Naruto: Traveling Through Time Starting with Seizing the Dragon Vein

The puppet of the Third Kazekage, gleaming with a cold metallic sheen, steadily caught the two swaying figures who had fallen into a deep coma.

Akasuna Fuuran, that's his father's name, and Akasuna Mio, that's his mother's name.

Scorpion stood in the shadows not far away, looking at the two faces that had long been blurred in his memory, yet which he had carved into wooden figures countless times in the dead of night.

To be honest, he didn't feel the excitement he had expected at this moment; instead, he felt an extremely strong sense of bewilderment.

In his memory, the word "parents" was far removed from him.

Before they could even remember, they went to the battlefield for the sake of their village, and eventually became two cold wooden dolls brought back by Granny Chiyo.

Now, they are lying right in front of me, still warm and breathing.

How should he face them? Call them Father? Mother?

He was unaware that this matter was even more troublesome than being a puppet.

“I have fulfilled my initial promise, Scorpion.”

Uchiha Yue had already walked slowly to his side without him noticing, and threw two specially made life-sustaining sealing scrolls on the ground.

"As for the fantasy of 'eternity'—mechanical ascension... how about it, interested in collaborating?"

Scorpion lowered his head, his amber eyes fixed on his parents on the ground, clearly distracted.

"Um……"

He managed to squeeze out a single syllable from his throat in an extremely hoarse voice.

Moon didn't notice Scorpion's absent-mindedness, but instead turned her head to look at Light.

Guang immediately understood and stepped forward: "Eight thousand spears, heart lock."

The crimson kaleidoscope flashed and disappeared in the light's eye, and Scorpion offered no resistance.

With this addition, the core ten-person team of the [Heaven's Will Project] now includes another top engineer who possesses core technologies of the ninja world.

Chapter 110 The Trio of Senju Nawaki and Nagato Buying Goods

Half an hour later, in a secluded, dry cave near the canyon.

"Uh……"

With a painful groan, Akasago Kaze was the first to awaken from her coma.

He sat up abruptly, instinctively reaching for the puppet scroll at his waist, but this aggravated the shallow bloodstain on his neck.

"Mio! Cough cough..."

Ignoring his own pain, Feng Lan immediately looked to his side and found his wife lying there unharmed, breathing steadily.

He then breathed a heavy sigh of relief.

"Don't waste your energy, your chakra pathways have been temporarily blocked."

A hoarse, deep mechanical voice echoed inside the cave.

Feng Lan was startled and looked up abruptly.

In the shadows of the cave stood a battle puppet with an extremely bizarre shape, yet its craftsmanship was outrageously exquisite!

The puppet's joints were perfectly connected, and the chakra transmission patterns were like a perfect work of art. Even the sound-producing device was simulated extremely realistically.

As the most outstanding puppeteer in Sunagakure, Feng Lan's guarded expression was replaced by shock the moment he saw the puppet clearly.

This technology...

This puppet is definitely a creation of Sunagakure. Did its mother, Chiyo, come to save them?

"This joint coordination and chakra connection... it's simply divine!"

Feng Lan swallowed hard and tentatively asked, "Is it you? Mother, Bai Ya, he..."

Sasori of the Red Sand, who was hiding deeper in the cave and controlling the puppet with chakra threads, fell into a long silence.

He didn't know how to answer.

Tell them that you are a son from the future?

Tell them that you are an S-rank rogue ninja who betrayed and killed the Third Kazekage?

Scorpion's brilliant mind was incapable of conceiving such a question at this moment.

He decided to conceal his identity for the time being.

He needs to use this cold puppet as a buffer to get to know his parents' personalities again, to observe them, until he learns how to get along with them before making any plans.

“Your lives are spared. I have other arrangements for you... You do not need to return to Sunagakure for the time being.”

Scorpion emitted a cold, mechanical voice through the puppet, then severed the vocalization mechanism, ignoring Feng Lan's questions and silently watching them.

……

Outside the cave, the direction of the Land of Rain was shrouded in dark clouds.

"Yue, shall we go back to Loulan now?"

Guang stood on the edge of the cliff, watching Yue drape a rain-shielding cloak over himself.

"No, I still need to do a test."

As the moon gazes at the distant Land of Rain, a crazy idea takes root in her mind.

Since he planned to go to another time and space to purchase Minato's team, he wanted to bring Obito into his divine plan.

In this era, it's not unreasonable to find a few 'core NPCs' of the same level to serve as stepping stones, right?

Familiarity with the operating procedures will allow you to handle the procurement process with ease.

"Nagato, Yahiko, Konan."

The moon uttered these three names.

“Especially Nagato, who is only five years old now. He has just experienced the tragedy of his parents being mistakenly killed by Konoha ninjas before he met Yahiko and Konan. He is at his weakest and most helpless. And at this moment, Madara Uchiha’s Rinnegan is embedded in his eye socket!”

"If I could forcibly abduct these three orphans, who carry the future destiny of the Akatsuki, right under Black Zetsu's and Madara Uchiha's noses..."

Yue chuckled softly: "As long as we can withstand this backlash, we'll have absolute confidence in our future plan to save Obito through Minato's team!"

Amidst thunder and lightning, the five-person team (which Scorpion's parents considered a mission) officially embarked on their journey to the Land of Rain.

The cold rain seemed to never stop.

As they crossed the border of the Land of Fire into a muddy, dense forest, Yue suddenly stopped.

"BOOM—!!!"

Suddenly, a series of extremely violent explosions erupted from the dense forest not far ahead!

The flames instantly tore through the rain curtain, and the violent shockwave uprooted the surrounding giant trees.

"Light, can you feel it?" Yue squinted slightly.

"Hmm." Hikaru, holding his short sword, looked warily at the epicenter of the explosion. "An extremely vigorous life force is rapidly dissipating. This feeling... is somewhat like that of the Senju clan, a bit weak."

"Go and see."

Yue led the way, pushing aside the bushes, and saw a young ninja lying in the mud and water where a large crater had been blasted.

Half of his body had been blown to pieces by the explosive tags, his internal organs were ruptured in large areas, and he had even stopped breathing.

What caught the eye was the green mineral necklace around the boy's neck, which emitted strange chakra fluctuations.

"The necklace that was a relic of the First Hokage..."

"Thousand-handed Rope Tree?"

It's true, what you wish for comes true.

One of his original purposes in traveling through time was to find him, but it was a low priority. He didn't even use the Eight Meanings to deduce his location.

After all, the main purpose of saving him was for Tsunade.

While Tsunade was very important to him, she was not essential.

But why refuse something that's offered to you?

Without any further ado, Yue stepped forward and delivered an extremely precise Yin Release chakra strike, piercing directly into Nawaki's brow and forcibly locking his soul, which was about to leave his body.

Subsequently, he began to continuously inject vitality into it using Yang Dun (a method of energy transference).

"Light, use Yin Release to protect his brain nerves; Scorpion, use your puppet threads to forcibly sew up his internal organs and blood vessels!"

Scorpion stepped forward, his ten fingers flying, the chakra threads moving like the most precise scalpel, rapidly stitching together the ravaged chest cavity of Nawaki.

With the three working together efficiently, this direct descendant of the Senju clan, who was destined to turn to dust in the original story, was thus rescued.

……

Three days later, in the heart of the Land of Rain.

The sky remained overcast, and rain washed over the devastated ruins.

On this land utterly devastated by the clash of great powers, the air is filled with nothing but the smell of gunpowder and the chilling despair.

Under a partially collapsed stone bridge arch, three ragged, emaciated children huddled on a tattered straw mat, shivering.

Yahiko, with his orange hair, clutched half a piece of moldy black bread tightly, watching the outside warily.

Xiao Nan, with her blue hair, had lips that had turned purple from the cold.

Meanwhile, the red-haired man with bangs covering most of his face was tightly hugging a stray puppy (Little Dot), his eyes filled with fear and numbness towards the world.

This is the "god" of the future.

At this time, they had not yet met Jiraiya, who would teach them ninjutsu and instill in them a naive and peaceful worldview.

They were just three beggars who were about to starve to death.

"Da, da, da..."

The crisp sound of footsteps pierced through the rain, sounding particularly jarring amidst the deathly silence of the ruins.

Yahiko suddenly grabbed a sharp stone from the ground and stood in front of Konan and Nagato, staring intently at the outside of the bridge arch.

The rain and fog were pushed aside by an invisible force.