Naruto: Becoming Stronger by Pampering Your Sister

"Wait, something's not right. He's not dead yet. There's still a faint fluctuation in his chakra." Neji instantly looked at Itachi, his eyes filled with joy. A green ball of chakra swirled in his palm and flew into Itachi's body.

Gradually, Itachi's injuries began to heal.

Neji breathed a sigh of relief, glanced at Sasori, then at Deidara, a hint of helplessness in his eyes.

When he arrived, Itachi had already pierced Sasori's "regeneration core" and collapsed to the ground, so he was unable to save Itachi.

Later, a conversation between Sasori and Deidara touched him, and he thought that perhaps he should give Deidara a chance, but the guy insisted on returning to the Akatsuki.

But Neji still didn't make a move. Let Akatsuki be Akatsuki, anyway, Neji would be going there soon anyway. But what did he hear?

Deidara wanted to team up with Konan, so Neji, with a kind and helpful heart, quickly took Deidara to see his Sasori master.

If you still want to team up with Xiao Nan, you should go find your Master Scorpion.

(Deidara: I cued you, just because of this?)

“Deidara and Sasori are dead, and Itachi has returned to the village. This means that Akatsuki’s strength has greatly declined, while Konoha is on the rise.” Sakura murmured, a glimmer of light slowly appearing in her eyes.

Yes, Konoha is no longer afraid of the Akatsuki.

With Neji in charge, Naruto having become a perfect Jinchuriki, along with Jiraiya and Tsunade, plus the returning Itachi... these people alone are already on par with the Akatsuki.

The other young ninjas, including Kakashi, had the same idea. Neji shook his head, saying that the Akatsuki was just a prelude, and the real calamity for the ninja world was yet to come.

"Strange, I did kill Kabuto, so why do I still feel a sense of unease?" Neji muttered to himself, a hint of seriousness in his eyes.

"Cough cough..."

At this moment, Itachi woke up groggily and immediately assumed a defensive stance upon sensing more than a dozen streams of chakra. He only relaxed after seeing Neji and the others.

"What's wrong with me?" Itachi asked.

"My body is weak, I've overused the Mangekyou Sharingan, I'm seriously injured, I'm exhausted, and I'm short of chakra..." Neji said calmly.

"He's physically weak..." someone whispered.

Itachi responded calmly, then suddenly realized that the way they were looking at him was a little strange, as if he had lost something very important to him.

Itachi felt he should explain to them, so he said, "I'm sick, and I'm not cured."

"Oh..." Everyone suddenly realized and nodded in agreement.

Itachi: "??? This feels like the more I try to explain, the worse it gets."

Neji walked up to the four women without hesitation, raised a finger and slammed it down, planting a bun on each of their heads, which made the four women look at him resentfully.

"It's not just us, why don't we hit the boys?" the four girls thought to themselves.

If Neji knew, he would definitely say with righteous indignation: Because this way we can get a reward.

Chapter 154 A Pot Falls from the Sky

"Host knocks on the heads of Hinata Hyuga, Tenten, Sakura Chuno, and Ino Yamanaka to receive rewards: [Float], [Exploding Dragon Strikes], [Youth Preservation Pill], and [Mind Transfer Technique]."

Floating: The ability to fly freely in the air, to float.

Exploding Dragon Strike: Summons a dragon-shaped flame from a scroll to launch a large-area attack.

Youth-preserving pill: A elixir for permanently maintaining youthful beauty.

Mind Turning Technique: Using the soul to concentrate the spirit at a point, seize and manipulate the opponent's body; both must be on the same straight line.

Hmm, everything else is normal, but what's wrong with this Youth Preservation Pill? Has it been completely drained?

Neji looked at Sakura suspiciously. He had figured out the system's nature: once a character's abilities in the Naruto world were exhausted, it would reward them with things from other worlds.

Regardless, this was a good thing, Neji's eyes gleamed with an inexplicable brilliance.

"Put it into the system space first," Neji muttered to himself.

"Sigh, I'm getting more and more into tapping girls on the head. I don't know if it's the right thing to do," Neji thought to himself, before suddenly realizing that it was all out of love.

"How did you end up at Mount Sumeru?" Kakashi asked. Shouldn't Itachi have gone straight back to Konoha?

Itachi gave Kakashi a strange look, as if he were looking at an idiot, but still explained, "My purpose is too obvious. Deidara and Sasori have already figured it out. If I insist on returning to the village, I will not be able to break through their defenses."

Indeed, this is the case. The Akatsuki organization has already dispatched most of its people to closely monitor the route from Amegakure to Konoha. If Itachi had appeared, he would probably have been captured and taken back by now.

He used his clone technique to confuse them along the way, which bought him a lot of time to reach the foot of Mount Sumeru, because he knew that Konoha would definitely send someone to deal with Hiruko.

In the end, he still narrowly escaped death.

"Then I'm curious, how did they catch up with you? Didn't you get any advance warning?" Neji said with a gloomy face, eager to know an answer.

"News? What news?"

Itachi looked at Neji with a puzzled expression, his heart filled with bitterness. It was a pity that he was not good with words and did not like to talk, otherwise he would have poured out his heart.

The authorities dealt with Danzo and exonerated him without even telling him, which would have given him some time to prepare. This sudden move almost killed him.

Neji knew what had happened from Itachi's expression. Mitokado Homura hadn't delivered the message to Itachi at all; this guy wanted Itachi to die out there.

To pull such a stunt right under his nose—the implications are all too clear.

"Back to the village!" Neji said in a deep voice, "It seems that Konoha's reshuffling of the cards wasn't thorough enough."

With a wave of his hand, Neji caused Sasori and Deidara's corpses to vanish into thin air, which truly shocked everyone.

Space-time ninjutsu!

Moreover, they felt absolutely nothing. Unconsciously, everyone's opinion of Neji rose even higher. In reality, Neji had simply taken them into his system space.

Anyway, they're already dead.

"Hiss... Something feels off. I think I've forgotten something?" Neji muttered. "Never mind, I won't think about it anymore."

(Inside Kaguya's space, Shukaku looked alone at the vast area in front of him. He wanted to move around, but he was afraid that if he left, Neji would not be able to find him when he returned. Suddenly, he howled like a wolf: "Big brother, where are you? How many days has it been?")

"Neji, are you going to take action against Mitokado Homura? Although what he did this time was underhanded, he is still an elder of Konoha and has a certain prestige. If you openly deal with him, it might backfire," Kakashi said.

"Prestige? Based on him?" Neji scoffed.

In Konoha today, no one can rival him in prestige. Although Tsunade is the Hokage and Naruto is the son of a hero, they cannot compare to him.

A mere case of Mitokado inflammation is not even worth mentioning.

"This... seems right." Kakashi thought, rubbing his chin. His eyes lit up. It was indeed true. Mitokado Homura's prestige was not bad, but compared to Neji, it was like comparing heaven and earth.

“But he is, after all, a Kage-level figure. Even though he is old now, he is still a major force for a village.” Shikamaru pondered. Although he also felt that these elders had gone too far, from the perspective of the overall situation, they still could not be touched.

"Hehe, he's only at the near-Kage level right now, nothing special. There are plenty of people stronger than him."

Neji scoffed. He hadn't been idle during the two and a half years he was away. Having mastered the Impure World Reincarnation technique, he could summon a large number of powerful warriors as long as he found enough sacrifices.

However, his words stunned everyone on the spot. Recalling the two women Neji had brought when rescuing Gaara in Sunagakure, everyone suddenly understood.

No wonder Neji doesn't care about near-Kage level fighters; it seems he has plenty of subordinates.

"If all else fails, just say he's being controlled by Danzo's Kotoamatsukami and is still carrying out Danzo's will to this day," Neji said, waving his hand without any pressure.

He wanted to see if Mitokado Homura could stay in Konoha any longer.

Everyone was speechless upon hearing this, and they couldn't help but mourn for Danzo. They hoped that Danzo would enjoy the pot that had fallen from the sky in the Pure Land.

"Alright, let's go back to the village." Neji's expression was serious; it seemed he needed to make an example of someone.

Before long, the group arrived at the outskirts of Konoha Village. But at this moment, Neji's expression suddenly turned strange. Why was he here too?

Suddenly, he thought of something, a smile appeared on his lips, and without saying a word, his Byakugan focused on Itachi, and a vortex appeared above Itachi.

"Don't resist, you can't show yourself yet."

Itachi, who instinctively wanted to resist, immediately relaxed upon hearing Neji's words and followed the vortex into Kaguya's space.

Then, Neji turned to the people behind him and said, "Don't mention Itachi to anyone. Just say that he died together with Sasori and Deidara. This is for the good of Konoha."

Upon hearing this, everyone nodded in agreement.

Neji was quite satisfied. Since Sasori and Deidara were already dead, the outcome of the three-way battle was up to him.

Meanwhile, in a rather unremarkable little room in Konoha, Koharu Utatane looked anxiously at Homura Mitokado and asked, "I heard Itachi has left Akatsuki. Are you sure he won't be coming back?"

"Hehe." Mitomon En took a leisurely sip of tea and relaxed, saying, "Don't worry, not to mention that the Akatsuki will hunt him down, I have also dispatched my trusted men to guard various places. In short, as soon as he shows his face, hehe, that will be his death day."

"But that Itachi is very strong."

"Hmph! He escaped from the Akatsuki, do you think he'd be any better off? Hahaha..."

If Neji were here, he would have twisted their heads off on the spot. Not only did they fail to deliver the message, but they even sent people to ambush them. They are shameless and despicable.

"The Uchiha clan must never return to the village. As for that person, let's find an opportunity to deal with him as well."

Chapter 155 Sasuke Returns

The sky was still overcast and dark, and it was a little past three in the afternoon. Everyone was busy going to work or taking a lunch break, so the streets were deserted except for a black-haired man walking aimlessly.

It's still the same as before.

The man sighed inwardly, but on the surface he remained calm and aloof.

As he moved, shadowy figures flashed past the eaves and dim alleyways on either side; these were Konoha's ANBU.

"Tch, boring." Sasuke spat lightly, his emotionless eyes sweeping over the ANBU members again and again, revealing a hint of contempt.

He is extremely confident in his abilities now.

"He should come back, right?" A complex look flashed in Sasuke's eyes as he looked up at the sky, the gray sky seeming to reflect his inner feelings.

Perhaps it was an unconscious choice, but as he walked, he ended up at the Uchiha clan's settlement. Just like before, there was no one around, but the difference was that it seemed to have been carefully maintained and restored to its former beauty.

Sasuke stood silently in place, his eyes suddenly turning blood red, the three tomoe slowly rotating. He took a deep breath, slowly lifted his leg, and walked towards the "home" in his memory.

Neji's three-tomoe eyes, which were originally supposed to be activated after killing Itachi, have already been activated, demonstrating how much influence he has on the plot. However, this was within Neji's expectations, since Sasuke already had two-tomoe eyes two years ago.

The sky was overcast, and a light drizzle began to fall, pattering on the ground, treetops, and... the empty houses that had long been abandoned.

Sasuke didn't go in; he just stood there quietly watching. For some reason, he suddenly had a bad feeling.

shhhhhh...

Dozens of kunai suddenly attacked from all directions, their silvery-white light flashing, and the buzzing sound of the cold, merciless weapons piercing the air echoed in every corner.

Just then, the ANBU members who had been monitoring Sasuke revealed themselves one by one, surrounding him with two kunai each. The clanging sounds of their weapons clashing filled the air as they knocked away all the kunai that were attacking Sasuke.