Chapter 64:
"Senior, they can't jump down anymore. Shouldn't we go help them…"
Yamato (Tenzo), wearing his Anbu mask, stood behind Kakashi, feeling extremely anxious as he watched Naruto and Sasuke on the tree.
The large fire below was still spreading. The wolf pack basically had no chance of escaping.
But the tree they were on was also within the burning area. With Sasuke unconscious, Naruto was also swaying unsteadily…
Even if they needed to hide their identities, they couldn't just wait until Naruto collapsed too, right?
"Throw the corpses into the fire…"
Kakashi handed the two Root members' corpses to Yamato, adjusted his mask with one hand, and instantly appeared beside Naruto.
He really couldn't wait any longer. If they got burned, or if the Nine-Tails was released when Naruto was injured…
That was not something he wanted to see.
"White-haired uncle, it's you again. Thanks for the living expenses. Although I can't explain it to you right now…"
Naruto leaned back, letting Kakashi catch both him and Sasuke. His weak voice reached Kakashi's ears, causing the expression under the mask to stiffen instantly.
But just as he wanted to ask something, Naruto closed his eyes and fell asleep like Sasuke.
"This little brat…"
Kakashi held one boy in each arm. Looking at Naruto, he could only sigh helplessly.
If you knew, you knew. Why did you have to say it out loud?
Although no one else had heard, from now on whenever he thought about this, he would definitely be tormented by the desire to know who had leaked the information…
"Yamato, there are two more corpses over there. Throw them in too. When you report to the Hokage, just say I killed them all…"
Kakashi jumped out of the fire's range while carrying the two boys. When he saw the other two corpses, he paused for a moment, but quickly reacted and told Yamato to go pick them up and throw them into the flames as well.
To make the traces disappear more completely, he deliberately spread the fire toward a few more trees in that direction.
While he was doing all this, a crow quietly watched from a distance. Only after the fire had spread and the four corpses had been completely burned away did it flap its wings and fly off.
The two Root members from earlier had been dragged into his Tsukuyomi space. The information he got after interrogating them made him feel both grief and rage.
Fortunately, Kakashi had arrived. Otherwise, he might not have been able to hold back and show himself…
......
"Mm… so tired…"
Naruto groggily opened his eyes. Looking at Sasuke across from him, he let out a soft, spoiled-sounding murmur.
'Idiot, shut up!'
Sasuke's disgusted voice appeared in his mind.
He had actually woken up long ago, but because he temporarily didn't want to face all those people with their different auras, he had forced himself to stay in a sleeping state.
After this "sleep" experience, he suddenly understood why Naruto could train all night long while appearing to be sound asleep.
This kind of soul training could indeed be done at the same time as the body sleeping. The body relaxed, but the mind became even more exhausted.
'On the tree that was destroyed, and the two who damaged the rope — they were Root members.
When you used the Great Fireball Technique, they had already been killed by the red-eyed crows.
The other two Root members were killed by the white-haired uncle. There was also an Anbu named Yamato who came with him. In the end, they threw all the corpses into the fire and burned them away…'
Naruto lay on the bed, staring at Sasuke in a daze.
But in reality, he was quietly telling Sasuke in his mind everything that had happened after they lost consciousness.
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