After resting and recuperating in Lianyun City for two days, Aizawa Konan and Aburame Shibi had both fully recovered their fighting strength, while Aozora was able to walk again.
The group stopped dawdling and headed back to the village together.
Team 1 had just gone through a life-or-death crisis and was in no hurry to return to the village for new missions. Moreover, Aozora's injuries had yet to heal completely, so the entire team traveled at a slow pace.
Sai had been bored the whole way, with nowhere to vent her boundless energy. She could only circle around Aozora, pestering him about the rescue mission.
"Aozora, Aozora! How did you deal with that Cloud Jonin? Did you use some kind of dirty trick?"
Sensing the occasional gazes around him, Aozora made something up. "Heh! A mere Cloud Jonin, and you think I needed dirty tricks?
The moment I opened my Sharingan, he was so scared he nearly pissed himself. Then I unleashed the ultimate move I'd trained so hard to master—Heavenly Fire Descends.
This Fire Release is an S-Rank Ninjutsu I researched for a long time. Forget one Cloud Jonin—even if the Raikage himself came, he wouldn't get off easy..."
Sai was speechless. "Do you take me for an idiot?"
Aozora glanced at her and thought, Aren't you?
After walking for a while longer, Sai grew bored again and came over to ask, "Then tell me how you wounded Yugito Nii."
Aozora rolled his eyes and casually said, "Hah, my Flying Daggers can cut down more than just Yugito. Even the Six Paths Sage would fall to my blade.
If she hadn't been so pretty that my hand went soft when I threw it, that knife wouldn't have missed..."
Chatting and joking all the way, the two teams finally returned