Chapter 469 The Price of Leaving

Naruto's words were naturally meant for Kakashi and the others to hear, and he was also telling the Nine-Tails that if it didn't agree, he wouldn't go up.

After all, he had no idea what Jiuwei An was thinking.

"..."

The puppet Nine-Tails glanced at Kakashi and the others, didn't say anything, and nodded as a sign of agreement.

Naruto looked at Kakashi beside him: "Sensei?"

Kakashi nodded slightly.

Since the other party invited them and the puppet Nine-Tails is also the property of the Ninja Village, the other party will definitely not have any bad intentions towards them. In this case, there is nothing to be afraid of.

"Let's go!"

Kakashi whispered.

"Yes--"

Naruto plucked up his courage and jumped onto the head of the puppet Nine-Tails, followed by Kakashi and others who quickly jumped up.

After Sasuke landed on the Nine-Tails' head.

He couldn't help but glance down at the deep blue luster in the puppet Nine-Tail's eyes.

My thoughts moved slightly.

Sasuke withdrew his gaze and followed Kakashi towards the back of the Nine-Tails' body.

Naruto stood on top of the puppet Nine-Tails and did not move forward into the depths.

As Kakashi and the other two walked to the back of the puppet Nine-Tails and waited, Naruto looked down at the puppet Nine-Tails below.

"why?"

Naruto asked curiously.

creak-

The puppet Nine-Tailed Fox raised its neck, and the mechanical structure made a metallic friction sound, as if it had just stretched, and it completed the movement incredibly smoothly.

Its eyes shifted sideways, glancing at Naruto before immediately following the team in front.

"No reason."

Kyuubi replied.

It builds a communication channel through the Nine-Tails' spiritual energy to communicate with Naruto.

"How could there be no reason?"

Naruto said warily.

"If you must ask why." The Nine-tailed Puppet responded: "You look pitiful!"

This is the truth.

It was it that killed Naruto's parents, causing Naruto to lack the indispensable love of humans since childhood.

of course.

In the past, the Nine-Tailed Fox would naturally not care about Naruto's affairs. It hated all humans and wanted to kill Naruto and his parents together.

However, times have changed. After the Nine-Tails has gone through so many things, the evil that had been pent up in its heart had already been dissolved and dispelled after it merged with the Ten-Tails.

Therefore, when it looks at something again now, it will look at it and think about it from a different perspective.

When the Nine-Tailed Fox was first born.

Not a bad nature.

In fact, after the Six Paths Sage separated the Ten Tails, the natures of the One to Nine Tails were originally simple.

If anyone is to blame, we can only blame the Six Paths Sage for forcing the tailed beasts into birth, but not raising them or teaching them. This is why all the tailed beasts, after being tortured by malicious humans, became infected with beast-like natures.

Of course, this nature is only directed at humans.

"Pity?" Naruto's mouth twitched, and he suddenly got angry and snorted, "Why do I need your pity?"

"Then you guys go down!" Kyuubi said in a deep voice: "Walk to the Land of Lightning!"

"..." Naruto said angrily: "Damn it, it was you who made us come up, and it was you who drove us away just now? Then what's the point of your trouble?"

Kyuubi said calmly, "It's boring."

If it didn't feel bored and wanted to find something interesting on the road to kill time, it would naturally not provoke Naruto and others.

"No, no, no!" Naruto said nonchalantly, "Rather than going down now, you should continue to pity us!"

As he spoke, he walked towards the area where Kakashi and the others were. The Nine-Tails said calmly:

"I'm not feeling sorry for you. I just feel sorry for you. Sit tight. We're about to enter the acceleration zone."

During their conversation.

The main force has already moved away from the Konoha gate area and is moving at full speed towards the depths of the vast forest.

Rumbling--

Compared to the humanoid puppets and ninjas advancing at full speed, the puppet tailed beasts seemed to be strolling leisurely. After all, given their size, any single move of theirs was equivalent to a hundred steps of a ninja.

"Naruto, why did it agree to let us ride it?" Sakura asked cautiously in a low voice when she saw Naruto coming.

Kakashi and Sasuke also stared at him curiously.

Naruto replied calmly: "It said it had pity on me. What a strange creature."

"Pity you?" Sakura looked puzzled.

Sasuke wanted to say something, but in the end he chose to keep his mouth shut and didn't open it.

Kakashi sighed softly, patted Naruto on the shoulder, and then smiled, "Don't worry about these things. Since we can take this ride, it is a sure win for us."

"Yes!" Naruto laughed heartily, "That's what I thought!"

Sasuke shook his head.

He naturally guessed why the Nine-Tailed Fox would behave in such an inexplicable and strange manner.

At this moment, a voice from a Sand Village ninja sounded in the area: "What's going on? Where is the ninja team guarding this area?"

"I do not know!"

"Did something happen?"

"impossible!"

"We have only just arrived. There is no way a traitorous ninja is ambushing us here!"

The one that came was a three-member Sand Ninja patrol team, who were responsible for patrolling the surrounding situation at irregular intervals.

He yelled when he arrived at the flank of the Tailed Beast Phalanx and found no ninja guarding the area.

When Kakashi's class heard this, the four of them immediately climbed to the edge of the puppet Nine-Tails' body.

Seeing this, Kakashi waved to the Sand Ninja patrolling the area below and said, "We are here!!"

"..."

The three Sand Ninjas looked up at the back of the puppet Nine-Tails at the same time and fell silent.

The patrol captain of the Sand Ninja looked up and shouted, "Who told you to go up there?"

The mission is clear: the ninja team is to guard the puppet formation before arriving at the battlefield.

Now this ninja team wants puppet guards, what's going on?

Just as Kakashi was scratching his head awkwardly and wanted to say something, a deep voice came out of the puppet Nine-Tails' throat: "I let you do it!"

Upon hearing the thunder-like sound coming from above, the three Sand Ninjas hurriedly covered their painful ears, endured the pain and looked up at the Nine-tailed Puppet.

The Sand Ninja Captain swallowed his saliva, obviously understood something, and nodded respectfully: "Yes——"

Soon the three of them planned to leave.

Kakashi said loudly:

"We'll guard this area!"

Hearing this, the Sand Ninja Captain smiled awkwardly:

"Thank you for your hard work. If anything happens, please contact the command center by radio!!"

After saying that, the three Sand Ninjas went to patrol the area near the puppet formation and quickly fled.

Riding a puppet tailed beast can save physical energy, but it does not mean that Kakashi will not fulfill the mission on his shoulders.

Kakashi looked off into the distance, lost in thought.

Naruto suddenly asked curiously:

"How long will it take us to reach the battlefield?"

Sakura said disdainfully:

"We just came out of the Ninja Village..."

Kakashi thought about it seriously.

Then he said seriously:

"According to my observation, if we travel from Konoha to Kumogakure normally without encountering bad weather or other circumstances, it would take about a week.

Although our team is moving very fast, the number of people is there.

After taking all the conditions into consideration, I estimate that it will take at least four days to reach the Hidden Cloud Village."

"That was quite a long time." Naruto sighed.

Kakashi nodded and said, "Let's use this time to review the combat knowledge we learned in the past. Otherwise, we will just be idle."

"Okay, Kakashi-sensei!"

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Sakura smiled with narrowed eyes.

Compared to Sasuke and Naruto who were eager to go to the battlefield, she hoped that the war could be delayed, preferably until she was ready.

Of course, she also knew that this was a war and would not leave anyone any time to prepare.

Fortunately, during her time in the Ninja Village, she would always wait for Tsunade outside the Hokage Building. Therefore, in addition to learning how to use her super strength from Tsunade, she also improved her medical ninjutsu.

This is also due to her excellent control over chakra. Otherwise, even if Tsunade wanted to teach her, Sakura would probably not be able to learn it.

...

...

The land of thunder.

border.

Harbor town.

Leaden dark clouds covered the sky, waves were rising on the sea, and the sea breeze was strong and powerful, which indicated that a heavy rainstorm was about to come here.

But, even if a rainstorm is coming.

It also did not affect the members of the Longyue organization in the town who were building fortifications.

The ninjas from various small organizations and small clans were busy in their responsible areas like ants.

On the observation tower at the front of the town.

The top leaders of the Longyue organization gathered behind the leaders of the Prajna and Xuanyuan.

"Your plan has completely failed." The Xuanyuan leaders stared at the Prajna leaders behind the guardrail.

The leaders of the Prajna group slowly turned their heads, stared at the leaders of the Xuanyuan group through the ferocious ghost masks they were wearing, and then scanned the faces of the leaders of the small organizations.

He found that these people looked tense, as if they knew the sky was about to collapse.

He had never had any hope for this mob, and if it weren't necessary, he wouldn't have planned to gather them together.

The leader of the Prajna group said calmly: "My plan has not yet begun."

"..." The Xuanyuan leaders frowned, but soon asked in a deep voice: "Do you have any other backup plans?"

"Of course!" said the leader of the Prajna group frankly.

"But, the army from Konoha is about to arrive. With our limited military strength, we can't resist the Konoha ninja army at all!" said the leader of a small ninja village anxiously.

"Or, let's escape and build our headquarters on an island. It's better than building it here!"

"I second this proposal."

"I agree!"

For a moment, many leaders began to express their opinions in a low voice, but the leaders who were slightly bigger in status fell into silence.

Obviously, there are big problems within Longyue right now. If people’s morale is divided, then this organization will completely lose its cohesion, there is no doubt about that.

Those guys who still hope to band together for warmth will naturally try to find a way to escape from this organization which has no restrictions in the first place after their dreams are shattered.

But at this moment.

"Haha!" The leader of the Prajna group sneered, turned his back to everyone, and said calmly: "Before the Konoha army arrives at the Land of Lightning, you can leave here. I have no objection."

Hear these words.

All the leaders looked at each other at the same time.

There was a sudden storm of emotions in everyone's heart.

Even the leader of the Xuanyuan group felt that the leader of the Prajna group had gone crazy at this moment.

If that’s the case, then why did we go to so much trouble to establish the Longyue organization?

Wouldn't it be better if everyone fought on their own?

This will also disperse the military strength of Konoha Village, and they will have a greater chance of surviving in the ninja world.

The Xuanyuan leaders felt that since joining the Longyue organization, many things were decided collectively by them, the top leaders.

But he could sense that the leader of the Prajna group seemed to have a strange magical power, as if the leader of the Prajna group was the real leader of this organization.

While talking to other leaders.

The Xuanyuan leaders kept silent and listened quietly to the conversation. His eyes fell on the back of the Prajna leaders, waiting for him to speak next.

as predicted.

The Prajna leader continued with a smile and said, "Of course, you can try it now. As for the price, you can guess."

Upon hearing this, all the leaders were shocked, and soon the leaders of the small organizations began to make moves.

"Why didn't you say it earlier? I thought you were capable of something, but now you want to lead us to fight against Konoha? Dream on!"

A leader of an organization criticized.

After saying this, he stormed off despite attempts by other leaders around him to stop him.

Obviously, he was very angry and did not listen carefully to what the Prajna leaders said.

"cost??"

The Xuanyuan leaders had bad thoughts in their minds.

He turned back sharply.

Looking at the leader of the organization who was leaving, the guy had already walked quickly to the edge of the observation deck and stepped down the stairs.

The other leaders all looked at the guy who was supposed to be the first one. After all, if nothing happened to him, most of them would want to leave the Oborozuki organization at this time and go to the sea to avoid being hunted down by the Konohagakure.

But at this moment.

The leader of the small organization who left first had just taken half a step out of the stairs with his left foot when he suddenly trembled all over. For a moment, he felt that something bad had befallen him.

He felt lost and helpless, as if he had lost the most important thing at that moment.

And the step he just took.

It was like stepping into the gate of death.

Then, he suddenly discovered that a drop of rain seemed to fall from the sky, and it just fell on his forehead, but the rain was warm and had an extremely strong fishy smell.

He subconsciously raised his hand to wipe his forehead, and felt a burning and piercing pain in his scalp.

Then, bright red liquid flowed from his eye sockets, he screamed in fear, and the blood flowed down his face and into his mouth.

When the other leaders saw this scene, they were stunned and felt a chill on their backs.

It was as if I was in an ice cave in the cold winter, cold from my toes to my bones.

They saw that the leader who had left was now covered in tears. While he was still conscious, his flesh and blood turned into countless small pieces bit by bit. He eventually lost his life while wailing. It was an extremely horrible death.

Not until the tiny pieces scattered on the stone steps were washed away by the blood did everyone come to their senses and look at the Xuanyuan leaders standing among them.

"Is... is it your Exploding Bug?"

A leader asked in a low voice.

Including him, the other leaders were eager to know what the guy had experienced to lead to such a horrible death.

They are not afraid of death, they are just afraid of the unknown.

The Xuanyuan leaders shook their heads and whispered:

"No, I didn't provide him with the Exploding Bugs. Besides, this is not the way to die from being Exploding Bugs."