Chapter 456 - The Adventures of Naruto Uzumaki 22.

Chapter 456: Chapter 456 - The Adventures of Naruto Uzumaki 22.

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Canon World, Land of the Sea, 63.

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Naruto finally moved, while Utakata and Hotaru remained silent, watching him advance directly toward where the rogue ninjas had approached.

Utakata stared at the spot where Naruto was, he was fast and was passing through all the bubbles Utakata himself had made before that kunai came from the sky. Then they saw him use the same kunai, throwing it upward, at the same time Naruto simply disappeared.

"What jutsu is that?" Hotaru asked, watching in fascination as Naruto simply vanished in an instant, he was already in the sky. She turned her attention back to Utakata, who was thoughtful.

"I don’t know, some movement jutsu that needs an anchor, I noticed some symbols on that kunai... Which meant it has something special. Anyway, let’s go." He said, making a sign for the sea of floating bubbles to disappear, while moving forward. "I need to follow that guy."

When they arrived, Naruto was already beating up a group of ninjas with more than ten members. They barely had time to react. All they saw, while trying to enter that area filled with bubbles, was someone appearing in front of one of them and delivering a kick, while the others barely had time to react with Naruto acting only with taijutsu and physical speed.

"Who is he?" They shouted, while no one could understand. They were hunting a girl and, suddenly, now they were being attacked by an unknown redhead.

"Kill him!" Shouted one of the few who were still standing, while trying to catch Naruto from his blind spot, and, while he thought he had some chance, chains emerged from the redhead’s back before they had time to react, grabbing them. With a simple movement, the chains lifted them slightly before making them collide against the ground, causing all of them to pass out, while the last one still standing looked at Naruto in fear.

Those were not ninjas that a group like theirs could face. Utakata and Hotaru arrived at the scene watching the battle already coming to an end, but Naruto did not let the last one escape. The chain that was still coming out of his back advanced at great speed toward the last ninja, who tried to run, but was grabbed and his chakra began to be drained by it. Naruto pulled him toward himself and, when he got close, the ninja already fell unconscious to the ground.

Utakata was stunned. It wasn’t as if he had ever seen an Uzumaki in front of him before, much less one who could use chains, so he was quite shocked by what he had just seen.

Even Hotaru was much more cautious now. Naruto had not only shown a strange jutsu that allowed him to move at instantaneous speed, and his Bijū chakra, as they could see that he also had other abilities. Deep down, however, if Naruto could simply try to capture them if he were lying, why did he keep telling them so many things?

"Well, we’re done here." Naruto said, looking at them.

"You..." Utakata murmured before also sensing something approaching.

Immediately, everyone turned their attention toward a group coming in their direction.

"Don’t worry, they’re with me." Naruto said, while his clone finally appeared, landing among the trees, with Team 7 and the Kirigakure group arriving right behind.

Utakata immediately became tense. Naruto was not surprised. "Don’t worry. They’re not here to force you to go. They came to talk." Naruto said, with Utakata staring for another second and his eyes turning their attention to the Kiri group, recognizing a squad from the Village’s special force.

"Utakata." Said the one who seemed to be the leader, landing at the entrance of the clearing, while the jinchūriki watched him somewhat tensely. "We came to talk." He said, while beginning to remove his mask, revealing his face, not seeming to have any problem doing that in front of the Konoha ninjas now.

"Remember me?" He asked Utakata directly.

"Tsurugi." Utakata said his name, while the other displayed a small smile, although it did not show much on his face.

"It’s been some time. I hope you’re doing well."

"As well as possible." Utakata replied dryly.

"I imagine you already know why we’re here, right?" Tsurugi said after looking at Naruto, while Utakata nodded.

"Yes. This Konoha ninja has already told me quite a lot. It was quite difficult to believe."

"I know. We were also quite tense when we met."

Naruto said nothing, while letting the two of them talk. His team also approached, joining him. Sakura could not help but stare at him, looking from Naruto to Utakata.

"Did you manage to talk to him?" She asked.

Naruto merely shrugged. He knew that now it depended on Utakata to decide how he would deal with that situation.

"I said what I had to say. Now it’s up to him." Naruto gave his only answer.

He hoped that, in the end, he would return to Kiri or come to Konoha as a last resort. If he continued wandering around, he would be easily captured and later killed. He also knew there was no guarantee that a Village could protect him from the Akatsuki, there were still problematic people there, but even so, it was better for him to have a Village behind him than to die out there and Hotaru would also be in danger.

"The Bloody Mist no longer exists in Kiri?" Utakata asked his old acquaintance.

"That’s true. The conflict that haunted our Village for years has ended. The Mizukage and the resistance put an end to it and the massacres that happened before no longer exist. We’re still trying to recover from the regime, but we’re doing it." Tsurugi confirmed.

"It’s hard to believe." Utakata murmured.

"You weren’t there to confirm it. We were fighting." Tsurugi said, seeming to touch on a sensitive point. "But the Village also needs you now."

"Oh, really? A Bingo Book criminal who killed his own teacher?" Utakata mocked.

Tsurugi looked at Naruto, who was standing off to the side watching, before sighing. "So he told us what happened?"

"Do you believe him?"

"Not yet. But I don’t see any reason for him to make all of this up. As I said before, anyway, he said he was going to talk to you. I imagine you’ve already talked about a lot of things."

"He said we’re going to face the Akatsuki here, that they’re already after me and asked me to go with him to Kiri to see if the Village has really changed. He also gave me his guarantee that, if I don’t want to return, he’ll help me leave himself." Utakata replied.

That seemed to surprise Tsurugi, who stared at Naruto, while he merely shrugged.

"If he doesn’t want to stay there and chooses to leave, I’ll help him. Now it’s up to you to convince him whether to stay or not. After all, it was the Bloody Mist’s mess that caused all of this."

Naruto had not paid much attention to that before the mission, aside from a few words Zabuza had said years ago, during that bridge mission when they had become genins, but only now, he had recently researched the conflicts that had happened in Kiri and now better understood why Zabuza became a rogue ninja and Haku was persecuted because of her Ice Style bloodline.

What he was trying to understand, and could not understand, was how a Village could hunt its own ninjas with special bloodlines like that. At the same time, he could not deny that there was someone behind all of it: Obito Uchiha, as his father’s scroll itself said. Naruto could not believe that the Obito he had met in the other world, a cheerful boy, just as much as he himself had been before, and even more outstanding than Kakashi himself when he was young, would become a person like that. Who killed his parents, created various kinds of conflicts and suffering in the world and was trying to destroy the world, even though he was being manipulated on two fronts, after all, Madara was also being manipulated by Black Zetsu.

And it was Madara himself who caused Rin Nohara’s death...

Naruto interrupted his thoughts when he sensed something in the distance. His clones began sending memories.

"Something wrong?" Yamato asked upon noticing his behavior.

"One of my clones can sense them. They’re moving." Naruto said.

Finally, the Six Paths entered his radar, while Sakura, Sai, and Yamato himself became tense.

"Something wrong?" Tsurugi asked.

"Our enemy is moving. They’re taking action. They’re probably doing their initial reconnaissance. They’ll observe and wait for the best moment to attack, but it seems they’ve moved..." Naruto said. "But I doubt that will last long, the one moving is a special one who can use summoning jutsu on the others"

"Summoning jutsu?" The Kiri ninjas seemed skeptical about believing that someone could summon other beings.

"They aren’t normal people, they’re corpses controlled by chakra..." Naruto said.

With that, everyone became tense. Even Utakata and Hotaru noticed the change in the group’s behavior.

"It looks like things are going to change soon. Hotaru’s jutsu is no longer the main concern here." Naruto said.

They would face Pain directly before they could even deal with Hotaru’s problems.

"Anyway..." Naruto moved forward, jumping into the trees and heading in a certain direction, while everyone followed him. Even Utakata and Hotaru did not remain still and began following them.

"Wait, Utakata! It could be dangerous!" Hotaru said.

Utakata did not answer, he simply continued moving forward. Naruto was going to face the enemy who supposedly intended to capture him. What kind of person would he be if he stood still while someone fought against those who had come after him? Even though he was suspicious of that entire story, he would not remain hidden while someone else fought for him.

Elsewhere, Kakashi narrowed his eyes. A strange feeling began to run through him.

"Wait!" Hinata’s voice sounded behind him and Kakashi stopped. Just like everyone else, looking at the Hyuuga who had her Byakugan activated, but with a somewhat cautious expression.

"You’re seeing something." Kakashi said.

"Yes... There’s someone strange moving through the forest 2 kilometers away... His eyes, they’re strange." She said cautiously, while Kakashi widened his eyes.

He knew, that was what the mission was for. "So he moved... Can you tell me what he looks like, hair, height?"

Hinata began to describe him and everything matched the Pain who could summon the others. Just as described in Minato’s documents.

"You heard correctly." Kakashi turned his attention to a tree, while the other three were surprised by a toad emerging from the branches, landing on the branch in front of them, making a toad sound.

No one could understand why that toad was there until it began to open its mouth and a huge body began to emerge from inside it, expanding until it reached normal size. The toad jumped off the branch leaving only the man behind.

It was Jiraiya himself. He had already been watching them while also searching the Land of the Sea for information. He already knew exactly about what was happening with Hotaru’s clan and even knew the plot behind it, but that did not interest him. What he really wanted was to find Nagato. He did not know that Naruto had already found Hotaru and that he was already with the jinchūriki.

"I heard. Let’s go." Jiraiya said in a serious tone.

"Should we call Naruto?" Kakashi asked, remembering the information they had.

"Not yet. I want to see my former student first. He should already be coming, I know there was a clone nearby." Jiraiya said in a rather serious tone.

Kakashi stared at him before nodding, while looking at the three younger ones and then turning his attention back to Jiraiya with a silent question.

"They can come too, just don’t get involved if things start getting dangerous. That Pain, besides summoning the others, also has several summons. Keep them only as support." Jiraiya said.

In truth, he was only allowing them to go because he knew that, during the presentation at Konoha’s gate, Naruto had placed Kurama’s chakra inside each of them and they did not even know it yet. If things really became dangerous for them, the chakra would activate.

"So we’re going to see this Akatsuki guy?" Kiba asked, somewhat cautiously.

"You’ll stay a little farther away."

"The way you’re saying that makes it sound like we’re afraid." Kiba mocked, but he was nervous and could not deny it. Even Hinata was almost trembling and Shino was quite cautious as well.

"He is the leader of the Akatsuki, yes. You must not let your guard down under any circumstances. Now let’s go." Jiraiya said and moved forward, while Kakashi and the others quickly followed together.

The Animal Path was advancing through the forest when he sensed the presence of some people ahead of him. It was only 3 minutes after Jiraiya had decided to move forward, they were already ahead of him waiting for him, making him frown and stop in a more open area of the forest.

He observed two ninjas standing in front of him, but he could sense the presence of three others farther away. The Rinnegan eyes narrowed. He did not know how those people had gotten there, but, more than that, how they had already appeared waiting for him.

And, more than that, it was the presence of one of them that made even Nagato himself, somewhere else, seem surprised, to the point that Konan, who was beside him protecting the main body as she always did during missions, noticed his surprise.

"Is something wrong, Nagato?" She asked.

Nagato himself looked ahead as if he were seeing someone in that corner of the Land of the Sea, with Konan being the only one there. At the same time, the Animal Path’s vessel stared at the man in front of him.

"Jiraiya... Sensei..." Both Nagato’s original body said, making Konan raise an eyebrow, and the Animal Path himself stared at Jiraiya.

"It’s been some time, Nagato." Jiraiya stared at him with a firm gaze.

He already knew everything that had happened to his former student. He knew exactly the path Nagato was walking. The information they had brought already described everything, that Rinnegan did not originally belong to Nagato... It had been implanted as part of someone else’s plan... Nagato’s entire life had been manipulated for someone else’s plans...

And, even so, Jiraiya could not help but look at his former student with a strange feeling that not even he could describe. He was facing his own past.

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