In Konoha, Naruto lies down

Naruto didn't know that the four guys trapped in the sealed space would actually quarrel. At this moment, he first returned to Konoha. After washing and resting enough, he followed the clues left by Black Zetsu to find him.

"You must have heard the news. Anyway, the One-Tail, Eight-Tail, Two-Tail, and Nine-Tail are all in my hands." Naruto put his hands in his pockets, "I'll give them to you, and the deal between us is over."

"I know." Black Zetsu nodded, "Then...how do you hand over the tailed beast to me?"

"Just release them?" Naruto glanced at Black Zetsu, "Do you have a way to subdue them? Four isn't too many. I can teach you how."

"What?" Black Zetsu thought he really had a way.

"Beat Shukaku of the Sand One first! That guy has the most tricks up his sleeves, remember to knock him down." Naruto explained seriously.

"When fighting the Eight-Tailed Fox, you have to break its legs and cut off all the octopus tentacles. The most troublesome one is the Nine-Tailed Fox. The Nine-Tailed Fox has many tricks up his sleeve, but he is also the most difficult to deal with."

"It's best to hit him hard. Don't hesitate even if he begs for mercy. You must beat him until the Nine-Tails can't get up at all. When he has no strength to release chakra, then it will be considered a success."

"Finally, there's the Second Tail. The Second Tail is relatively weak, so when he's about to spit a fireball, just punch him in the chin. Be ruthless and don't hold back."

"Did you hear that clearly?"

Black Zetsu was completely bewildered. What a mess! Taking on four tailed beasts on his own? How could he possibly do that? Was this Uzumaki Naruto... just mentally ill?

"Don't let go!"

"How can I give them to you?" Naruto said impatiently. "Do I have to give them to you one by one? How long will it take? Can you be faster?"

Black Zetsu suppressed his inner complaints and spoke.

"There's always a way. Let's get the second tail first..."

After several days of hard work, Naruto and Black Zetsu finally completed the division. The four tailed beasts were transferred to Black Zetsu bit by bit in the form of chakra, and the two of them barely rested.

After the dust settled, Naruto quickly returned to Konoha and slept until dawn.

As for Kyuubi... he didn't think there was anything wrong. There was no question of betrayal. The relationship between the two was just a matter of interests and other relationships. Besides, Kyuubi would not die.

At the moment, resurrecting Otsutsuki Teru requires nine tailed beasts, and there is no other way around it.

When everything is over, the Nine-Tailed Fox will be able to reappear, but it will just be like sleeping again. When he wakes up, everything will start anew.

He turned over in a daze and slept for another day. By the time Naruto washed and ate, it was completely dark.

He stood in the empty house, looking at the dark night, and couldn't help but feel a little lonely. He was obviously not alone, but he was still alone most of the time.

It’s all because I’ve been involved in so many bad things that I often have to do things alone.

"It's almost over...everything is almost over." He murmured to himself, "It doesn't matter, just wait a little longer, until Kaguya Otsutsuki is resurrected."

"Damn you Otsutsuki clan... you're going to suffer the consequences."

Chapter 560 Witch Town

"Hokage-sama, the Five Kage online meeting is about to begin." Shikamaru turned and reminded, "The Kumogakure side is already urging them, Hokage-sama, please get ready."

"We have daily talks, and what can we expect to come out of them? Probably more accountability," Kakashi sighed, unable to resist complaining. "Other disciples are all mature and steady, but mine are ruining my reputation. It's really... hard to put into words."

"The Kumogakure side said..." Shikamaru glanced at the still-hot document and continued, "Sasuke attacked Killer Bee, and even earlier, it was suspected that Sasuke had attacked the Two-Tails Jinchuriki, Nii Yukito, using the same method."

"Sasuke is already a traitor, what else can we do?" Kakashi stood up reluctantly with one dead fish eye outside the mask.

"Anyway, there's nothing we can do about Sasuke. I know Sasuke is guilty of many crimes, but there's nothing we can do. We can't catch him, and he's slipped away to another country's territory. Konoha has to go through the process to apply for assistance."

"Arresting people is completely worth the cost. Ultimately, isn't compensation all about? And compensation requires negotiation... Talk after talk. We were still negotiating with those guys for the past two or three months."

"As a result, after half a month of delay, nothing was accomplished."

Listening to Kakashi's complaints, Shikamaru felt somewhat helpless. Kakashi intended to train him, and he knew the reason. "That being said, it's the Five Kage Summit after all, so I still have to participate."

The Five Kage Summit is all about participation.

Kakashi walked into the meeting room prepared by the Intelligence Department with the mentality of visiting a grave, holding the intimate paradise in one hand, and watched the people in the Intelligence Department debugging the equipment with boredom.

"Hokage-sama, it will be ready soon." The person in charge explained with sweat on his forehead, "There is a slight problem with the equipment. Please wait a moment."

"It's okay, it's okay." Kakashi waved his hand without taking his eyes off the page and said, "Don't worry, things like the Five Kage Summit are a complete waste of time."

"Yes." The head of the intelligence department was sweating profusely.

Alas, life is hard and a promotion is not always a good thing.

Ino, the former head of the intelligence department, went home to give birth to a baby and has not returned yet. There has been no news about her since she became pregnant. Even after the child was born, there has been no rumors about her returning to work.

As for the former head, Yamanaka Inoichi, he had previously said he would go to work as usual, perhaps taking occasional leave to go home and look after his granddaughter. But when the new eldest princess of the Yamanaka clan was born, Yamanaka Inoichi simply disappeared.

Regardless of whether he goes to work or not, or whether he is the head of the intelligence department, Yamanaka Inoichi is now just an ordinary villager A.

The Yamanaka clan dominated the intelligence department, and some people originally had complaints about it, but now... the whole family didn't come, and their minds were all on the children.

The Intelligence Department was still functioning, but its standing within Konoha had regressed over 180 steps. Not only had the previously hidden benefits vanished, but the workload had also increased.

After a period of chaos, the equipment finally started to operate autonomously.

As the ten-second countdown began, Kakashi reluctantly put down his device. He rested his chin on his hand and stared at the screen in boredom, thinking to himself that the argument was about to begin again.

He just didn't know what his group of unworthy disciples were doing at this time, nor did he know who did those things. But Kakashi felt that there was something strange about this matter, and it felt like something Naruto would do.

However, Naruto has now temporarily accepted a special mission, which is somewhat related to the Hyuga clan. But Kakashi is too lazy to care so much. His disciple has grown up and can not only embarrass him, but also stab him in the back.

He could just pretend he didn't know. As Hokage, he only had to protect Konoha's interests. With Ino and Hinata around, he didn't have to worry about Naruto becoming a traitor.

He just felt a little regretful that he hadn't thought of how to keep Sasuke, otherwise the situation wouldn't have developed into what it is today. He shook his head, and the meeting had already begun.

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The Kingdom of Witches.

A team of carriages and horses stopped in a long-abandoned town. It was dusk and the setting sun had long been swallowed up by the night.

Two ninjas jumped out of the car. One of them was a girl with a bun on her hair. After looking around for a while, she couldn't help but gasp. She was not afraid of anything, but she was most afraid of such a gloomy place.

On the contrary, Xiao Li, who also jumped down, peeked around and didn't feel anything about this deserted town, so he asked curiously.

"Naruto, where is this?"

"We've arrived at the sealed place of the Witch Country." Naruto yawned and also jumped off the carriage. "This is the destination of this mission. Please come and exorcise the ghosts."

"Exorcism?" Tiantian suddenly got goose bumps. "To exorcise a spirit, ask a miko. Why ask Konoha to do this? We are just ninjas!"

"This... I know it all too well. Anyway, the mission is somewhat urgent, and even I can't refuse it." Naruto waved his hand, "The client seems to be quite important and has some connections with Konoha."

"Client?"

Naruto smiled and spread his hands.

"Yes, it seems that he has a good relationship with the Hyuga clan. I happened to meet the client, Dogeza, who asked for help from Lord Hiashi, so I couldn't refuse and had to take the initiative to accept it."

"Then why did you drag us into this?" Tiantian held her face with her hands, her expression nervous. "I'm most afraid of this kind of thing. It's too scary."

"Because Neji is injured, I was originally planning to ask Rock Lee and Neji to team up with me." Naruto said slowly, "Unfortunately... Although I feel helpless, I can only make do with it for now."

"What?" Tiantian suddenly became angry. "What do you mean by compromise? I didn't want to come here! Why is there such a horrible thing, invisible and intangible... wuwuwu!"

As the three of them were talking, a middle-aged man dressed like a merchant stepped down from the front carriage. He wiped the sweat from his forehead with a handkerchief and trotted over from a distance.

"My apologies, three ninjas. The Witch Street is just ahead. It's been abandoned for a long time and is uninhabitable. We can only temporarily stay on the edge of the town."

"The conditions are simple and the hospitality is poor. Please forgive me."

"It's okay, we don't mind." Tiantian's expression changed again when facing the client, as if bathed in spring breeze. "I wonder what exactly is the exorcism in this witch country?"

"This..." The middle-aged wealthy businessman's expression suddenly changed. "Those things sealed underground have come out. We can't do anything about it. We don't know much about things that happened in the distant past either."

"In short, if Witch Street isn't rid of its spirits, those things underground will eventually emerge and devour the Witch Nation."

The rich businessman's words were ambiguous, and Tiantian and Naruto couldn't help but frown at the same time. They looked at each other and saw the solemnity in each other's eyes.

into the night.

As the sky darkened, the groggy feeling in her head grew stronger and stronger in Tiantian's mind, but she paid no attention to it and slowly closed her eyes as she fell into a deep sleep.

I woke up in the middle of the night, feeling dry and thirsty, and instinctively reached for my ninja flashlight. This was a newly developed ninja tool from Konoha, designed to help ninjas see underwater and illuminate the night.

When I reached out my hand, I accidentally touched something unexpectedly cold and reflexively pinched it twice.

"what!"

Tiantian was startled and woke up instantly when he heard the seductive voice of a young girl.

She remembered that she was sleeping in the room, and apart from herself, she could not find any living creature, let alone... a woman.

It seemed as if all the strength in my body had been drained away. I struggled every day to sit up, but I couldn't get up at all.

Finally, she got the flashlight in her hand, but the more anxious she was, the more she found that she couldn't turn it on. In her blurred vision, she saw a candlestick next to the bed.

The scene in the room gradually became clearer, and Tiantian struggled to see it.

What caught my eye was a young girl half-covered with a white veil, her face blushing, her features delicate and beautiful. She sat at the head of the bed in her white wedding gown, looking incredibly strange.

No matter how slow Tiantian was, he could sense that something was wrong. Bai Wu Gou was the delicate and pretty girl sitting in front of the bed.

Everything is so unusual,

"Are you awake?" The voice of the girl in the white wedding dress was a little ethereal.

Tiantian watched the bizarre scene, and his back was instantly wet with cold sweat. He was clearly still sleeping in his room, how could he wake up in this hellish place?

Is this a dream? Her eyes were blank for a moment, and just as she was about to agree, a voice suddenly sounded in her mind. It was Naruto's lazy voice.

"Be quiet and don't look at that thing."

A shiver ran from Tiantian's toes all the way to the top of his head.

Not a human? Seriously? That woman in white... what on earth was she? She seemed to be staring at him.

In an instant, the fear factor in Tiantian's genes instantly erupted. She really wanted to ask Naruto's voice in her mind, what should she do now?

Unfortunately, Naruto's voice was cut off after the first time it was heard. Tenten didn't dare to act rashly until she understood the situation.

When the white-clad woman saw that her calling was fruitless, her expression changed instantly, and tears of blood flowed down her face, which frightened Tiantian, who was sitting opposite her.

Her teeth kept trembling, and she couldn't muster any resistance at all. For a moment, she was frozen in place like a puppet. She felt sad and complained, what should she do? What should she do?

At the critical moment, a big hand suddenly grabbed out from the darkness and tore the shadow of the white wedding dress at the head of the bed with a bang.

The white-clad woman who was still full of flesh and blood in the last second was instantly grasped into a ball of nothingness in the next second!

As the giant hand scratched the white wedding dress, the surrounding scene changed instantly. The room was still the same room, but there was no bed. She slept in a sleeping bag made of wooden planks.

Before Tenten could react, Naruto walked out of the darkness slowly. He leaned over the table with a playful look on his face.

"Tiantian, are you okay?"

"No...it's okay." Tiantian was stunned for a moment, then reacted, "What on earth was that thing? It's too scary!"

"Why do you look like that? It must be an illusion. I just don't know who created it." Naruto said with a smile, "You're unlucky. I happened to come here. Why were you stunned just now?"

"I'm most afraid of these things. I'm lucky I could avoid them! I was almost scared to death." Tiantian's face turned pale. "You knew it a long time ago, why didn't you warn me!"

"I don't know. I just found out about it." Naruto explained, "That thing also came to me just now, but it's a pity that it didn't scare me."

"What on earth is buried underground? It's so ferocious!" Tiantian wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and looked at Naruto's behavior, and a horrible thought popped up in his mind.

"Where's Neji?"

She blinked, already a little bit unbelieving that someone had walked out of the darkness inexplicably. Who knew if the person before her was Naruto, or some other entity pretending to be him.

It's really just a turtle changing its vest, but the substance remains the same.

"Ningji? You must be scared out of your wits. There's no such thing as a Ningji." He looked at Tenten in surprise. "Ningji didn't come at all, but Xiao Li from next door seemed to have seen the person who cast the illusion and has chased after him now."

After hearing this, Tiantian basically believed him.

"Xiao Li went out like this, will there be any danger?"

"How could a guy who relies on illusions to play tricks be dangerous?" Naruto waved his hand. "If I had known you were so afraid of these things, I wouldn't have brought you here."

"Xiao Li and I are enough. This market town is indeed a bit strange. And that merchant isn't a good person either. But it doesn't matter. He will return it sooner or later."

"Illusion?" Tiantian was confused. "Why can't I solve it? Although I'm not good at illusions, I'm very good at solving illusions. How come..."

"Let's wait for news from Xiao Li. We'll know tomorrow." Naruto walked to the window that was leaking air on all sides, looked at the darkness outside, and said nothing.

It was almost dawn, but Xiao Li still hadn't come back.

Tiantian paced back and forth restlessly for half an hour, and finally couldn't help but find Naruto and asked anxiously.

"Xiao Li hasn't come back yet, is there anything wrong?"