Side Story: After the Eight Gates Sasuke Traveled to Shippuden 17
Sasuke Uchiha was being utterly unscrupulous here…
Because his strength was sufficient, no one could refute whatever arrogant words he said. Here, he could simply unleash his long-suppressed nature!
From childhood to adulthood, he had never been as happy as he was now!
Under the Rinnegan's Sealing Technique Absorption, both the power of the curse mark and the rogue ninja's chakra were completely drained away!
The rogue Sasuke couldn't even muster the strength to resist…
Naruto Uzumaki suddenly rushed up and pushed Sasuke Uchiha away. Then, he looked nervously at the rogue ninja on the ground. "Sasuke, are you alright?"
"Tsk, how many times do I have to say it?"
Sasuke Uchiha let out a low laugh and looked at Naruto and the rogue Sasuke on the ground. "This guy doesn't treat you as a friend. On the contrary, I know all your likes and dislikes... Naruto, we are more like brothers!"
"A fake is a fake, in the end."
Naruto Uzumaki calmly raised his head and looked at him, as if looking at an unreachable dream from another world. He shook his head. "A dream will eventually end… He is the friend I want to bring back. If you want to hurt Sasuke, then you'll have to defeat me first!"
"Hm?"
Sasuke Uchiha glanced at the rogue ninja on the ground and tilted his head. "I'll ask again, are you sure? As a Konoha ANBU, I have a special mission, and that is to hunt down the traitors who have left the village without permission!"
"Not sure, not sure…"
Jiraiya stepped forward to smooth things over. "Let's control the other Sasuke first. Isn't the most important thing right now to continue searching for Orochimaru's bases? Let's search all the strongholds first…"
"That's right!"
Kabuto Yakushi nodded seriously. "The northern stronghold hides many monster-like people. If they are allowed to move freely in the ninja world, it will be very dangerous! Right now, the northern stronghold is managed by a girl named Karin. Her strength is not that great…"
BANG!
The floor beneath them suddenly cracked open…
Sasuke Uchiha's face suddenly became incomparably sinister. He scanned everyone present, and the chakra around his body formed a substantial pressure, continuously ravaging the lair!
His gaze was fixed on Kabuto, and he said, word by word, "Go to the northern stronghold! Now! Immediately! Right away!"
That red-haired woman!
At first, when he heard the news about Karin, Sasuke was very interested. He had even ignored the reunion of Team 7 and couldn't be bothered with the rogue Sasuke.
No strength, yet she dares to speak even more arrogantly than him!
She doesn't understand humility at all!
As Kabuto explained Karin's situation bit by bit, Sasuke's interest gradually faded. "Karin is a descendant of Uzushiogakure and settled in the Hidden Grass Village with her mother. Because of her special constitution, the Grass Village used her as a ninja for healing…"
"Later, Lord Orochimaru rescued her by chance. Because she could only survive by staying by Lord Orochimaru's side, Karin began to use her special constitution to help us complete various experiments. Now she manages the entire northern stronghold…"
"Shut up! Don't say any more."
As Sasuke listened, his heart sank bit by bit. He thought of the Karin in the other ninja world, how gloriously she lived, always beating him up like it was a game…
Until he was able to open the Eighth Gate of Death, Karin had always been able to suppress both him and Naruto, bullying the two of them relentlessly…
Although he had always disliked Karin in his heart, he had to admit that that red-haired woman was a powerful ninja he acknowledged!
Just like the relationship between Teacher Might Guy and Teacher Kakashi, Karin was his lifelong rival… To suddenly hear that the Karin of this ninja world was living so miserably, he didn't feel particularly happy. Instead, a faint anger took its place.
That woman bullied me so much in the other world, and in this world, she's being bullied like this! It was probably because the great incident of the Hidden Grass's destruction hadn't happened, right?
According to Sasuke's fragmentary impressions, back then, Danzo Shimura had been at the height of his power in the Konoha leadership precisely because he had used the problem of Zetsu to control the Hidden Grass Village and the Land of Grass. This had also become the political capital he later used to suppress Fugaku's power…
Then, the Hidden Grass rioted against Konoha, and was subsequently flattened by a single Tailed Beast Bomb from that crow. The entire village was completely destroyed, and thereafter, Danzo no longer had that political capital…
And Karin was the one his brother had rescued from the Hidden Grass back then!
Sasuke Uchiha bit his finger and turned his head to look at Kabuto. "Hey, will we be passing through the Hidden Grass Village?"
"We should be, Lord Uchiha."
"Then I'll go to the Hidden Grass Village and wait for you all." Sasuke suddenly did a backflip, and a towering Susanoo emerged from his body, carrying him soaring into the sky.
The rogue Sasuke looked at this scene in shock. "What is that thing?"
Naruto propped up his chin beside him. "It's said to be the ultimate ocular jutsu of the Mangekyo Sharingan. It can be used for flight, so you don't have to travel the hard way…"
"…Perhaps for that Lord, it is so."
Kabuto clearly knew more. He pushed up his glasses and explained in a low voice, "Naruto, do you still remember the scene where he beheaded Manda at the Tenchi Bridge? That is a truly god-like ocular jutsu!"
"The Hidden Grass Village isn't a small ninja village, is it?" Naruto scratched his head. "How are we supposed to find him there then? That Sasuke isn't just leaving like this, is he?"
Jiraiya frowned in thought. "If he promised to wait for us in the Hidden Grass, he probably wouldn't break his promise, right?"
That's right. Sasuke Uchiha would not easily break a promise he had made.
In a way, his thinking had also been influenced by his little companion's ninja way: Speak your mind, and do what you say!
However, when this group found Sasuke, they would realize why he hadn't mentioned where to meet. Because the entire Hidden Grass Village now had only one person left…
The Hidden Grass, which could even be ranked among the named villages in the entire ninja world, had been turned into a ruin. The corpses of Grass-nin with their headbands were scattered messily on the ground. What was frightening was that not a single wound could be seen on their bodies!
The village seemed to have experienced a natural disaster, or perhaps been invaded by the evil Mōryō, and there was not a single sound… Had everyone in the entire ninja village been killed?!
This cruel and terrifying act—even Jiraiya, who had been through so many wars, had never seen someone slaughter an entire ninja village!
Even Kabuto, who had done many inhumane experiments, felt a chill in his heart and trembled with fear! The Hidden Grass Village was home to at least tens of thousands of people!
Although it was still autumn, everyone felt a faint chill in their hearts, and the hairs on their arms couldn't help but stand on end!
In front of a shop at a street corner in the Hidden Grass Village, they finally saw the only living person in the entire village. Sasuke was squatting on a step.
Sasuke's expression was a little gloomy. He was holding an apple in his hand, and he took a bite with a cold expression. When he saw the group, he casually threw the apple away. "Mm, you're here… Then let's set off!"
"You… what on earth did you do!"
The group finally saw the scene inside the street, which was even more terrifying than when they had first entered the village!
Sakura Haruno collapsed helplessly to the ground. Within her line of sight, the corpses of the ninjas and civilians of the Hidden Grass were piled up, covering this largest street of the village…
"Oh? These…"
Sasuke rubbed his faintly aching forehead and said casually, "I just used my Rinnegan's ability to extract their souls and check their memories. Mm, there really wasn't a single innocent person in the whole village…"
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