Konoha streets!
A figure slowly headed toward the village gate.
Under a streetlight.
A slender young girl stood in the way.
"Sakura!"
The approaching figure called her name.
They were Sasuke and Sakura.
Sasuke had already made up his mind to defect to Orochimaru.
Even without Hinata Cang Yue's mission, he would have done the same.
He was growing too slowly in Konoha.
At this rate, how could he ever take revenge on those people?
Take note: his target of revenge had once been "that person," but now it was "those people."
That one-word difference represented the change in Sasuke's thoughts.
However, among those people, the one who had been brainwashed by the Will of Fire and was stupid enough to serve as someone else's butcher knife was absolutely the person he needed to avenge himself against most.
To deal with him, Sasuke needed to gain immense power.
But he could see no hope at all in Konoha. His teacher Kakashi was merely an Elite Jonin, completely incapable of giving him the power to take revenge.
That was why he wanted to defect to Orochimaru, even knowing that Orochimaru coveted his body.
But he did not care. To obtain the power for revenge, he would cooperate without hesitation no matter how dangerous Orochimaru was.
"Sasuke, can't you stay for me?"
Tears shimmered in Sakura's eyes.
The innocent girl hoped she could change Sasuke's mind.
Unfortunately, to an avenger, a woman would only slow the speed at which he drew his blade.
Just as the two reenacted this "famous scene."
In the darkness not far away, Tang Ping finally had his doubts answered.
"So that's how it is. No wonder someone managed to escape from such a massive Konoha so smoothly. Someone was helping them?"
He saw Kabuto, the Sound Four,