoha ninja were dumbfounded: "Who? Who did you say took over the battle?"

Naruto scratched his face and replied, "It's the Fourth Hokage, Minato Namikaze, my father."

"Your father is the Fourth Hokage, Minato Namikaze?!"

Uchiha Sasuke, Haruno Sakura, Hyuga Neji, Might Guy, Rock Lee, and the Ino-Shika-Cho team were all dumbfounded.

Jiraiya and Kakashi, who already knew this information, were also very shocked. They were surprised that Naruto Uzumaki knew his identity at some point.

There are two more key questions: When and through what channels did Naruto learn that he was the son of the Fourth Hokage?

Did Naruto harbor resentment towards Konoha Village because of his tragic childhood experiences?

Jiraiya and Kakashi exchanged a glance, but dared not ask at this moment.

Only Tenten, who already knew everything, ignored the so-called intelligence and continued to ask, "Do you think the Fourth Hokage can win?"

Naruto Uzumaki nodded and said, "Of course we can win. Even though he's in Edo Tensei form, he's still my father, the Fourth Hokage of Konoha."

"In short, we don't need to worry about being attacked."

Sakura Haruno got excited: "Let's defeat the enemy, and then hurry up and pay our respects to the Fourth Hokage. He's said to be very handsome."

Might Guy exclaimed, "Although I don't know what the Impure World Reincarnation is, I know I have a chance to meet the Fourth Hokage. This is the best tribute to my youth. Let's do our best!"

The arrival of the Konoha ninja completely changed the course of the battle.

Sakura Haruno's superhuman strength, Naruto Uzumaki's Rasengan, and Rock Lee and Might Guy's punches and kicks can all shatter a puppet with a single blow.

Although Neji Hyuga lacks destructive power, he can use his Byakugan to sever a large area of ​​puppet strings, making him the most efficient at destroying puppets among all the characters.

Only Tenten's ninjutsu and secret techniques are unsuitable for destroying puppets, which seems a bit awkward.

But it doesn't matter, she can add "luck" to everyone, making their attacks exceptionally smooth, and every strike can land a critical hit or a critical strike.

Once the seven Konoha ninjas joined the battle, they quickly destroyed hundreds of puppets and cleared a small section of the battlefield.

Sasori of the Red Sand can only gather his puppets and change their formation, turning his attack on Chiyo into an attack on himself.

But it was too late to change anything. The attacks of the Konoha ninjas were extremely sharp, and the ordinary puppets had no way to defend themselves and were all instantly killed.

Sasori of the Red Sand also made a series of operational errors, such as the puppet strings getting tangled together, the puppets colliding with each other due to uneven ground, and even the backlash from chakra extraction.

This led to Sasori's complete defeat. In the blink of an eye, more than two hundred puppets were reduced to fragments, leaving less than fifty puppets surrounding him.

At this moment, Naruto Uzumaki suddenly released the Nine-Tails' chakra, and his body was covered with the Tailed Beast Cloak. The terrifying chakra fluctuations made everyone take notice.

Scorpion dared not be careless. He manipulated most of the puppets to change direction and spray thousands of poison needles at Naruto, covering all possible routes of Naruto's attack.

However, relying on the protection of his Tailed Beast Cloak, Naruto completely ignored the barrage of poison needles. His orange-red fox tail swept left and right, clearing away all the puppets surrounding Sasori, and he quickly approached Hiruko.

Naruto Uzumaki clasped his hands together to form a ball, and the Nine-Tails' chakra gathered wildly, forming an orange chakra ball.

【Nine-tailed Rasengan】

He held the Rasengan, made from the Nine-Tails' chakra, in his hands. The violent chakra fluctuations emanating from the tailed beast left Sasori speechless and terrified.

He dared not be careless in the slightest, controlling the left and right hands of Hiruko to switch, a sharp sword coated with deadly poison pierced straight into Naruto's heart, while at the same time the scorpion tail sting behind him swept across from left to right.

BOOM!

Naruto was struck in the ribs by the scorpion tail stab and was sent flying.

But before flying away, Naruto also pressed the Nine-Tails Rasengan onto Hiruko, producing a dull, explosive sound.

boom-!!

Hiruko got completely destroyed.

The instant Hiruko was destroyed, Scorpion's true form transformed into a blur and leaped out from the shattered high-level puppet.

Once Sasori regained his footing and stood atop the small hill of puppet fragments, his face was revealed to everyone as he looked at the Konoha ninja who had surrounded him.

His handsome appearance stunned everyone.

Sasori, who is over 30 years old, is actually a delicate and slender young boy hidden in Hiruko.

It looks incredibly jarring, and compared to Hiruko's hideous ugliness, it feels like a broken sense of logic.

Sakura Haruno, one of only two women in the rescue team, was stunned when she saw Sasori's true form, feeling completely disoriented.

Being surpassed in beauty by a man is like a critical hit of 10,000 points for any girl.

Only Chiyo, still in shock, quickly recovered: "Scorpion, you've been away from the village for over ten years, how could you not have changed at all—"

Suddenly, Chiyo remembered her grandson's catchphrase, "the eternal art," and a terrible thought flashed through her mind.

Her lips trembled as she asked, "Could it be that you... you've modified yourself too, turned yourself into... a human puppet?"

Having shed his rosy hue and revealed his true form as a pink-haired boy, Sasori's personality seems to have undergone a significant change.

Hearing Chiyo's words, he broke into a bright, sunny smile, even changing his form of address: "Grandma Chiyo, don't be so surprised. Look, this is the eternal art I'm so proud of. I will live on forever in this form!"

"How could you do this?"

But Chiyo couldn't accept this fact; her gaze toward Sasori was filled with despair.

The grandson she wants is someone who can marry normally, have children, and carry on her bloodline.

The successor she wanted was a Sixth Kazekage with a normal mind, capable of shouldering the burdens of Sunagakure and remaining steadfast under the pressure of the Fifth Hokage.

Chiyo never imagined that when they met again after more than a decade, her beloved grandson would turn her into a figurine.

It's absolutely impossible for them to carry on the family line; how can a puppet have children?

Forget about taking over Sunagakure.

To turn oneself into a puppet, one must be in a state of absolute consciousness when cutting oneself. To ensure the precision of the cut, even anesthetic drugs cannot be used.

Scorpion's ruthlessness is absolutely undeniable, but it's all meaningless.

Because he was pursuing so-called eternity, but he had known since childhood that nothing is eternal, so he was, and could only be, running away from something.

To escape something unknown, he could be so ruthless to himself. Scorpion's ruthlessness doesn't represent determination or resilience; it only shows that he is—abnormal.

As we all know, abnormal things are very unstable, like a time bomb with an uncertain duration, you never know when it will explode.

The old woman's despair at this moment was exactly the same as that of Ma Yuanshen, who "gave birth to children" in the United States.

No, Chiyo's despair was even stronger.

Even though there was no hope left, it took me many years to convince myself that I had no successor.

But when he was completely heartbroken, he saw his grandson, which rekindled his hope of having descendants.

As a result, I was plunged into despair once again.

Nothing in the world can cause more despair and frustration than something that is gained and then lost.

Chiyo just wanted some peace and quiet to suppress her increasingly frantic destructive impulses.

But how could Scorpion let her go?

Scorpion took out a sealing scroll from behind his back, smiled and unsealed it, saying, "Since I'm in such a good mood today, I'll let you see my treasures."

"Note that this is my favorite masterpiece."

As the white smoke dissipated, a human puppet draped in a black robe floated in mid-air, slowly moving up and down.

Scorpion manipulated the puppet's strings with his ten fingers, a smug smile spreading across his face: "Granny Chiyo, doesn't this puppet look very familiar?"

Chiyo frowned, carefully examining the object with her dim old eyes, and then she was stunned.

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