Escape From Konoha

"So, the country of Waves, which seems to be independent on the surface, turns out to be under the control of the military?"

The moment he met Qianno, Sasuke figured out many things that he had not figured out in the past.

At the first moment, he realized the question of who the Thunder Light Group belonged to.

However, even so, Sasuke was still surprised.

As the leading bounty hunter team in the underground black market, the Lei Guang Tuan, like the Xuan Yuan Zhong, has a far-reaching reputation. Because of the special nature of their profession, they have contacts with celebrities from all over the world.

To put it bluntly, these so-called celebrities from various countries are all the trading partners of the Thunder Light Group.

Being able to stand tall among so many celebrities and being highly trusted, it is conceivable that the efficiency of the Lightning Regiment is definitely not inferior to that of the elite ninja troops of the Great Country Ninja Village.

Proud of this, the Thunder Light Group will definitely go deep into the underground black market, and through the black market platform, obtain top-secret information from various countries that has never been circulated on the outside...and this information will eventually flow into the hands of the top military officials of the Kingdom of Ghosts, becoming the cornerstone of their layout.

Moreover, one can also use the characteristics of the Thunder Light Group as bounty hunters to secretly eliminate underground rats that threaten the military. This can not only supplement the Thunder Light Group's activity funds, but also build up the Thunder Light Group's reputation in the black market. It can be said that it kills two birds with one stone.

"That's right. Since a few years ago, our Lightning Regiment has been designated to operate in the Land of Waves. It's quite impressive to be able to react in such a short period of time, little Sasuke."

Qianno patted her barren and thin chest. She clearly had the body of an underage girl, but in the end she had to learn how adults speak to maintain her dignity.

If you think about it carefully, this is a really pitiful topic.

When Sasuke heard such words, he couldn't help but frown.

He knew that Qianno's actual age was much older than her appearance.

When he was still studying at the Konoha Ninja School, Chino might have started operating in the underground black market under the orders of the Demon Country's military.

Even so, it still felt awkward to be called 'little Sasuke' by Chino, who looked like a child.

Fortunately, this awkward mood did not last long, and Sasuke was dismissed from his mind.

"So, was it your Thunder Light Group that brought me back from the Kingdom of Forest that day?"

Sasuke couldn't remember what happened next.

After the battle with Itachi, he collapsed on the ground from exhaustion and lost consciousness.

What happened there later, he didn't know.

"Of course not. We, the Thunder Light Group, are not idle. We go to the Kingdom of Forest for a walk. There is a huge Kingdom of Fire in the middle."

Qianno shook his head and denied this statement.

Although the Kingdom of Waves and the Kingdom of Forest are both adjacent to the Kingdom of Fire, they are far apart from each other, separated by a huge Kingdom of Fire. Even if the Thunder Light Regiment possesses considerable force, they would not dare to cross the Land of Fire without formal documents.

Konoha's patrol force is not vegetarian.

What's more, since the Thunder Light Group does not belong to any force, it is impossible to obtain official documents.

The Thunder Light Group is a regular ninja group that is not recognized by any country or any ninja village. It's just a mercenary force.

After all, they are different from those ninja villages that eat the food of the state.

"The person who brought you here should be one of your compatriots who has the Sharingan, but because he is wearing a mask, I don't know who he is. I have never seen that person before when I went to the Kingdom of Demons to report on my work."

Chino explained.

"Same race? Sharingan?"

Sasuke frowned.

"He said that he followed you all the way to ensure your safety after you defeated Itachi Uchiha."

Qianno blinked curiously and stared straight at Sasuke, her bright lavender eyes filled with curiosity.

Follow me all the way? When Sasuke heard this, his heart sank.

In other words, the other party has been secretly following him since he left the Kingdom of Ghosts.

But he was not aware of the fact that he was being followed all the way.

Are there any ninjas with such good tracking abilities among the Uchiha clan in the Kingdom of Demons? Even he didn't notice anything was wrong.

"Well, after he left you here and asked us to take care of you, he left directly and let you rest here for a while."

Qianno nodded and didn't hide anything.

As she spoke, she walked up to Sasuke, stood on tiptoes, and stared at Sasuke's face without blinking.

"What's wrong?"

Sasuke watched Qianno getting closer to him and couldn't help but step back.

"No, it's nothing. I'm just curious. It's beyond my expectation that you were able to defeat that Uchiha Itachi. I heard that he has the Mangekyo Sharingan, which is more advanced than the Sharingan, and is very powerful. Extraordinary."

Qianno tilted her head. She had no idea that Sasuke was so strong.

Although he is unwilling to admit it, if the defeat of Uchiha Itachi is true, it means that Sasuke's single strength has surpassed the thunder group she leads.

"snort."

Sasuke snorted lightly and did not explain, but his attitude proved everything.

Defeating Uchiha Itachi was indeed his own doing, without any fraud.

"Okay, okay, I don't mean not to believe it, I'm just surprised. So, do you want to work with our Thunder Light Corps in the future? The core members of our Thunder Light Corps have benefits and benefits that most people in the military would envy, and their tasks It's relatively leisurely, and you have a lot of time to do the things you like. Little Sasuke, do you want to think about it?"

Chino invited Sasuke enthusiastically and laughed.

If Sasuke can be absorbed into the Thunder Light Group, then the strength of the Thunder Light Group can directly surpass the Xuan Yuanzhong. If they work harder, they may be on par with elite troops like the Thorn Group.

"Let's talk about this kind of thing later, I will think about it."

Sasuke did not agree, but said perfunctorily.

"Then, we have made a decision. Although we are not as good as the Thorns Group for the time being, those people only rely on the sharpness of their equipment and their true strength. Except for the leader, they are not much stronger than our Thunder Light Group."

Chino seemed not to hear this meaning and thought that Sasuke was interested in joining the Thunder Light Group.

Sasuke continued to listen perfunctorily, just nodded without speaking.

Stepping out of the wooden house, the sea breeze blowing in is comfortable and pleasant.

This should be a small stronghold, located at the edge of the forest, with traces of regular human activities.

Around the wooden house, you can still see some other buildings, such as warehouses, but they are far apart.

There are many staff here, but they are more casually dressed. They should be the peripheral logistics personnel of the Thunder Group.

There are not a few main members of the Thunder Light Regiment, and it makes sense to have a logistics force to support the consumption.

"This is a stronghold of the Lightning Regiment in the Kingdom of Waves. No outsiders will come in. You can rest here to recover."

Chino walked up to Sasuke and said.

"I see."

"If there is nothing else, then I will leave first. I still have some things to deal with here."

Qianno nodded and prepared to leave.

"By the way, I want to trouble you with something."

Sasuke stopped Chino who was about to leave.

"What's up?"

Qianno hesitated.

Although the Thunder Light Group is very idle most of the time when there is no mission.

But because of this, their tasks are irregular and they need to be on call at any time.

If something is too troublesome, it will cause the thunder group to disperse a lot of power, so Qianno can only reluctantly refuse.

The handsome guy is important, but the mission is equally important.

Seemingly seeing Qianno's hesitation, Sasuke said: "Don't worry, I won't make it too difficult for you Thunder Group. I want to know the recent trends in Konoha Village. The Kingdom of Waves and the Kingdom of Fire face each other across the sea. This pair It shouldn’t be difficult for you.”

"Konoha? So that's what happened. I'll have someone send the information over later."

Qianno breathed a sigh of relief.

If it was the information from other villages, she might not be able to get it, but the information from Konoha Village was much easier to handle.

No one knows Konoha better than the Demon Country.

To put it bluntly, he even knows Konoha better than their Konoha ninjas.

Sasuke's request was nothing more than a piece of cake for the Lightning Team.

She didn't know what Sasuke wanted from Konoha's information, and she had no interest in knowing. After all, everyone had their own secrets, and she wouldn't get to the bottom of it.

…

The efficiency of the Thunder Light Group is faster than expected.

Less than ten minutes after Qianno left, a peripheral member of the Lightning Regiment delivered a stack of documents and scrolls.

These materials contain information that belongs to Konoha.

This made Sasuke wonder whether Qianno had already prepared information about Konoha and was just waiting for him to ask for it.

Otherwise, how could it be possible to collect so much information about Konoha in such a short period of time?

Sasuke didn't think about it anymore. The most important thing now was to confirm Konoha's recent movements.

The entanglement with Itachi wasted a lot of his time.

And since he left Orochimaru, he had only a little knowledge of the recent situation in Konoha and did not deliberately collect it.

Now Itachi is dead, but in addition to the third generation Hokage who committed suicide, three of the former high-ranking officials of Konoha who once caused the destruction of the Konoha Uchiha clan are still alive.

The consultant moved to Koharu, Mito Gate inflammation.

Danzo Shimura, the leader of the Roots.

These three people were all famous figures during the reign of the Third Hokage of Konoha.

It can be said that before the current split situation formed within Konoha, all decisions in Konoha at that time were made jointly by the four of them.

Including... dealing with the Uchiha clan is also based on the will of the four of them.

Obtaining Itachi's memory, Sasuke understood the whole story of the annihilation of the Uchiha clan in Konoha.

Decades ago, the then leader of the Uchiha clan, Uchiha Madara, left Konoha and later attacked Konoha with the Nine-Tails. Although he was eventually stopped by the first Hokage, it also made those who came after him wary of the Uchiha clan.

Among them, headed by the second-generation Hokage Senju Tobirama, a series of policies were adopted to target and monitor the Uchiha clan.

Even the birth of the police force was so tortuous. It was not done because of belief in the abilities of the Uchiha clan, but to prevent the birth of the next Uchiha Madara.

Then twenty-one years ago, on the eve of the Third Ninja War, the collective betrayal led by Chiba Shiraishi completely exploded.

This made the relationship between Konoha's top management and the Uchiha clan even worse.

His father, Uchiha Fugaku, took over the power of the elder Uchiha Shifang, became the new leader of the Uchiha clan, and began to ease relations with the senior officials.

For this reason, during the Third Ninja War, in order to ensure Konoha's victory, the Uchiha clan suffered heavy casualties.

Finally, the Nine-Tails incident and the emergence of the Mangekyō Sharingan finally exploded the fragile trust relationship between the top management and Uchiha.

Led by the roots led by Danzo Shimura, a series of actions were formulated to contain and target the Uchiha clan.

After realizing this, the radical faction within Uchiha began to resist fiercely, secretly uniting like-minded people within the clan to plan a coup.

The successful example of the fourth Mizukage of Kirigakure, Goju Yagura, came to power through a coup, which also gave the radical tribesmen unlimited hope and beautiful reverie.

But unfortunately...all the glory and dignity of the clan were burned to the ground that night.

"..."

While thinking about these past events and scanning the intelligence documents sent by Qianno, Sasuke felt very complicated.

The reason for the Uchiha genocide was more complicated than he expected.

Sasuke forced himself to calm down and focus on the intelligence documents in front of him.

After Orochimaru's failure, Konoha temporarily ceased its activities and was busy with this year's Chunin Examinations.

Just like four years ago, this was a joint chuunin exam.

It is jointly organized by several big country villages.

Although Konoha's reputation has declined somewhat now, it still has huge appeal in the ninja world.

As the main examination venue for this year's Chunin Examination, Konoha will definitely take advantage of this opportunity to enhance its reputation.

The difference is that in this year's joint chuunin exams, the Kingdom of Oni did not intervene and did not send genin to participate.

Although Konoha also sent an invitation to Oni Country, Oni Country unilaterally refused to participate for unknown reasons.

Seeing this, Sasuke originally planned to sneak into Konoha directly after recovering from his injuries and get rid of Konoha's top brass.

But with the Chunin Exams taking place, Sasuke felt this was an opportunity.

For the safety of the genin in each village, if Konoha is attacked at this time, then even if Konoha is unwilling, a considerable part of its energy must be used to protect this group of genin from all over the world to ensure their life safety. .

After all, if anything happens to these people, Konoha will not be able to escape the blame.

Don't talk about taking this opportunity to enhance your reputation. It will be a blessing if you can avoid being denounced by other countries afterwards.

Sasuke was simulating various assassination plans in his mind, and he increasingly felt that this year's Chunin Examination was a good time.

"July 10th..."

This date is the time for the first test of the Joint Chunin Examination.

At that time, candidates from all countries will gather in the examination room to take the written test.

However, Sasuke also saw a piece of news.

July 10th, in addition to being the first test time of the Joint Chunin Examination, on that day, villages such as Sunagakure and Iwagakure will send envoys to meet at the Hokage Building in a low-key manner.

In order to regain the stolen tailed beast, they plan to use the Chunin Exam to complete this secret alliance.

In other words, not only the candidates, but also the members of these alliances may also be able to take advantage of it.

Sasuke put away the information and let out a sigh of relief.

After determining the course of action, the next step is to wait for that day to arrive.

Konoha's top brass need to wash their necks.

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A deafening roar sounded, followed by countless air blades, expanding and cutting in a spiral manner, shattering the entire land and forest.

The entire training ground was shrouded in dazzling white light, making it difficult to open one's eyes.

After the commotion subsided, a huge hemispherical pit appeared on the ground. On the pitted cross-section, there were countless scratches left like wild beasts, and a sharp and brutal aura lingered.

Just getting close to the edge of the pothole makes your skin tingle.

"Great, it finally worked!"

Naruto, who was about ten meters away from the edge of the pit, almost jumped with excitement.

Seeing the movement caused by his ninjutsu, even he found it difficult to remain calm at this time.

After working hard for so long, I finally completed this new technique.

Although the process was very tortuous, he also got a killer trick in his hands.

With this unique move, his strength has made a qualitative leap.

Learning the magic of immortality makes him invincible among his peers.

However, the lack of effective attack means meant that he could only deal with ninjas of the same level, and could not decide the outcome with a final decision.

However, now with this new technique, everything has become different.

This trick will definitely surprise people.

——Congratulations, Naruto, you finally completed this trick.

Minato's congratulatory voice also sounded.

——This is also thanks to your help, dad, otherwise I wouldn’t have been able to complete this new technique so quickly. However, it is really difficult to integrate senjutsu and wind attribute chakra into the Rasengan.

Naruto rubbed his sore shoulders.

With the amount of chakra he had, using this new technique at this time also felt like a huge drain.

——Furthermore, this technique consumes too much chakra. It feels like if a dozen are fired, the chakra may be exhausted.

——……

Hearing Naruto complain like this, Minato suddenly didn't want to talk.

He knew that Naruto didn't mean anything malicious when he said this, it was just a natural complaint.

But because of this, he felt that Naruto's chakra was very terrifying compared to ordinary ninjas.

Not to mention ten. If an ordinary ninja fires just one shot, it may drain the chakra from the whole body. If he uses the second shot, he will definitely die due to the exhaustion of chakra.

——So, Naruto, have you decided on a name for this new technique? If you don't mind, let me give you a loud name.

——Well, that’s no need. I decided to call this new technique ‘Wind Release: Spiral Shuriken’. Because the way it spins is very similar to the spin of a shuriken.

Perhaps thinking of something, Naruto shuddered and directly decided on the name of the new technique without giving Minato a chance to insert it.

After getting along with each other for these years, he also understood what kind of person his father Minato was.

Although he is excellent in all aspects, whether it is ability or brains, he is the best ninja Naruto has ever seen, but in terms of naming, it is quite regrettable and sad.

If he asked the other party to name his new technique, he felt that he would be so embarrassed that he would explode in shame just by shouting it out.

"Okay, now I'm going to report to Granny Tsunade on the completion progress of the new book."

Naruto felt great respect for Tsunade who spared no effort to support her actions.

He knew that many adults in the village had ill intentions toward him, but more people would remain kind to him.

——Yes, if you tell me earlier, you can make Tsunade-sama feel at ease.

Minato also respected Tsunade as a person.

At this time, taking over a mess like Konoha and being able to do it to this extent and buy enough time and space for Naruto's growth, one can imagine the energy put into it.

If the other party had not chosen to leave Konoha, the Fourth Hokage would not have fallen on him.

Perhaps, Konoha will move towards a different future.

——By the way, now that the new technique is completed, then we can start training to control the Nine Tails.

Finally, Minato added this sentence.

Only in this way can we gain the power to protect ourselves in this increasingly dangerous ninja world.

Otherwise, just by completing new techniques, there is still a big gap compared with those real top ninjas.

And this gap can only be smoothed out with Nine Tails, or even... surpassed!

…

Hokage's office.

When Naruto came here, he found that there was not only Tsunade in the office, but also another person.

"Shikamaru?"

The person who appeared in the office was Shikamaru.

He was holding a document in his hand and was making a oral report on it.

Hearing the movement behind him, Shikamaru smiled and said, "It's you, Naruto. You're really lucky. The Hokage-sama and I happened to be talking about you."

"my business?"

Naruto looked back and forth between Shikamaru and Tsunade, suddenly surprised.

"Yes, you must not have forgotten that the Chunin Examination will be held in a few days."

Shikamaru said directly.

"Uh..." Naruto suddenly remembered that this matter really happened. There were layers of sweat on his face. He wiped it with his sleeve and said with a forced smile: "Of course I didn't forget it, haha, such an important thing, how could I Maybe I forgot."

In fact, I have almost forgotten about it.

Seeing Naruto's insincere gesture, Shikamaru and Tsunade were both speechless. It was obvious that the other party had completely forgotten about this matter.

"Well, you are also a participant this year. Sai and Hanoko will also accompany you."

Shikamaru sighed.

"Sai, Hanoko? But aren't they all chuunin?"

Naruto's face was full of questions.

Hanoko is an ANBU candidate, and Sai is a root, both of whom have their own secret promotion channels.

Among the seventh team, he was the only one who was not a chuunin, but the lowest genin.

"Whose fault do you think it is? Don't worry, they are just accompanying each other. If you want to use them to improve your score, you are totally wrong. Their final score will be calculated based on the average. If you If you want to become a chuunin, your final score in the three exams must exceed the average of the two of them."

Shikamaru said these words.

In fact, the biggest difficulty for Naruto was not the second team battle, but also the third individual battle.

It's the first round of the written test.

As long as he passes the first round of the written test and gets a score above the average, then Naruto's becoming a chuunin is basically guaranteed.

"That's it, I understand. I will fight with all my strength."

Naruto nodded solemnly.

"No, you just need to go all out for the first exam, but you don't have to go all out for the second and third exams."

Shikamaru was afraid that Naruto would accidentally beat all the candidates to death in the next two exams.

This time Naruto's assessment will only focus on the first exam.

The second and third scenes were just a formality.

"Then, I'll take my leave first, Hokage-sama, I have other things to deal with over there."

Shikamaru said goodbye to Tsunade.

"Well, go ahead."

Tsunade nodded, indicating that the other party could leave.

With permission, Shikamaru turned and left.

Perhaps because of the wrong angle of observation, Naruto suddenly felt that after Shikamaru turned around, his slightly lowered expression had a darker tone than usual.