On the Night of the Nine-Tails, I forcibly plundered the Nine-Tails Chakra and sealed it into a scroll. I don't want to experience that pain of loss again.
"You can't learn this; only those who have reached a certain level in Wood Release can."
"There was a reason why the Fifth Tsunade, appointed me as the captain of Team Kakashi."
"All I can do for Naruto is some trivial thing."
"What we can do isn't about how important it is, but rather how much we care about Naruto."
At that moment, Naruto was lying on the ground, murmured as he woke up.
"It hurts so much!"
Naruto
"What's wrong with me?"
"And then, what exactly did I do?"
"Hey, Sakura!"
"Huh? Sakura, why are you crying?"
"No, something just got into my eye," Sakura said, rubbing her eyes and shaking her head.
"Ah! It must be that sharp- Sai, saying something hurtful."
"Like a fat pig, a woman with Super Strength, and the like."
Li Yu instinctively covered the back of his head and walked away a short distance.
" Sai didn't say those things, don't add anything on his own!"
Sakura swung her fist and Naruto Naruto, ruining the good atmosphere once again.
"Speaking of which, where's Nawaki, Captain Sai?"
"Well, let's go after them and see."
As they spoke, the group crossed the non-existent Heaven and Earth Bridge cliff and arrived at the battlefield where Naruto and Orochimaru had fought.
"The bridge is destroyed, the cliff is gone, and the place is in this state."
"What exactly happened?" Naruto asked, puzzled.
"These are all the results of my fighting."
"What"
"That's right, Captain Nawaki did all of this. Naruto, you were knocked unconscious by Orochimaru." Sakura didn't intend to tell Naruto the truth about turning into a terrifying monster.
"Really? Is Uncle Nawaki that amazing?" Naruto still looked unconvinced, as if he were about to beat his chest in frustration.
Sakura suddenly seemed to have discovered something on the ground, and bent down to pick up a small picture book from under the scroll.
Sai's things are still scattered here.
"This sketchbook must be very important to Sai," Li Yu said as he walked over and glanced at the sketchbook in Sakura's hand.
Then the group began to discuss Sai's purpose and talked about Danzo.
They even linked Danzo to the Konoha Crush Plan.
"After the system collapses, build your ideal Konoha."
"Then, as Hokage, step into the limelight once again!"
Li Yu listened to Sakura's analysis with some surprise. He hadn't expected that she had already analyzed Danzo's purpose so thoroughly. It seemed that Tsunade had instilled the Will of Fire into her disciple quite a bit.
This statement successfully provoked the anger of the protagonist, Naruto, adding another layer of disgust to the protagonist's view of Danzo's Danzo nature.
"Continue the pursuit of Orochimaru and find Sasuke."
"Set off"
Li Yu, along with Naruto and Sakura, chased after Orochimaru and the others in the direction they had gone.
"Hurry up, we have a good chance of catching Sasuke this time."
Sasuke's two words were very motivating, instantly energizing the exhausted Naruto and Sakura.
Li Yu, who was observing Naruto, thought, "This kid's recovery is pretty strong. He was a bit unsteady on his feet just now, but I didn't expect him to be able to keep up with my pace for so long."
Naruto and Sakura diligently followed behind Li Yu, running quickly over the large tree trunks.
"Stop and rest for five minutes."
After traveling for more than half an hour, Sakura and Naruto were a little exhausted, so Li Yu told them to stop to take care of them.
"Please come here for a moment, you two."
"Hurry up!" Sakura held Sai's sketchbook, as if she had discovered something.
"This looks like Sai," Naruto, seeing Sai on the cover of the art book.
"This sketchbook of Sai that we just found, right? Did you find anything inside?" Li Yu asked knowingly.
"Yes, I want to understand what's inside so I can understand Sai."
"What kind of story is it?" Naruto asked eagerly.
"I don't understand the content very well; there's no dialogue or text at all. Judging from the cover, it depicts the story of two teenagers."
"Oh"
"Uncle Nawaki, do you understand?"
"That's about right, let's flip it to the middle."
Sakura quickly flipped the sketchbook to the middle page, which contained only a half-finished drawing of Sai on one side, and a blank page on the other.
"Speaking of Sai, we must mention Sai's selection method. Danzo's selection process involved pairing up the two closest to each other to complete numerous missions."
"This is also what was depicted in the previous illustrations. The final test involves two people facing off, severing all emotions and bonds. Only one can survive and become a heartless killing machine that only knows how to obey Danzo's orders."
"What?" Danzo's dark side reignited Naruto's anger.
" Danzo so despicable"
"That's right, Sai probably hasn't gotten over the last battle."
"Could he have killed him?" Sakura wondered.
"That's unclear. Perhaps it was a deliberate suicide by one of them. We'll have to wait for Sai to say for sure."
Sakura and Naruto each lowered their heads, lost in their own thoughts.
Li Yu could also guess a little about these things. Naruto was definitely thinking of Sasuke, Sakura was thinking about how to understand Sai.
Because Naruto and Sasuke had several major battles, Sakura didn't feel the bond Naruto Sasuke very deeply.
"It's about time we set off."
Unlike Yamato in the original story, Li Yu didn't rely on Wood Release Clone to track Orochimaru, yet he was able to accurately locate Orochimaru's position.
It wasn't the traces left by Orochimaru and his group that mattered, but rather the increasingly strong Yin-Yang Release Technique seal.
Before Sasuke them, Li Yu sealed the Yin-Yang Release Technique within Sasuke's body. Sasuke is now Li Yu's guiding light, leading the group forward.
The three of them soon arrived near Orochimaru's secret base, a secret base inside a rocky mountain.
Li Yu quickly Hand Seals, used the Senju Clan's sensing technique, and closed his eyes to sense it for a while.
"Yes, this is it. There are five familiar Chakra fluctuations inside."
" Orochimaru, Kabuto, Yamato, Sai, and..."
Naruto and Sakura looked at Li Yu nervously, as if expecting something.
"And there's also Sasuke."
" Sasuke is here too, that's great."
"Very good"
Naruto and Sakura's fighting spirit is ignited, which is very exciting.
Originally, Li Yu could have simply gone down by himself, but now he's with two people, and they're still following Yamato's method.
He formed a series of Hand Seals on the ground, creating a large circular pit that led directly to the bottom. He easily broke through the thick stone wall and infiltrated Orochimaru's secret base.
As it turned out, Sasuke wasn't found, but Sai, who found the room first, was taken away from the base and back to the surface.
" Sai, what do you have to say? Before I tie you up," Li Yu said confidently, " Sai isn't Orochimaru; I can easily capture him."
"Let's restart the mission and rescue Sasuke!" Naruto declared confidently, clapping his hands together.
"You should just give up. I've already seen Sasuke."
" Sasuke will almost always be with Orochimaru, which means you'll have to fight Orochimaru again."