Naruto: Help Madara rejuvenate and launch a counterattack on Konoha

Yamato shook his head: "That's impossible. You can't possibly break the Fourth Hokage's sealing technique."

Centipede snorted: "Of course I know that the Fourth Hokage's seal is not something my puppet technique can fool."

Under the gaze of Naruto and the others, Centipede sat down cross-legged right in the center of Minato's seal, where the Flying Thunder God Kunai was.

Naruto and the others were somewhat surprised: "What exactly is he trying to do?"

Centipede said, "Since we can't break the seal, we might as well absorb the sealing technique along with it!"

Centipede chanted some incantations, then placed his hands on Minato's sealing platform, absorbing the sealing techniques within his body.

At this moment, a massive burst of purple chakra erupted around them; this was the chakra of the dragon vein.

"Oops!"

Yamato exclaimed in alarm, not expecting the centipede's thoughts to jump around so much, actually thinking of devouring the Fourth Hokage's sealing technique.

Yamato and Naruto rushed forward to stop Centipede, but it was too late.

With its centipede-like hands gripping Minato's Flying Thunder God kunai, it forcefully pulled the sealed kunai out.

The dragon vein was completely unleashed, and a huge purple energy pillar erupted from the ground, engulfing Naruto and Yamato.

Naruto felt like he had been asleep for a long time, his mind was a little foggy, and in his drowsy state, he heard a beautiful woman's singing voice.

"♪The light rising high above Loulan♫"

"♪A heart full of mixed feelings♫"

"♪The Dragon Vein We Must Protect♫"

Naruto groggily woke up from his deep sleep.

He found himself in an underground space, surrounded by jumbled stone pillars, with a perforated stone cover above his head.

"♪Dust storms are coming♫"

Naruto was drawn to the girl's singing voice and looked in the direction from which it came.

I saw a girl with long, straight, wine-red hair sitting on a rock, singing a moving song with tears in her eyes.

The girl was wearing a light pink long-sleeved fitted jacket, gray super short hot pants, and pure black over-the-knee socks.

She resembles a gentle, beautiful, and quiet woman.

This young woman is none other than Sara, the current queen of Loulan.

Because of the Ryūgoku arc, Naruto, Yamato, and Hyakuju's time travel occurred about three years later than the movie version.

Sara looks bigger than Naruto.

Naruto asked Sara in confusion, "Hey! Where is this place?"

Naruto's sudden voice startled Sara, who stared in horror at Naruto, who had suddenly appeared at her secret base.

Fearing the sudden appearance of strangers, Sarah immediately fled the underground ruins.

Naruto chased after her, and as they passed through the corridor, someone appeared next to Sara.

Her dark green hair was styled into a bun, with a section of orange-brown gradient bangs hanging down on either side of her forehead.

Wearing a sleeveless black stand-up collar backless tight-fitting dress, she looked extremely sexy.

Naruto looked at the person warily: "Who are you?"

Pakura, arms crossed, stared coldly at Naruto: "Sunagakure Pakura!"

The Third Kazekage and Rasa were given a grand welcome upon their return to Sunagakure. Kushina removed the spores implanted by Ryougu in Yekura's body, freeing her from Ryougu's control.

But this is not what Yekura wanted.

Liao Wu had already left a very deep impression on Ye Cang's heart; he was her man.

Yekura was unwilling to go to the Ninja Clan and fight against Ryoubu with them, but she was also unwilling to betray Sunagakure.

So he voluntarily went to exile in Loulan to investigate the puppets there.

During his investigation in Loulan, Ye Cang met Queen Sara of Loulan and learned more about her through further investigation.

Sarah's power had been usurped by the minister An Lushan. She was unaware that An Lushan was secretly building a large-scale puppet army and exploiting the people of Loulan to work tirelessly to create puppets.

An Lushan now sees Sara as a thorn in his side and is secretly looking for an opportunity to get rid of her.

Ye Cang accepted Sara's request to stay by her side, protect her, and find an opportunity to eliminate An Lushan.

Sara, holding Yekura's hand, pointed at Naruto and said, "Yakura-neechan, this guy suddenly appeared at the underground altar and tried to hurt me."

Naruto explained, "I didn't mean to hurt you. I just wanted to know where this place is."

Yekura looked at Naruto's headband with some confusion: "A Konoha ninja? Your headband is an old model. Why are you still wearing an old Konoha headband?"

After the five great ninja villages joined the Ninja Clan, all headbands were standardized and became Ninja Clan headbands with the character "Ninja" on them.

The headbands with leaf symbols that Konoha once wore are now a thing of the past.

Naruto asked in confusion, "What do you mean? Our Konoha headbands have never changed?"

Yekura said, "What hasn't changed? The five great ninja villages have united to form the Ninja Sect."

Yekura showed Naruto the headband on her forehead: "Look, nowadays, all ninjas from the five great ninja villages wear this kind of ninjutsu headband."

"Many wandering ninjas who joined the Ninshu also wore this style."

"I used to be a ninja of Sunagakure, but now Sunagakure is part of Ninshu!"

"Ninja?!"

Naruto scratched his head, full of confusion and frustration: "Konoha and Sunagakure are allies, but their relationship isn't close enough to warrant a merger."

"Where have I ended up?"

Naruto suspected he was under a genjutsu.

Seeing Naruto's frustration and confusion, Sara whispered to Yekura, "Yakura-neechan, this guy's got something wrong with him. Let's arrest him! He could very well be a spy for An Lushan."

Yecang nodded and took out a kunai from his ninja tool bag, aiming it at Naruto.

Naruto quickly explained, "Since you're a ninja from Sunagakure, you know Gaara, right? He's the Fifth Kazekage of Sunagakure."

Sara retorted, "Yakura-neechan is the Fifth Kazekage! I don't even know this Gaara you're talking about!"

Yekura looked at Naruto with suspicion: "Gaara is Rasa's youngest son, he's only a few months old, how could he be our Fifth Kazekage of Sunagakure?"

"What? Gaara is only a few months old?"

Naruto was filled with great doubt and confusion. What kind of world was this?

Suddenly, the ground shook violently, as if an earthquake had struck the entire city of Loulan.

"What happened?"

"Yakura-neechan!"

Sarah grabbed Ye Cang, who carried Sarah away from the swaying underground ruins.

Naruto gave chase.

"Hey! Can you tell me who the current Hokage is?"

Yekura turned to look at Naruto: "Hokage? The Third Hokage sacrificed himself, the Second Hokage was resurrected, and your current Hokage is the Second Hokage, Tobirama Senju."

Naruto pressed on, asking, "Did Orochimaru kill the Third Hokage?"

"What Orochimaru? It's Madara Uchiha! The Third Hokage and Madara Uchiha died together!"

Yekura finally realized that Naruto had a mental problem and decided not to talk to him any longer.

"Uchiha Madara? Who's that?"

Naruto's mind was full of questions. Rather than entering a strange world, he preferred to believe that he was under some kind of genjutsu.