Hokage: I Neji will never go offline

"This is Ice Shield? Are you from the Snow Clan? As a person from the Kingdom of Water, why do you want to help outsiders?"

Qing recognized Bai's identity and immediately questioned Bai Lai, but all she got in return was a disdainful sneer from Bai Lai.

"When I was a member of the Kingdom of Water, I suffered a lot of persecution and was completely abandoned in the end. If it hadn't been for Neji-sama, I would have died in the dark and damp alleys of the Kingdom of Water. In my opinion,

You are the outsiders."

"If you have the time to question Bai, you might as well deal with the current situation. Qing, today is the day you die!"

Neji threw a card at Ao, and the card instantly turned into a huge flame. A ninja next to Ao immediately formed a seal. The ice beneath his feet cracked, and a huge water dragon broke out from under the ice.

"Water Release: Water Dragon Bullet Technique!"

"Groan!"

The water dragon bit out the fireball in one bite, and rushed towards Neji with a high-pitched roar. Just as Neji took out the card and prepared to deal with it, at this time, Shiro beside Neji had already completed the seal.

"Ice Shield·Ice Dragon Bullet Technique!"

A large amount of cold air flew out of Bai's body and rushed towards the water dragon. The water dragon was frozen into an ice sculpture in the air, and then turned and hit Qing.

"Master Qing, you go first! We'll hold you here!"

A Mist Ninja shouted while forming seals, but at this moment, the sky suddenly turned blood red, and the Mist Ninja who was just about to fight to the death suddenly found that he had been nailed to a cross and could not move.

"What's going on? What happened?"

Itachi floated in the air and looked around, his Mangekyō Sharingan glaring at everyone present.

"The time, space, quality, and even the pain you feel here are completely under my control. For the next forty-eight hours, you will all live under pain."

Itachi's voice was so cold that it contained no emotion. As Itachi's words fell, an Itachi holding a knife appeared in front of each ninja, and began to chop and pierce the ninja on the cross. For a moment, the entire Tsukuyomi space rang.

There were screams one after another.

After the genjutsu passed, all the mist ninjas present fell down. Itachi covered his left eye with his hand, looking a little ugly.

"Neji, if you don't leave, the Fourth Mizukage may be coming."

Neji nodded and put Ao on his shoulders. Shiro quickly formed a seal to create an ice snake and led the group of people into the water.

"Shiro, hurry up. The Fourth Mizukage is a perfect Jinchuuriki. He can catch up even under water. It would be terrible if he is caught up by the Three-Tails in the water."

"Yes! Neji-sama."

Under Bai's full force, the ice snake quickly moved away from the Kingdom of Water.

Inside the body of the ice snake, Itachi was sitting on a chair with his eyes closed and meditating. Ao was tied tightly with a talisman with the word "sealing" attached to the knot. Ningji was sitting on a chair with a very serious face. Bai was sitting there.

Opposite Neci, Yushu looked at Neci anxiously.

"Bai, you seem to want to express yourself."

"I……"

Bai lowered his head deeply, not daring to look at Neji. Neji rubbed his forehead and his expression softened a little.

"I know you are trying to protect me, but you should also pay attention to your own condition. If you insist on me in that situation, do you want to die?"

Bai bit his lip, showing some grievance on his face.

"I just want to help Neji-sama more. If he is discarded because he can't help again, wouldn't it be too useless?"

Shiro's aggrieved words fell on Neci's ears like thunder, and Neci finally realized that the problem was not Shiro's, but his own.

Recalling the conversation between Neji and Orochimaru, Neci was very straightforward at that time, and he didn't even ask Haku if he agreed to go to Orochimaru's place.

"Bai, I'm sorry, I was wrong."

"Hey? Lord Ningci, you..."

Shiro looked at Neji in shock, as if he didn't understand why Neci wanted to apologize. Neji reached out and gently touched Shiro's head, and looked at Shiro very seriously.

"Bai, I will never lose you again. I didn't think well last time. Please forgive me."

"Lord Neji..."

Shiro looked at Neji in disbelief, tears falling from his eyes, and he pursed his lips tightly to prevent himself from crying.

Itachi, who had closed his eyes to rest, opened his eyes and glanced at Neji and Shiro. A trace of complexity flashed in his eyes, and he closed his eyes again.

One day later, Qing woke up from the coma. At first, Qing was a little confused, but when he learned about the current situation, he immediately screamed and struggled.

"Your Akatsuki organization is so bold! Aren't you afraid of being attacked by the Kingdom of Water?"

Itachi ignored Ao's noise and kept his eyes closed, while Neji and Shiro were eating skewers leisurely, not wanting to pay attention to Ao.

"Oh! Shiro, I didn't expect your cooking skills to be so good? You are so versatile. From now on, I will leave all the barbecue work to you. Itachi, are you really not going to eat it? It's really delicious!"

"Neji, don't you think that is too spicy? I don't think it tastes good."

"Tch! You're a bad guy."

Neji rolled his eyes at Itachi and stuffed a skewer into his mouth again, his face turning dark with anger.

"You bastards! You ignored me!"

Neji glanced at Qing impatiently and threw a skewer on the ice in front of Qing.

"I know you are hungry too. Let me give you a bunch. Stop shouting there. If we were afraid of the revenge of your Water Kingdom, we would not arrest you. Your Water Kingdom has not yet sorted out its internal problems. How can there be anything else?

Use your energy to attack our Akatsuki."

"You! Humph!"

Ao glared at Neji, and Neji thought that Ao would say something like "I won't eat your food even if I starve to death" very bravely, but then Ao picked up the skewers and ate them.

"Bai, twenty minutes are up, hurry up and get some air."

"yes!"

Originally, the oxygen stored in the internal space of the ice snake was enough for three people to breathe for three hours, but because they lived and barbecued inside, Neji asked Shiro to go up for a breather in twenty minutes, fearing that he would die from gas poisoning in the sea.

Half a month later, Ningci and his party once again set foot on the land of Kawashima. Ningci carried Ao and ran on the road. In order to make Ao struggle less on the road, Ningci had not given Ao anything to eat for the fifth day.

Already.

At first, Ao would scream when Neji was serving dinner, but as time went by, Ao had resigned himself to his fate and could only watch Neci and the others eat while hungry every day.

Now that Ao was being carried on Neji's shoulders, he had completely lost the strength to struggle. Although he was not unconscious yet, his eyes were dull, as if he had lost his soul.

"You guys go find a place to live first, and I'll go find Kakuzu."

Arriving at the entrance of the stronghold cave, Neji spoke to Itachi and Shiro and walked into the cave. Not long after, Kakuzu walked out of the darkness deep in the cave.