Chapter 636 Questioning

"Interesting, why do you have time to come to my place?"

Built in a building among the mountains, Mizuki, who is a manager here, was somewhat surprised to see Kakashi come to find him.

This is the eastern stronghold of the faction that Orochimaru belongs to. From Yinyin Village, it takes about four days to walk on foot. If you run, you can reach it in less than half a day.

Because it was still winter, most of the beasts were sleeping in their lairs, making this mountain seem extremely empty and deserted.

Because the buildings are also built in relatively hidden places among the mountains, they will not be easily noticed. As long as it is not too unlucky, basically there will be no battles here.

Besides, no one would just come here to find fault in this barren place with nothing to do.

"I just came here to check on your situation. The ninja world is not peaceful recently."

Kakashi sat on the sofa familiarly, as if he was the manager here, and didn't care about Mizuki's slightly unhappy eyes.

"Tsubaki, you go out first, just let me entertain this guy."

After driving away the fiance who was staying in the living room, Minato sat down on the sofa opposite Kakashi.

"It seems that you are living a good life here."

Kakashi glanced around and said.

"Hmph, it's just a completely abandoned stronghold. The prisoners here are ordinary prisoners, or the guys who were forgotten by Orochimaru, and they don't even have the qualifications to go to the operating table of that guy in Orochimaru."

Mizuki sneered, and poured himself a cup of hot water. There is no heating device here, and there is no room to enjoy it.

Being thrown here means that you won't see Orochimaruji all year round. Most of the time, Orochimaru sent envoys to inspect it to see if there was any problem with the management.

The only time I can see Oshemaru is when the person in charge of the four-sided base goes to Otoyin Village to report to Oshemaru.

But because the eastern stronghold is abandoned, he is the most worthless among the stronghold managers.

Compared to other stronghold managers, his qualifications here in Orochimaru are the shallowest.

Although self-confidence lies in strength, it is not inferior to other stronghold managers.

"That's why people here can save their lives."

"So, what about you? What did you find at Orochimaru?"

Mizuki continued to ask.

Being placed in the abandoned stronghold by Orochimaru means that his work, or task, will be extremely difficult to complete.

Because the manager of the stronghold basically cannot leave the stronghold and take free actions without being summoned.

Although the position is high and powerful, it also loses the convenience of free movement.

"I have found a few things, but this guy's ability to dig 'holes' is no worse than that of the one we are loyal to in the kingdom of ghosts. Or, this is a common problem of the superiors, the Three Caves of the Rabbit. Before leaving Konoha, he likes to dig holes everywhere for emergencies."

Kakashi said with emotion.

It is simply impossible to detect all the branch strongholds of the forces that Orochimaru belongs to in a short period of time.

These strongholds are far apart, and regardless of the country and environment, no one knows how many holes Orochimaru has dug in the years since he left Konoha.

Some strongholds are not on the list, but they are more important than the four strongholds.

In those strongholds, the hidden secrets are even more important.

"It doesn't matter, I'll add my name to it when the time comes... For example, 'With the cooperation of my best effort and the cooperation of putting my life in danger, most of Orochimaru's secrets were discovered'. I don't mind a job report like this at all."

Mizuki nodded, asking Kakashi so.

"You really don't know how to be polite at all."

Kakashi was a little speechless.

"No way, my talent as a ninja can only be regarded as mediocre, and there is no blood limit. If I want to climb to a high position, I can only use this method. And with your ability, you may be qualified to compete for that position...I am investing in advance. After all, your side is too weak."

Mizuki smiled, giving off an insidious sense of disgust.

Thinking correctly, completing tasks, and working hard have always been his motto in life.

Konoha's promotion path has come to an end, and only Kakashi can support him in the next path.

Otherwise, with his ability to be high but not low, to reach this level is basically the end.

But there is still most of his life, he doesn't want to be in an awkward situation all the time.

Keep forging ahead and fight for your life.

He doesn't feel ashamed of his own values.

"It's too early to say such a thing. Besides, it depends on Sasuke's progress."

Kakashi leisurely made tea for himself, feeling no urgency about the next thing.

"Speaking of which, why don't you watch over Sasuke? That guy Orochimaru is a guy who eats people and doesn't spit out bones."

Mizuki asked.

Sasuke is related to his possibility of promotion, so he should care about it, right?

"He's not a kid either... Besides, his strength has improved so rapidly over the past year that even when I meet him now, I find it very difficult. It's better to let him have some free space."

After all, he couldn't keep his eyes on Sasuke all the time.

Without a sense of crisis, the speed of Sasuke's growth will also decrease accordingly. This is not what Kakashi wants to see, and likewise, Sasuke may not be able to accept such a thing.

Compared to when he just graduated, Sasuke is now an independent ninja who can independently decide his own future life. It is no longer appropriate to treat him as a child who needs to be taken care of.

"Is that so? It is truly worthy of being a ninja who has inherited the title of 'Uchiha'. Blood Succession Genkai is really an enviable power...Why didn't my ancestors study Blood Succession Genkai?"

Mizuki sighed.

Whether it is the secret technique or the blood succession boundary, it is a very powerful inheritance in the ninja world. Compared with ninjas of civilian origin, they have more background.

Although the former can be relatively popular and does not require the corresponding bloodline to perform, it can also raise the upper limit of a ninja.

Most ninjas are still struggling at the bottom, unable to advance an inch.

"This kind of thing depends more on fate. If you want to inherit the limit of blood, it is not impossible. For example, you can fuse two chakra attributes and create it yourself, or you can voluntarily participate in the wood escape experiment. No matter which one succeeds, your strength will increase by leaps and bounds."

The former, as the independent pioneer of Blood Successor Limitation, is equivalent to the source of Blood Succession Limitation. A ninja who can achieve this level cannot be weak.

Although the latter has certain risks, this country of technological ghosts is quite mature, and there is no danger to life... It's just that the probability of birth will make people feel a little desperate.

Konoha has only been an awakened person like Tianzang for so many years, and the situation in the kingdom of ghosts is not much better.

This is the source of power that fundamentally changes a ninja, and can even be passed on to his offspring... A hundred years later, it will be a miniature blood-successor limit family. The probability of success is naturally not too high.

The possibility of one in ten thousand is considered high. The real probability is lower than this.

After chatting for a while, Kakashi got up to leave.

"Be careful recently. Yun Yin's ninjas are eyeing Orochimaru. They have destroyed several Orochimaru's strongholds before. They want to use this as a breakthrough to find out the information of that organization and retrieve the lost Erwei."

After speaking, Kakashi took out a scroll and a white metal medicine box.

Mizuki took the scroll and the medicine box, weighing the weight in it.

"The preparations are really thoughtful."

Mizuki smiled.

He has also heard a little bit about Yun Yin's actions, and some Orochimaru strongholds have been hit by disasters, almost completely destroyed.

Only the manager who guarded the stronghold, saw that the situation was not good, escaped from death, but was also seriously injured, and died in the end.

During this period of time, the power of Orochimaru has been reduced a lot because of Yunyin.

Although his environment here is hidden, there is no guarantee that he will not be investigated by Yunyin's Anbu.

Can't underestimate the intelligence and action capabilities of these big ninja villages.

The prestige of Orochimaru can only scare those small countries.

"If you, the manager, die, things will be quite troublesome. In addition, with the shrinking of Orochimaru's power, many managers have also been handed over by Yunyin Ninja. Maybe at the end of this year, you may have the possibility of being promoted here."

Kakashi mentioned this possibility.

Yunyin's attack caused many deaths of capable people under Dashemaru. As long as Mizuki can stabilize, he will be promoted later, and it is very likely that he will go to key strongholds to guard.

"Then wish me good luck, and hope that Yunyin's attack will be more intense, and it would be best if all the branch managers except me die."

Mizuki put away the scroll and the medicine box, laughed, and cursed those managers and colleagues.

Sitting on a bench in the park path, Naruto's right arm was wrapped with a bandage, staring fixedly at the **** ahead, and the river running through the park and extending to the woods, which had frozen over at this time.

Because he was ordered not to practice in the next half month, and any high-intensity exercises were not allowed, so Naruto's life was quite boring during this period.

Every time he has free time, he can't help but practice to make himself stronger.

Now that I am idle and have nothing to do, I always feel a little empty in my heart for a while.

Sasuke, Kakashi-sensei, Sakura...

Familiar figures kept flashing through his mind. The more he thought of these figures, the more silent his expression became, with a gloomy temperament accumulated on his face.

Even the original golden hair seemed to have become dull and lifeless.

Just then, a water glass approached.

"Give."

The voice came from the side.

Naruto raised his head.

"It's Shikamaru you."

He took the water glass unceremoniously. There was a hot drink in it. Naruto just put it in his hand and didn't open it to drink immediately.

He lowered his head, looked at the water glass and continued to be dazed.

"Are you going to be this dull all the time?"

Shikamaru sat next to Naruto, with his hands behind his head, his tone full of helplessness.

Naruto didn't answer, but his expression said so.

"Alas... Sakura's matter has nothing to do with you, it can only be said to be a trick of good fortune. I heard Master Hokage say that you want to bring Sakura back to Konoha like Sasuke and Kakashi-sensei...Leaving aside your own intentions, as far as the method is concerned, it is really stupid."

Hearing what Shikamaru said, Naruto's body seemed to tremble, as if he was afraid of Shikamaru's words.

"If you want to target Hokage, then forget all about this group of people. Don't divert your attention. In fact, you know in your heart that it is almost impossible to bring them back to Konoha."

Shikamaru strikes without hesitation, regardless of whether Naruto can accept it.

He continued:

"Tianzang Jonin should have told you about Mr. Kakashi, right? Do you think Mr. Kakashi, the relationship with the village at this time, really has a way to turn back?"

I didn't think so.

Naruto's answer in a low voice, no matter how you look at it, it's a sophistry.

"It doesn't matter whether you think so, what matters is where is your position? Is it those guys who defected, or the village of Konoha?"

Shikamaru asked.

"I"

Naruto only said one word, but he couldn't spit out the rest.

The atmosphere fell silent.

"Think about it carefully."

Shikamaru stood up, ready to leave.

Behind him, Naruto's voice suddenly sounded:

"Shikamaru."

"Um?"

"Tell me about Sasuke."

Naruto's tone was full of seriousness.

"Sasuke's matter..."

Now, it was Shikamaru's turn to be silent.

He didn't seem to expect that Naruto would ask so suddenly about Sasuke.

"At that time, through the demon fox in my body, I clearly felt the strong hatred and strong negative consciousness in Sasuke's heart, which made me feel the helpless coldness and pain in Sasuke's heart. Why did he leave Konoha? Why didn't he tell me anything at that time, but just kept calling me stupid? Sasuke is not such an unreasonable person. He must have his own reasons for doing this. He is not the kind of person who can trample on other people's feelings for the sake of power."

Naruto stood up and looked at Shikamaru seriously.

Shikamaru stared at Naruto, unable to speak for a while.

"You always say that I don't know anything, and call me an idiot, but you just don't tell me the truth of the matter. Whether it's my life experience or Mr. Kakashi's matter, I only know something after the event happened. This time, I want to understand the process more clearly. Please, Shikamaru! Please tell me the real reason why Sasuke left Konoha!"

Naruto bent down and begged Shikamaru.

He knows that Shikamaru is so smart, he must know a lot of things that he doesn't know.

Including the real truth about Sasuke leaving Konoha.

If you want to ask someone like Tsunade and Jiraiya who knows the truth, you will definitely use various excuses to refuse to tell him the truth.

In the end, it was a waste of work after all.

Therefore, he can only rely on Shikamaru, an insider who is not in their camp.

Besides Shikamaru, he didn't know who to confide in this matter, who to ask for answers.

In this matter, those adults must not be willing to tell him the real truth.

Looking at Naruto's sincere request, Shikamaru also fell into a dilemma.

I regretted why I thought so deeply at the beginning, and took away the scroll placed in the root.

If this is not the case, he can completely say at this time that he does not know the truth of the matter.

However, he cannot avoid it now.

Now Naruto is not so easy to prevaricate.

This guy is an idiot, but even an idiot is an idiot who likes to dig into corners.

Before something comes to fruition, I will never give up lightly.

He didn't know if it was a good thing or a bad thing.

But definitely means trouble.

After a long time, Shikamaru let out a breath slowly, and said with a helpless smile, "You really put me in the army, Naruto. That's right, after going through so many things, even an idiot will find ways to figure out the true nature of things."

Naruto looked over with burning eyes, hoping that Shikamaru would tell him the truth of the matter.

"Okay, I lost to you. Let me talk to you."

Shikamaru scratched his head, and sat back on the bench out of trouble.

Naruto also sat back, with a posture of listening carefully.

"Before that, I want to ask first, you should know who wiped out Konoha's Uchiha clan, right?"

Shikamaru asked.

Naruto nodded solemnly.

"I know, it's Sasuke's older brotherUchiha Itachi. He attacked Konoha Ninja before and wounded Sasuke."

"Now that you know this, it's easy to handle. I don't know the specific situation, but the fact that Sasuke left Konoha is probably related to this matter."

"What's the meaning?"

"According to the normal development, Sasuke will use Konoha's power to avenge the genocide like Uchiha Itachi. But the real situation is that Sasuke left Konoha after learning the truth. It's strange no matter how you think about it."

"That's right. If Sasuke wants to avenge Itachi, I can also help him act together."

Naruto said firmly.

"This is the problem. There is a big problem with Itachi's elimination of the Uchiha clan. As a blood succession limit boundary family, the power of the family is terrible. In Konoha, the whole family was wiped out overnight... This is very abnormal. Especially in the stronghold of Danzo, a large number of corpses of Sasuke's clan were found, and their sharing eyes were all poached. And I learned from my father that Danzo, the root leader, has many writing sharing eyes..."

Shikamaru narrates what happened.

Naruto was also lost in thought, feeling something was wrong, but couldn't tell.

Instead of letting Naruto figure it out for himself, Shikamaru told him the answer directly:

"The only possibility is to eliminate the murderer of the Uchiha clan. It's not just Uchiha Itachi, Danzo may have joined it."

Naruto opened his mouth wide, too shocked to speak.

"The three generations of Hokage who have passed away, including all the senior officials of the village today, are probably also insiders. Itachi Uchiha...is just a knife in their hands. It is probably the senior management of the village who really led the demise of the Konoha Uchiha clan."

"This...it's impossible..."

Naruto couldn't believe this.

Destroy the Uchiha clan, kill Sasuke's clan, is the high-level Konoha.

The villain who betrayed KonohaUchiha Itachi was just a knife in someone else's hand.

The real murderer is the senior management of the village.

Naruto couldn't believe it.

"This is the most credible truth I have deduced from various side information. There may be some discrepancies, but the Uchiha genocide incident must have involved the intervention of the village's high-level. It is also because of this that Sasuke left Konoha without hesitation after learning the truth. His heart is full of hatred and resentment towards the high-level people who killed the Uchiha clan."

Shikamaru continued talking.

Naruto's expression was completely numb, and he was so shocked that he couldn't extricate himself.

This truth made his mind go blank and he couldn't think about anything.

"Knowing this, Naruto, do you still want Sasuke to come back?"

Shikamaru's words, like a heavy hammer, hit Naruto's heart, almost stopping his heart and lungs from beating.

"I...I don't know..."

Naruto stared blankly at his palm, his eyes glazed over, and he spoke incoherently.

"I still said it, you brat."

Parting from Naruto, when Shikamaru passed by the woods in the park, the sighing words rang in his ears.

His father, Lu Jiu, was leaning against a tree with his hands in his pockets, staring at him expressionlessly.

Because the matter on the front line was resolved, he also had time to return to Konoha.

Although he was cursing in a low voice, there was not much blame in his tone, he just felt that this was not something that Shikamaru would do, so he felt a headache for it.

Unexpectedly, that extremely smart son would do such a biased thing.

Shikamaru stopped, and faced his father Shikahisa's 'accusation' with the same expression, without any fear in his eyes, he opened his mouth and answered in a lazy tone:

"I just don't want to live like you are pitiful."

Lu Jiu's expression froze slightly.

"Because he is the son of Hokage, Nine-Tails Jinchuriki, or some kind of prophecy, you pay attention to him and take care of him...but I will regard him as the 'individual' of Uzumaki Naruto."

Shikahisa opened his mouth, wanting to refute, but he didn't know how to refute Shikamaru's words.

He told himself rationally that what Shikamaru did was not in the interests of Konoha, and was too emotional.

This will cause Jinzhuli's inner emotions to turmoil, causing the Chakra of the Tailed Beast to leak.

"You have given him too much meaning, but you have never asked whether this is what he wants. You are also thinking now, whether my words will make Naruto's power go berserk again."

Lu Jiu avoided this question.

Was poked in the heart by Shikamaru.

"I don't want this friendship to be filled with all kinds of calculations and interests...Moreover, Naruto has experienced so many things, and his heart is not weak. It's just a lack of recognition...But your behavior, on the surface, is for his good, but in the end you manipulate his life in the name of his good. Let him become what you expect under your arrangement. You never recognized everything about him, because you gave him everything."

"This is because"

"As adults, you can't do it, but you bet all your hopes on a fragile child. You want him to grow up, but you choose to say nothing to him and hide things. There is no such good thing in the world. Dad, since when did you become this kind of person? The way you adults are doing is really despicable. So whether it is war or the education of Injuriki, you have failed in a mess."

Brows drooped by Shikamaru's words, when Shikajiu raised his head again, he found that Shikamaru had already left here, and his expression was a little dazed for a while.

It seems that he was preached by his own son.

Lujiu sighed, looking at Naruto who was still sitting on the bench by the road, feeling mixed feelings for a while.

Then, he looked to another corner of the woods.

A figure is also silently paying attention to all this.

The ninja at the rootSai.

"Do you think so too?"

Lu Jiu asked him.

Sai stroked his chin, thought for a while, and smiled at Lu Jiu with narrowed eyes.

"No, I don't know anything, Mr. Shikajiu."

After finishing speaking, he turned and left here, as if he had never been here before.

"Really, the kid is really scary now."

Maybe you will become a great person in the future, Shikamaru.

Shikahisa is both irritable and pleased with Shikamaru's growth over the years.

With such complicated feelings, I returned home.

(end of this chapter)