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Shizune said seriously.

Although she didn't say what it was, a guess immediately flashed through Richard's mind.

Could it be that Gaara, who has become the Fifth Kazekage, was captured by the Akatsuki organization?

During this period of time, he could only think of this one major event.

In the original work, Sunagakure asked Konoha for help only after Naruto returned to the village.

But the people from Akatsuki will not wait until Naruto returns to the village before attacking Gaara.

"Okay, I'll go there now."

After saying that, Richard performed the Flying Thunder God Technique and locked onto the Flying Thunder God Technique in the Hokage's office.

In the space where the Hokage's office was located, he sensed two Flying Thunder God techniques.

One was a spell left on the office floor.

The other is the technique on Tsunade.

Although he had not been able to defeat Tsunade in the past three years, because Tsunade would come to him for a sparring match every ten days or half a month, he secretly left the Flying Thunder God technique on Tsunade.

Tsunade didn't know that Richard had already set up the Flying Thunder God Technique on her.

Otherwise, even if she had to cut off her own flesh, she would find a way to remove the Flying Thunder God Technique from her body.

In just a moment, Richard disappeared from Shizune's sight and came from the office of the agency to the Hokage's office.

Besides Tsunade, there were several other people in the office.

To be precise, there are seven other people.

Kakashi, Sakura, Sai!

Gai, Rock Lee, Ningci, Tenten!

Although Naruto has not returned yet, Sai, who was supposed to join Team 7 after rescuing Gaara, joined Team 7 in advance.

Speaking of which, Sai's ability to join Team 7 ahead of schedule had a lot to do with Richard.

In the original work, Sai was assigned to Team 7 by Danzo.

Because Richard killed Danzo in advance, Tsunade decided to go all out and disbanded the Root organization.

Then, with nowhere else to go, Sai was arranged by Tsunade into Team 7.

Tsunade arranged Sai into Team 7 purely because she felt that Sai could fill the vacancy left by Sasuke and allow Team 7 to maintain its original strength.

Although Sai does not have a bloodline limit like the Sharingan, his strength is not weak.

If nothing else, his fake paintings of super beasts were a very unique and powerful ninjutsu.

Richard's sudden appearance immediately attracted the attention of Kakashi and others.

Although none of them knew how to use Flying Thunder God, they immediately recognized that Richard was using Flying Thunder God.

Because only Flying Thunder God can appear so silently and elusively in an instant.

Richard ignored the gazes of Kakashi and the others and said to Tsunade, "Shizune said you had something urgent to ask me, what was it?"

After seeing Kakashi and the others in the Hokage's office, Richard knew that the urgent matter that Tsunade wanted him to deal with was to rescue Gaara who was kidnapped by the Akatsuki organization.

Tsunade did not hesitate at all and immediately recounted in detail the Sand Village's request for help.

Just as Richard guessed, Gaara was indeed captured by the Akatsuki organization.

However, it wasn't Deidara who kidnapped Gaara.

……

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 201 Konoha's Strongest

In the original work, Deidara defeated Gaara alone and successfully captured Gaara.

But after listening to Tsunade's story, Richard discovered that it was not just Deidara who kidnapped Gaara.

In other words, Deidara and Sasori were not the only ones who went to the Sand Village.

According to the people of the Sand Village, the one who attacked Gaara at that time, in addition to Deidara who used the explosive clay ninjutsu, there was also a ninja who was also wearing a red cloud robe and a spiral orange mask.

Although the people of Sand Village did not know who this ninja wearing a spiral orange mask was, Richard knew it clearly.

Uchiha Obito!

The Sand Village saw that the ninja wearing an orange mask was none other than Uchiha Obito.

Why did he go to the Sand Village?

The A Fei he disguised himself as should not be an official member of the Akatsuki organization yet, right?

Although Obito had disguised himself as Uchiha Madara and secretly controlled the Akatsuki organization, no one knew about it except Nagato and Konan.

If he remembered correctly, in the original work, after Deidara and Sasori kidnapped Gaara, Obito, disguised as Afei, tried to snatch the "Blue" ring representing the Blue Dragon that Deidara wore on his right finger, so that he could join the Akatsuki organization.

After thinking for a while, a guess came to Richard's mind.

If nothing unexpected happens, this should be considered the impact brought about by his crossing into this world.

As for why Obito did this, he didn't know the specific reason yet.

However, his intuition told him that Obito must have an unknown purpose in doing this.

Although Gaara is now the Fifth Kazekage of the Sand Village.

But in terms of strength, Gaara's current strength is not very strong.

Even if Obito did not take action and just watched Deidara and Sasori take action, Gaara would not be a match for Deidara and the other two.

If it weren't for the need to bring Gaara back alive to extract the One-Tail, with the strength of Deidara and Sasori, they could easily kill Gaara under the protection of other people in the Sand Village.

"Do you know something?"

Tsunade asked immediately after noticing Richard frowning slightly.

Although Richard was not a member of the Akatsuki organization, he told her three years ago that he had fought with Pain and snatched a Rinnegan from him.

"Nothing, I just suddenly remembered something."

Richard said calmly.

Tsunade did not continue to question him, and said seriously: "If it is convenient, I hope you and Kakashi and the others can go to the Kingdom of Wind together to rescue the Fifth Kazekage Gaara."

"Although the Sand Village and the Sound Village attacked Konoha three years ago, the Sand Village was also a victim."

"As an ally, Konoha cannot stand by and watch someone die."

Richard nodded and said slowly: "I can go to the Kingdom of Wind with Kakashi and the others, but I will not accept the command of Kakashi or Kai."

"I will help, but I will decide how to do it myself."

"If you can accept this condition, I don't mind making a trip."

As soon as he finished speaking, Kakashi said, "It is my honor to carry out the mission with you, Mr. Richard."

When Kakashi finished speaking, Kai's voice also rang out.

"Kakashi has no objection, and neither do I."

Although Kai had never dealt with Richard before, he had a pretty good impression of him.

As for the reason, it is simple, because Richard is very strong.

In addition, he also wanted to have a fight with Richard.

But he never found the right opportunity.

As the captain of Team 3 and the teacher of Lee, Ningci, and Tenten, he is usually quite busy.

Although Neji has now been promoted to Jonin, and Rock Lee and Tenten have also become Chunin.

But instead of gaining more free time, they became busier.

"If you have no other requests, let's go now."

Tsunade said quickly.

Richard didn't say anything else and nodded.

Although rescuing the captured Gaara was not in his original plan, a trip to the Kingdom of Wind was not a big deal.

More importantly, he had promised Tsunade before that as long as Tsunade agreed to let him open a private firm, he would unconditionally help Tsunade three times within his ability.

Tsunade once asked him to investigate whether Pain was secretly planning to attack Konoha, and asked him to return the favor.

But when Tsunade helped to transplant the Rinnegan to Uzuki Yugao, he added another promise to help, which was equivalent to offsetting the one when he investigated Pain.

In the past three years, Tsunade hadn't asked him to help with anything, so until now, he still owed Tsunade three times.

After leaving the Hokage's office, Richard, Kakashi and others immediately headed to the Kingdom of Wind.

However, he did not run on the ground like Kakashi and the others, but flew in the air.

At his speed, he could reach the Kingdom of Wind in half an hour at most, but he did not plan to fly over to rescue Gaara immediately.

If Tsunade just wanted him to rescue Gaara, there was no need to assign tasks to Kakashi and the others. She could just let him go alone.

Since Tsunade sent Kakashi, Kai and others, it means that this is not just a pure rescue mission.

In other words, this is a rescue mission that must involve Konoha ninjas.

Otherwise, even if Gaara was rescued, the Sand Village would only thank him, not Konoha.

In order to take care of Kakashi and the others, Richard deliberately reduced his flying speed and maintained it at a level that Kakashi and the others could keep up with.

Compared to ordinary people, ninjas' movement speed is indeed very fast.

But compared to Richard, whether it was Kakashi and Gai, the elite jonin, or Neci, Rock Lee and others, their speed of movement was pitifully slow.

Even if he only increased his flying speed to Mach 1, he could easily leave Kakashi and the others behind.

Time passes little by little.

After flying for seven or eight hours, Richard landed in the open space in front of Kakashi and the others.

After traveling at full speed for seven or eight hours, Kakashi and the others had suffered more or less depletion of their chakra.

Although they could still move forward, continuing would only cause their chakra and physical strength to decrease.

In order to ensure sufficient combat power, it is necessary to take a break now.

After seeing Richard land, Kakashi and the others also stopped.

Without any instructions from Kakashi and Kai, Neji, Rock Lee and the others sat down and began to recover their consumed chakra and physical strength.

Although he was not tired, Richard found a place to sit down and waited patiently.

After resting for ten or twenty minutes, they continued their journey to the Kingdom of Wind.

three days later.

The Sand Village finally appeared in the sight of Richard and his friends.

In the past three days, apart from a brief rest, they had been traveling all the time.

Richard originally went with them to the Sand Village.

But later he couldn't stand the speed of Kakashi and the others, so he left the team and returned to Konoha.

However, before returning to Konoha, he gave a Flying Thunder God Kunai to Kakashi and told him that he would perform Flying Thunder God before they arrived at the Sand Village.

To be precise, it is a three-pronged vibranium kunai with the Flying Thunder God Technique.

Like the Fourth Hokage, Richard did not use a conventional kunai, but chose to use a three-pronged vibranium kunai.

Kakashi didn't say anything about his decision.

Although Richard also came to rescue Gaara, he was not a ninja from Konoha.

In other words, he does not need to follow the rules that Konoha ninjas need to follow.

In addition, before setting off, he had clearly stated that he would not accept the orders of Kakashi and Gai, but would act according to his own ideas.

"Mr. Richard, this is your kunai."