Escape From Konoha

The Kingdom of Wind, the residence of Sunagakure on the northern border.

This is a military garrison formed by five to six hundred elite Suna ninjas. In addition to the patrol teams that need to go out, there are no less than 400 Suna ninjas who usually guard the garrison.

Even if it is attacked by a powerful ninja, it can immediately fight back. It is also an indispensable safety area on the border of the Kingdom of Wind.

At this time, Temari was constantly worrying about the current situation. The advance search team led by her father Kazekage Rasa had been setting off for two days, but the information sent back midway still showed no results.

In other words, her brother Gaara is still in danger at this time and may be persecuted by that mysterious organization at any time.

Therefore, due to this situation, she had no appetite or sleepiness for the past two days, worrying about Gaara.

Sitting at the rear, she could only place her hopes on her father Luo Sha, hoping that the results would come out soon.

Otherwise, with her current condition, she would get sick sooner or later.

Just when he was feeling anxious, a Sunagakure medical ninja wearing a white medical coat hurried in with a solemn expression. Judging from his appearance, he might have something bad to report.

"Temari-sama."

"What's up?"

Temari asked, suppressing her inner irritation.

"Do you still remember the dozens of sand ninjas who were ambushed and died in the desert on the way here that day?"

the medical ninja asked.

"Of course I remember. You should have recovered the body, right?"

Temari asked casually.

"Yes, but after the recovery, the autopsy department carefully inspected it several times and discovered a serious problem."

The medical ninja's voice was low, giving people a bad feeling.

"serious problem?"

"The body of Yura Jounin was not found in the team. Not only the body, but also the broken limbs were not found. The blood on the sand did not match Yura Jounin at all."

The medical ninja said quickly.

Temari's eyes widened in shock.

How can it be?

The kind of huge explosion that can blow a desert into a deep crater, even if a jonin stepped on it, it would not be unscathed.

Temari could clearly judge this from the power and range of the explosion.

"Where are the pieces of clothing?"

"No. And, I can confirm that there are no residues of Yura Jounin at the scene."

The medical ninja looked solemn and responded affirmatively.

"..."

Temari's face darkened as she thought of a very bad possibility.

Although this terrible possibility was too bizarre, if it was really what she thought, it could explain why that team of elite sand ninjas were ambushed by the enemy without any resistance.

Because there is a ‘guide’ inside!

And this ‘guide’ is none other than Yuliang.

This jounin, who had managed to become a high-level political official in Sunagakure at a young age, betrayed the village!

"Immediately pass this news to the search troops. If they come into contact with the traitor Yuliang without knowing it, they may encounter something unexpected."

"yes!"

The medical ninja nodded decisively and went down to deliver the order.

Although he is only a medical ninja, he can still deliver the message.

After the medical ninja left, Temari quickly left the lounge and walked towards a tent not far next door.

Temari walked in directly without the permission of the people inside.

This is a simple medicine research institute. At the corner of the tent, there is a small herb planting area where a variety of rare herbs are grown.

Hanami Haruka, who was preparing the antidote at the workbench, was quite dissatisfied with Temari's uninvited behavior. However, considering that this was Sunagakure's residence, he just frowned. Ask directly:

"Temari Jonin, what can I do for you?"

The other party is the daughter of Sunagakure Kazekage, and she is also a member of the Sunagakure Jonin clan. She must be above him in terms of status and position.

As long as there is no conflict of interest, Hanami Haruka doesn't mind using the honorific.

Although her honorific title is only superficial.

But even if it is superficial, it should be done so that no one can find fault with it.

"Has the antidote been made?"

Temari asked straight to the point.

After learning that there was a problem with the top management of the village, she decided that she could no longer wait in the rear. She must lead people to the front line, join the search force, and join the rescue operation of Gaara.

"Only two have been made for now, and the rest are still being prepared."

Hanami Haruka replied.

There were only two antidotes, which in her opinion was not very safe.

After all, the puppet master's mechanism technique not only coats the hidden weapon with poison, but also has a very wide attack range. Even a powerful jounin cannot guarantee that he will be unscathed.

Besides, not all the pursuing ninjas were jounin.

Based on this judgment, Hanajian Haruka felt that by making at least ten antidotes, he could barely guarantee the safety of personnel.

"The situation is critical now. We can't wait any longer and must join the search force as soon as possible."

Temari explained her purpose.

"But my work is not finished yet. I am a medical ninja, and I do not recommend Temari Jounin to do this, as it will cause unnecessary sacrifices of personnel."

Hanami Haruka said in line with the duties of a medical ninja.

Although the two sides are enemies, and now it is only a temporary cooperation based on a common enemy, she still has the basic medical ninja ethics.

"I know, so Sunagakure will bear the consequences of this incident."

Temari said seriously.

Hanami Haruka hesitated for a moment. Seeing Temari's solemn request, she also knew that the other party's will would not be swayed by her few words.

Without admonishing the other party, Hanami Haruka picked up two sealed syringes from the side, put them into Temari's hands solemnly, and said:

"Injecting the entirety of each of these two reagents can eliminate all toxicity. However, if only half is injected, although it is impossible to eliminate all the toxicity, it can delay and suppress the onset of toxicity, ensuring that life is safe."

"I understand. Thank you for your support and understanding. Then I won't bother you."

Temari nodded, then turned and left.

This was Sunagakure's risky behavior, so Temari didn't pull the other party to act together, and the other party was preparing the antidote at the back, which was equally important.

So after getting two antidotes, Temari stopped disturbing the other party and let the other party continue to prepare the antidote at Sunagakure's station.

"What a troublesome guy. Is there any new problem?"

Hanajianyao could only guess this way.

It is impossible for Temari to suddenly make such a risky move. If she is not careful, it may cause a large number of casualties.

Unless there is a last resort reason, Temari has to take risks and act in advance.

Immediately, Hanami Haruka shook her head. This matter had nothing to do with her. Her current job was to assist Sunagakure in preparing the antidote according to the instructions left by Aya. How Sunagakure's troops will be deployed has nothing to do with her, an outsider.

…

Because action is taken in advance, the risk of uncertainty will suddenly increase.

Therefore, the Sand Ninja summoned by Temari were all the best at their level, and they were also assisted by two fellow Jonin.

Not only that, the Konoha envoys who returned from the Kingdom of Ghosts, after some lobbying by Temari, hesitated a little and joined Temari's search force.

"Mr. Shikaku, this is one of the antidotes. Please keep it."

At the main entrance of the camp, everyone was ready to go and their expressions were tense. They all obviously knew the consequences of this early action, but no one showed fear on their face.

Temari gave one of the antidotes she got from Hanami Haruka to Shikaku, the Konoha jounin, to protect the lives of Konoha ninjas.

The remaining one is kept by himself and used when the Sunagakure ninja is in danger.

"I understand. Let's take action now. Things will change if we go too late. If we go too late, we don't know what accidents may happen."

Shikaku nodded to Temari and put away the antidote.

"Don't worry, we have also notified Iwagakure about that organization. As expected, Iwagakure will also send reinforcements to assist in the operation."

Sunagakure's purpose is to protect the first one and eradicate the rebellious Red Sand Scorpion who knows too many secrets of Sunagakure.

The addition of Iwagakure is another matter.

They must want to take back the two lost tailed beasts from this organization, and they will not miss such a good opportunity.

What's more, one of the organizational members of this operation was a ninja from the Iwagakure Demolition Force.

Temari was fully confident about pulling Iwagakure into the battle.

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"But, it's okay, stop here, kid from Konoha."

Coughing violently, Rasa stopped Naruto from escaping with him.

Without Naruto's support, Luo Sha's whole body seemed to be crumbling.

He was stabbed in the chest and poisoned. Even with his body's resistance to poison and after using his powerful chakra to suppress the injury and poison, he could not change the fact that he became extremely weak.

The strength that is still retained today has long been reduced to ten percent.

Ninjas with a little bit of strength are very deadly to him.

"I didn't expect that a traitor would appear among the higher-ups of the village. This is my dereliction of duty as the Kazekage..."

As he continued to cough, red and purple poisonous blood flowed out of Luo Sha's mouth.

The poison began to eat away at his body.

The kunai also scratched his lungs, and now just breathing might have required all his strength.

"Uncle Kazekage, are you okay? It's not safe to stop here."

Naruto looked at Rasa with worried eyes.

"This matter has nothing to do with you. It is a grudge between our father and son..."

Luo Sha shook her head.

Then, there was the sound of wind and sand blowing behind him. Luosha realized something, turned around, and his eyes fell on Gaara, who had appeared there at an unknown time.

It is about seven or eight meters away from his position.

For ninjas of their level, once the ninjutsu is activated, it is almost within reach.

This kind of distance cannot bring about the so-called sense of security.

Although Rasa requested no help, Naruto still held the kunai in his right hand and stood firmly in front of Rasa, fearing that Gaara would do something crazy.

"Finally stopped running away?"

Gaara asked coldly.

There was no respect for his father Luo Sha at all in his tone, but only endless indifference, hatred, and fear!

"Your growth has exceeded my expectations. If you give me a little more time, I'm afraid I won't be your match anymore, Gaara..."

Rasa sighed at Gaara's talent as a ninja.

And all of this is the power that Gaara obtained by himself, without any blessing from the power of the tailed beast.

If he were the same age, he would probably find it difficult just to stand in front of Gaara.

Gaara's strength is already quite close to that of his Kazekage.

"The fastest way for a person to grow is to hate! Hatred will give me the strongest power. Surpassing you is just a natural result. After all, your power has not grown much since many years ago."

Gaara's frown was filled with ferocity.

His father, who was once unfathomable in his mind, is now able to see the other person's limits and can cross them at any time.

"I thought you gave up your hatred. It seems that you are waiting for me to be alone before you attack..."

Rasa sighed, looking at Gaara with complicated eyes.

"Yes, after all, you are Kazekage. If all the ANBU are here, I won't be able to attack you directly, and my purpose may be exposed."

"So, are you just going to take advantage of this opportunity? No wonder you didn't contact the village during your escape. You must have been waiting for this moment for a long time."

Rasa fell silent, feeling Gaara's firm determination to kill him.

"Because all of this is thanks to you."

Gaara raised his arms, and the sand around him began to flow, rushing forward at any time, swallowing everything.

"Hey, wait a minute, Gaara, what are you talking about? Can't we understand things between father and son?"

Seeing that Gaara was about to attack indiscriminately again, Naruto felt that he could not let Gaara go and must stop him.

"People in Konoha always like to be so nosy. However, this time is different from the Chunin Exam. The rules of that exam are not good for me. A battle that cannot kill people cannot be called a battle at all. This time, I want to I’ll crush you with my own hands!”

Gaara's face was ferocious, and the surrounding sand surged rapidly. Under his command, a huge hand of sand formed and descended from the sky.

"Damn! Shadow Clone Technique!"

Although he didn't understand what was going on, Naruto knew that he couldn't let Gaara hurt the Kazekage.

In an instant, he separated into dozens of shadow clones, powerful chakra erupted all over his body, and even the surrounding air suddenly became heavy.

Without using the Rasengan, the shadow clone that rushed forward smashed the giant sand hand as hard as steel with its fist containing chakra.

Naruto's true body also flashed out like a gust of wind, appearing in front of Gaara in the blink of an eye.

Gaara's eyes widened in surprise.

boom!

The fist penetrated the sand layer of the automatic protection, almost grazing Gaara's cheek and causing a strong wind.

Even so, Gaara still felt a sharp pain in his cheek, as if it had been cut open by something sharp.

"Don't always say things that I don't understand at all. Just answer me properly!"

Naruto maintained his punching posture and said angrily to Gaara.

"Even if Uncle Kazekage did something wrong, he is still your father. Is there any gap between father and son that cannot be eliminated? He is your relative!"

Naruto said seriously, his blue eyes clear and bright.

"Why……"

Gaara stared at these clear pupils with a look of confusion.

"Why?"

"You are the same as me, you are regarded by the village as a fighting tool of the Jinchuuriki. And I heard that you are the son of the Fourth Hokage of Konoha, so your and my positions should be the same. Why should we stand on the side of violence? On the other side? Don’t you hate this fate?”

Gaara couldn't understand Naruto's thinking.

The children of the Five Shadows all had their tailed beasts sealed within their bodies by their father.

Why does this guy not only fail to understand himself, but also wants to stop himself?

This struck Gaara as ridiculous.

"You're right. When I learned the truth, I did complain about my parents, and I felt incomprehensible and dissatisfied with their behavior. However, this was by no means a reason to let myself fall into darkness! Because of that feeling, It just makes people feel extremely painful and empty.”

Transformed into a tailed beast, he is dominated by darkness and will bring disaster and killing to those around him.

Naruto didn't want to go through that experience a second time.

It is precisely because of this that he does not want Gaara to fall into such a path.

"What nonsense! In the final analysis, you are just weak!"

The sand wrapped around Naruto's punching right arm, and Gaara's light green eyes became even colder.

"No, I just don't want to see you fall into darkness. If you really kill Uncle Feng Ying, you will definitely regret it for the rest of your life!"

Naruto shook his head and said firmly.

"Oh, my relationship with him is only due to hatred and murderous intention, using this will as a bond, and involving the flesh of the bad fate. Regret? I will not have that kind of thing. Moreover, this is also for revenge."

"revenge?"

Naruto, who was quite sensitive to this word, subconsciously tensed up.

"Ah, because this piece of meat named 'Father' has been sending people to assassinate me since I was six years old until I graduated from ninja school."

A twisted smile appeared on Gaara's face, and the surrounding sand was filled with violent murderous intent, and began to restless.

Naruto, who was shocked by Gaara's words, couldn't help but choked on his breath and was speechless for a while.

He never imagined that Gaara would experience something like this.

"Now, I am just taking revenge on him for the pain I suffered in the past. This is revenge from justice!"

Gaara stretched out a finger, pointed at Rasa, who was protected by Naruto, and declared loudly.

Luo Sha was just panting. His lungs were injured and he was poisoned. It was very difficult for him to just stand.

At the same time, he couldn't argue with Gaara.

It was a fact that he sent someone to assassinate Gaara.

Whatever the excuse, this fact cannot be erased.

"If you understand, don't meddle in other people's business."

Seeing Naruto being shocked by his words, Gaara was very satisfied with the effect.

Whether you fall into darkness or go astray, as long as you kill this man, kill this man who caused you pain, no matter what the price, you will be willing to pay!

And, I want to destroy everything about him with my own hands!

Only in this way can we have a sense of accomplishment that a great revenge has been avenged!

Grains of sand were suspended and condensed into the form of shurikens around Gaara.

The sand condensed by chakra has a hardness comparable to steel. If it hits the human body directly, the consequences can be imagined.

"Well, now it's finally your turn."

Gaara's gaze was as sharp as a knife's edge, mixed with inexorable cruelty and bloodlust.

For him, as long as he can kill Luo Sha, it doesn't matter what he becomes after that.

Boom!

The sand shuriken flew out and was about to hit Luo Sha's body.

Naruto, whose arm was originally entangled by the sand, suddenly broke free from the shackles of the sand and shattered the sand shuriken with one punch.

"Sorry, even if Uncle Kazekage did something wrong, I still can't let it go. Maybe you are right, but you can't kill him."

Naruto said.

"Uzumaki Naruto!"

Gaara's eyes were completely eroded by darkness and violence, and Naruto's repeated attempts to stop him seemed to destroy his reason and patience.

Gaara covered his head with a terrible headache, gritted his teeth, and glared at Naruto fiercely.

"Since you want to save him, then let's die together!"

Gaara pressed his hands to the ground and poured chakra into them.

The earth immediately turned into a terrifying quicksand realm, causing the entire earth to begin to sink as if under Gaara's control.

The quicksand continued to engulf Naruto and Rasa's legs. If this continued, it wouldn't take long before it would engulf their thighs, then their torsos, and then their heads.

Eventually, he suffocated to death in the quicksand.

Naturally, Naruto and Rasa would not sit still and wait for death.

Naruto quickly condensed the Rasengan in his right hand and pressed it hard against the quicksand under his feet.

boom!

After the Rasengan hit the quicksand, it immediately produced a ferocious whirlwind, shaking away the quicksand that entangled his legs.

Luo Sha, on the other hand, points to the ground with a single finger, like turning stones into gold. The sand beneath his feet turns into golden placer gold and stops flowing.

Gaara knew that it was impossible to defeat the two of them with this method, so he did not feel disappointed and changed his hands into a clasped posture.

I saw a large amount of sand floating, forming sand balls the size of a finger, and the number continued to accumulate and increase. It is not an exaggeration to say that it covered the sky and the sun.

Naruto recalled the scattered shadow clones and protected them around Rasa.

The main body was like before, flashing, rushing towards Gaara from the front.

Gaara, who was on guard, would not let Naruto's plan succeed.

Countless sand balls in the sky turned into bullets and whizzed down to the ground. The sand waves covering each other were also surging forward crazily, forming a block of solid shields, blocking Naruto's path.

Naruto's blue eyes narrowed slightly.

Boom——

His body hit the sand wall that looked like steel.

Along with a large amount of flying sand, a huge hole was quickly formed on the sand wall under the impact of Naruto's body.

And this pothole is still expanding.

"Xianfa Rasengan!"

With a loud and powerful shout, all the sand walls instantly turned into grains of sand and were blown away by the strong wind.

Gaara suddenly became alert and stepped back.

Naruto walked out of the dust and smoke unscathed and stared at Gaara.

This made Gaara feel extremely irritated, but he also knew that he could not kill Rasa without knocking Naruto down.

But wanting to break through Naruto's blockade alone, with his current strength, is simply wishful thinking.

"What a troublesome guy."

Just when Gaara was secretly anxious and unable to do anything, a whisper that seemed to come from a devil penetrated into his ears:

"In that case, let me do it for you."

Gaara's back felt cold when he heard these words. It was too late to dodge and his body stiffened.

A sharp and long black thorn sprang out of the sand without any warning, piercing Gaara's body from behind, and blood spurted out.

"Gaara!"

Not only Naruto, but Luo Sha's expression also changed drastically.

The two of them rushed towards Gaara, but it was too late to stop them.

The other party has been dormant for a long time, and the reason why he has not taken action is probably to wait for this critical moment to arrive.

"cough!"

Purple poisonous blood flowed from Gaara's mouth.

Gaara gritted his teeth and stared at the sneak attacker who suddenly appeared behind him with resentful and unwilling eyes.

"You, you bastard, despicable..."

It was a red-haired young man wearing a black red cloud coat, with chakra silk stuck to the five fingers of his right hand. A humanoid puppet wearing a dark brown coat slowly emerged from the sand under his control. The grains slowly rolled off the puppet's body, holding a black knife made of sand and iron in his hand.

It was the weapon that pierced Gaara's body.

"Thanks to you for attracting the Jinchuriki's attention, I was able to succeed so easily. This is my reward."

Scorpion controls the puppet with his right hand and holds Kankuro with his left hand.

After seeing Naruto and Rasa take action, Xia calmly threw Kankuro towards the two of them, easily controlling the entire battle situation.

laugh!

A burning sound came from Kankuro.

Luo Sha's face changed in shock. He wanted to do something, but suddenly his body hurt. He knelt down and spat out the same poisonous blood as Gaara from his mouth. His body function had reached its limit, and this body did not allow him to continue to hold on. Go down.

Naruto caught Kankuro who was thrown by Scorpion, and without saying a word tore the clothes off the other man's chest. His pupils suddenly shrank, and he saw burning detonating symbols clinging to Kankuro's chest, on the verge of exploding. .