Under the Bamboo Forest of Naruto

In the dim underground space, only a few flickering candles provided light!

"Crunch------"

The wooden door was pushed open, Huang Quan walked in from the darkness, and said respectfully: "Lord Orochimaru, Sasuke has arrived!"

Then Huang Quan stepped aside, and behind him was Sasuke, who was standing with a sword. Sasuke's cold eyes looked at Orochimaru without any respect, and his cold eyes seemed to reflect a dying man.

"Ahem------"

Orochimaru, who was sitting on the bed, suddenly coughed twice uncontrollably. After coughing, he looked at the blood in his palm and said to himself: "It seems that this body has reached its limit!"

"...."

As soon as these words came out, Sasuke's already indifferent pupils shrank suddenly, and the right hand that was originally placed on the Kusanagi sword tightened by three points, and his thumb was pressed against the blade.

Is Orochimaru preparing for reincarnation?

"Don't worry, Sasuke, I'm a man of my word!"

Noticing Sasuke's actions, Orochimaru squeezed out a smile that was uglier than crying on his pale face, but he was telling the truth. The ultimate purpose of Sasuke coming to him for strength was to defeat Itachi. In a sense,

It is said that they are collaborators. But now that Itachi has been killed first, the basis of their previous cooperation no longer exists.

After hearing Orochimaru's vigilance, Sasuke did not relax his vigilance. Instead, he tightened the hilt of the knife again. After all, Orochimaru did not look like a person who would honestly keep his promises.

"Orochimaru, what exactly do you want to do?"

His hands were prepared, but he didn't stop talking. After all, Sasuke was really confused about what Orochimaru was doing now. Did Orochimaru suddenly change his nature? He didn't actually want to take his own body?

"Ahem----"

"You must not know yet?"

"Weasel!"

"died!"

"Died at the hands of an Uchiha tribesman named Uchiha Izumi."

Orochimaru smiled and coughed again, but the corners of his mouth were also a bit unpredictable.

Just after the monsters broke the seal and caused the entire ninja world to fall into haze, the joint attack of Otogakure and Tsukiyaku Village on Amegakure Village was suspended. When the haze on the horizon dissipated again, the woman died after sealing the monsters.

When news of the battle spread, there was no need to continue the war. After all, Orochimaru didn't think he had the ability to fight against Pain, who had the Rinnegan Eye.

Yinyin Village and Yueyin Village retreated one after another, as if none of this had ever happened.

All of this was weird, even Orochimaru, a guy who participated in the war, still couldn't see clearly what was hidden under the fog.

After all, the timing of the sprite’s appearance was too coincidental!

It seems that Payne won the final victory?

But did he really win?

Did the wind that I thought stopped just like that?

"died?"

.......

Hearing Orochimaru's answer, Sasuke's expression changed drastically, with disbelief written all over his face. He couldn't believe that the goal he had worked hard for so long died so suddenly in the hands of others! He clearly still had so much more to offer.

The question was not asked to Uchiha Itachi!

More importantly, isn't he the last survivor of the Uchiha clan? So what happened to this group of Uchiha clan members who suddenly appeared?

...........

Under the setting sun, the lonely sunshine shone on the streets of Konoha. Naruto's head was slightly lowered, his hands were in his pockets, and his eyes were staring at the ground aimlessly. This man was walking aimlessly.

The whole person looked completely lost, and he even bumped into pedestrians without paying attention several times. The pedestrians wanted to get angry, but seeing Naruto's absent-minded look, the words of scolding stopped on his lips.

When the haze that shrouded the entire ninja world dissipated, unlike everyone in the ninja world who breathed a sigh of relief and returned to normal life, Naruto seemed unable to accept the first moment he learned the news. He could not accept that Ryūyu died like this.

Within the demon's seal.

Although monsters are very powerful in other people's descriptions, Naruto still can't accept this "fact" and can't believe that his last "relative" has left like this...

At this moment, the laughter and laughter of the people around him seemed extremely harsh to Naruto's ears!

No one felt sad for the death of the "hero", but the death of Ryūha, the super S-level rebellious ninja, was good news to more people in Konoha.

After walking and stopping along the way, Naruto finally came to the door of the grocery store. Looking at the popsicles placed in a prominent position, Naruto seemed to recall something.

Naruto's thoughts returned to the days when he trained with Ryū Yu, and he remembered the training plan Ryū Yu had carefully formulated for himself, and how he taught himself the Wind Release Spiral Shuriken...

Naruto tried to raise the corners of his mouth, but the next moment, tears were streaming down from the corners of his eyes uncontrollably...

...........

The last sunlight was eroded by the darkness, and the street lamp that had been installed on the street corner for who knows how many years turned on again, trying hard to emit light, trying to illuminate the surroundings, but in the end it could only maintain the dim light on the wooden bench under the lamp.

.

On the bench, Naruto lowered his head and stared blankly at the ground. There was no trace of light in his eyes. He completely failed to notice that the double popsicles in his hands were almost melted. The decadent aura exuding from Naruto's body,

This caused the surrounding pedestrians to subconsciously avoid Naruto.

Ta Ta -----

The unique sound of clogs trampling on the ground began to echo in Naruto's ears from far to near, and Naruto raised his head blankly and took a look.

The familiar red coat came into view, but at this moment, Naruto had no intention of responding at all. After taking a glance, he lowered his head again.

Seeing Naruto like this, Jiraiya couldn't help but shook his head slightly, and a hint of helplessness flashed across his face. If Naruto had seen him in the past, he would have gathered around him excitedly, asking him to lead him to practice and develop new technologies.

Ninjutsu.

It was also the first time for Jiraiya to see Naruto like this, but it was not the first time for him to see such a situation. Orochimaru who lost his parents, Tsunade who lost Zan and Nezuki, and Ka who lost everyone he cared about.

Cassie………

The same despair haunted them at that time. In a sense, this was something that most ninjas would experience.

Jiraiya didn't say anything, but sat silently next to Naruto, then broke open the two popsicles he brought, and handed the popsicle on his right hand to Naruto.

Naruto looked at the popsicles that suddenly came into view, and was stunned. At this time, he finally noticed that the popsicles he bought had melted at some point, and the other half fell to the ground.

"..."

Without words, Naruto mechanically took the popsicle, and then bit it in big mouths. No matter how cold the popsicle was, it couldn't compare to the silence in his heart at this moment...

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