After taking Sakura to her cousin-in-law, Naruto didn't bother anymore. The injuries weren't severe; if Sakura couldn't heal them, then she should just leave the group. Team Seven couldn't afford that kind of embarrassment.
He continued to run laps and train, while waiting for the sandstorm.
To personally go to the Ōtsutsuki Clan and film a Ragnarok, having a good physique was essential.
As for this exam, it was just for fun and relaxation. Humans weren't machines; no one trained all day. Even Guy, the training maniac, secretly transformed into a master to guide the Hokage's son in finding the Fourth Hokage's treasure.
After running for an unknown amount of time, a rolling black shadow appeared on the horizon.
The storm had begun. Naruto stopped, opened a portal, and fled.
I'm not a test-taker. I'm not going to stay here and eat sand just for fun.
On the other side of the testing ground, Naruto released a hundred Shadow Clones and then stepped into a portal.
"Her ptooey..."
One clone tried to spit at the main body, but another clone slapped it back.
"Don't spit, it'll reveal our scent. Let's just get to work," said that clone, pulling out a pickaxe.
"Alright," another clone also took out a pickaxe.
When they had dug enough, the clones all jumped into the pit.
The Russian digging method was online once again.
In the distance, Kiba squinted, hand shielding his forehead, looking at the black line on the horizon. "No way, a sandstorm now?!"
"Don't complain. Let's find shelter first. As for why..."
"Boom!!"
A loud bang interrupted him, startling Akamaru, who bristled.
Kiba quickly comforted Akamaru. "What's going on? Such a loud noise? Hinata, can you see anything?"
The explosion could be heard from here, so it shouldn't be too far.
"Byakugan." Hinata activated her Byakugan, looking in the direction of the sound.
Watching the clones cleaning up the site, Hinata secretly snickered, but her expression remained unchanged.
"Someone was fighting, but they've already left." Even if she saw them, she would cooperate with Naruto's act.
Hinata led her teammates to the explosion site, and Kiba was dumbfounded.
A large hole had been blown in the ground, even revealing rocks that had been buried by sand for years. Counting the amount, it was almost enough to build a shelter.
A gentle breeze blew by, and Kiba's nose twitched from a sour smell. "It's that guy again! Can you see where he is?"
"No," Hinata shook her head.
Meanwhile, Naruto was already in the Land of Waves.
One second he was watching a storm in the desert, the next he was drinking iced water by the sea.
After a gulp of iced water to cool down, Naruto jumped into the sea to bathe. Once the scent had been washed off, he went to the Land of Snow.
Having a teleportation ability was just that convenient.
Walking up to the national-faced man who was tracking Shizuka, Naruto asked, "Is it done?"
The national-faced man shivered. "Almost. Please give me a little more time."
He had originally refused when Naruto sent him here to research music, but after Naruto gave him a two-hour physics lecture, he agreed.
He had no choice but to agree; this person was simply a devil!
When Naruto took out a lump of gold and said it was his salary, his perception of Naruto changed again.
You're an angel among devils.
And so, a genius at building robots switched careers to play music.
"Then you keep busy. I'll come get it when I need it." After saying that, he returned to the Land of Waves to put on his weights and run laps.
The next enemies he would face had extreme suppression over jinchūriki. Fū, the Seven-Tails Jinchūriki, went to save Gaara and was immediately captured.
He himself was a jinchūriki; if he went unprepared, it would be "rescuing grandpa", not "rescuing the Calabash Brothers".
The sandstorm was massive, almost covering the entire battlefield, and was estimated by the Sand Ninjas to last for several hours.
So, after discussing it, the Sand and Leaf Village Jōnin leaders decided to launch a rescue operation, otherwise, more than half of the genin would die in the sandstorm.
The Naruto world didn't have the saying, "Fighting against heaven is endlessly fun." They only fought against people. When faced with such harsh environments, they retreated if they could.
The search and rescue continued until the storm subsided. Gaara encountered the monk Hōichi, who had been sent to intercept him.
Because this was planned by the enemy, Gaara wasn't unlucky. The unlucky one was Shukaku.
After being beaten senseless by Naruto and Kurama's combined attack, it fell into a deep sleep due to overexertion. But as it slept, a chain suddenly latched onto its neck and yanked it out.
Already having a bad temper, coupled with being woken up rudely, Shukaku was furious, but with its neck tied, it felt incredibly uncomfortable.
"Gah..."
After holding it in for a long time, Shukaku let out a chakra-filled burp that flew through Gaara's body into the sky and exploded.
This burp made Shukaku realize the problem that had been bothering it.
Could it be that the stinky fox also burps constantly because its neck is tied?
Stinky fox, you're finally getting what you deserve!
Feeling it had discovered the truth, Shukaku split its huge mouth into a grin, and even the chains couldn't stop its cackling laughter.
Shukaku didn't care at all about being pulled out. It wasn't going to die anyway; at most, it would just get a new landlord. As long as it wasn't co-renting, it could accept it.
When Naruto arrived at the chakra mass explosion point, Fū and Gaara had already been impaled in the lower abdomen by chains.
The monk Hōichi was playing a biwa, controlling the chains to pull the tailed beasts out of their stomachs.
Naruto, meanwhile, was cautiously observing from a distance behind him.
Inside the mental space.
Through Naruto's vision, Kurama could see the outside world. Its mouth curled into a disdainful expression as it said, "Two pieces of trash. As Tailed Beasts, to be led by mere humans on chains like dogs..."
It stopped mid-sentence.
Then, a pair of chakra hands picked up the nearby sake pond and started chugging it.
"Gulp, gulp, gulp..."
Bitter wine down the throat, pain in the heart. It remembered the unbearable past of being dominated by the red-haired woman again.
Naruto glanced sideways. Impressive, my fox, even scolding yourself.
He secretly made a mark beneath himself. This counted as a kind of flag (a prediction of future events).
He had already made five marks, forming the character upright. At Kurama's current speed, he believed it wouldn't be long before it would be "full of righteousness."
Outside.
Fū, with her last bit of strength, used the Seven-Tails' ability to transform chakra into a large gourd-shaped cocoon, enveloping herself and Gaara, slowing down the chakra flow, and awaiting rescue.
"Multiple Shadow Clone Jutsu!" The people inside the gourd couldn't see outside. It was Naruto's time to enter.
Time was short. He punched to kill the sensing clone, then sent out several clones to intercept Fū's teammates.
"Go, go try it." Naruto patted a nearby clone.
Moye cupped his hands, "I will not fail your expectations, Sir."
Then, with a calm and collected expression, he walked leisurely towards the monk Hōichi.
When he reached a certain range, a chain swirling above Hōichi's head suddenly stabbed at him. Moye didn't even dodge, his hands behind his back, he continued to walk, and then was pierced by the chain... and died.
The monk Hōichi then realized someone was behind him and looked back.
Another jinchūriki? Why are there so many jinchūriki today?
Through the Shadow Clone, Naruto also confirmed his hypothesis: this monk couldn't precisely control these chains; he merely released them through the biwa.
He came up with this hypothesis from the original story. In the original, Gaara and Fū were sealed by Neji's gentle fist strikes, and the chains couldn't absorb the tailed beasts' chakra, so they turned to attack Hōichi, who had tailed beast chakra within him.
And Hōichi, until he was attacked by his own chains, didn't stop playing the biwa, which meant the process of playing the biwa, or the musical score, was the key.
Naruto took out two scrolls, a wicked grin on his face.
If these two are the main reason, what if I make him go off-key?
Squatting, he placed the scrolls on the ground. Naruto waved his single hand forward: "Plan initiated!"
Iron Pillar had been waiting for this sentence. With a blackened iron rod in one hand and pressing Naruto's shoulder with the other, causing him to stumble,
he charged past Naruto towards the monk Hōichi, his eyes not looking at an enemy who could pierce him, but at a close friend he had known for many years and then separated from.
At this moment, he was acting as Obito Uchiha!
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