I unleashed a Hundred Demons Parade in the Ninja World

Thanks to the termination of the sealing technique, Gaara's chakra has returned to a stable state, and regaining consciousness is the normal course of events.

Therefore, when the question was asked, Gaara had no intention of continuing to pretend and stood up from the ground without saying a word.

However, judging from his indifferent eyes, he still harbored a sense of wariness.

Of course, this is perfectly understandable.

Standing around him were several powerful but unclear-looking unfamiliar ninjas.

"What exactly do you want me to do?"

After calming himself down a bit, Gaara looked directly into those terrifying, scarlet eyes and asked.

He didn't simply believe that the other party had no ulterior motives in taking it back from Akatsuki.

At first, he also thought that the other party wanted to obtain the One-Tailed Shukaku inside him.

However, it seems that this is not the case now, because while he was unconscious, the other party was fully capable of taking it away.

Moreover, this is the second time such an opportunity has been presented.

Before answering your question, I also want to ask you a question.

Instead of directly answering Gaara's question, Ara took the initiative and spoke.

Without allowing the other party to continue, he threw out the question himself:

"A force that is willing to accept you, protect you, and whose ninjas will become your partners and comrades-in-arms, and will never betray you."

"After joining, what will you do with your own strength?"

Such a question struck Aura's still-developing mind like a thunderbolt.

This was a long-cherished desire he had longed for since birth, but after experiencing one heart-wrenching rejection and betrayal after another, he no longer dared to have such thoughts.

After all, even the man she called her father wanted to kill her!

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Gaara,

He is someone abandoned by the whole world!

He's a demon destined to love only himself!

"If it exists, I will dedicate everything to it."

Looking into those terrifying eyes, Gaara answered in the calmest, most restrained voice he could muster.

However, there was still one unspoken thought in his heart.

But that power exists only in a figment of imagination, a utopian paradise.

Even Sunagakure wouldn't accept him, let alone any other village.

"Ah, very good."

Huang nodded slightly.

He then reached out to the white figure on one side.

"Excuse me, Bai, can I borrow your headband?"

Upon hearing this, the Ice Release user, who was wearing half a tattered mask, did not hesitate to remove his headband and place it in his master's palm.

Then, Huang, clutching the still-warm headband with the character "Demon" on it, walked toward the little demon fox whose eyes suddenly began to show panic.

"So, should we add Demon Hidden Village?"

"Well, the village's name probably means 'a place where demons hide.' If you want to know the exact meaning, you can ask Chino later."

Thinking back to when that girl led everyone to appear and directly revealed the name of a ninja village he had never heard of before, Ara was still a little bewildered.

"If anyone in the village rejects or is hostile to you because of your status as a Jinchūriki after you join, tell me and I will expel them."

"Don't worry about Shukaku either, it will be well-behaved and become your friend."

"So, what is your final decision?"

As he listened to the conditions that kept pushing his boundaries, Gaara's breathing gradually became labored.

Can those things he can only fantasize about in his dreams really come true in the real world?

[Hidden Demon Village]

What kind of paradise is that?!

The longing compelled him to focus his gaze on the somewhat soiled demon headband, but he did not pick it up directly. Instead, he looked into the former's eyes and asked again.

"What do I need to do after joining?"

"It's what you just promised."

Huang did not add any conditions.

After all, this was the Fifth Kazekage who single-handedly protected the entire Sunagakure village.

How could I not believe in the will and beliefs that the other party possesses?

"I see."

Gaara's gaze met those unchanging eyes once more, and his raised hand landed on the headband that still held the warmth of his comrade.

As the light and shadow shifted, and the moment of encountering the demon was near, a slender figure also caught up with the hollowed-out mountainside.

"Gaara!"

Before he could even steady himself, an anxious call had already escaped his lips.

Faced with the eerie cave entrance that seemed to swallow up the light of the sky, Temari rushed in without any hesitation.

However, the place is now deserted.

However, after looking around, all she found was a headband symbolizing Sunagakure on the ground...

Chapter 577 Are you going to leave me? You were just a tool I picked up.

Several days have passed since the Chunin Exams held in Konoha, but the entire ninja world is still immersed in a huge information shock.

Konoha, the leader of the five great ninja villages and home to countless powerful ninjas, was completely defeated within its own village!

Even the Third Hokage, Hiruzen Sarutobi, who was widely recognized as the strongest, perished in this turmoil!

Aside from this most impactful message,

Konoha is currently facing internal and external troubles, and is also in a situation where its neighboring countries are eyeing it covetously.

Due to the alliance between Orochimaru and the Third Hokage, Hiruzen Sarutobi's self-destruction on his deathbed to save them, and the written evidence of their collusion with the neighboring Iwagakure, these events that occurred in full view of everyone revealed the truth behind Orochimaru's betrayal, the Uchiha clan massacre seven years ago, and the Iwagakure's invasion of the northern border of the Land of Fire.

For a time,

Konoha, which should have been united in its hatred of the enemy, became leaderless due to this immense distrust.

The surviving Sarutobi clan was undoubtedly subjected to questioning and accusations from the entire village.

After all, judging from the results of various events, if it weren't for the Third Hokage's relentless suppression of the Uchiha clan, ruthlessly stripping them of their honor, status, and even lives, the situation would have been much worse.

Therefore, this clan would not launch such a heavy counterattack against the village it created.

Then, thinking back to the fact that in the past few years, wherever there has been war, the Uchiha clan, which has already declined and is now reduced to a mere thread of young blood, has always been pushed to the front line, it is simply a huge conspiracy to eradicate them completely!

This chilling conclusion caused most of the Konoha residents and ninjas to gradually overlook the Uchiha clan, the instigators of this war, and instead direct their anger towards Sarutobi Konohamaru, who was still clamoring for the village's ninjas to avenge his grandfather.

If it weren't for the efforts of the Nara clan chief to suppress the situation, this unruly little fellow would probably already be meeting his grandfather.

At this stage, the best news for Konoha was that neither of its two neighboring powers, Iwagakure and Sunagakure, showed any signs of taking advantage of the situation to launch an attack.

However, there are real reasons for this.

The former is because he was completely crippled several months ago, and even now, the Third Tsuchikage, Onoki, who is the backbone of Iwagakure, has not been able to appear in public.

The latter was because the daimyo of his own country was not a warmongering and warlike type at all. In addition, during this incident, the Kazekage of Sunagakure was also killed by Konoha and Orochimaru, and the entire village was plunged into considerable chaos.

They wanted to seize this opportunity to launch another large-scale invasion.

It's hard.

As for the Hidden Cloud Village, which has always coveted Konoha's bloodline limit, it is conveniently blocked by the formidable Demon Hidden Village in the northeast corner of the continent, and it would probably not be so easy to bypass it directly.

Meanwhile, Kirigakure directly dispatched envoys to the Land of Hot Springs.

"....... ...

"At the same time, my master also wants to take this opportunity to sign a friendly alliance with your side. I'm sure that Lord Ara, based in the Land of Hot Springs, must have a prior understanding of the character of the Fourth Raikage of Kumogakure."

"He was an extremely unstable and volatile person."

"Of course, this alliance also includes the attitude towards Konoha. I believe Lord Ara is well aware of the principle that even a centipede will eventually die."

"Please also believe that Kirigakure under the rule of Lady Terumi Mei is no longer the bloody mist it was three years ago."

The envoy from Kirigakure was a robust adult man carrying a rough broadsword on his back, which was similar in size to a guillotine.

"You mean you want to recall the ninjas you banished and branded as rogue ninjas, and the seven ninja swords lost as a result, without paying anything in return, right?"

Out of courtesy, Huang listened patiently to everything the other person had to say.

Sure enough, this kind of boring task of connecting with envoys from other villages should be left to Chino or Naoki.

"Yes."

"However, I must correct one wording: Momochi Zabuza, Kurosuki Raiga, Hoshigaki Kisame, and others were forced to leave the village during the period when the Akatsuki organization was in the Blood Mist."

"As for Ringo Ameyuri, Hozuki Mangetsu, and others, their exact identities are that of prisoners of war."

The person from the hidden mist responded neither humbly nor arrogantly.

But their unwavering intention is to take back all the wealth that belongs to Kirigakure!

In fact, when news of the Hidden Mist Ninja Swordsmen's rampage in Konoha Village reached the Land of Water, the entire country was in an uproar.

Firstly, there is pride, after all, this is the elite force of Kirigakure, and the Ninja Swordsmen are almost entirely composed of former Kirigakure ninja.

Secondly, there was an urgency. From the Fifth Mizukage down to ordinary genin, everyone was eager to recall this force that originally belonged to Kirigakure.

After decades of turmoil caused by the Akatsuki organization, Kirigakure, though still among the five great ninja villages, has long lost its true status.