Why are all of us who transmigrated at the same time demons?

Seeing Hiruzen Sarutobi's suddenly changed expression, Asuka Shimura burst into laughter, as if he had witnessed some extraordinary sight.

Chapter 124 Naruto: The Chunin Exams are in progress

"Sasuke, look over here, look over here."

The girl with cherry blossom hair was excitedly shouting from the stands, while the blond boy next to her looked annoyed.

The cool guy Uchiha Sasuke had a cold face and ignored Sakura, who made him feel a little embarrassed.

His single-tomoe Sharingan was fixed on his opponent in this round of exams, a genin from Amegakure.

"For the glory of the Uchiha, I will not lose!"

In the stands, Itachi Uchiha blended into the dense crowd of spectators, silently watching Sasuke.

The Chunin Exams have now reached their final round – individual combat – and the exam is being held in the training grounds of the Byakko district.

Five large chairs were placed on the platform in the training ground, where the five Kage were seated: the Third Hokage Hiruzen Sarutobi, the Fourth Raikage Aya Yozuki, the Fourth Mizukage Yagura Karatachi, the Third Tsuchikage Onoki, and the Akatsuki's Azure Dragon, Benzai Ten Daizo, who was acting as the Amekage.

After the Chunin Exams, these five figures standing at the pinnacle of power in the ninja world will hold the Five Kage Summit, which will influence the course of the world's affairs. The performance of each village in the Chunin Exams will become an important bargaining chip in the hands of the five Kage during the meeting.

Therefore, each village sent its top elites to participate in this Chunin Exam.

"Acting Amekage, where is your village's Amekage and Regent? We haven't seen him since the Chunin Exams began. Could he be unwell?" Onoki said with a smile, like a kind old man concerned about the health of his juniors.

Daizo bowed politely and replied in a neither humble nor arrogant manner, "Thank you for your concern, Third Tsuchikage. The Regent is in the prime of his life and is free from any illness. The reason he has not shown up is because the Regent has a very important matter to attend to, and he has asked me to receive you all this time."

The Fourth Raikage scoffed, "What could be more important than the Five Kage Summit?"

Da Zang smiled and said, "I don't know about that. The Regent's orders are absolute, and we subordinates have no right to question them, nor do we need to care about their origins."

"What a loyal and good subordinate!" Yagura Karatachi sighed with emotion, trying to smooth things over.

Daizo also took the opportunity to change the subject.

"Your Hokage, this Uchiha Sasuke must be the young master of your village's Uchiha clan head, right? He is truly gifted, mastering Fire Release and Lightning Release to such an extraordinary degree at such a young age."

Hiruzen Sarutobi calmly accepted Daizo's commercial flattery.

"Not at all, not at all. Your village's ninja, Kasugano Shiki, is far superior. His ability to judge the situation and his excellent Body Flicker Technique make him a true elite among Chunin."

Inside the examination hall, Uchiha Sasuke displayed a wide variety of techniques, from basic shuriken throwing to advanced Uchiha-style Manipulated Shuriken Technique, to Phoenix Flower Claw Crimson, and even Lightning Release: Earth Walk and Great Fireball Technique.

This dazzling display of skill drew gasps from the audience, with Sakura giving it her enthusiastic cheers.

As for his opponent, Kasugai Shiki of Amegakure, he only had the Body Flicker Technique and occasionally used some basic Water Release techniques, making him seem quite ordinary.

To the untrained eye, it might seem that Shiki Kaname was completely overwhelmed by Sasuke Uchiha, but a true expert would realize that Shiki Kaname was the one who consistently maintained control of the battle.

It wasn't that the opponent only knew the Body Flicker Technique and a few simple Water Release techniques; rather, these techniques were already sufficient for him to handle the situation. Kagashira Shiki had a very experienced grasp of the battle, and his Body Flicker Technique was extremely stable and swift. Sasuke used a series of flashy techniques, exhausting a great deal of stamina and chakra, but without achieving any effective results.

"Sasuke is in trouble. The opponent is far more difficult to deal with than I imagined," Itachi Uchiha thought to himself. "Sasuke must calm down. The opponent is intentionally trying to induce him to use ninjutsu in order to deplete Sasuke's chakra."

"What's wrong? Is this all the ninja from the Uchiha clan, the number one clan in the ninja world, are capable of? They couldn't even touch the hem of my clothes," Xiang Xiangzhi mocked.

Sasuke straightened his face and said coldly, "How dare you, a lowly scoundrel, defile the honor of the Uchiha?"

"Oh, then let this lowly Uchiha clan's genius witness the Uchiha clan's thousand-year glory?" Kasugai Shiki's mockery struck Sasuke's most sensitive spot.

Seeing Sasuke's right leg begin to tremble involuntarily, Itachi Uchiha sighed. As the person who knew Sasuke best, he knew that Sasuke's mind was in turmoil.

As expected, the battle unfolded exactly as Itachi Uchiha had predicted. Enraged, Sasuke exhausted his chakra and was easily defeated by Shiki Kagura's Water Rush Wave.

"The winner of the first round is Amegakure, Kasugano Shiki."

The referee begins announcing the results.

"Now for the next round, Konoha Village's Naruto Uzumaki will face Amegakure's Gaara. Both candidates, please prepare yourselves."

Upon hearing Naruto Uzumaki's name, Hiruzen Sarutobi sat up straight.

"That arrogant Sasuke has indeed lost. Now it's time for me, Naruto Uzumaki, to restore Konoha's glory."

Naruto excitedly waved his fist in the stands, ignoring Sasuke's dark expression.

"Naruto, don't be careless. Sasuke is already very good. This defeat is just because the opponent was too strong." Yamato, the Jonin leading Team 7, advised Naruto.

“I’ve been paying attention to the previous exams. The quality of the ninjas trained by Amegakure is indeed very high. You have to be very careful. Especially this Gaara. Shikamaru encountered him in the second exam and was defeated very quickly, without even getting much information out of him.”

Naruto's large blue eyes blazed with intense heat as he rubbed his hands together, saying, "That's perfect. I'll settle my score with Shikamaru in this match too."

Yamato covered his face in exasperation: "Isn't this a complete misunderstanding of what I said?"

Not long after, in the examination room, Naruto Uzumaki curiously looked at Gaara opposite him.

The current Gaara is completely different from his appearance during the Chunin Exams in the original work. First of all, he is much taller, and his energy and spirit are completely different. He no longer has that bloodthirsty and tyrannical feeling, and his dark circles under his eyes are gone. He looks like a handsome young man.

He wasn't carrying a gourd on his back; instead, nine beads were floating in his hand, their purpose unknown.

Chapter 125 Naruto: Naruto vs. Gaara

After forming the opposing hand seals, Gaara looked at Naruto and suddenly spoke.

"You have a big thing inside you too, right?"

Naruto broke out in a cold sweat upon hearing this.

"Ah...ah...what big guy...I...don't know...I have absolutely no idea."

Naruto is incapable of lying; anyone could tell he's not telling the truth.

Gaara ignored his crude lie and instead spoke on his own.

"You know what? Before coming to Amegakure, I never had a good night's sleep. I was so bothered by this big thing in my belly."

"After I came to Rain Village, I realized that there were eight other big guys like the one in my belly in this world."

"I asked the Regent what the other eight looked like."

"The Regent laughed heartily and immediately took me to see the other eight, and even extracted a strand of chakra from each of them as a gift for me."

"I used the talent of this big guy within me to forge their chakra into a set of weapons."

Naruto Uzumaki was getting impatient: "What are you chattering about here? What's with all this talk about eight or nine? Are we going to fight or not?"

Gaara glanced at Naruto Uzumaki expressionlessly and said, "It's nothing. I just saw someone of my own kind and said a few more words on a whim. You don't need to mind it."

"I don't know what you mean, but I'm going to go anyway." Naruto quickly formed the cross hand seal.

Multiple Shadow Clone Technique

Numerous Naruto shadow clones appeared in the examination hall, causing the audience to gasp in surprise.

"He actually managed to create so many shadow clones at once. Does this shorty from Konoha have that much chakra?"

"He looked so dazed, but I didn't expect him to be so good."

In the stands of the Five Kage, Onoki laughed out loud: "This blond kid is the Nine-Tails' jinchūriki, right? Hokage?"

"It must be him. He's so young yet has so much chakra, and his surname is Uzumaki. It must be him." The Raikage tapped the armrest of his chair.

Onoki suddenly narrowed his eyes and said to the Raikage, "You hot-tempered brat from the Yotsuki clan, don't you think this Naruto Uzumaki looks a lot like someone? Someone we both know very well."

The Fourth Raikage was stunned. Looking at Naruto Uzumaki's familiar blond hair and blue eyes in the examination hall, a handsome figure that he could never forget floated into his mind, and a sentence immediately came out.

"Then why doesn't he have the surname Namikaze?"

Leaving aside the somewhat stern-faced Third Hokage, Gaara made a move inside the examination hall.

He raised his right hand, on which nine beads of different colors floated like planets.

"Let's start with some appetizers to get acquainted."

"Tailed Beast Ball - Another Journey".

A blue bead with black patterns shot out, releasing powerful chakra. The fragments of the bead wrapped around it outlined a shape, and a two-tailed cat, nearly three people tall and engulfed in dark blue flames, appeared out of thin air.

The giant cat moved with incredible speed among Naruto's shadow clones, its claws wreathed in eerie blue flames reaching out to destroy several shadow clones with a single strike.

boom! boom! boom!

Large plumes of white smoke rose in the air as Naruto's shadow clones were repeatedly destroyed.

"What is that? A giant cat made of chakra?"

"It looks like it jumped out of the beads."

"Huh? Are those beads really that powerful? I thought they were just decorations."

There was a lot of chatter in the audience.

On the Five Kage's private viewing platform, apart from the calm Daizo, the other four Kage stared wide-eyed. The Raikage, in particular, glared fiercely at Daizo.

"Tell me, how did you Rain Village obtain the Two-Tails' chakra?"

"Lord Raikage, Gaara has eight more of these beads," Yagura interrupted the Raikage's rage.

The Fourth Raikage quickly turned to look at the examination hall. At that moment, Gaara had already flicked out his second bead.

"Tailed Beast Pearl - Isobu"

A gray-red bead shot out, just like the previous Traveling Bead. With the help of chakra, a giant three-tailed mud turtle appeared on the field. With a flick of its tail, it stirred up a huge water-style wave.

A massive wave surged into the ground, blasting Naruto Uzumaki, who was employing a digging and sneak attack tactic, out of the ground.

Seeing the situation, the two-tailed cat pounced. Naruto managed to dodge, but was instead struck by the steel whip-like tail and slammed hard against the inner wall of the examination hall.

"It hurts so much, it feels like my bones are broken."

Naruto struggled to his feet and looked at the cat and turtle guarding Gaara in a disheveled state.

"Naruto Uzumaki, do you know?" Gaara raised the seven floating beads in his hand.

"Chakra alloys have a magical memory property: they remember the chakra that was once poured into them and can even be reproduced the next time they are used."

"And the Regent told me that the essence of Shukaku's Magnet Release is not magnetic manipulation, but the permeation and manipulation of matter by chakra."

"Therefore, this chakra alloy metal can maximize the talent I received from Shukaku. In order to tap into this talent, I infused the eight strongest chakras given to me by the Regent, along with the chakra of Shukaku within me, into the chakra alloy, imprinting their traces onto the chakra alloy beads."

"As long as I infuse my chakra into it and manipulate it meticulously, the chakra alloy bead will recreate the original forms of the nine chakras based on the imprints within it."

"In other words, I alone am the herd of beasts."

"Naruto Uzumaki, you can't beat me. Just admit defeat. As a fellow Jinchuriki, I'll let you suffer less."

The Fourth Mizukage, Yagura Karatachi, was dumbfounded, staring at the miniature Three-Tails turtle in the examination hall, feeling that familiar chakra.

There's no mistake, that's the Three-Tails!

The problem is, how come this Jinchūriki of the Three-Tails doesn't remember when Amegakure extracted the Three-Tails' chakra and even used chakra metal to artificially synthesize one?

Yagura's brain raced. The most likely time when the Three-Tails' chakra could be extracted, besides the period between his death and resurrection with Jinchuriki Rin Nohara during the last Shinobi World War and his capture by Kirigakure again, was the time when he was controlled by the mysterious person with the Sharingan.

Could it be that the Rain Ninja is connected to the mysterious person who controlled him with the Sharingan?

Thinking of this, Yagura's murderous intent surged.

Being controlled by someone using the Sharingan and used as a tool to wreak havoc on Kirigakure is Yagura's greatest pain, and he hates the culprit to the extreme.

He forcibly suppressed his murderous intent. No rush. According to the plan he had discussed with those people, he would have plenty of opportunities to settle scores with the Rain Ninja.

Clearly, the other three Kage had also considered this, but to avoid Daizo noticing anything amiss, they continued to feign protests and pressure on the Rain Village. After all, it was just empty talk, and it was a good opportunity to exercise their minds.

Chapter 126 Naruto: The Incident

In a highly secluded underground space in Amegakure, a large number of ninjas gathered.

Dressed in a smart ninja outfit and with a graceful figure, Haku asked Konan curiously.

How did you find such a secluded place?

Shimura Asuka said with a smile.

"Although we live in different worlds, this is still Amegakure. Aren't they just a kind of local 'bullies'?"

Nagato glanced at Shimura Asuka, and seeing his somewhat familiar face, his eyes couldn't help but turn fierce.

Shimura Asuka still wore that disgusting smile as he uttered vicious words at Nagato.

"What? You see the shadow of my father, Danzo Shimura, in me? You want revenge?"

"Oh dear! I forgot to tell you, in my world, I played that blue-haired female ninja next to you to death, you know? She had such a voluptuous figure!"