Konoha: Otsutsuki from the Earth

Early the next morning after Sasuke left, Tsunade, who had just woken up from the documents, received a report from her subordinates as soon as she opened her eyes.

Kamizuki Izumo and Goko Tetsu, who were originally responsible for helping Tsunade organize the files, happened to pass by the place where Sakura was sleeping. After kindly waking her up, Sakura immediately reported the news to them that Sasuke left alone.

Tsunade, who had already been in contact with Orochimaru, immediately suspected Orochimaru. Feeling a headache, she immediately asked the two of them to call Qi Fei and Shikamaru to the Hokage's office.

There is no way, the current Konoha Village has lost nearly half of its mid-to-high-end combat power due to the destruction of the previous "Konoha Collapse Plan".

While the total number of tasks remains unchanged, there are not enough ninjas capable of performing tasks. Now, except for the necessary left-behind personnel, all others have been sent out to perform tasks.

I scanned the list of ninjas in my mind and found that the two newly promoted chuunin, Qi Fei and Shikamaru, had no missions and could be assigned missions.

Seeing Qi Fei and Shikamaru arriving at the scene, Tsunade told them straight to the point that Sasuke left the village alone, and at the same time bluntly told them that this matter had something to do with Orochimaru.

Originally, Tsunade wanted to send Qi Fei and Shikamaru out to recover Sasuke. If the clever Shikamaru assisted the powerful Qi Fei, there would basically be no problems with this task.

But Qi Fei had to perform surgery on Xiao Li with her today, so he couldn't set off with Shikamaru.

So Tsunade thought about it and decided to arrange it as follows: Shikamaru would lead the team to chase Sasuke first, and after Qi Fei completed the operation, he would immediately lead a new team to support Shikamaru.

Qi Fei, who was listening to the mission arrangement, suddenly remembered that in the original work, Gaara and the others served as the support team. Now Gaara and the three of them have been captured by him, and he doesn't know what happened to them.

Thinking of this, Qi Fei directly asked Tsunade about Gaara and their current situation.

Faced with Qi Fei's sudden question, Tsunade was stunned for a while and then told him: After Gaara completely surrendered to Sunagakure Village, he would return it to Sunagakure Village as a peace condition in exchange for a huge compensation.

After leaving the office, Shikamaru told Qi Fei privately that Naruto had actually dragged him along to persuade Gaara. After all, Gaara, who had woken up after being captured, had been unwilling to cooperate and tried to perish together.

Naruto was responsible for persuading Gaara emotionally, while Shikamaru was responsible for persuading Temari and Kankuro intellectually.

In the end, Gaara believed Naruto's words and decided to continue living to find someone who recognized and accepted him. Naruto also became his first friend.

It's even easier for Temari and Kankuro. If Gaara goes crazy, they won't be able to escape. Now that Gaara is fine, they naturally don't have to die with him.

After listening to Shikamaru's story, combined with his understanding of Naruto after getting along with him, Qi Fei can generally understand why Naruto is so persistent with Gaara.

Naruto, who had always been ignored because he was regarded as a "demon fox", met someone who had the same experience as him for the first time.

Especially when he saw the other person becoming cold-blooded and murderous because of lack of recognition, he put himself in Gaara's shoes and felt the loneliness and pain.

So Naruto, who felt the same way, decided to save Gaara just like Mr. Iruka saved himself.

[So, no matter what, Naruto will be Gaara's salvation. In other words, he is the salvation of all Tailed Beast Jinchuriki. 】

"Wait a minute Shikamaru." Just when Shikamaru was about to follow Tsunade's request to find trustworthy teammates, Qi Fei pulled him to a remote corner.

Click, click, click - A palm with wooden textures patted Qi Fei's shoulder, and with a strong push of the palm, a human-shaped puppet was torn out from Qi Fei's back.

As Shikamaru was stunned, the wooden dolls turned into flying birds.

"This is my clone, you can take it with you when the time comes." Patting the clone's shoulder, Qi Fei introduced to Shikamaru, "On the one hand, he can protect your safety, and on the other hand, he can also serve as my back-up support.

coordinate of."

Seeing that Shikamaru seemed a little doubtful, Qi Fei said: "This is a wooden clone. It is much more stable and stronger than other clones. It is not the kind that collapses at the first touch."

"Wood clone?" Listening to this familiar name, Shikamaru finally accepted the clone.

In his mind, it would be okay even if the clone did not participate in the battle. Compared with the battle, the white-eyed vision provided by the clone was the most important part of this mission.

When the wooden clone saw what the main body wanted to say to him, he said with a dispassionate attitude: "Don't worry, I'm not causing trouble, I'm just a ruthless killer."

After that, Qi Fei separated from Shikamaru and went to Konoha Hospital to prepare for Xiao Li's surgery. Shikamaru took Qi Fei's wooden clone and began to search for team members in the village.

After walking around, I finally found Choji, Naruto, and Kiba.

Qi Fei once suggested that Shikamaru go find Neji. As a result, he learned that Neji, who had already become a chuunin, had left the village with his team to perform a mission.

[It seems that it will be difficult to meet each other in the future.]

Different from the original work, now in "Konoha Twelve" only Hinata and Neji have intersections, and the others are basically unknown to each other.

Neji's strong strength has also attracted the attention of Konoha's top brass, and some people have begun to recommend that Neji join the ANBU.

This is the information Qi Fei got from Hinata when he went to find Neji.

The five of them stood at the gate of Konoha Village, discussing how to catch up with Sasuke who had been running away all night.

Shikamaru also told everyone the reason why Sasuke left the village without hesitation, and also told others that this pursuit might encounter a lot of trouble.

After all, Sasuke is a person that Orochimaru values ​​​​and he will definitely not let Sasuke leave the village alone. There must be someone who can support or stop him.

Therefore, as the squad leader, Shikamaru must consider various adverse situations.

"In short, since it is a rescue operation, we are the pursuers, and it is easy for the enemy to gain the upper hand.

"So, in order to deal with the enemy's tactics, I will decide the formation when moving.

"If you ignore my words and act, everyone will die."

Seeing everyone's serious expressions, Shikamaru continued: "First of all, and most importantly, Kiba you will be in charge of the head of the investigation."

After all, Ya takes the dog for walks all year round, so he naturally knows the terrain of the Land of Fire. Coupled with his strong sense of smell, he can detect enemies and traps as early as possible.

Shikamaru was writing and drawing on the ground with a pen and paper while explaining his ideas to everyone.

"I am in charge of the second one. In addition to sharing information with Ya, I can also raise my hand to inform the people behind me of the latest arrangements at any time."

"The third one is Qi Fei. After all, he is just a clone now and is relatively fragile. But at the same time, the ability of Byakugan is very important. So I put him in the theoretically safest center of the team. Qi Fei, the rear of the team is also

Please keep an eye on me."

"No problem. Theoretically, I can be responsible for the 360-degree alert around you."

"Clone? Shadow clone?" After hearing Shikamaru's words, Naruto looked at Qi Fei curiously.

"No, it's much more stable than the shadow clone." Qi Fei replied, "Actually, you don't need to protect me. Even as a clone, my strength is far beyond your imagination."

"If you cut it, you will brag." Ya on the side thought disdainfully in his heart.

The power of Qi Fei's main body is indeed unmatched, but his clones are much inferior. It's not like he has never played "Naruto Xiaoxiao Le". Compared with the difficult main body, his clones are just like paper.

Taking into account each person's characteristics and abilities, Shikamaru finally arranged a formation like Naruga, Shikamaru, Qi Fei, Choji, and Naruto.

When the five of them had determined their formation and mission requirements and were preparing to set off, Sakura also arrived at the gate of Konoha Village.

"I heard the specific situation from Hokage-sama." Shikamaru, who could see Sakura's intention at a glance, said directly, "I'm sorry that I can't take you with me on this mission.

"Because you failed to convince Sasuke, we can only rely on us to use brute force to convince him. Sakura, your appearance is over."

"Sakura, have you seen that guy Sasuke?" Naruto on the side asked in surprise.

Hearing Shikamaru's words, Sakura could only lower her head in despair, and said to Naruto with tears in her eyes: "Naruto, this is my life's request. Please bring Sasuke...please bring Sasuke back.

"I can't do it alone. I can't keep Sasuke alone. Therefore, the only one who can stop Sasuke and save Sasuke...Naruto, you are the only one."

Seeing Sakura crying in pain, Naruto forced his mouth and said: "Because Sakura, you like Sasuke the most. So now I deeply understand how painful and torment you are in your heart."

Sakura looked at Naruto who was comforting her, and thought of how she usually treated him and how much she hated him in her heart, she crossed her arms guiltily and said, "Naruto, thank you!"

"I must bring Sasuke back. This is our lifelong promise!"

Naruto gave Sakura a thumbs up and said with a smile.