"Hey, I think you should let me go now." Naruto complained while kicking his feet in the air.
"You're annoying, brat!" One of the supposed Anbu's members said, "Keep talking, and I'll rip out your tongue."
"Then pull it out, ah~" Naruto said provocatively, then opened his mouth wide and stuck out his tongue.
"You're asking for it!"
As they spoke, the two men reached out to grab Naruto's head. However, Naruto was not idle either, and he actually drew a sword from the seal space and slashed at the two men.
Originally, he planned to drag these two into the seal space and let Kyubi swallow them. Anyway, as long as they entered the seal space, they could hardly cause any trouble unless they were extremely powerful Shinobi. However, due to his consciousness needing to enter with the two, he abandoned the idea for safety.
He swung the blade, followed closely by a wind blade.
The two fake Anbu's members jumped in opposite directions, but the next second, Naruto switched positions with a Flying Thunder God Kunai and fiercely pressed the molten lava on the face of the Anbu's members, who had been exposed long ago.
The sensation was more intense than eating extremely spicy noodles.
Another fake Anbu didn't expect Naruto to be so brutal, and was stunned for a second by his companion's melted face. It was this second that allowed Naruto to seize the opportunity.
He threw out three kunai, one of which was a Flying Thunder God Kunai.
Using the same trick, Naruto performed the Lava Release: Face Press Technique again!
A scream erupted and quickly ceased as life drained away.
Meanwhile, Sakura pushed through the crowd, gritting her teeth as she chased the direction where the Anbu took Naruto.
But for some reason, the more she chased, the more people blocked her way.
It felt like everyone in the arena had the same face, and the stands seemed endless. Sakura felt an overwhelming coldness ahead and a chilling sensation under her feet.
All the noise and bustle disappeared, and she collapsed to the ground, almost collapsing.
"Sakura, wake up, Sasuke's here."
A familiar voice woke her up, and Sakura opened her eyes to see Naruto squatting next to her with a mischievous grin.
"Young Master Sasuke is indeed the most useful one to wake you up."
Before he could finish his words, Sakura suddenly hugged him tightly and burst into tears for no reason. Hearing the long suppressed cry, Naruto was confused and felt his shoulder get wet.
He looked up and made eye contact with Ino, who had just broken the Genjutsu and stood behind Sakura, and he felt embarrassed for a moment.
"I'll go find Choji." Naruto handed Sakura over to Ino and quickly ran off.
Choji was sleeping soundly in the crowd, and when Naruto woke him up, his brain was obviously still not fully aware of what was happening.
"Where are the Anbu?"
"What Anbu? You must have remembered it wrongly."
Naruto coughed, helping Choji up and pointing to the purple barrier over the highest stand and the audiences, who were all in deep sleep.
"Choji, the enemy is here."
"Enemy!" Choji's plump body shuddered, "Where's Shikamaru?"
"Next to you." Naruto pointed to the boy in the fishnet shirt lying on the ground.
"Naruto, why don't you help Shikamaru break the Genjutsu?" Choji hurried over and shook Shikamaru desperately, "Shikamaru, wake up! The enemy is coming!"
"Because I don't know how to break Genjutsu." Naruto squatted aside and grumbled.
The order in the venue has collapsed. The Shinobi from Sunagakure and Otogakure have infiltrated the entire village. The audiences in the stands are all under a Genjutsu-induced sleep. At the highest spot, the Hokage's viewing platform was already encased in a purple Four Violet Flames Formation, isolating the Anbu guards from the Hokage.
The Hokage has been isolated, and a large number of Sunagakure and Otogakure's Shinobi are rushing here.
In the arena, Guy and Kakashi had just arrived with Sasuke. The Konoha Crush plan had started prematurely, and Gaara was still at full strength. Now, only the Genin were able to move freely.
"Shikamaru!" Choji shouted while shaking Shikamaru.
"Damn it! Stop shaking me! Are you stupid?" Shikamaru grabbed Choji, "I don't want to get involved in this mess! I'm not going!"
Choji: "…"
Kakashi flickered over and knocked away several flying kunai. He glanced at Naruto, then at Sakura, who came running, summoned his Ninken, Pakkun, and spoke with a serious face, "Team 7, emergency assembly. You've got A-Rank mission: stop Sunagakure's Gaara from destroying the village."
Lee, Neji, and Tenten also arrived. Guy ordered them to assist the Torture and Interrogation Force in protecting Konoha and stopping the enemy. Kurenai's team, consisting of Kiba, Hinata, and Shino, were given reconnaissance tasks.
Asuma hadn't arrived, so Ino, Shikamaru, and Choji were assigned by Kakashi to protect the Land of Fire's nobles. The new generation Ino-Shika-Cho had a special status in Konoha, and these three are not his students, Kakashi couldn't just give them dangerous missions.
"Move out!" Kakashi and Guy ordered at the same time.
The Genin split into groups and immediately disappeared in different directions.
Guy's team, skilled in Taijutsu, was formidable, and each member a monster in their own right. Lee with unrestricted use of the Eight Gates, Neji with Revolving Heaven's absolute defense, and Tenten with her weapons mastery. For these veteran Genin, the task of assisting the Chunin in stopping the invading enemies is not too difficult.
"Kakashi, isn't the mission for Team 7 too dangerous?" Guy kicked a Otogakure's Shinobi away with a Konoha Whirlwind, and said back-to-back with Kakashi.
"Well, I am well aware of the strength of my students." Kakashi said lazily, "Anyway, I believe they are already excellent Genin and can work together to complete the mission."
…
"Is your Cursed Seal okay?" Naruto asked casually during the run.
"Yeah." Sasuke responded coldly.
Sakura didn't say anything, and just followed closely behind the two. The urgency of the mission made it challenging for her. This is a real life-and-death battle, forcing her to discard all distracting thoughts and focus entirely.
As the forest grew denser, the Ninken, Pakkun, who had accompanied the three on this mission, suddenly shrugged and complained to Naruto, "Brat, why do you have such strong smell of blood on you?"
Hearing this, Sakura was startled, and she remembered something. She was under a Genjutsu at that time, and she forgot to ask Naruto how he escaped from the two fake Anbu.
"Me?" Naruto grabbed his clothes and sniffed them as he ran, "I don't smell anything."
"Do you have my nose?" Three black lines appeared on Pakkun's forehead.
"Ah, the two Anbu who caught me started fighting each other. I stood there and watched the excitement for a while." Naruto lied calmly, "There are so many crazy people these days."
"Hey, at least try to lie convincingly. Doesn't your conscience hurt for deceiving a senior?" Pakkun glanced at the blond boy beside him.
"Conscience? I don't have such a thing. Stop nagging." Naruto retorted dissatisfiedly.
"By the way, with the village in such a state, do you think the Hokage will die?"
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"The Hokage is really strong. How could he die?" Pakkun glanced at Naruto, "Konoha has been in chaos before, and it turned out fine."
"But I bought flower." Naruto said out of nowhere.
In his heart, he added, 'If Sandaime doesn't die, wouldn't the flower I have bought be wasted?'
"Huh? What flower?" Pakkun looked confused.
Naruto didn't reply, just muttering in his heart about how he specifically bought the best white chrysanthemum for 30 ryo.
"There are enemies chasing us, about eight of them." Pakkun suddenly said.
As Kakashi's Ninken, Pakkun's sense of smell was exceptionally keen, even among other Ninken. moment the enemies appeared behind them, Pakkun easily sensed their presence and counted their numbers.
"Pakkun, can you sense their strength?" Sasuke asked.
"I'm a sensory Ninken, not some fortune-telling toad sage."
"If we don't deal with them soon, we'll end up being attacked from both sides, right?" Sakura asked.
"Yeah, we need to take care of them first." Sasuke said, "The terrain of Konoha Forest is favorable to us. If we set up an ambush, we might be able to catch them off guard."
"In that case, let's do it!" Naruto nodded seriously.
"Pakkun, stay behind and ambush them."
"What!!!"
Sasuke: "…"
Sakura: "(T-T)"
The forest was lush and green, with giant trees blocking out the sun. The three of them, plus Pakkun, moved swiftly, leaping from tree to tree.
Pakkun looked at the blond boy in the team with contempt. The latter did not show any guilt on his face and even showed a serious smile.
"We're counting on you, Pakkun."
"Damn it! I'm a sensory Ninken, not a fighting dog. If you want to make a wish, go to a shrine! Brat, you're definitely a dog!"
"What does it matter? You won't die."
"But it'll hurt! Damn it! How did Kakashi end up with a student like you?"
"Ninken are also Shinobi, right? Isn't endurance a virtue?"
"Be a human, please! I'm begging you!"
Listening to the quarrel between a man and a dog, Sasuke's face was full of black lines, and he coldly interrupted them.
"Stop arguing! Pakkun, how far are the enemies?"
"Less than 3,000 meters."
Sasuke stopped, leaned against a tree, then turned to look at Sakura and Naruto, and said, "We'll wait for them here."
The surrounding branches and leaves were dense, casting dim light on the area. The towering trees blocked out most of the sunlight, and the few beams that made it through were sparse, creating thin, nearly transparent wisps of mist in the air.
Before the battle began, Naruto suddenly spoke up, "Sakura, get ready with the Genjutsu."
"The Otogakure's Shinobi are too strong. We have to be careful."
Hearing this, Sakura nodded seriously, indicating that she understood.
Pakkun, on the other hand, felt a bit nervous. During the mission in the Land of Waves, Zabuza and Haku had died too quickly, so Kakashi hadn't summoned the Ninken to assist him in battle. As a result, Pakkun wasn't fully aware of the strength of Kakashi's three students.
Pakkun glanced to the side, noticing that the normally indifferent Sasuke's eyes had turned blood-red, an intense and frightening sight.
Then, looking the other way, he saw Naruto pulling out a sword from seemingly nowhere.
'Huh??? A sword??'
'Wait a minute, where did this kid pull out that sword from? It looks so familiar. Isn't that the same kind of sword Kakashi used when he was in the Anbu?'
Sakura's mind was in chaos. Facing the imminent battle, she was almost too nervous to stop her frantic, uncontrollable thoughts.
The medical department was almost full of weirdos, and it was common to see them performing surgery with a Chakra Scalpel while casually chatting. Sometimes, with a pot simmering on the stove with a patient's leg bone, the Medical-nin would discuss which shop in Konoha had the best bone broth.
Over time, Sakura thought she had grown desensitized, and as long as things weren't too outrageous, her heart wouldn't be shaken.
But now, the more nervous she got, the more her mind was zapped by all sorts of random thoughts.
During her month of training in the medical department, she often afraid that something might happen to Sasuke. safety. But the more she worried, the more odd thoughts would pop into her head.
For example, she really hoped Sasuke is seriously injured and dying, so that she can see him.
Three kilometers wasn't a long distance, leaving the group little time to prepare.
"They're here!" Parker reminded.
Sakura steeled herself, watching as several shadows quickly descended from the trees in the distance. She swiftly formed hand seals, casting a Genjutsu in advance.
The light around them flickered, and the forest seemed to take on an unreal quality. The eight Otogakure's Shinobi, who landed nearby, immediately sensed something was off, but it was already too late.
The eight masked Shinobi, wearing Otogakure's forehead protectors, landed in a triangular formation, scanning their surroundings warily.
Suddenly, several kunai shot out from the trees, sharp and precise like arrows. But the Otogakure's Shinobi merely sneered and leapt away.
At the moment they jumped, something unexpected happened.
The nearly invisible steel wires in the air tightened abruptly. Four of the Otogakure's Shinobi, who were deeply trapped in the Genjutsu and had slow reactions, did not noticed the steel wires at all. They only realized something was wrong when they were instantly restrained and tied tightly to the tree trunk.
'That's the Uchiha Clan's Windmill Triple Blade!' Pakkun, hidden in the shadows, was stunned.
On the battlefield, the Uchiha Clan was renowned not only for their Sharingan and taijutsu, but also for their nearly mystical Shurikenjutsu. Shurikenjutsu was a fundamental secret skill of the Uchiha, and the Windmill Triple Blade, which combined shuriken with steel wires, was a more intricate technique.
Sasuke controlled the steel wires with his hands and teeth, tightening them with force. At the same time, he released the steel wires and quickly formed the 'Tiger' hand seal.
Fire Release: Dragon Fire Technique!
Sasuke flawlessly executed the C-Rank offensive Ninjutsu he had used against Orochimaru in the Forest of Death. The fire directly engulfed the four bound Otogakure's Shinobi, and in the next moment, Sasuke activated his Chidori, charging forward to finish them off.
On the other side, Naruto and Sakura coordinated to deal with the remaining four Otogakure's Shinobi in a brief moment of stunned surprise in mid-air, thanks to the Genjutsu.
Naruto swiftly stabbed one in the neck with his sword, and blood splattered immediately.
Before the blood could even stain his clothes, Naruto's figure vanished. The Flying Thunder God kunai had just reached the air above the other two Shinobi's heads. Naruto directly activated the Flying Thunder God Technique, stored the sword into the seal space, and instantly activated his Lava Release.
Same old formula, same old taste.
Naruto slapped the two stunned Otogakure's Shinobi in the face, scalding them with lava, killing them instantly.
The last Shinobi was already hit in the throat by two of Sakura's kunai, ending his life.
The eight Otogakure's Shinobi, two entire squads, were annihilated in an instant. Pakkun, hiding in the shadows, nearly spat out blood.
'This is what you meant by 'the Otogakure's Shinobi are too strong'?'
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