Witty Naruto Life

Chapter 254 Payne’s Six Paths, please join us! (4K)

Naruto had to admit that the sensation was quite peculiar.

Her hands were icy cold, small and slightly slippery.

The fingertips are soft, yet slightly elastic.

The moment their palms touched, a very faint electric current surged up their foreheads along their interlocked knuckles, giving them a slightly tingling sensation.

Mei Terumi also noticed Sakura's action, her eye twitched slightly, but she pretended to be relaxed and said:

"So someone's jealous... Don't worry, I won't steal your man, I'm just interested in his abilities."

As the village leader, Terumi Mei would never stoop to anyone's level.

That's what she thinks, anyway, and that's why she's behaving very appropriately right now.

However, the next moment, she heard the beautiful woman in front of her coldly say, "The premise for your statement is that you can successfully snatch it from my hands."

"But if I may be so bold, this possibility simply does not exist."

She took a step forward, causing Chojuro to instinctively grip the hilt of his sword.

Sakura whispered in her ear, "You...can't do it."

The volume around them suddenly dropped by one degree.

Qing felt a familiar chill shoot from his toes straight to his head, making him shiver.

Lord Mizukage is angry...

A prominent, zigzag-shaped vein bulged on her temple, and Tsunade, looking at her, truly understood what a 'furious smiling face' meant.

"Naruto..." Tsunade gently nudged Naruto's back, and the latter seemed to wake from a dream, turning to Tsunade: "Huh?"

He was still reveling in Sakura's smooth touch. By the way, what happened to Mei Terumi just now?
"Hey... this water shadow is really a water shadow."

Tsunade glanced at Naruto, who was rambling on, and walked outside. What did this young man's conflict have to do with her, the Fifth Hokage?
Mei Terumi and Sakura stared at each other, neither making a move to hide the hostility in their eyes.

This display gradually attracted the attention of passersby, and a few warriors and guards looked in this direction.

However, without knowing their identities, no one could tell at this moment that the famous Mizukage would be superior to Sakura.

On the contrary, the pink-haired woman had a powerful aura, and one could even faintly sense a chakra vortex around her feet, ready to strike.

Qing looked at them with some difficulty: "You two..."

At this moment, Naruto finally realized what was happening and tugged at Sakura's hand.

Although he, like Lu Xiaobu, enjoyed watching beautiful women fight, Naruto didn't want to cause any trouble during this special time.

"Ahem... I'm sorry, Lord Mizukage, just consider her talking nonsense."

Naruto grabbed Sakura's hand and pulled her outside. Sakura glanced back and then turned around after a moment.

"Old woman..." Sakura muttered softly. Naruto looked at the jealous girl, whose cheeks were a little puffed up, and he couldn't help but reach out and poke her cheek.

"What are you doing!" She raised her hand and slapped it away, then loosened her clasped hands.

“Hey, hey, we were holding hands properly…” Naruto hooked her finger with a matter-of-fact look on his face: “Stop messing around, I’m sensing the flow of Water Release chakra within you.”

"My palms are sweaty, I don't want to hold hands... Ugh, so annoying!"

She shook off Naruto's hand again, crossed her arms, and asked angrily, "Why didn't you protect me just now?"

"Huh?" Naruto wiped the sweat from his brow on his clothes. "I was focused on sensing chakra and didn't have time to protect you."

Sakura glared at him fiercely, and Naruto explained again as if it were perfectly natural: "It's because we haven't held hands enough, so I'm still basking in the feeling of holding your hand."

"What does this mean? It means that you, as my partner, haven't fulfilled your 'responsibilities',"

"So this whole thing is your fault."

Sakura's lips parted slightly as she looked at the shameless blond-haired man in front of her, unsure of where to begin her rebuttal.

So you're using your verbal skills in this kind of situation?

"You pervert..." Sakura muttered under her breath, then noticed that Naruto had grabbed her hand and put it in his pocket.

Sakura instinctively wanted to retort, but then she heard Naruto say calmly, "It's snowing, it's cold."

As they were talking, the two walked out of the hall and into the snow-covered ground where the wind and snow were gradually intensifying.

Tsunade stood in front, a slight smile playing on her lips, looking at the two people before her.

A few snowflakes drifted onto Sakura's head, adorning her pink hair. She exhaled a breath of warm air, adding a touch of moisture to her curled eyelashes.

Looking at the man beside her, she saw a handsome face with a faint fox beard, which didn't seem out of place but instead added a touch of wildness.

With her increasingly long blonde hair framing her face, Sakura was momentarily mesmerized. She lowered her eyes and stopped struggling with her movements.

In the freezing cold, the mandarin ducks held hands tightly, feeling the same temperature inside their small pockets.

……

at the same time.

Yunlei Gorge.

The lake surface between the gorge has returned to its tranquil state.

Some of the octopus tentacles, broken into pieces, floated on the surface of the water, while others sank to the bottom of the sea.

The giant clay bird in the sky descended to about the level of the lake, and two figures stepped off its back.

Deidara and the masked man walked one after the other toward the figure floating face down on the water in the center of the lake.

"With that, the Eight-Tails has been captured, hmm!"

Deidara was in high spirits; it had been a long time since he had experienced a battle where neither side knew the other's abilities.

Ever since his battle with Gaara, he seemed to be living in the shadow of Naruto Uzumaki.

Every time he fights, it's like he's stripped naked, exposing all his abilities to the enemy, while he has to analyze the situation on the spot, making the enemy's battle too passive.

He commanded the clay bird to use its tail to curl up Killer Bee's body, and then gestured for the masked man to follow him onto the bird's back.

"Ah Fei, we can go now... What's wrong?"

He saw a glint of light flash in the masked man's eyes, and then he began to scan the surrounding octopus tentacles.

"Is there a problem?" Deidara asked, puzzled.

“Something’s strange…” the masked man’s voice was deep, as if he was pondering something: “I feel like something’s not right. We might have overlooked some details.”

He recalled the details of the battle and noticed some inconsistencies.

For example, after the final double explosion, the Eight-Tails didn't have time to unleash the Tailed Beast Ball, but there was also no violent fluctuation in chakra.

For example, the Eight-Tails Jinchuriki was able to withstand one C3 attack from Android 18 and still manage to defend himself, but two C3 attacks blew him up and left him seriously injured.
But it doesn't seem that hard to understand.

In short, this is an intuitive judgment.

The masked man activated his Sharingan and approached Killer Bee's body, examining it for a moment before moving on to the octopus tentacles floating on the surface, lost in thought.

"So Ah Fei is such a cautious person after all..."

Deidara watched this scene with great interest; it was the first time he had seen this seemingly harmless guy reveal his true personality.

To be honest, he didn't really believe what the masked man, Uchiha Madara, said. He always felt that Madara and the legendary man were not the same type of person.

After a while, the masked man suddenly activated his Kamui, absorbing the surrounding octopus tentacles into his Kamui space.

"Ah Fei, what's wrong...?" "Nothing, just making sure everything is foolproof."

The masked man walked expressionlessly toward the octopus tentacles, sucking them into his eyes like a vacuum cleaner.

suddenly,

He noticed that one of the tentacles was wriggling!

"Hmm?" This commotion not only caught the masked man's attention, but also instantly put Deidara on high alert. He immediately pulled out a C1 bird bomb and flew towards it.

"drink!"

The clay bomb exploded instantly.

"boom!!"

The octopus tentacles were instantly blasted into pieces! Flesh and blood splattered everywhere.

The masked man frowned slightly, not because of Deidara, but because he realized that it seemed to be just a simple tentacle.

The masked man suddenly recalled that when he ate takoyaki a long time ago, some octopus tentacles, even after death, still retained some muscle and nerve activity, which is why the tentacles could be seen twitching.

So I was really overthinking it...?

However, out of caution, the masked man paused for a moment, but still stored all the remaining octopus tentacles into his Kamui space.

Just then, he suddenly heard a noise coming from a distance.

More than one group of Cloud Village ninjas rushed towards the location of the gorge. The masked man activated his Sharingan and saw through the distant mountains that a group of people was closing in on the two of them.

You could even vaguely make out the leader's lip movements: "Don't let them get away!"

"Let's go."

The masked man leaped onto the back of the giant bird, with Deidara following closely behind, and commanded the giant bird to spread its wings and fly high.

"boom!!"

The giant bird rode the wind and flew straight into the clouds, leaving behind only the ruins of the canyon and the futile curses of the Cloud Village ninja.

……

Half a day later.

The five Kage, accompanied by their guards, set off from the Land of Iron and began their journey back.

Half a day wasn't enough time for them to get back to the village; most of them were still on their way.

Among them, the one furthest away is undoubtedly the Sand Village led by Gaara.

Sunagakure is located in the south, and the Land of Fire separates the Land of Iron and the Land of Wind. In other words, the three of them would have to cross a country to return to their respective ninja village.

At this moment, they were walking in a dense forest within the Land of Fire.

As the climate gradually warms, the once barren forest is now adorned with vibrant green, and the leaves gradually become lush.

Gaara was in front, with Chiyo and Temari beside him. The old lady was quite old, so she walked and rested frequently, which slightly slowed down their pace.

"Lady Chiyo, let's rest here for a while," Gaara said to Chiyo under a large tree.

"Hey, I really am old and can't walk anymore~" The old lady was quite relieved and slowly sat down against the tree trunk, while Temari gestured for her to stand guard beside the two of them.

Gaara sat cross-legged on the ground with Chiyo and sighed.

"Thinking about what the Raikage said?" Chiyo asked.

This question made Ai Luo's eyes widen slightly, and she asked in surprise, "How did you know what I was thinking?"

“Hey…” Chiyo laughed, pointing at Gaara with her finger, a knowing look on her face: “As a young leader, you must be very concerned about what the Raikage said at the meeting, right?”

At the meeting, Raikage A, representing Kumogakure, made various accusations against Konoha, which left Gaara with mixed feelings.

This was the first time he had truly experienced the deep-seated animosity between ninja villages.

Chiyo lowered her eyes slightly and suddenly said softly, "This world is pretty boring, isn't it?"

Gaara was stunned.

The old man, now as frail as a candle in the wind, continued, "Fighting and killing, open and covert struggles—from the moment ninjas appeared until now, this world has never changed."

"The only lesson we can learn from the history of ninjas is that ninjas never learn anything from history, do they?"

Gaara couldn't help but say, "You're too pessimistic."

“Yes, perhaps I’m being pessimistic,” Chiyo sighed again, “but look at that Raikage, he’s not that old, is he? At least not an old woman like me.”

“A person his age should be a backbone of the ninja world, but the ideas he conveys are outdated.”

A gust of wind blew by, scattering green leaves one by one. Chiyo reached out and caught one, gazing at it intently, and said, "At the very least, the younger generation shouldn't inherit his ideas."

"Especially for young people like you."

Gaara paused for a moment: "You actually agree with the agenda that Naruto initiated, don't you?"

“No, I don’t know,” Chiyo shook her head. “I don’t understand Naruto, but I feel I’m getting old and should listen to the voices of young people.”

Upon hearing this, even Temari couldn't help but turn her head away; she hadn't expected Chiyo's true attitude to be like this.

They don't accept it, they don't understand it, but they try to support it.

Gaara remained silent for a long time before slowly saying to Chiyo, "Grandma Chiyo... I want to take you with me to witness the new world. I feel that day is not far off."

This was the first time he had addressed Chiyo as "Grandma" on his own initiative, and there seemed to be an undeniable confidence in his eyes.

This confidence is not unfounded.

Chiyo smiled and said, "Is it because you've seen someone like Naruto? Hehe, alright, I'd be happy to witness the changes in the ninja world with you."

"Of course, that's assuming I don't die of old age, hehehehe!"

She laughed heartily, then stood up and told the two that she had rested enough.

It's time to go.

However, if Naruto had been present during that scene, he would most likely have said "Pah! Pah! Pah!" to Chiyo and then ordered her not to say anything like that again.

Because what I just said sounded like planting a flag, and as everyone knows, people who plant flags usually don't have a good ending.

……

At this moment.

Not far from Gaara and his group.

In the dense forest, six figures slowly moved toward Gaara.

The six people were dressed in black robes with red auspicious clouds patterned on them, and their faces were covered with black chakra receivers. Except for one bald man, they all had orange hair.

Upon closer inspection, the six pairs of eyes all bore a uniform purple spiral, radiating an ominous light.

"According to intelligence, the red-haired young man is the Jinchuriki of the One-Tailed Beast, and his bodyguards are high-ranking members of Sunagakure, ninjas named Chiyo and Temari,"

The short-haired man in the middle spoke softly to the blue-haired figure behind him:
"Xiao Nan, I'll have the Beast Path make a move first. Once all six paths attack together, you go and hold off the two guards."

Xiao Nan looked at him and slowly nodded: "I understand."

The short-haired man turned around, stretched out one hand, and lifted Gaara, who was in the distance, into his palm.

"One-Tailed Beast, you can't escape my grasp..."

Pain, the Six Paths of Pain, reporting for duty!
(End of this chapter)