There is great terror between life and death—
The first person to see through this terror was Orochimaru. The reason he constantly pursued eternal life was because he had witnessed too much life and death on the battlefield and realized that if a person could not live forever, living had no meaning whatsoever.
So his gaze transcended everything. Konoha, the position of Hokage—he didn't care about any of it. In his eyes, the so-called Hokage position was merely a short-lived blooming flower.
Now, it was Minato Namikaze's turn to ponder this question. The satisfaction he once felt from slitting others' throats was now replaced by an equal amount of distress.
The Nine-Tailed inside the little blond boy confirms that he is a Jinchuriki.
Then the little blond boy reveals himself as Naruto Uzumaki... Uzumaki, Uzumaki Kushina... which means Kushina died, and the Nine-Tailed was then transferred to a new Jinchuriki.
Naruto is also the name from Jiraiya-sensei's novel. Not long ago, he and Kushina had said that if they had a son in the future, they would name him that.
From all the intelligence he had gathered, there was a ninety percent chance that what the other party said was true: he and Kushina would die someday in the future.
As soon as he thought of this, Minato Namikaze started to let his imagination run wild. What kind of enemy could make the entire Village of Konoha unable to resist, leading to his own death in battle?
"Minato, don't think too much. Konoha is everyone's Konoha. If there's a problem, we'll face it together..." Choza patted Minato Namikaze's shoulder, comforting him.
"Mm~" Minato Namikaze smiled, feeling a warmth in his heart. Yes, he still had many relatives and friends. Even if an enemy appeared, everyone would face them together.
At the same time, Naruto, the little blond boy protecting Sara, once again used his talk-no-Jutsu, making Sara, the heroine of Rouran Country, trust him again.
"I swear on my Ninjutsu way, I will absolutely protect Rouran Country with you and won't let that Mukade guy destroy it, including destroying the Dragon Veins," Naruto vowed, thumping his chest.
"But what if that Konoha squad wants to destroy the Dragon Veins?" Sara asked a sharp question.
"Then they'll have to get past me first. I'll protect Rouran Country with you and won't let them destroy the Dragon Veins," Naruto blurted out firmly without even thinking.
Sara stared blankly at the energetic little blond boy. If a person's body had a magnetic field, then the little blond boy's presence definitely brought a positive energy field, making people feel incredibly warm and sunny.
"Mm, thank you, I believe you, Naruto..." Sara wiped a tear from her eye, moved.
"Ah, don't mention it. We're the ones who caused you trouble. If we had caught Mukade earlier, he wouldn't have come to Rouran Country to stir up trouble..." Naruto scratched his head, embarrassed.
During the day, faced with Uchiha Nagi's words, Sara was terrified. She couldn't imagine what it would be like for Rouran Country, where she had grown up, to turn into a desert. But she deeply remembered Uchiha Nagi's words about Konoha wanting to destroy the Dragon Veins to destroy Rouran.
After an escape, she encountered a group of masked people who had kidnapped her. Naruto, who followed closely behind, protected her. After some questioning, she realized it was a misunderstanding; these people were all commoners of Rouran Country.
And they were all elderly, weak, women, and children. Because all the men and youths in their families had been captured, they wanted to rescue them and formed a group. They didn't expect that the Rouran Country palace would be so unguarded, allowing them to easily sneak in.
At this point, Sara slowly began to believe what they said. All of Rouran's guards, and the few Ninja they had, had long been secretly murdered by Mukade, possibly even turned into puppets. And her own mother might have also been secretly killed by Mukade.
As soon as she thought of this, Sara gritted her teeth in hatred—
"This Mukade, he came to Rouran Country six years ago. My mother saw that he was capable and made him a minister to help manage Rouran Country. I never expected him to be so ambitious. Oh, by the way, his name here is Anrokuzan—" Sara said.
"So that's it. Although he and we were sucked into the time tunnel at the same time, he arrived here six years earlier than us," Naruto suddenly understood.
"If only Yamato-taichou were here. I can't figure out any of this stuff. I'm just a bad student~"
Naruto frustratingly tugged at his little blond hair. He was fine with fighting, but asking him to think about things like space-time was harder than the Chunin Exams.
"Yo-shi, Naruto, you're here~"
A Ninja with big eyes and a square face jumped in, smiling. Speak of the devil, and he shall appear.
"Ah, Yamato-taichou, that's great! I thought I'd lost you," Naruto happily went to greet him.
"Haha, how could I get lost? I went to check out the surrounding intelligence..." Yamato scratched his head.
"By the way, we've arrived in Rouran Country more than ten years ago, you know that, right? I've already found out that Mukade has now changed his name to Anrokuzan and is the minister of this country. And that guy, he's also gone from being thin to fat. It seems the food here is good..."
At this point, Yamato mysteriously said to Naruto, "Guess who I met while I was investigating?"
"Who?"
"Hehe, your Kakashi-sensei, Kakashi as small as you..."
"Ah, a young Kakashi-sensei?!"
Kakashi, of course, didn't recognize Yamato, but Yamato recognized Kakashi! As soon as they met, they knew from their headbands that they were Ninja from the same Village. This was a common problem in the Ninja World; few people went out and impersonated Ninja from other countries. Unfortunately, Uchiha Nagi was not among them—
Yamato also felt incredibly close to the chibi version of Kakashi, so he chatted with Kakashi for a while before returning to look for Naruto.
"So that's it. You met quite a few people. A blond person who can teleport? And an Uchiha Clan member with a Sharingan..." Yamato scratched his head, unable to figure out who they were.
Never mind, he'd find out tomorrow. Anyway, everyone's goal should be the same, which is Mukade.
— — — —
The next morning, when the birds had just woken up to look for worms, the commoners of Rouran Country, who usually worked from sunrise to sunset, were rarely seen on the streets.
The constant disappearance of familiar faces had made the commoners of Rouran a bit uneasy recently, and they rarely went out. The celebration was one of the rare times when the most people would be out.
Sara, who was confined in an ivory tower, would probably still be completely unaware of this if Naruto and his group hadn't arrived, living day and night with a group of puppets.
This makes one worry about Mukade's intelligence. You even killed the queen, so why not kill the princess too and turn her into a puppet? Then no one would be able to cut off the Dragon Veins.
But Mukade didn't do that. He turned half the people of Rouran Country into puppets, yet he strangely left Sara, who could destroy the Dragon Veins. One can only say it's a plot device... Otherwise, Mukade would have no problem staying in Rouran as a local warlord. Anyone who wanted to fight him would have to calculate whether they could outlast his infinite Chakra and puppet army.
At this moment, Sara, disguised, was walking on the street with Naruto, only to find that another Sara had appeared at the celebration outside. It was a puppet made by Mukade. Because the real Sara had been rescued by Naruto, Mukade had to make a fake one to blend in. Naruto seemed to have discovered something, jumping onto the heads of several people and cutting the air with his Chakra Blade several times. Immediately, several commoners collapsed to the ground, their facial disguises cracking open upon impact, revealing them all to be puppets.
"How is this possible... They, they're all puppets," Sara exclaimed in surprise.
"That bastard, I won't let him off—" Naruto said angrily.
"Let's go, we'll infiltrate the factory—"
In the factory, there were a large number of puppets under construction, and more importantly, the goal of this trip, the Dragon Veins.
The Dragon Veins could not only be temporarily cut off but also reconnected. If Minato Namikaze, that old schemer, hadn't sealed the Dragon Veins, and Sara had reconnected them, Rouran wouldn't have turned into a desert.
However, at this time, Sara hadn't decided whether to cut off the Dragon Veins. Instead, Naruto comforted her, saying that Mukade was nothing, and he would defeat him.
The group entered the palace to rescue the captured commoners. Because Sara, who knew the way, led them, they directly took a detour and infiltrated the palace.
Unexpectedly, just as they entered the palace, a voice descended from the sky. [Hehe, Sara, I've been waiting for you for a long time—]
Immediately after he finished speaking, a giant puppet descended from the sky, landing in front of them.
"It's you, Anrokuzan, no, Mukade, you shameless guy! My mother kindly took you in, but you killed her—" Sara's eyes turned red with anger.
The giant puppet chuckled, "She was just stupid. How powerful, how wonderful is the power of the Dragon Veins, yet it was only used to nourish the earth. What a waste! It would be much better if it were mine. Look, now I am not only powerful, but also immortal and indestructible."
"You bastard, I won't let you get away with this—Shadow Clone Technique." Naruto immediately used his signature Ninjutsu, Multiple Shadow Clone.
Hundreds of Shadow Clones instantly rushed towards the giant puppet, some using their fists, others using Kunai.
Mukade casually waved his hand, and with a single strike, dozens of smoke clouds appeared. But this was just a diversion by Naruto—
"Wind Release: Rasenshuriken—"
Naruto used his trump card, the Wind Release: Rasenshuriken that killed Kakuzu. Its characteristic was the incorporation of multiple elemental transformations. Those hit by it would not be cut in half, but rather every cell in their body would begin to be destroyed.
When Kakuzu was dissected in Konoha, the doctors found that his body had no research value left, because every cell in his entire body had been damaged, which shows the terrifying power of the Wind Release: Rasenshuriken.
However, when this incredibly powerful Wind Release: Rasenshuriken hit Mukade, it opened its mouth wide and swallowed it—
"Swallowed, swallowed? This guy swallowed my Rasenshuriken?" Naruto was utterly bewildered. Such a powerful trump card, a Ninjutsu that even Kakuzu couldn't resist, and the opponent just gulped it down like that??
As Mukade's Chakra cannon was about to hit Naruto, a golden flash streaked by, directly rescuing Naruto from his original spot.
The blond Minato Namikaze smiled at Naruto and said, "Ordinary moves might not work against it."
"Shuriken, Multiple Shadow Clone Jutsu—"
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