Escape From Konoha

"Damn it, my body is already..."

On the shattered ground with only barren sand and dust left, Sasuke tried to stand up, but fell down again due to a slippery hand.

The medical charm attached to his body was unable to treat his level of injury.

Most of the ribs on his chest were broken by the blow just now, and his arms and thighs lost all feeling. It seems that he has not caught his breath until now. If he hadn't actually seen that his limbs were still growing on his body, , he even wondered if his limbs had also been blown away.

Finally, he used his last strength to suck milk, gritted his teeth, gasped, and stood up from the ground with difficulty.

Even when he was standing, his body was swaying and he might fall down at any time.

Same as him, there is Naruto.

The situation at this time is not much better.

The clothes on the upper body were completely torn, exposing the strong muscles and bones, but the superficial skin was as red as a burn and steaming, giving people the feeling of looking directly at the flesh and blood under the skin.

His injury was slowly healing, and his whole body was burning like boiling water, but he still followed Sasuke's example and put his hands on his thighs to support his upper body, breathing heavily and disorderly. .

The two looked at each other at the same time, without words. Sasuke didn't know where the strength came from, stepped forward and punched Naruto in the face.

"Guwa!"

Naruto accidentally fell to the ground and rolled out. Sasuke rushed up again, jumped on Naruto, and punched him in the face again.

boom!

Naruto raised the sole of his foot and stepped on Sasuke's chin, kicking him away.

Sasuke rolled out, opened his right hand, and fired three shurikens instantly.

Naruto dodged sideways, continuing to gasp, and looked at Sasuke, who was also looking at him. In unison, the two of them pounced on each other at the same time, waving their fists.

boom!

The two men were punched in the face at the same time. They groaned and rolled away in opposite directions, falling to the ground and not moving.

"Ha...ha...If this happens, you won't be able to move, Sasuke..."

Naruto gasped and tilted his head.

Sasuke rested his elbows on the ground. He seemed to have better physical strength than Naruto, but he could only sit in this position and it was difficult to stand up again.

"Naruto, why...why do you have to go against me? You idiot, do you know what you are doing?"

"Of course I know, but I also said that I will solve everything in my own way!"

Naruto gasped in response.

"You bastard! You are a Konoha ninja, then use the momentum that a Konoha ninja should have to kill me, the sinner who attacked the village! Deliberately deflect the attack, fight mercilessly like this, do you think I will do anything to you? Are you grateful? I am... a traitorous ninja whose hands are stained with the blood of many ninjas in Konoha!"

Sasuke was yelling like an enraged beast.

He is already a rebellious ninja of Konoha. How can there be any idiot in this world who still regards a rebellious ninja as his companion!

However, there is such a fool in front of me.

"Then what do you think I should do?"

"Of course, people like those in Konoha fought with the determination to kill me! We are not children anymore. When I made this choice, I never thought about walking out of Konoha alive!"

Yes, Sasuke naturally knows how dangerous it is to attack Konoha with his current strength.

From the beginning, he never left himself any so-called escape route.

But Konoha is too powerful.

He is so powerful that he must have a desperate mentality to have any hope of completing his revenge plan.

"Because of this, I can't agree with what you are doing now! Only a life of revenge is sad. In the past, you would not have made such a planless action!"

"No, you, who are not an Avenger, will never understand. The so-called new life is something that is born after revenge. Before that, I would not think about such a long term..."

Indeed, before coming, he did hear from Kakashi that what you get after revenge is emptiness. After that, you must think about the future and fill this vacancy.

However, this extravagant hope, after fighting Itachi and Konoha, I realized how difficult it is to consider such long-term things in the quagmire of revenge.

Revenge, revenge, revenge. From the time he was eight years old, everything he had was prepared for revenge.

This cause and effect made him breathless. He never stopped thinking about gaining strength. Every dark night, he was awakened by the torture of that night. He could only practice to the point of exhaustion every time to numb himself. Body.

He couldn't be as free and easy as Kakashi. Although he kept saying that he wanted to revitalize the Uchiha clan after revenge, he never had any plans or ideas.

His life plan, at the stage of revenge, seemed to be the end, and he would not move forward even a little bit.

Because of this, he came to Konoha with the belief that he would die.

He didn't know if his dead relatives and tribesmen would like to see him in this miserable state.

The living should sacrifice everything, even their own lives, for the sake of the dead.

With the attachment to the deceased, we should cherish our own life and live stronger and braver.

He couldn't think about this problem, so he just wallowed in revenge.

There is no need to think about the future, no need to consider whether one's body and will can bear such a life, all one needs to do is seek justice for the deceased.

He didn't want to kill those Konoha ninjas, but he did it without hesitation.

He didn't want to attack civilians who were no threat, but he still attacked them and made them cry and scream in the flames of war. He wanted them to enjoy the same experience as the dead tribesmen.

Hesitation, confusion, and hesitation suddenly came to my mind.

Sasuke realized that he was actually not that brave and strong.

His courage is just an overreaction spurred by revenge, not the courage to face all harsh criticism without wavering.

"Naruto, what am I to you?"

Sasuke, who really couldn't understand, sat up from the ground and asked.

Judging from his tone, he seemed to have calmed down and began to analyze the current situation in an organized manner.

"Even if you ask that, I don't know how to answer you... If I have to say it, I used to see you standing alone by the river, and I couldn't help but think of my own situation, and then I couldn't help you. Just ignore existence...it hurts!"

Naruto gasped, and the bones in his body seemed to be falling apart, unable to move. The burning of his skin made him not want to get up from the ground, so he had no choice but to lie like this.

"Yeah?"

Sasuke responded softly and looked at the sky, with confusion and relief in his eyes.

"I lost."

"Eh?"

Naruto, who was gasping for air, suddenly stiffened. He didn't expect Sasuke to say this.

"But I will never give up revenge."

Standing up tremblingly from the ground, shaking his body, Sasuke stepped forward and spoke as crisply as cutting through ice and snow.

"No matter what kind of will you have, killing will always be accompanied by sin... Is it what that bastard Itachi is carrying? This kind of weight is really unpleasant. It's more depressing than I thought."

Sasuke laughed to himself.

"You would say that. Sure enough, you didn't kill anyone at Orochimaru's place."

People who are skilled at killing would not say such words easily.

In his impression, Sasuke was a person who had a clear goal, but no matter what kind of danger he faced, he would not involve irrelevant people other than the goal.

The bottom line restraint that is unimaginable to ordinary people did exist in the deepest part of Sasuke's heart.

Such shackles were released before, releasing another Sasuke.

"It has nothing to do with anything like that."

Sasuke held his injured arm. The medical charm had little effect. It could only treat skin injuries. It could not completely heal the cracked bones.

He panted and stepped forward.

"No matter what, I was the one who killed those ninjas. Their families will resent me and start revenge against me."

Avengers will be targeted by others and punished in the name of "Avengers". If you think about it carefully, it is really ridiculous.

But Sasuke couldn't laugh at all.

This heaviness wasn't that thick before, but now, it was so oppressive that he couldn't breathe.

This is true even for strangers.

So, what kind of mood did Itachi have when he waved the blade in his hand against his tribe and relatives?

And in the war that happened, countless ninjas fought, what kind of mood would they have while fighting?

This world is not beautiful.

"Sasuke, you..."

"Naruto, my revenge will not stop here. I will definitely take off Danzo's head. Go tell the families of the deceased that I will always wait for them to come, whether it is to bear my own hatred or others'. Despite the hatred, I decided to keep going."

Moving forward step by step, Sasuke's figure became farther and farther away, and his voice floated from afar.

"Finally, just take it as advice, don't chase me again in the future. I'm different from you. You live in the fairy tale you weave...but I live in reality."

He was a rebellious nin and did not deserve to be treated like this by Naruto.

From the moment he decided to take revenge on Konoha, there was no turning back.

People who contradict each other and go to opposite sides cannot be friends, but can only become enemies.

"If you continue to treat me in this way, everyone, including you and me, will only get pain in the end. We are not gods, and we can only choose one of the ways to live. So, next time you have the mentality of killing me, Fight me. My... friend!"

Human existence has its limits.

Personal power seems powerful, but it is also very small.

There are so many forks in life, with joy on one side and pain on the other. It is impossible to satisfy everyone, and it is impossible to take care of everything.

Naruto's approach was too naive and too idealistic.

If you want to satisfy everyone, the end result will be that everyone is dissatisfied.

Not sure if Naruto understood this sentence, Sasuke swayed his body and stepped forward firmly.

The act of revenge is suspended and can only wait for the next opportunity.

He is in a very bad state now and needs to leave before the people from Konoha get here.

There should be some distance away from Naruto. Just as Sasuke raised his foot and continued to move towards the edge of the forest, the originally clear forest scene in front of him suddenly became blurry.

Thick white mist is like dense clouds, surrounding this forest.

Making it impossible for Sasuke to see beyond one meter.

Even the lower body was swallowed up by the unusually thick fog and disappeared.

"This is... the art of Kirigakure!"

Subconsciously, Sasuke opened his Sharingan, a solemn look on his face.

The ability of the spell caster is very strong.

In Orochimaru's place, he had seen someone use the Kirigakure Jutsu, but it was far from as powerful.

Even if the Sharingan is opened, it can't be seen through.

The strength of the spell caster is at least on the same level as him.

who is it?

Are there any Jonin in Konoha who are good at the secret arts of Kirigakure?

Although every village has a collection of Kirigakure Jutsu, I have never heard of any ninja from any village being better at this technique than the ninjas from Kirigakure Village.

Sasuke thought about all the information he knew about the Jounin of Konoha in his mind, but found that no matter which one he knew, none of them matched the scene in front of him.

At this moment, a terrifying aura locked onto him.

Sasuke didn't have time to think too much, his body suddenly slumped and rolled over.

In his blurry vision, he could only see a black shadow the size of a finger passing through the fog, and then heard the sound of trees being punched through.

"Well done, Uchiha boy. With the Sharingan blocked to such an extent, he was able to dodge my water gun technique. Even though he is a guy with eyebrows."

A low-pitched teasing voice came from the depths of the mist.

The sound of footsteps sounded, and a tall figure appeared in the thick fog. It could only be seen vaguely. It was a tall, slender man.

"who is it?"

Sasuke stretched out his hand to touch the Kusanagi sword at his waist, his Sharingan looked ahead cautiously.

In the fog, the man stretched out his palm and gently pushed aside the thick fog in front of him, revealing a man's figure that Sasuke had never seen before.

With long brown hair that is combed smoothly and shiny, and a black-striped off-white turtleneck windbreaker, he seems to be leading the trend of a certain era. On the surface, he does not look like a ninja at all.

"Hey, hello, Uchiha brat."

The man opened his palms and smiled, his mustache twitching, his eyes were stained with a dark color, and his pupils were very strange.

In addition, there were cracks as thin as hair on the other party's face and the exposed back of his hands, like a human-shaped porcelain patched together with glue.

"You're not a ninja from Konoha, are you?"

Sasuke asked the question.

He had never seen this man in Konoha.

"Konoha... In other words, is this Konoha? It must be the fault of that bastard Nidaime Hokage. He even plays with dead people and curses him to hell."

The man also seemed to realize what kind of place this place was, and cursed in displeasure.

His words and attitude made Sasuke a little unsure.

However, dead people...

Sasuke was shocked and was about to ask something.

The terrifying feeling of being locked in before came back again, and I turned sideways without even thinking.

A pillar barrier shining with white light, like an endless long pillar, penetrated the air, piercing the mustache man in front and the row of trees further away into nothingness.

Sasuke coughed loudly, and the excessive exercise tore the wounds on his body open again, making them more serious.

But his Sharingan was staring at the depths of the thick fog, and another tall and thin figure emerged.

It is a mummy wrapped in bandages, with only the nose and eyes exposed. Judging from the body shape and the revealed face, it is also an adult male.

His eyes were the same as the previous man with the mustache, dyed with an abnormal dark color, and his whole body was filled with the aura of decay and death, as well as the smell of earth.

"Do you sense ninjutsu? This is really rare among the Uchiha clan."

The bandaged man retracted his hands, seemingly surprised that Sasuke had escaped his sneak attack.

On the other side, the man with a mustache who was disappeared by the light beam flew back with countless flying fragments, re-condensing into a figure.

He didn't seem to be shocked by his resurrection. He just covered his forehead in great annoyance and fell into some kind of anxiety.

"Sure enough... this is the Nidaime Hokage's filthy earth reincarnation technique. I have seen him use this ninjutsu in the past, but I didn't expect that even I would be affected by it... I don't know what happened to Kirigakure's situation. I'm dead Did the war end after that?”

Immediately, he and the bandaged man looked at each other. As a ninja who was once famous in the ninja world, although the current situation was a bit abrupt, he also understood his situation at this time.

So, they turned their eyes in unison and landed on Sasuke.

Two powerful auras pressed against him, and cold sweat broke out on Sasuke's forehead. He stepped back slightly, intending to distance himself from these two strange people.

"Although I don't know what is happening now, it seems that our target is you. Run as far as you can, Uchiha brat, with your current state, you will only die!"

After saying that, the man with the mustache stretched out the fingers of his right hand, and fierce water flow emerged from the void.

"Water Release·Water Iron Cannon!"

Boom!

The water ball instantly penetrated the air and exploded at Sasuke's feet.

boom!

The ground had an explosion effect, and with a groan of pain, Sasuke's body flew backwards, hit a tree, and spit out blood.

"Chen Escape——"

The bandaged man's hands were slightly closed, and a point of light condensed between his palms, shining all around, and the terrifying aura reached its limit.

"Um?"

Sensing something, the bandaged man quickly put away the light spot in his palm and stepped back.

A fist punched out of the void without any warning.

Then a figure walked out of the void, his whole body wrapped in a pitch-black windbreaker, and his face covered with a black patterned mask.

It was Obito.

His pair of red sharingan eyes swept across the field quickly, then he turned around suddenly, his steps were as fast as the wind, he covered a distance of more than ten meters in the blink of an eye, and punched Sasuke who was using a water iron cannon to bombard Sasuke from a distance again. Mustache man.

The mustachioed man changed the target without hesitation and launched the water ball from his index finger like a cannonball.

Not one, but dozens of water balloons were released one after another, blasting towards the target.

Water balls penetrated Obito's body one after another, destroying the row of trees behind him and the ground.

A seemingly ordinary water polo is actually harder than steel and extremely destructive.

Without any hindrance, Obito came to the man with the mustache, and his fist reached him in the blink of an eye.

Not to be outdone, the man with the mustache also clenched his fist and hit the mask on Obito's face.

The fist penetrated Obito's body, and it had an unreal feeling as if it was passing through the air, which made the man with the mustache look somewhat surprised on his face.

Obito came behind the man with the mustache, swung his left hand out of his cuff, turned it over hard, and was ready to give the man with the mustache a hard slap on the back.

Snapped!

The mustache man's body felt as if he had been struck by lightning. His whole body stiffened, his eyes closed, and he was like a dead body standing firmly in place, motionless.

On his back, there was a charm engraved with runes, and the power emanating from it bound his actions and consciousness.

Perhaps it restricted the mustache man's consciousness and actions. The thick fog around him began to dissipate, and his vision began to become clearer.

Sasuke looked at this very sudden scene. Before he could react, someone grabbed his shoulders and stood up from the ground.

Obito, who was still fighting with the mustache man and the bandage man, came to him at some point and helped him up.

So fast! Sasuke was so dazzled that he couldn't predict Obito's speed or when he would arrive.

It was as if the battle just now was just something that happened in a daze.

"What's going on...who are you?"

Sasuke frowned and asked without shaking off the palm on his shoulder.

"I'm here to help you. Next, it's time for us to retreat. Even I can't deal with multiple former Five Shadows at the same time."

Although Obito's voice was heavy, there was not much fear in his tone.

"The five shadows of the previous generation?"

Sasuke suddenly reacted.

"Ah, this man with bandages all over his body is Iwagakure's long-dead second-generation Tsuchikage Mu. He is a powerful ninja who can become invisible, can also use sensory ninjutsu, and pioneered the Blood Succession Elimination Dust Release."

The bandaged man, the second-generation Tsuchikage None, walked over from one side and glanced back and forth between Sasuke and Obito.

"Mangekyō Sharingan, Madara's successor? In other words, that mustached Mizukage and I were resurrected by the damn Second Hokage to deal with you?"

Obito ignored it, but pointed at the mustachioed man who fell into a coma due to the spell, and continued to explain to Sasuke:

"As for this... he is Kirigakure's late second generation Mizukage Kiden Genzuki. Like Tsuchikage Mu, he was a legendary figure who followed the first generation of Five Kages and pacified troubled times."

"In that case, why are they resurrected? And it seems that they are still assisting Konoha. Could it be that..."

Sasuke thought of a possibility.

"Yes, it's Danzo. According to a piece of top-secret information we recently parsed from Orochimaru, Danzo and Orochimaru had a secret deal a few years ago, and the price Orochimaru paid was the reincarnation of the earth. This forbidden technique. It seems that Genbu has collected a lot of 'relics' of troublesome ninjas in the past few years."

It was just a guess at first, but now, Obito has determined that Danzo's roots are using the forbidden technique of reincarnation in dirty soil to obtain more powerful armed forces.

As for how many ninja 'relics' he has collected, Obito is not sure, but the number should be quite large.

"So, from the beginning, you didn't think I could kill Danzo?"

A faint displeasure suddenly emerged in Sasuke's heart.

In other words, he was used by others and became a tool to test the roots.

"Don't say that. No matter what, you seem to be enjoying it, don't you?"

Obito's words made Sasuke unable to comment.

Although there was only one target left, getting rid of the two consultants really made him feel a lot better.

"Then, let's stop here this time."

Obito's right eye bloomed with light, and he saw countless people running through the forest. On the branches, in the bushes, and in the shadows of the trees, there were silhouettes of people. They were root ninjas.

However, when they gathered here and the water surrounding this place was blocked, the figures of Obito and Sasuke had long disappeared in the center of the open space, and only a breeze blowing away the dust blew by.

"I can't sense their chakra. It's a space-time ninjutsu. It seems like they've gone away."

The second-generation Tsuchikage Muashi murmured to himself, and seemed to be explaining to the surrounding root ninjas.

With that said, he walked up to the mustachioed man, the second generation Mizukage Kiden Genzuki, and stretched his hand behind his back.

boom!

As soon as he touched the talisman, Wu's palm was forcefully bounced away, and the cracks in his palm became more visible to the naked eye.

"What a powerful sealing technique... It seems to be a sealing spell specially used to target the reincarnation of the dirty land. It suppressed the soul of the mustache Mizukage."

Wu lowered his head and looked at the cracks in his palm, and couldn't help but sigh.