Wood Release: Impaling Prison

Shao Nan had fought a fierce battle with Ayame and Yugito Nii. The fighting had been intense.

Yet Shao Nan had still held the winning hand and emerged completely victorious.

Both Ayame and Yugito Nii had disarmed and surrendered.

When he woke up, it was already noon.

Shao Nan led Karin Uzumaki to the gates of the Senju Compound.

"Wife, take good care of Chino. Don't worry about me."

"Hubby, make sure you protect Karin!"

"Dad, I only took one nap. And you've already brought me back another mom!!!"

Nestled in Ayame's arms, Chino said this in her childish voice.

"Master, I want to go too!"

"Hanabi, don't make trouble. Your master is going to handle serious business!

While I'm gone, you're not allowed to slack off in your training.

Otherwise, if your strength declines, I'll spank you when I get back."

Maruboshi Kosuke poked his head out through the security booth window and said:

"Lord Shao Nan, don't you need me to come with you?"

Shao Nan waved him off. "Kosuke, just stay home and help me protect them. That way, I won't have anything to worry about!"

Then he looked at Yugito Nii with a grin. "Hehe, does becoming my wife feel good?"

Yugito Nii blushed. "What nonsense are you talking about? It doesn't feel... feel good at all!"

"Haha, wait until I get back. I'll give you something even better when I return!

I'm counting on you to watch the house too, Yugito!"

At that moment, Hanabi shouted, "Master, what feels good? Let me feel good too!"

Yugito Nii gave Hanabi a helpless look. "Hanabi, don't listen to what your master says."

Hanabi asked curiously, "But I can't disobey my master!"

Shao Nan laughed loudly. "Hanabi, you truly are my good disciple. When you grow up, your master will make you feel good too!"

"Master, really? You can't lie to me!"

Ayame could no longer stand listening to the exchange between this master and disciple.

"Let's go inside! Yugito, take this little girl Hanabi inside too."

After all the women and family members had gone indoors, Shao Nan took Karin's hand.

Golden light flashed through his eyes, revealing Shao Nan's golden Mangekyō Sharingan.

Two golden double-pointed kunai with hooked barbs formed a crossed pattern, with an ∞ symbol at the intersection.

"Let's go."

Shao Nan and Karin vanished from where they stood.

From inside the security booth, Kosuke stared blankly after seeing this.

His mouth hung wide open, several teeth clearly visible.

After a long while, Kosuke muttered to himself, "He truly is a godlike man!"

In the blink of an eye, Shao Nan and Karin arrived within the borders of the Land of Grass.

The Land of Grass lay between the Land of Fire, the Land of Earth, the Land of Rain, and the Land of Waterfalls.

It was also located along the western border of the Land of Fire.

It was filled with towering mountains and forests.

A small nation with few inhabitants.

This place had once been one of the major battlefields of the Third Shinobi World War. The Battle of Kannabi Bridge had taken place in the Land of Grass.

Kusagakure had no Grass Shadow.

The ninjas here specialized in researching, using, and deciphering the ninjutsu of other nations.

Kusagakure seemed to have only one particularly famous ninja.

That was the Preta Path of the Six Paths of Pain.

Shao Nan did not understand. How had Karin and the Uzumaki clan members been captured, and why had they been unable to escape!?

Could it be that there were no powerful figures among the fleeing Uzumaki clan members?

"Karin, how many Uzumaki clan members are left now? Where are they!?"

"Brother Shao Nan, there are eight clan members left. They're all in the ninja hospital, under surveillance!"

After hearing that, golden light radiated from Shao Nan's Mangekyō Sharingan.

The power of his left eye activated once more.

Godfall.

In the blink of an eye, he brought Karin to the ninja hospital of the Land of Grass.

"This is the place, right, Karin?"

Before them stood a white building located in the center of Kusagakure.

Two large words were written above it: Hospital!

Just then, two Kusagakure ninjas spotted Shao Nan and Karin.

"Karin? Weren't you out on a mission?"

After seeing the two of them, Karin

seemed to recall certain enraging memories.

Her fists clenched tightly, her body trembled slightly, and her face flushed red.

Furious beyond measure, she shouted, "Release my clan members at once!!!"

One of the Land of Grass ninjas had dark skin and gray hair.

He pulled out a kunai and toyed with it in his hand.

"Did you get the Scroll of Sealing, Karin?"

"You must have gotten it, right? Otherwise, how could you have returned so quickly?" said the other Land of Grass ninja.

"Let your clan members go? Sure! Hahaha, hand over the Scroll of Sealing first!"

Karin's eyes widened, as though she were afraid.

From their conversation, Shao Nan seemed to have picked up on something.

Karin's participation in Konoha's Chunin Exams must have been for a mission.

And the target had actually been the Scroll of Sealing.

The Scroll of Sealing seemed to have been returned by Hiruzen Sarutobi to Tsunade.

It was currently still kept in the Senju Compound.

After all, it had belonged to Hashirama Senju, the First Hokage.

Shao Nan gripped Karin's hand and asked, "Karin, you know where the clan members are being held, right?"

Just as Shao Nan finished speaking,

a rough voice rang in his ears. "Outsider, did you pay the protection fee before entering the Land of Grass?"

Shao Nan ignored the Land of Grass ninja and continued comforting Karin, whose body was trembling slightly.

"Karin, do they still hold your clan members' lives in their hands?"

Karin raised her head and carefully replied, "The clan members are imprisoned in the hospital.

But they were all forced to take poison. I... I was no exception. They have the antidote."

In the original story, Karin had been saved by Uchiha Sasuke, who had not bothered with anything afterward.

After Karin escaped from the Land of Grass, she had been captured by two nameless, insignificant ninjas.

Just as Karin was captured, a pitch-black giant snake swallowed the two insignificant ninjas whole.

Orochimaru made his dazzling entrance,

saving Karin

and giving her a choice: follow him, or continue barely surviving in the Ninja World.

Perhaps Orochimaru had been the one to remove the poison from Karin's body.

But those Uzumaki clan members had never appeared in the original story.

Could they all have died when the poison took effect? Was that why Karin had chosen to flee the Land of Grass?

Since it was poison, it would be child's play for Snake Lady.

Shao Nan wrapped his left arm around Karin and confidently told her, "The Land of Grass ninjas have committed countless evils, bullying the weak while fearing the strong. There is no need for them to exist!"

Tears streamed down Karin's face as she cried softly in Shao Nan's arms. "But if you kill them, without the antidote, my clan members will suffer worse than death!"

"It's fine, Karin! We just need to seize the antidote."

"But, but... Brother Shao Nan, your desire to kill is so strong. I'm afraid it will affect your great ambition of unifying the Ninja World in the future."

After seeing that his words had been ignored, the Land of Grass ninja angrily strode over.

He pointed his kunai at Shao Nan and shouted:

"Didn't you hear me? I told you to pay the protection fee. Are you deaf?"

A black wooden spike appeared in Shao Nan's right hand.

Then he swung it toward the ground through the air.

Whoosh~

Wood Release: Impaling Prison.

The wooden spike naturally embedded itself in the ground.

Swish, swish, swish!

In the blink of an eye, with Shao Nan and Karin at the center,

countless horrifying wooden spikes thrust forth irregularly from every direction.

Squelch, squelch, squelch~

The two Land of Grass ninjas died instantly.

Sharp black wooden spikes pierced their bodies at random, impaling them to death.

One of the Land of Grass ninjas was directly pierced from the anus upward through his head by a wooden spike.

Even an enema could not compare to that!

"Karin, you're right. I shouldn't kill them all. They are my subjects, after all.

But without rules, there can be no order."