Konoha: Otsutsuki from the Earth

When Naruto regained consciousness and opened his eyes, he saw the shadows of trees passing by.

The dappled sunlight shone through the dense branches and leaves on Naruto's slightly tired face.

Feeling the shaking sensation coming from his body, Naruto asked in a daze: "Well... this is..."

"Are you awake, Naruto?" Kakashi, who was carrying Naruto through the branches, said.

"Kakashi-sensei...I..."

"You were seriously injured and comatose during the battle with Sasuke. Your body is still very weak now. Please lie down for a while."

"Sasuke... By the way, where is Sasuke?!" Thinking of Sasuke, Naruto was so excited that he wanted to get up from Kakashi's back.

After hearing Kakashi's words, he suddenly thought of the battle in the Valley of the End two years ago and the scene when Sasuke left him.

"Here, lie down and take a good rest!"

Qi Fei raised his arm and lifted Sasuke in his hand to his chest, letting Sasuke with a gnashing teeth appear in front of Naruto.

At this time, Sasuke's whole body was tightly bound by the Fujiman created by Qi Fei, making him unable to move.

Qi Fei was holding Sasuke on the vine behind his back with one hand, and with Orochimaru in the other hand, he looked like his son-in-law carrying pork for a visit during the New Year.

Such a gesture was definitely a shame for Sasuke.

But helplessly, it is different from the branches created by Yamato in the original work, which can be broken free by Kabuto using a chakra scalpel. The vines created by Qi Fei are not only extremely tough, but also absorb the physical strength and energy of the bound person all the time.

Chakra.

As a result, Sasuke was unable to put up any resistance at all. He could only be like Orochimaru, except for the occasional trash talk, and he was at the mercy of others.

"It scared me to death..." Seeing Sasuke's strange yet familiar figure, Naruto finally breathed a sigh of relief and lay lazily on Kakashi's back.

"Yes, have a good rest, Naruto." Sakura said with a concerned look on her side.

At the end of that battle, Naruto, who was wearing a tailed beast's coat, was directly chopped by Sasuke's "Kirin" and suffered severe burns all over his body and was dying.

It took Qi Fei a while to rescue Naruto. However, Naruto's injuries were completely healed, but his mental fatigue was unavoidable. The combined mental load of tailed beast transformation and various injuries made Naruto sleepy.

One day and one night.

Sasuke, who defeated Naruto, also exited the second stage of the curse seal due to exhaustion and was subdued by Kakashi and Sakura.

Seeing Sasuke lower his head and say nothing, Sakura silently breathed a sigh of relief and even felt a little happy.

Although Sasuke seems very resistant now, she believes that as long as he returns to the village, under everyone's influence, Sasuke will be the same as before, and Team 7 will be the same as before.

But every time she recalled that battle, when Sasuke ruthlessly used the "Kirin" that almost killed Naruto, Sakura felt as uncomfortable as a thorn in her heart.

"No matter what, I must become stronger." Sakura made up her mind in her heart.

She didn't want to be like before, having to hide aside and cry when Sasuke and Naruto had a conflict. She didn't want to be unable to even treat them after they were injured.

If Naruto was seriously injured this time, if she were to deal with it, he might need to be treated for half a day, and then he would have to be sent back to Konoha Hospital for recuperation.

"I'm so lucky this time, Tsunade-sama's arrangement."

Kakashi, who was carrying Naruto on his back, reviewed the battle in his heart and sighed.

Originally, this mission was just to capture Scorpion's undercover agent and then torture him to find out the location of Orochimaru and Sasuke. Who knew that he would just meet Orochimaru and Sasuke.

Considering the strength displayed by Orochimaru and Sasuke, if the new members arranged by Tsunade are normal and decent ninjas, then even if they finally succeed in meeting Sasuke, they will not have the strength to keep them.

"It's a pity that I couldn't catch Kabuto by the way. That's my only regret."

According to Qi Fei's description, Kabuto has been hiding deep in the base. When Orochimaru was subdued by Qi Fei, Kabuto used earth escape to escape without hesitation.

Even Kakashi was speechless, because the mission was originally to catch Kabuto, an undercover agent, but in the end only Kabuto was not caught. It is difficult to say whether this mission was a success or a failure.

[“Kirin” is indeed one of the strongest lightning escape ninjutsu. 】

Seeing Naruto lying on Kakashi's back again, Qi Fei thought in his heart.

In the original work, the "Kirin" couldn't even completely block Itachi's Susanoo, and even burned through Itachi's Akatsuki robe. It's just normal that Naruto, who was wearing a tailed beast's coat, couldn't block it.

Qi Fei looked down at the two "dead fish" in his hands.

Since they knew they had no way to resist, Orochimaru and Sasuke both chose to remain silent and quietly waited for the trial to come.

[I really want to ask them if they want to go to the toilet.]

Thinking of this, Qi Fei even wanted to secretly slow down his journey.

But in the end, it was just a thought. At Kakashi's request, everyone hurried on non-stop, and finally arrived at the gate of Konoha Village a few days later.

Seeing the familiar scenery, Kakashi and Sakura, who were already tense, were finally able to relax.

"Really! Did you catch Orochimaru and Sasuke?!"

In the Hokage's office in the Hokage building, when Tsunade heard Kakashi's report, she stood up excitedly.

"Yes, now Qi Fei will take the two of them to the torture department and take care of them personally." Kakashi replied.

"I'll go over and take a look." Tsunade put on the coat hanging on the chair without saying a word and set off for the torture department, "You'll really surprise me."

Tsunade understood Kakashi's arrangement. Orochimaru had too many people and was too hidden. Maybe there were spies arranged by him in the torture department.

If they were handed over to the torture department directly, they might be kidnapped soon. That's why Qi Fei, a man who could subdue them, was arranged to take personal care of them.

Bang! The door to the torture department was slapped open by Tsunade.

"Hokage-sama!" Seeing the menacing Tsunade, a ninja shouted nervously.

"Where are the people?"

"it's here……"

Following the guidance of the torture ninja, Tsunade came to a specially made cell filled with sealing techniques.

In the dark cell, Orochimaru sat on the bed with his shawl spread out. In addition to the flying vines, there were various sealing charms on his body.

Ibiki, who had been supervising Orochimaru, saw Tsunade and said hello: "Hokage-sama."

Qi Fei also smiled and said hello: "How are you doing, master? Are you surprised or surprised?"

"Well, thank you for your hard work." Tsunade has learned from Kakashi's report that the role of Qifei in this mission is very crucial.

Then Tsunade turned to look at the slightly embarrassed Orochimaru and said, "I never thought that you, a slutty snake, would one day be caught."

"Long time no see, Tsunade."