Hokage: I Neji will never go offline

"Hehehehe~~Why are you here too? Oh, by the way, I almost forgot, the Jinchuuriki is here, so I'll leave this place to you."

Neji and Shiro landed in front of Orochimaru. At this time, Neji's expression was very unnatural, while Orochimaru smiled contentedly and left immediately.

Sakura didn't know Neji, but she recognized Haku at a glance. Orochimaru's departure did not make Sakura feel relieved, but made her even more nervous.

"Brother Bai, you, why are you here? What do you want to do?"

Shiro glanced at Sakura but didn't answer. Neji walked towards Sasuke step by step. Sakura immediately stood in front of Neji with a kunai.

"What do you want to do to Sasuke!"

Neji also didn't answer, and glared at Sakura with eyes mixed with anger. Sakura's body immediately froze, fear surged into her heart, her body trembled violently, and she couldn't even grasp the kunai in her hand and fell to the ground.

Neji ignored Sakura, came to Sasuke and squatted down, pulled out Sasuke's collar, and three Magatama curse marks appeared on Sasuke's neck.

Neji gritted his teeth because of anger, and when he stood up, his steps were a little unsteady and he staggered. Shiro immediately stepped forward to help Neji.

"Lord Neji, what's wrong with you?"

Sakura had never seen Ningji, but the word "Ningji" made Sakura immediately realize that the terrifying man in front of her was the "Brother Ningji" that Naruto and Sasuke often talked about, but she didn't know what Naruto and Sasuke were talking about.

Why did Neji, who was captured by Itachi Uchiha, appear here, and let such a powerful Shiro call him a lord?

Neji shook his head, grabbed Shiro's shoulders and immediately disappeared in front of Sakura.

After getting away from Sakura, Neji found a deserted grassland to stop. As soon as he stopped, Neji fell to his knees and angrily beat the ground with his fists.

"Damn it, damn it, damn it! Why is this happening! Why is this happening! What is the problem? Why!"

Neji kept venting his anger, and the originally flat ground was soon smashed into a big crater by Neji's fist. It was the first time for Shiro to see Neci lose his temper like this, and he quickly stepped forward to knock Ning down.

Caught with fists.

"Lord Neji! Calm down! What happened? Did Lord Orochimaru do something to Sasuke?"

Neji took a deep breath. Neji, who was still very angry, immediately collapsed into the hole he had made with his fists as if he had lost all his strength.

"Lord Neji?"

Shiro tried calling Neji again, but Neji still didn't answer. However, seeing that Neji's mood had stabilized, Shiro felt a little relieved.

Neji sat in the pit and tried to recall everything in the past, trying to find out what went wrong, but he couldn't find it.

In the original work, Orochimaru would have an idea for Sasuke. On the one hand, it was because Kimimaro, Orochimaru's ideal container, had a blood disease, and Orochimaru had to find a new container.

The second aspect is because in the original work, Orochimaru attacked Itachi when he rebelled against the Akatsuki organization and suffered a big loss from Itachi's Sharingan. This led to Orochimaru's deep obsession with the Sharingan. In the end,

That's why Orochimaru chose Sasuke and regarded Sasuke as the perfect vessel.

But both of these points have been changed by Neji, who helped Kimimaro cure the blood disease and made Kimimaro's defects disappear.

Teaming up with Itachi would give Orochimaru no chance to sneak attack Itachi, and Orochimaru would not be obsessed with the Sharingan.

When it comes to Orochimaru and the Sharingan, Neji has always been very careful. He even refused to let Shiro expose the Sharingan in front of Orochimaru just in case, because he was worried that something might happen.

From Neji's point of view, he had done everything perfectly, and Orochimaru had no reason to take advantage of Sasuke.

But all this still happened as in the original work. Orochimaru went to find Sasuke and placed a curse seal on Sasuke, making Sasuke a candidate for the container.

"Lord Neji? Are you feeling better?"

Shiro tried calling Neji again, and Neji nodded. At this time, Neji looked a little tired.

"Well, it's getting a lot better."

"Then, Lord Neji, what happened to you just now?"

Shiro was very careful with what he said, and didn't even ask what happened, for fear of making Neji lose control of his spirit again.

Neji stood up, patted the dirt on his butt, and shook his head.

"Something just happened that I didn't think would happen, so I was a little rude. I'm sorry."

"What can't happen? What?"

"Orochimaru placed a curse seal on Sasuke."

Shiro tilted his head and looked at Neji, as if he didn't quite understand what Neji meant. Neji had calmed down and explained patiently.

"You have not been cursed by Orochimaru. You may not know that that cursed seal is equivalent to Orochimaru's backup. If Orochimaru dies, he can be resurrected through that cursed seal. In other words, Sasuke has been cursed by Orochimaru.

Think of it as a container."

Bai nodded in sudden enlightenment, and then understood what the so-called curse seal was.

"So that's the case, but Neji-sama, why do you say that's impossible?"

Neji took a breath and patted his forehead with a headache.

"Hiss~~This is all based on my judgment of Orochimaru. I thought I had grasped all the possibilities, but I didn't expect that there were still mistakes. Moreover, Sasuke was cursed by Orochimaru under my nose.

,How can I still have the nerve to see Itachi?"

"Lord Neji, I can't blame you for this. I'm here too, right? Besides, you and Lord Orochimaru are only in a cooperative relationship. You don't know what he will do. Lord Itachi will definitely not blame you."

"No, this is not a question of whether it is strange or not. I will tell Itachi personally about this matter, and I will solve the matter. Don't worry, I have already figured out what to do."

Bai didn't know what Ning wanted to do, but he was too sensible to ask.

After this incident, Neji no longer had any mood to do anything else. Just when Neji was about to leave the forest with Shiro, a man wearing glasses and a Konoha forehead protector came to Neji.

Although this was the first time for Neci to see this person, Neci recognized the identity of this person at a glance. He was the businessman of Yakushi Kabuto.

"You are Orochimaru's subordinate, right? What are you here for?"

At this time, Neji was very unhappy with Orochimaru, so his tone towards Yakushi Kabuto was a bit cold.

Kabuto Yakushi knelt down on one knee in front of Neji and pushed his eyes with his fingers.

"I am Kabuto, a subordinate of Lord Orochimaru. I am here to see you in accordance with Lord Orochimaru's instructions. You seemed to have gone to find the Nine-Tailed Jinchuuriki just now. Do you need my help?"