In Konoha, Naruto lies down

Although he didn't like Konoha, at least he held a high position there. As long as Danzo was dead, he could do whatever he wanted, so there was no need to run away right now.

He was a normal person, not a madman, so of course he would choose the situation that was most beneficial to him. Even if he couldn't stay in Konoha forever, he would definitely have no problem staying there until he came of age.

When the time comes, he will find a small place to stay and live the daily life of the Immortal King, who is in love and getting married. Peace is so interesting. He is not the one who fights and kills every day to pursue the meaning of life.

He had it all planned out, to lie down and live a good life in the ninja world.

Before that, just live your life slowly. In short...Uchiha Madara, Obito, Akatsuki, Otsutsuki, I will definitely kill them when I find the chance.

He actually still had a ruthless side, a ruthlessness that had nothing to do with heroism and was completely devoid of empathy. Tsunade had mentioned this kind of ruthlessness before.

Naruto's heart darkened, giving Tsunade an unusually familiar feeling, which was the same ruthlessness as Senju Tobirama.

You are so pitiful, so touching, I want to kill you.

You are innocent and feel so guilty, so kill me.

What? You're not wrong, it's the world that's wrong? Very good, that makes sense. Dig a deeper hole, kill him and bury him.

Naruto came back to his senses.

Looking at the team charging ahead, he sighed silently. He was still thinking about how to show off. If he ran into the Akatsuki organization or the crazy Obito in the future, he might have to run back to Konoha in embarrassment.

Like a primary school student who got beaten up by a senior classmate outside, he was venting his frustrations in front of Tsunade. He even exaggerated it, hoping to gather a group of thugs to retaliate.

I'm not a lustful immortal, you guys go ahead and kill them!

Chapter 202: The Reappearance of the Persecution Technique of Obito, the Source of All Evil

The Nine-Tailed Fox lay on Naruto's shoulder, humming and wanting to drink. When it turned around, it found that its human owner was frowning and grinning.

It was not convenient for it to speak, so it slapped Naruto's neck with its tail and cast a disdainful look. The meaning was self-evident: did you take the wrong medicine? What's wrong with you?

Naruto felt an itch on his neck and turned around to see the Nine-Tails' smug look. He pulled it off his neck without saying anything and held it in his hand.

The Nine-Tailed Fox's eyes were full of anger, and its four short legs were swinging aimlessly in the air.

Daring! Damn this human!

After a day and a night of travel, the team finally stopped at the border of the Fire Nation. Before them lay a long, flat plain, and to the west lay the Valley of the End.

Looking at the long, sock-like plain, the heat was visible. Half-man-high yellow grass partially obscured my view, and the air above the plain was so scorching hot it was almost distorted.

Inuzuka Kiba squatted on a tall tree branch in the front, fanning his neck with air while stretching his neck to look at the terrain in the distance. If he went any further, he would cross the border.

Shino stood in the shade, huddled in his windbreaker and wearing black round sunglasses. He didn't seem to like the hot weather and hid in the shade like an insect.

On his left hand, small black insects, like ants, lined up and crawled out of his body. From his right sleeve, a row of small black insects also emerged.

Maybe he was conducting reconnaissance or familiarizing himself with the environment in advance.

Neji took over Hinata's scouting duties, activated his Byakugan, and peered across the plains, reaching further afield. The rest of the group rested and sorted their equipment.

Normally, this kind of mission should be carried out by a more experienced jonin. But once a jonin takes the lead, the nature of the mission changes completely.

In order to make things easier, Konoha chose to activate the Genin Squad. After all, they were only picking up people at the border of the Fire Country. No matter how rampant the other party was, they would not be able to chase them into the Fire Country.

"We'll just wait here." Shikamaru said, "What happened in Sand Village has nothing to do with us. We just need to bring the target back to Konoha."

"If the people from the Sand Village catch up with us, don't fight. Delay for a moment and run away quickly."

As he spoke, Shikamaru glanced at Naruto, who was tossing a fat dog around, and a look of worry appeared on his face. Before leaving, he had asked Tsunade, what if Gaara turned into a tailed beast?

Tsunade said irresponsibly, "Let Uzumaki Naruto solve it. He has a way."

Does he really have a solution?

Shikamaru didn't know, but he was naturally worried. He knew Naruto's personality well, and they had rarely interacted since graduating from Genin Academy.

It's not that their relationship has faded, it's just that there's a thick barrier between them. Talking and chatting is all normal, but it's too normal.

It was like a dirty kid who used to run around the village wearing goggles had grown up overnight. He no longer mentioned Sakura, nor did he keep shouting about surpassing the Hokage and becoming the greatest ninja in the village.

He was still ignorant and independent, but when he turned around and saw Naruto, he seemed to have touched the tombstone of his youth, and he seemed to have grown by a dozen years in an instant.

It was as if he had given up on the lively and bright boy he once was, and buried himself in a mud pit soaked in rainwater with his own hands, and then another self crawled out of the grave.

They called it growth, but Shikamaru didn't see it that way. It was like he was a completely different person. Except for his body and memories, his soul was like a completely different person.

A mud kid who had been clamoring all day long to fight suddenly blurted out one day, "I have a backer. If you try, your house will catch fire tonight!"

Come to think of it, who could be more cruel than him? He can even strangle himself to death with his own hands.

"Shikamaru, someone's coming." Shino walked over, his entire body still suspended in the yin-yang line drawn by the sunlight. "There are a lot of people, one wave in front and one wave in the back. They should be the target of the mission."

"It's them in the valley about five kilometers away. They're chasing us closely." Neji's voice rang out, "Should we go and support them? Or should we continue to wait here?"

"There's a sound of fighting!" Inuzuka Kiba jumped down from the tree. His hearing was a hundred times better than that of an ordinary person. "It's too late. The fight has already begun."

There are many interpretations of "too late". What Inuzuka Kiba meant by "too late" was not "too late to provide support", but "no time to hesitate". If we don't provide support, it will really be too late.

"Do it." Shikamaru said decisively.

"Understood." Inuzuka Kiba had already rushed out with a happy expression on his face. Behind him was Shino who was controlling the parasite. He needed to make arrangements as soon as possible in order to better cover his retreat.

Lee and Neji worked in perfect harmony, charging from another direction to ensure there were no ambushes ahead. Team 10 followed suit, forming a triangular formation, the three squads piercing the wind like hawks, closing in on the valley five kilometers away.

Naruto still stayed behind, and Sakura followed quietly.

He glanced at Sakura, but didn't notice anything was wrong, so the latter turned her head to look at him.

"Can you keep up?" he asked casually, feeling a little embarrassed.

"Ah."

.......

Temari was a little panicked, with blood on her face.

Gaara spent a year to finally gain the trust of most of the top management. However, there were still some who were unwilling to acknowledge Gaara, let alone accept his nomination as Kazekage.

What the teacher meant was that this was a good opportunity to eliminate all those high-level officials. After all, those things would have to be done sooner or later after Gaara took office.

After much deliberation, Temari agreed, but she didn't expect the other side to counterattack so quickly. They captured Gaara's new disciple and designed to force Gaara to transform into a tailed beast.

Thirty-four lives were lost overnight, all attributed to Gaara. All the evidence against him pointed to him. Some of the top brass began to waver, and were once again in a state of vacillation.

Gaara wanted to prove his innocence, but their teacher, Maki, asked them to leave Sand Village first. The lives of 34 villagers could not be explained with just one word.

Gaara had lost control when he was a child, but at that time the matter was minimized with the consent of the higher-ups. After all, the Jinchūriki was young and could not suppress the tailed beasts well.

But now the direction of things is no longer under her control, Gaara and Kankuro were also injured in the battle.

How to do?

"Temari, they're catching up." Kankuro asked, still hurrying on his way. "How far is this place from the meeting place we agreed to meet with Konoha?"

"We're very close! Hold on a little longer." Temari supported the weak Gaara and said through gritted teeth, "The ninjas from Konoha should have arrived. We're almost safe."

"The ninja of Konoha..." Kankuro raised his head, "It's all because of that damn Uchiha Sasuke who broke my puppet. I haven't found a suitable puppet in a year."

"When I see him later, I have to fight him again."

"Uchiha Sasuke has defected and is no longer a ninja of Konoha." Temari said, looking back. She was very panicked now and needed to keep talking to calm herself.

"Really?" Kankuro's voice was trembling. Behind him came the sound of shurikens breaking through the wind. He turned his head to avoid the sharp shurikens. "Next time we meet, I'll still kill that bastard."

Several figures landed in front of the three siblings, blocking their way. On both sides of the tall valley stood more than thirty ninjas from the Sand Village.

The sun was high above the valley.

A Chunin wearing a khaki vest uniform stopped them, and three Jonin came out from the front and back teams, blocking Temari and Kankuro's front and back routes respectively.

They wore Sunagakure forehead protectors on their heads, with white sand-proof cloth strips hanging on both sides of their ears. Facing the tailed beasts that could wake up and go berserk at any time, their faces were solemn.

"It seems that the Jinchuriki hasn't woken up yet?" asked one of the Sunagakure jonin in a pretentious manner. He had dark skin and sunken cheeks, like a brown shoe horn.

"Maybe he was injured. Maybe he lost control and hurt his body." The other Jonin was not tall and had a contemptuous smile on his face.

"Don't go any further." Another female jonin looked down at the three siblings who were trapped in the valley. "The border of the Wind Country is just ahead. Do you want to defect with your Jinchūriki?"

"Don't call me a Jinchūriki. He is my younger brother." Temari's face was gloomy. She pulled out a three-star fan from behind her back. She clenched her hands slightly, and all three stars on the fan were revealed.

"You guys are better at framing people!" Kankuro took the puppet off his back. He didn't look very satisfied, but he still pulled off the bandage on the puppet.

"Four more children disappeared last night, which coincided with the time when Gaara disappeared." The female jonin's expression was not very good. "Maybe he swallowed them."

"How can such a monster be worthy of being a Wind Shadow?"

"You're talking nonsense!" Temari bit her tongue and yelled, "Gaara would never do such a thing. You don't even need to find evidence to frame me! You're just talking nonsense with your mouth!"

"Evidence?" The brown-faced middle-aged ninja sneered, "The matter is already obvious. What evidence is needed? The one who should produce the evidence should be that monster."

"Who knows how many children he swallowed? Although it's understandable that he's out of control, he should at least be under the village's supervision."

"Shut up!" Temari was angry and blew a fan at him.

With a loud bang, one side of the valley suddenly exploded, and rocks crashed down. At that moment, Temari's pupils dilated slightly, and she noticed something was wrong.

With three jonin leading the team, there was no reason why they couldn't catch up with him. The only possibility was that they did it on purpose, deliberately driving him and Kankuro into this valley.

"You're not trying to take us back!" Temari raised her head and glared at the jonin on both sides, "Damn it, you're trying to silence us!"

"Oh? Did you finally find it?"

"Your Highness the Princess seems to be a little slow, but it doesn't matter. You will soon not be the Princess anymore." The short Jonin who looked like Tuxingsun laughed.

"There are Konoha ninjas waiting for you ahead, right?" the female jonin said coldly, "You guys are so naive that you didn't even know the news was leaked."

"what?"

"Why waste time talking to them? Let's do it now. Their deaths can be blamed on Konoha." The tall, brown-faced Sand Village ninja threw the shuriken.

Temari realized that there was no point in continuing to speak, so she wiped the bloody fan with her hand and summoned Kamaitachi.

With a wave of the fan, a violent wind suddenly blew up, directly facing the valleys on both sides. The kamaitachi cut through the air with a harsh friction sound, and layers of air exploded, directly knocking away all the shurikens in the sky.

"Earth Escape! The rock house collapses!"

The Sunagakure Chunin, along with the Jonin, unleashed Rockfall, a B-rank ninjutsu with three ranged attacks: long, medium, and short, designed to cause a landslide.

This is the favorite ninjutsu of the Iwagakure ninjas, and it is also the ninjutsu that caused all the evil that Obito suffered. Most of the time, the Iwagakure ninjas will lure people into the cave and use the opportunity to trigger the cave collapse to bury the opponent alive.

The Sand Village ninjas learned this technique during the war, but due to the lack of caves, it gradually became a useless ninjutsu. However, the valley before them is an excellent burial place.

Chapter 203: Lord Buried People, you buried them well, good brother!

The ground on both sides of the valley shook violently. Temari and Kankuro were stunned, watching the rock walls on both sides of the valley collapse and rocks fall.

"Hurry up!" Temari was the first to react and shouted at Kankuro.

The two men each carried the unconscious Gaara on one side and jumped at the moment the rocks fell. They had to evacuate the valley before the rocks rolled down and buried them alive, otherwise no matter how great their abilities were, it would be in vain.

However, the falling rocks around them became more and more numerous, and the entire valley collapsed in an instant under the chakra of the three jonin. Temari looked up and saw the falling rocks and huge clods of earth, her face filled with despair.

At this critical moment, the whole world seems to become transparent, and the sounds around are infinitely amplified. The heart beats loudly, and the blood rushes through the veins.

This might be the end of it. Even if the Konoha ninjas arrive, they can probably only dig out their bodies from the ruins.

"What's that noise?" Inuzuka Kiba suddenly stopped in his tracks. His instinct was warning him that there was danger ahead!

"Oh no! The valley ahead is about to collapse." Veins bulged around Hyuga Neji's eyes. "The target is inside the valley, and there are Sunagakure ninjas on both sides. They're going to bury the three of us alive!"

"I can't get through!" Hinata also rolled her eyes, her little face full of horror.

"It's already collapsing, and we can't get anyone out." Shino was still running forward, but his words already indicated that he had given up and was just waiting for Shikamaru's decision.

Xiao Li rushed to the front. If someone had to take the risk to go in and save people, he would be the most suitable person.

Everyone stared at Shikamaru, the clock ticking by. Like a turtle on a clock face, the triangular formation continued to advance rapidly towards the valley.

The valley gradually emerged before my eyes, then gradually collapsed. From a few kilometers away, I could feel the ground shaking, and the naked eye could see the danger ahead.

Shikamaru gritted his teeth, unwilling to see the mission fail. He clenched his fists as he stared at the valley crumbling like a crispy ice cream cone.

"Everyone stop!" he shouted, "Let's go around and take a look later!"

Upon hearing this order, Xiao Li stopped dead in his tracks. The others did the same, running a few steps before stopping. At this point, there was nothing they could do.

When Sasuke defected, he did not receive support from the Sand Village because... Sasuke and Naruto had already broken all the weapons of the Sand Village siblings.

Therefore, Konoha Xiaoqiang had never had any contact with the three siblings of Sand Village. To them, the three siblings were simply the targets of the mission.

It would be best if you can complete the mission, but if you can't... it's not worth risking your life.