The Tenseigan started from the Hyuga main family.

The middle-aged man kept walking, seemingly unaware of Sakura Haruno's gestures, and in the blink of an eye, he had already covered a distance of less than three zhang.

"Didn't you hear me say 'Stop right there'?"

As the middle-aged man approached, Sasuke Uchiha felt an inexplicable surge of irritation, as if the man posed a threat to his safety, and his three-tomoe Sharingan activated without warning.

"Oh, so this is the Sharingan of the Uchiha clan?"

Gazing at Sasuke's crimson eyes, the middle-aged man observed him with great interest, having already closed the distance to about two zhang.

ungrateful!

Sasuke Uchiha's three-tomoe Sharingan trembled slightly, and he immediately used the Naraku-sight technique, wanting to teach his opponent a lesson.

However, to Sasuke's disbelief, the middle-aged man seemed oblivious, as if Sasuke's genjutsu had no effect on him.

How can this be?

Although the Mangekyou Sharingan was not activated and the Naraku Sight Technique was only a basic D-rank genjutsu, it was still enhanced by the Sharingan. Even against a Jonin-level opponent, it would be enough to make the opponent slightly distracted. So why did it have no effect on the mysterious middle-aged man?

"I apologize, everyone."

Before Sasuke could make another move, and without the middle-aged man making any action, four thin needles suddenly popped out from his green gloves, from which wisps of white mist silently gushed out and spread with the wind.

"Enemy...attack!"

A series of thuds rang out. Apart from Uchiha Sasuke and Jugo, everyone present, including Haruno Sakura and Kamizuki Izumo, collapsed one after another. Not only were they unable to mobilize their chakra, but their strength was also instantly drained. Their eyelids became incredibly heavy, and they lost consciousness a few seconds later.

"What did you do to them?"

Jugo glanced at Suigetsu and Karin lying on the ground, then immediately stepped in front of Sasuke and questioned them.

"Don't worry, this is a tranquilizer I specially formulated for ninjas. There will be no danger to their lives. It's just to let them get a good night's sleep."

The middle-aged man sized up Uchiha Sasuke and Jugo and immediately concluded that the two must possess some special constitution to prevent the tranquilizer from working.

"Who exactly are you?"

Uchiha Sasuke looked at the middle-aged man and questioned him again.

"My name is Amado, and I am a scientist and a creator of scientific ninja tools."

The middle-aged man smiled slightly and answered.

Chapter 255 Sakura Haruno, you didn't want this either...

Scientists, not ninjas?

And what exactly are scientific ninja tools?

Sasuke Uchiha frowned slightly, but ultimately gave up on the idea of ​​further questioning and secretly gave Jugo a tactical hand signal.

Regardless of who the other party is or why they came to Konoha, once we capture them, we'll surely find out everything.

A flash of red light appeared on Amado's orange glasses, revealing Sasuke's supposedly discreet movements. Immediately, a fork resembling cutlery slid out from his sleeve, emitting strange high-frequency vibrations.

stirrup!

Amidst the extremely stimulating sound waves, both Uchiha Sasuke and Jugo instinctively covered their ears with their hands, trying to stop the impact of the sound waves, but they still felt dizzy and the world was spinning, and even Amado's face began to blur.

Is this the scientific ninja tool he mentioned?

How could such a thing exist?

Jugo forced himself to take a step forward, attempting to enter the cursed seal state to enhance his combat power, but as an even sharper sound wave rang in his brain, Jugo's vision immediately went black, and he collapsed to the ground, falling into a coma.

"Are you kidding me?"

Sasuke was also in great pain, but his Uchiha pride prevented him from collapsing. He struggled to form hand seals, and a huge fireball was spewed from his mouth, hurtling towards Amado.

However, to Sasuke's disbelief, the fireball inexplicably dissipated less than a meter after it flew, rendering the ninjutsu attack ineffective.

"I am an Uchiha with the Mangekyou Sharingan."

Sasuke's eyes widened, and the three tomoe quickly spun around, revealing his Mangekyou Sharingan.

However, to Sasuke's disbelief, as soon as his Mangekyou Sharingan was activated, he immediately realized that it was extremely difficult to mobilize the chakra within his body, causing his attempt to activate Amaterasu to completely fail.

"I'm sorry to trouble you for now, the last surviving member of the Uchiha clan. With you as a bargaining chip, I'm sure I can achieve my wish."

In the instant Sasuke was stunned, a mechanical arm suddenly emerged from the long box behind Amado, grabbed Sasuke's neck, and the mechanical fingertips cut through the skin of Sasuke's neck, causing blood to drip down. A long needle then popped out and pierced the artery in Sasuke's neck.

"you……"

The sudden numbness left Sasuke only able to utter one word before he followed in his companion's footsteps, collapsing to the ground with a limp body.

"It seems that we need to use the No. 3 tranquilizer to deal with ninjas who are above the Jonin level."

Amado murmured something, then walked step by step to Sasuke's side, took out a mechanical device that looked like a neck ring, and fastened it around Sasuke's neck.

Click...

With a soft click, a green light illuminated on the mechanical device, reflecting off Sasuke's face.

"do not move!"

Just as Amado took out another mechanical device and was about to put it on Sakura Haruno in the same way, he felt a sharp pain in his neck as the tip of a kunai was pressed against his skin.

"As expected of the Fifth Hokage Tsunade's disciple, she managed to break the anesthetic effect of the second tranquilizer in such a short time."

Without turning around, Amado could already tell from the voice that the person standing behind him was Sakura Haruno.

"What did you do to Sasuke?"

Looking at the mechanical device on Sasuke's neck, Sakura Haruno immediately showed concern, and even her arm trembled slightly with excitement, causing a drop of blood to seep from Amado's neck.

"This is a bomb device. It will explode immediately once I give the verbal command or the detonation time is reached. Its power is roughly equivalent to your ninja's A-rank ninjutsu."

Even when pointed at by a kunai, Amado remained unfazed and explained the function of the mechanical device.

what?

"Untie it, or I'll kill you right now."

To enhance her persuasiveness, Sakura Haruno applied a little more force and pierced Amado's neck skin again.

"Only I can remove this collar. I'll count to three, and if you don't remove the kunai, I'll detonate it and take Uchiha Sasuke down with me. Anyway, since my daughter Akaibi died, there aren't many things I care about anymore. Being able to have Uchiha Sasuke die with me wouldn't be a bad outcome."

After saying that, Amado started counting on his own without waiting for Haruno Sakura to speak again.

"one!"

To Amado's surprise, after uttering just the first number, accompanied by a metallic clang, the kunai slipped from Sakura Haruno's hand and fell to the ground.

"Sakura Haruno, you don't want Sasuke Uchiha to die in the bomb explosion, do you?"

Amado slowly turned around, spoke in a gentle tone that was full of threats, and then fastened another mechanical device in his hand to Sakura Haruno's neck.

“Very good, now you can pass on a message to the Fifth Hokage, Tsunade, and tell her that Amado of the Kara organization wants to have a chance to speak with her.”

Shell structure?

Isn't that the mysterious organization related to the Otsutsuki clan?

Although Sakura Haruno didn't have access to Konoha's top secrets as the Hokage's secretary like her senior Shizune, she had heard of the Kara organization through her own experiences and knew that it was a more secretive and powerful organization.

"Okay, I'll contact the Hokage right away."

After glancing at the unconscious Sasuke on the ground, Sakura Haruno leaped up and raced towards the gate.

"Wood Release: Thorn Killing Technique".

However, just a few feet away, a low shout rang out, and a vine-like piece of wood shot out from the bushes, binding Amado's hands and feet. Several wooden posts were also erected around the area to prevent the enemy from escaping.

"Captain Yamato."

Upon seeing Yamato emerge from the bushes, Sakura Haruno immediately showed a look of surprise and stopped in her tracks.

"His hands and feet are sealed by my Wood Release, and he can't make any movements."

Yamato leaped to Sasuke's side and bent down to try to dismantle Amado's mechanical devices.

"Are you Tenzo, the human experimenter who received the First Hokage's cells and thus inherited the Wood Release ninjutsu?"

Upon hearing Amado immediately recognize his old codename from his time with Root, Yamato's gaze sharpened. He stopped fiddling with the mechanical device and stood up with even greater vigilance.

"Please be patient and let me finish what I have to say. Can you see what's hanging from that big tree behind me?"

Sakura Haruno and Yamato shifted their gaze from Amado and immediately noticed an identical mechanical device hanging on the tree.

"I'll detonate it right now to show you, even though I can't move my hands and feet right now, and even my chakra has been completely absorbed by the Wood Release."

boom!

As Amado uttered an onomatopoeic word mimicking an explosion, the mechanical devices on the tree suddenly lit up, emitting a dazzling white light.

As the black smoke dissipated, the tree, as thick as two people could hug, was completely pulverized in the explosion, leaving a deep crater in the ground with burning fragments of branches inside.

Chapter 256 Asylum and Negotiation

The shockwave from the explosion swept over Sakura Haruno and Yamato, both of them unable to hide their surprise.

"This proves nothing; it could just be the detonation time you pre-designed."

Although Yamato understood that Amado's words were most likely true, he still chose to refute them in order to regain control of the conversation.

"So, does Lord Tenzo want me to detonate Uchiha Sasuke's bomb to verify its authenticity?"

Amado smiled slightly as he looked directly at Yamato.

"No."

Despite having the same device installed on herself, Sakura Haruno was more worried about Sasuke Uchiha's safety.

We finally got Sasuke back to Konoha and saw hope for the reorganization of Team 7. We absolutely cannot let him get hurt in the slightest.

"Speak, what do you want? The Hokage is extremely busy and doesn't have time to meet with someone as suspicious as you."

Yamato pulled his hand backward, causing the wooden strips binding Amado's body to retract back into his body, thus releasing Amado from his control.

"Before that, please allow me to apologize for having to resort to such drastic measures. I'm sorry, I didn't mean to hurt anyone."

Amado straightened the marks left on his clothes from being bound by the wooden strips, first apologizing to Sakura Haruno, then looking directly at Yamato.

"The reason I'm using this method is because I don't have much time; I need to see the Fifth Hokage immediately."