Naruto: Starting with the Two Kamui

Shadow Clone Technique!

Naruto's shadow clone stepped forward, caught the Heavenly Scroll, checked it to make sure it was correct, and handed it back to Sasuke, smiling as he said, "Sasuke, I believe in you this time!"

"..." Sasuke's expression was complicated as he solemnly accepted the Heavenly Scroll and put it away.

"Let's go!" At this moment, Kurotsuchi, with Deidara, turned and left.

"Sasuke! Naruto!" Sakura called out anxiously from afar.

"It's Sakura!" Naruto breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that Sakura was safe and sound.

"Hmm?" Deidara, on Kurotsuchi's back, looked back at the sound, his gaze surprised: "That woman, so she's Naruto and Sasuke's companion... Interesting~."

"Huff! Huff! Huff...!" Sakura ran over, bent over and panting heavily: "Are you... alright? I just heard a really loud noise!"

Naruto, clutching the back of his head, said, "It's alright, the battle is over. We've taken back the Heavenly Scroll that was rightfully ours..."

"Yay, that's great!" Sakura exclaimed with delight, then hurriedly reached into her ninja tool pouch: "Yes, look, what's this!"

She happily took out the scroll and looked at Naruto and Sasuke with a smug expression.

Naruto exclaimed in shock, "Wow! A scroll of earth! That's amazing! How did you get it, Sakura!"

Sakura originally wanted to say that the scroll was a thank-you gift from a boy riding a strange bird, but then she thought that if she said that, Sasuke would definitely look down on her!

So, she puffed out her chest and said, "Don't be scared when I tell you, but on my way to find you, I ran into a lone squad. I beat them all down in no time and got this scroll. How about that?"

As she said this, her gaze unconsciously drifted towards Sasuke.

"Wow, I never knew you were so talented!" Naruto exclaimed.

"Hmph! Of course." Sakura held up one finger: "I may seem like I'm holding you back, but that's just to give you boys more opportunities to shine! If I were to step in, you wouldn't stand a chance!"

Sasuke stared at Sakura suspiciously, thinking: Does she really have this much power hidden? Why can't I see it...?

"Phew, now that we have the Heaven and Earth Scrolls, all we have to do is protect them, find water and food, and head towards the tower in the center of the forest..." Naruto said.

At that moment, Sakura remembered the important matter: "By the way, Naruto, wasn't the boy you were fighting a boy riding a strange bird?"

Naruto's brows furrowed at this moment: "You...you've seen him?"

“I, I… um, I’ve seen him, he…” Sakura stammered.

Naruto said sternly, "Sakura, tell me the truth, where did you get your Earth Scroll from!"

"I already said, I got it from another squad..."

"Answer now!!"

"Why are you yelling at me?! It was...it was that boy who gave it to me!"

"Throw it away!!" Naruto stepped forward, trying to snatch the scroll.

"Why?? I finally got it!!" Sakura took a step back to avoid it, clutching the scroll tightly to her chest.

"Throw it away quickly, it might be a bomb!!"

"What!?" Sakura was so startled that her hand trembled, and the scroll fell to the ground...

Almost simultaneously, Xiao Di, at the edge of the line of sight, took in the entire scene through the miniature telescope in his left eye, a slight smile playing on his lips: "Along with fear, art will also be sublimated, tremble..."

He held up two fingers on his right hand...

Cluck cluck cluck!!

The Scroll of Earth expanded at that moment!

"Could it be...?" Sakura and Sasuke's minds went completely blank!

At this critical moment.

Naruto gritted his teeth, lunged forward, and pressed himself against the scroll!

"Art is an explosion!" Xiao Di grinned maliciously. "Drink!!"

boom!!!!

The scroll exploded!!

Even with Naruto as a shield, Sakura and Sasuke were still blown away by the blast wave...

"Huh?" Sakura snapped out of her shock and, upon seeing the scene before her, covered her mouth with trembling hands, her pupils wide open. Then, a hysterical scream echoed through the forest.

—Naruto!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Chapter 260 He arranged everything...! (4/5)

Naruto lay motionless in a pool of blood. His entire right arm was almost blown off, held together only by some skin. His right cheek was severely burned, and his right eye was... destroyed by the explosion!

Sasuke confirmed the extent of the injuries!

"Liar..."

Thump! Upon hearing the devastating news, Sakura collapsed to the ground, completely stunned...

After pondering for a while, Sasuke clenched his fists and stood up, saying to Sakura behind him, "Find a place to hide. I'm going to take Naruto away from the forest."

"Then, what about the exam...?" Sakura's mind went blank.

“This Chunin Exam is meaningless now…” Sasuke squatted down, ready to help Naruto up.

But... Naruto gripped Sasuke's shoulder tightly with his left hand: "No, we can't give up... on the exam!"

"Why is this? Do you even realize how badly you're injured?!" Sasuke asked, puzzled.

Naruto raised his face, half of which was blasted, a stubborn smile on his lips: "I promised that person I'd show him what I'm capable of! He showed me what a true ninja is! So, I can't stop here! I'm begging you, Sasuke! Put me down..."

After saying these words, Naruto fainted; he was too badly injured!

Sasuke looked intently at Naruto: This guy, like me, has things he must hold onto!

He helped Naruto onto his shoulder and said to Sakura, "Get up! Let's find a safe place to treat his wounds, or he'll die!"

Night fell, and in the quiet tree hollow, Naruto lay unconscious, his right side wrapped in bandages...

Sasuke went out and found some food and herbs, and was brewing medicine in a makeshift pot made of pebbles.

Half a day had passed since the exam started, and no one was lingering nearby anymore, so Sasuke felt safe enough to start a fire in front of the tree hole.

Sasuke had trained with Yugao for half a year, so his basic ninja skills were quite solid.

"If only there were ninjas who knew medical ninjutsu, otherwise, during a ninja mission, being injured might mean death..." At this moment, Sasuke realized the importance of medical ninjas.

"..." Behind her, Sakura's hands clenched her knees: "Hey, Sasuke, do you think I'm... particularly useless?"

Sasuke's lips curled into a cold smile: "You asked me this question hoping to hear a denial from me? To comfort your fragile heart? Sorry, I'm not good at that kind of thing! Useless is useless, at least, right now, you're utterly useless!"

"Waaaaah..." Sakura covered her face and cried, "I know I'm useless, but... but I tried so hard to do something for everyone, but in the end, it always turns out like this. I didn't want this either. What should I do?!"

"..." Sasuke glanced at Sakura out of the corner of his eye, walked over, and placed the rice he had cooked earlier in front of her: "Instead of crying, you should eat something! Think about how to move forward!"

"Sasuke..."

“Actually, six months ago, I was even more useless than you! I was a crybaby just like you, all I knew was how to yell and scream. It was a man who made me realize my incompetence, so I thought about transforming myself. Just recently, I thought I had changed…” Sasuke looked at Naruto: “But, it was this guy who made me realize that I am still far from being good enough!”

"Sasuke-kun..."

"Once you've eaten, go to sleep! Even if there are no other enemies here, it doesn't mean there won't be wild beasts or anything like that. We'll take turns keeping watch. I'll keep watch for the first half of the night, and you can keep watch for the second half!"

Sakura looked at the unconscious Naruto, then at the steadfast Sasuke, and clenched her fist: "Please let me keep watch!"

"you?"

"Don't worry! This time, I definitely won't be reckless! Please conserve your energy, and I'll wake you up immediately if anything dangerous happens!" Sakura said firmly.

Sasuke gazed intently at her: "Can I trust you?"

“Please believe me!” Sakura said firmly.

"Okay... I'll trust you one more time!" Sasuke fed Naruto the prepared medicine and then lay down beside him.

Sakura gripped her kunai tightly, sitting in front of the tree hollow, wary of her surroundings.

Everything was peaceful, but after a while, Sakura felt a wave of dizziness and drowsiness crept over her.

Her life was uneventful, and she never stayed up all night!

I naturally feel sleepy around this time.

Just as she was about to doze off, she suddenly jolted awake and steadied herself: "That was close... I almost fell asleep!"

She took out a water bottle from her ninja tool bag, poured some cold water into her palm, and splashed it on her face. The coolness helped to dispel her drowsiness slightly...

call!

Suddenly, a gust of wind blew by!

Sakura put away her water bottle and saw a foot in front of her.

"Who is it!?" She jumped up, but there was nothing in front of her. "Is it mine? Or is it just my imagination..."

She relaxed and prepared to sit down.

But then, a dark figure stood behind her.

Thud! A chop to the neck, and her body went limp and fell forward...

After pausing for a while, the dark figure walked into the tree hollow, ignoring Sasuke, and went to Naruto.

Looking at Naruto's shocking injuries, Lin Yu narrowed his eyes behind his mask and said with a complicated expression, "Naruto, I actually saw your performance clearly a long time ago. You did not disappoint me... You and Minato are both pillars who can stand against the people of the heavens in the future!"

A glass bottle containing an eye slipped from his sleeve.

"These are the eyes of an Uchiha child killed by Konoha Root ninja on the night of the Uchiha Clan Massacre. When I found his body, his left eye had been blinded by kunai, and his right eye was wide open, as if trying to confirm the meaning of his existence in this world..."

"I don't know the name of that Uchiha child, but his eyes touched me, so... apart from those three-tomoe Sharingan that already had a fixed capacity, I took the only thing that child had taken: his tender right eye that hadn't yet awakened his Sharingan. That eye contained unexpected possibilities, who knows? That's what I thought at the time."

“Now, I’ve decided to place this possibility in your hands…”

Lin Yu unwrapped the bandage from Naruto's right eye, removed the necrotic eyeball, inserted the Uchiha child's right eye, treated it, and then wrapped the bandage back on...

"..." Then, he looked at Naruto's right arm, which was almost completely torn apart by bone and flesh.

"As the reincarnation of Ashura, it's a pity you don't know Wood Release... " Lin Yu reached for his right arm and tore off some flesh: "I'm bestowing this power upon you. As for when you awaken it and how you use it in the future, that's up to you..."

Take care of everything and erase all traces.