Escape From Konoha

There are basically no people to be seen in the empty woods.

In the depths of this forest, Naruto was the only one exercising wind attribute chakra.

Perhaps because he had practiced for too long, there was a lot of sweat on his forehead due to his concentrated practice, and his breathing became faster than usual, so that his shoulders began to shake slightly subconsciously.

At this moment, there was a sound of footsteps behind him.

It's Sasuke and Sakura.

Sasuke was holding a lunch box in his hand, and it was obvious that the two of them were here to deliver food to Naruto.

"Give."

Walking closer, Sasuke handed the lunch box to Naruto with a calm expression and asked him to catch it.

"Oh, thank you so much for bothering you every time, Sasuke."

Naruto smiled playfully and took the lunch box handed over by Sasuke, just as he was indeed a little hungry.

Sasuke glanced at Naruto and said: "You're welcome. Although we didn't have a good relationship in the past, since we are now partners in the same team, helping out is nothing. Having said that, Kakashi asked me to ask you, you How is your cultivation progress?"

Naruto frowned in distress and replied: "It's still not going well. It's too difficult to condense the wind attribute chakra. It will probably take some time to use it smoothly."

As he spoke, he scratched his scalp appropriately, as if he was troubled by this matter.

"In this case……"

In the middle of his words, Sasuke punched Naruto in the face.

Naruto was caught off guard, and blood suddenly flew from his nose.

Sasuke had no intention of stopping, turned around and kicked Naruto in the chest, sending his whole body flying out, hitting the tree trunk hard and rolling him down.

"Sasuke!?"

Sakura was stunned by the scene in front of her. She didn't know why Sasuke was so cruel to Naruto.

Even if you want to test Naruto's strength, you won't be so cruel to one of your own, right?

Naruto, who rolled down the tree trunk, was rubbing his nose and covering his chest where he was kicked, and looked at Sasuke with confusion and pain on his face.

The lunch box in his hand had already flown out and scattered all over the floor.

"Sasuke, what are you doing all of a sudden?"

In response to Naruto's question, Sasuke's eyes looked very cold, with a strong fighting spirit.

Sakura noticed something was wrong in the atmosphere, and slowly retreated to Sasuke's side, looking at Naruto with a rare look of vigilance.

"Naruto, that guy won't thank me, nor will he say depressing words during training."

Sasuke stared at the other person coldly.

If it is said that Naruto thanked him at the beginning, it just made him doubt.

Next, when he asked about Naruto's training progress, and the other party directly said some depressing words that were inconsistent with Naruto's usual, he was sure that the Naruto in front of him was a fake.

Because especially in front of him, Naruto would never do this. He would definitely say "Just wait and see" and "I will definitely surpass you", slogans that are full of provocation and high morale.

Being exposed by Sasuke, the puzzlement and pain on Naruto's face disappeared immediately, and turned into a strange and hideous expression.

"So that's the case, I didn't expect this situation. As expected of the last descendants of the Konoha Uchiha clan..."

After finishing speaking, with a bang, smoke spread out beside Naruto, and a strange young man appeared there.

The nose was slightly red and swollen, obviously because of the scar left by Sasuke's fist just now.

"Who are you? Where did you hide the real Naruto?"

Sasuke questioned.

The young man didn't answer Sasuke's question, but picked up Kunai from the ninja bag and rushed towards Sasuke and Sakura.

Seeing the young man rushing towards him without saying a word, Sasuke's eyes became even colder, and he rushed towards him unwilling to show weakness, forming seals with his hands.

"Art fire escape ho fireball!"

A huge scorching fireball spit out from Sasuke's mouth. The young man in front of him was very powerful. Sasuke didn't expect to use this move to solve the opponent. He just hoped to use the fire escape technique to create a huge noise here and attract Kakashi to quickly come over for support.

He and Sakura might not be able to deal with this young man.

And he was also a little worried about Naruto's current situation.

At the very least, we need to find out the identities of these people.

Sasuke's flexible reaction was beyond the young man's expectations. He originally wanted to use close combat to eliminate Sasuke and Sakura, but when Sasuke used a powerful ninjutsu like Fire Release, the nature of the matter was completely different. .

Although he was left as bait, he didn't want to die at all.

Facing that Hatake Kakashi, he basically had no chance of survival.

And the strength shown by Sasuke also means that the opponent is not a troublesome genin that can be solved in a short time.

This kind of strength is already comparable to that of Chunin.

Therefore, when Sasuke used the fire escape technique, he did not have any hesitation or hesitation, avoided the fireball, dodged sideways, and jumped deep into the dark woods in the blink of an eye, disappearing.

"hateful!"

Sasuke didn't expect that the other party would run away so decisively and not tangle with him.

The fireball hit the tree, instantly burning the entire tree and causing a violent explosion.

Not long after the young man escaped, Kakashi rushed over and saw the remaining traces of fire escape on the field, coupled with the relatively chaotic footsteps, it was obvious that a battle had just occurred here.

He looked at Sasuke with a questioning look in his eyes.

Sasuke didn't hesitate and quickly and succinctly explained what had just happened.

Kakashi understood and gave the order: "Let me chase that guy. You can search for Naruto's traces from another route. According to the time, the guy who kidnapped Naruto is probably not far away. Discovered Don’t be too eager to fight when the enemy is in danger, send a signal in time to let me know.”

This is the best approach when you are unsure of the number of enemies.

"Is it just the two of us, Kakashi-sensei?"

Sakura was a little uneasy.

It was obvious that the people who kidnapped Naruto were not ordinary bandits or samurai, but real ninjas.

Once it involves ninjas, it is at least a B-level mission, which is not a difficult mission that genin like them can complete.

"I will ask the people from the Thunder Group to search for it together."

"Thunder Light Group?"

"They are mercenaries, so as long as they pay, it's not a problem. I think they don't mind making some extra money at a time like this. Right, Leader Qianno?"

After Kakashi's words fell, a clear voice sounded:

"Mr. Kakashi seems to know our bounty hunter's rules very well. Yes, as long as the reward is sufficient, our Thunder Group is happy to serve Konoha."

The petite and cute baby-faced girl was standing on a tree at some point, looking down at a few people. She was also attracted by the explosion caused by Sasuke's fire escape technique.

After all, this place is not far from the bridge. As long as the movement is slightly louder, it is easy to detect abnormalities in the woods.

Sasuke and Sakura looked at Qianno. Unlike Kakashi, the two of them had always been wary of Qianno. They even suspected that Naruto's disappearance was caused by people from the Thunder Group.

Seeing the slightly questioning looks from Sasuke and Sakura, Chino's cute baby face became furious.

"Do you two think that the people from our Lightning Corps were the ones who kidnapped that idiot? That's so rude. Our Lightning Corps are mercenaries, not human traffickers!"

Moreover, Konoha and the Raiguang Group are currently in the honeymoon period of their cooperation. With the reputation of the Raiguang Group in the underground black market, it is impossible for them to do such stupid things as destroying their own brands.

The stronger the team of bounty hunters, the more they value credibility.

Because of a broken reputation, no matter how powerful a bounty hunter is, he will be unanimously opposed by all his employers and sadly withdraw from the underground black market.

Precisely because it is a lawless place, credibility is the basis for ensuring the prerequisite for all cooperation, not strength.

"I'm sorry, they are also concerned about chaos. I know the credibility of the Thunder Light Group. How about this, on behalf of Konoha, how about I invest one million taels to entrust your Thunder Light Group to help rescue my subordinates this time?"

Kakashi said.

Qian Nao didn't think too much, and nodded: "Yes."

Yun Yin's people are attacking the military factory in the ghost country. At this time, there is no spare power to destroy the work on the bridge.

It seems that the Lei Guangtuan was bound around the construction site of the bridge, but now they are actually free.

Furthermore, the reward of one million taels is not low.

In the official ninja village, one million taels is already the standard reward for S-level missions.

A bounty of several million, or even tens of millions, is not easy to do in the underground black market.

"Then, without further ado, let's get started."

Kakashi nodded, and chased in the direction where the young man fled just now.

"You two follow me."

For Chino's order, Sasuke and Sakura had no choice but to follow.

This baby-faced girl is a jonin no matter what, with her following, the safety factor of searching for Naruto's whereabouts is greatly increased.

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Naruto woke up with a jolt.

"?"

When Naruto woke up, he immediately realized something was wrong.

He was held in the arms of a strange-looking middle-aged man. There was a long and narrow scar on the man's right cheek, which made his appearance even more fierce in the dark environment.

"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!"

Naruto wanted to shout loudly, but then he realized that his mouth was gagged and he could only make a small whine.

Out of caution, his hands and feet were now tied with strong hemp ropes, making it difficult to move.

Naruto recalled that he was too tired from training and was about to take a nap in the woods when he heard slight footsteps approaching him. Before he could open his eyes to take a closer look, he passed out.

When I woke up, it was like this.

Therefore, no matter how dull Naruto was, he knew that he was being kidnapped at this time.

"Are you awake, Kyuubi brat?"

The man noticed that Naruto, who was in his arms, began to struggle and struggled, so he lowered his head and looked at Naruto as he hurried on.

Naruto's eyes widened and he looked at the man in disbelief.

This guy...Naruto knew that there was a terrifying monster sealed in his body - the nine-tailed demon fox.

This matter should only be known to people in your own village.

But he had never seen the man who kidnapped him, so he was probably not from the Leaf Village.

"Wake up, if you don't want to suffer physical pain, then be honest. In order to ensure the integrity of the Jinchuuriki's body, I did not chop off your hands and feet."

The man's tone was very cold.

Naruto couldn't help but shudder. Although he didn't know if the man was trying to scare him, Naruto did have a trace of fear in his heart.

But giving up resistance because of fear is too uncharacteristic of oneself.

If Sasuke knew about it, he would definitely be ridiculed severely for this matter.

However, both hands and feet were tied with ropes and tied with knots. No matter how you looked at it, it was impossible to break free.

Damn it, it would be great if there was a sharp weapon that could cut the rope on my hand. Naruto was troubled.

But how is this possible?

With his hands bound, he couldn't take out the kunai in his ninja bag.

And once the movement gets louder, it will arouse the man's vigilance.

No matter which choice you make, it seems to be a dead end.

Unless you can create a sharp blade in your hand that is not easy to see.

Thinking of this, Naruto suddenly had a flash of inspiration.

Hands...sharp...cutting...

Wind escape!

Naruto seemed to see a glimmer of hope in the darkness.

Although he is not very proficient in wind escape during this period of training, the wind attribute chakra he has initially condensed actually has a strong cutting ability.

Using wind attribute chakra, it is not difficult to cut the hemp rope binding his hands.

You just need to twist your palm to bring it closer to the hemp rope, and you can do it, but the movement must be small.

Thinking of this, Naruto raised his head and secretly took a look at the man, and found that the other man's attention was basically on his way, and he did not turn too much eyes to himself.

very good! Naruto, who discovered this, instantly condensed wind-attribute chakra in his palms and began to save himself.

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Thick black smoke was billowing in the factory, and fire was everywhere. Figures formed into two camps and started a fierce battle.

For a time, flames, thunder and lightning, water flow, mudslides, and storms all appeared in the factory. In just a few rounds, the factory's land was basically lifted by both sides of the battle.

The dark yellow kunoichi in her twenties with long braids avoided the attack of the ninja from the Kingdom of Demons, used violent means, opened the black door of the manufacturing plant, and rushed in without saying a word.

Once inside, we found that in the manufacturing plant, except for the industrial machines that were still running on their own, the weapon accessories on the transport tracks had long since disappeared, and that's not all.

Except for the machines running on their own and the sound of the machines operating, the factory building turned out to be empty and deserted.

Oops!

When the kunoichi saw this scene, she instantly realized that the weapons manufacturing factory was an empty shell. Except for some machines, the weapons and weapons produced inside had been transferred one step ahead of time.

This is a trap!

When she wanted to exit, the entire factory suddenly began to shake restlessly, horrific cracks appeared on the walls above and around it, and pieces of rubble fell downwards.

Boom!

Before they could retreat in time, the huge factory building collapsed in an instant, and countless rubbles fell down, burying the kunoichi in the ruins.

When the Oni Country ninjas and attackers who were fighting outside heard this movement, they couldn't help but look at the collapsed manufacturing plant.

The attackers' expressions suddenly changed when they saw that the multi-story factory building that the kunoichi had just entered was turned into rubble and buried alive underground.

"Yukito-sama!"

The shouting had an effect.

With a bang, a huge body of chakra rose into the sky, and two blue tails like giant pythons opened a large hole in the center of the ruins, kicking up countless dust.

There was an indescribable pressure in the air, and both the Demon Country ninjas and the attacking Kumogakure ninjas felt it was difficult to breathe.

On top of the dusty ruins, a monster figure as huge as a fortress loomed in the smoke and slowly emerged.

It was a blue cat with a huge body.

Blue patterned flames burned on his body, and his breath didn't know how to restrain it at all.

The sky suddenly became overcast with clouds, and lightning flashed faintly in the clouds.

The blue cat seemed to be stimulated by some very angry anger. Its heterochromatic pupils, one yellow and one green, were full of awe-inspiring murderous intent, and it glared viciously at a certain location.

In that position, Ichihime pressed the hilt of the Kusanagi sword with her palm, using her body to easily block the astonishing momentum of the tailed beast. She still stood there and smiled softly as if nothing had happened, as if she had not noticed the terrifying blue chakra in front of her. Cats are regarded as powerful opponents.

Although she didn't say it out of her mouth, this was what the kunoichi who controlled the giant blue cat's two tails thought.

Not only was she being teased, but she was forced out of the tail beast's real body early on, and she was also treated with such contempt. Yunyin, who had always been respected by others, felt an unprecedented humiliation!

Kill her! Once this thought arises, there is no way to get it out of her mind.

Humiliation can only be washed away with blood!

"Stay away!"

A female voice came from the blue cat's mouth, speaking to the Kumogakure ninjas.

According to the original plan, they should break into the reference room in the military factory as quickly as possible, loot all the weapons manufacturing blueprints there, and then evacuate the factory as quickly as possible to avoid being entangled by people from the kingdom of ghosts.

But now it seems that this idea is too naive.

"yes!"

Hearing the order, the cloud hidden ninjas did not dare to stay. The trump card of their operation - the two tailed Jinchuriki and the two Yugi, have completely liberated the power of the tailed beast in the body. Fighting in this situation is easy to be attacked. The power of the tailed beast is affected.

Therefore, he immediately gave up the entanglement with the ninjas of the Ghost Country and withdrew from the factory's territory.

However, when they were evacuating, the Ninjas of the Ghost Country responded to the call and followed closely behind them, not intending to let them go so easily.

Yiji's order to them is to annihilate all the enemy troops without letting any one go!

"Get out of my way!"

Seeing that the ninjas in the kingdom of ghosts wanted to pursue their retreating companions, the wooden man immediately controlled the Erwei cat to lift it up again, and ran on the ground, whipping up a violent hurricane, with a murderous look.

When Ichiki saw this, her figure swayed on the spot and suddenly appeared in the air in front of Nekomata. She took a breath, bent her arm, and then punched the blue Nekomata directly on the forehead.

boom!

The air exploded.

Nekomata's body, which was as huge as a fortress, fell to the ground mercilessly after being punched by Ichiki, and rolled out.

His body hit the factory's water tower, and water surged down from the sky, soaking Nekomata's body.

The long hair on the back of his head was flying, and Kazuhime stood there, gently shaking the arm that had used his fist to hit Tobi Nekomata.

"It's really thick-skinned and thick-skinned. It seems like a direct hand-to-hand fight with a tailed beast is still a bit inferior."

There were blood stains on her fists, which were the blood that flowed out after her own flesh cracked.

The tailed beast's defense was beyond her imagination.

She had no experience of directly fighting tailed beasts in the past, and for this reason, Kazuhime had long wanted to know whether her powerful body, which could contain tailed beast-level chakra, could be used to fight a tailed beast in hand-to-hand combat.

Now it seems that she is still a little short of it.

If she continued to fight the tailed beast like this, her arm would be useless within a few rounds.

It is unimaginable that Kumogakure's Raikage can compete with the tailed beast with his own body.

Is it because of the lack of Thunder Escape Armor? Kazuki pondered this possibility.

No, Kumogakure's Thunder Release Chakra Mode is not actually a very advanced ninjutsu.

The difficulty of training is level B.

Other ninja villages, including the Demon Country's military, have also studied the Thunder Chakra model, and all have shown that the threshold for practicing this ninjutsu is not high.

It is the people who are powerful, not the magic.

It can only be said that the Thunder Release Chakra Mode is very suitable for Kumogakure's Raikage.

In addition, Raikage seems to have a family inheritance, which may also involve some unknown secret ninjutsu.

"You yellow-haired girl!"

The cat stood still again, shook his whole body, and wiped away the water stains on his body. Then he bared his teeth and grinned, his eyes and face becoming extremely fierce.

Although Ichiki's fist only caused her to feel a little pain, Yukito still felt a sense of shame.

After using the power of the tailed beast, he was knocked back by a little girl with a meat fist.

This is the first time except for his own Raikage.

Ichiki smiled indifferently at Yukito's anger.

"Originally, the battlefield here was reserved for those guys from Konoha. However, it would be good to switch to tailed beasts now. How much do you think your Raikage will pay to redeem you?"

After saying that, Yiji put the back of her hand to her mouth and licked the blood flowing from the back of her hand with her tongue, a bright red and coquettish light faintly revealed in her eyes.

"Go to hell!"

The cat roared loudly again, and its sharp claws tore at the opponent's body.

Yi Ji stepped on her foot, leaped forward, and quickly drew out the sword from her waist.

The tip of the sword touched Cat Claw's palm, stopping it from moving forward.

Two powerful chakras burst out from Ichihime and Nekomata, both clashing with each other with unrivaled momentum.

Yukito, who was controlling Nekomata's body, saw this and without hesitation, he opened his mouth wide and sprayed out a huge fireball with a diameter of more than several meters.

There was a boom and explosion.

The flames spread.

A large, charred pit appeared on the ground, billowing with steam.

Yi Ji jumped back from the dust, and the sparks remaining on her clothes quickly dissipated.

"Can't even the sharpness of the Kusanagi sword pierce that layer of skin?"

Yiji clicked her tongue and glanced at the sword in her hand with some disgust.

Looking at the giant Nekomata that was attacking again, Ichiki didn't move at all.

Just when the giant Nekomata's claws were about to touch her body, a dark shadow passed in front of Nekomata's eyes like lightning.

A violent explosion sounded from the position of Nekomata's eyes.

The lightning flashed fiercely.

The cat let out another scream of agony and staggered back.

Seeing Nekomata's retreat, the dark shadow flickered and landed steadily on Ichiki's shoulder.

It was a four-legged pitch-black cub with a single horn on its head that flashed blue lightning.

"Well done, Thundermaru, I thought you were slacking off again."

Ichiji said to the four-legged one-horned black beast standing on her shoulders.

"Miss, I can still be relied on at critical moments. However, this big guy in front of you is not easy to deal with."

Thunder Pill looked at Erwei's huge body, and the chakra spilled out made the air here very solemn.

"Then stop talking nonsense and use Thunder Escape."

As he spoke, Ichiki took out a scroll from his ninja tool bag and spread it out.

The scroll immediately floated in front of Ichiji, with dense black mantras engraved on it. In the center of the mantras, the word "vessel" was written.

Yi Ji formed a seal with her hands, and a large amount of materialized chakra emerged from her body, wrapping the unfolded scroll like soft water.

"learn!"

Thunder Pill didn't hesitate, the whole body of lightning bloomed, instantly creating a huge thunder field around Ichiki.

"This little trick——"

The pain in the eyes slowly disappeared, and the cat spoke again.

However, before he could finish his words this time, he was interrupted by a whistling sound that broke through the air.

Kunai carrying dense electric light shot out from the unfolded scroll at an astonishing speed.

The cat stretched out its claws again, intending to sweep these kunai away.

boom!

Different from ordinary kunai, these kunai carrying electric light immediately produced the effect of a cannonball explosion after touching the cat's paw, and the power was so powerful that it shocked the cat's body.

Before he could react, more kunai carrying electric light followed.

The kunai carrying the electric light exploded on Nekomata's nose and chin. His face was slightly distorted, and he was forced to raise his head unwillingly.

And the Kunai in the scroll seems endless, with lightning, from the scroll like a blue laser light, with a meteor-like light, flashing in the air, and finally falling on Maoyou like an endless drizzle.

The harsh, high-pitched sound made Nekomata's roar sound painful.