ANBU Ninja Invades the Basement

Near Uchiha Gōka's home in the real ninja world.

Four ANBU ninja dressed in black robes and wearing cat-face masks watched Uchiha Gōka's house.

"Eh? It's already late at night. They went through a hidden little door just now, so why haven't they come back out?"

"That hidden little door seems to lead to an underground passage."

"Could there be some unspeakable secret?"

After waiting for a while, the four ANBU ninja hidden nearby still did not see Uchiha Gōka or Tsunade emerge.

They could no longer hold themselves back.

"Lord Hokage ordered us to keep Uchiha Gōka under close surveillance."

"We must know Uchiha Gōka's every move."

"Right! We can't let Uchiha Gōka slip out of the ANBU's sight and control."

"Last time, Might Duy, Hatake Sakumo, and five others secretly reached an agreement at Uchiha Gōka's home, putting Konoha's higher-ups on the back foot during the regular Konoha meeting."

"We absolutely cannot let something similar happen again!"

"Let's go! We'll go in and investigate."

At once, four black shadows quietly infiltrated Uchiha Gōka's courtyard and headed toward the basement's hidden passage...

The Pure Land.

Nawaki jumped to conclusions, thinking that the robust and handsome young man before him had killed his sister, Tsunade.

He spread his arms and shielded Tsunade behind him.

Nawaki glared at Uchiha Gōka with his brows raised and eyes wide with fury, his gaze sharp as blades.

"You're from the Uchiha Clan?"

"Why are you here?"

"Did you kill my sister?"

Nawaki's words left both Uchiha Gōka and Tsunade utterly stunned.

Tsunade suddenly stepped forward.

"Hey! Nawaki!"

"Your sister isn't dead!"

Nawaki looked completely bewildered and confused.

"Only people who die in the real ninja world come to the Pure Land."

"If you're already in the Pure Land, Sister, how could you not be dead?"

So, Tsunade briefly explained the Resurrection Technique to Nawaki.

She told Nawaki that Uchiha Gōka had exhausted his physical and spiritual energy to reunite the siblings.

After hearing Tsunade's explanation, Nawaki stared at Uchiha Gōka in astonishment.

"This guy actually developed such an incredible forbidden technique—the Resurrection Technique!"

"This forbidden technique directly shattered the barrier between the real ninja world and the Pure Land."

"What a terrifying guy!"

Seeing that Tsunade and Uchiha Gōka's soul bodies were hazy, illusory, and somewhat unstable, as though they might disperse at any moment—

Nawaki then looked at his own soul body, which was solid.

Only then did he believe what his sister Tsunade had said.

Then Nawaki raised his head to look at Uchiha Gōka, gratitude surfacing in his eyes.

"Thank you for helping my sister and me meet again."

Nawaki noticed Uchiha Gōka's clothing and the clan crest upon it, and grew curious about his identity.

"Um..."

"You're from the Uchiha Clan?"

"How did my sister end up with someone from the Uchiha Clan?"

Before his death, Nawaki knew that the Senju Clan and the Uchiha Clan did not seem to have a very harmonious relationship.

The two clans did not even associate with one another.

Tsunade hurriedly explained.

"He is the Uchiha Clan's new clan head."

As those words fell, Uchiha Nawaki's heart jolted.

"The Uchiha Clan's clan head?"

Nawaki knew that the previous head of the Uchiha Clan had been Madara Uchiha.

After Madara Uchiha died—

The Uchiha Clan's talents had withered away.

Many years had passed without a successor being chosen as clan head.

Nawaki carefully studied Uchiha Gōka and thought to himself, This handsome young man, who isn't much younger than Sister Tsunade, actually succeeded Madara Uchiha as the new clan head...

He is definitely no ordinary person!

As Nawaki examined Uchiha Gōka's face, he furrowed his brow in confusion, finding the face somewhat unfamiliar.

"Sister, I remember that the Uchiha Clan didn't seem to have any ninja more outstanding than Uchiha Fugaku."

"I don't think I ever saw him much in the village before..."

"Oh! Right! Sister, what is your relationship with him?"

That question immediately stumped Tsunade.

Tsunade's delicate brows knit slightly, and her expression turned hesitant as she did not know how to answer Nawaki.

Friends?

But Karmic Fire and Tsunade's relationship had long gone beyond the bounds of friendship.

Lovers?

But neither of them had opened their hearts to the other.

Seeing his sister Tsunade looking embarrassed and remaining silent...

Nawaki immediately understood.

"Ha! I get it! Sister is dating someone—he's her boyfriend."

"Sister actually has a boyfriend now!!!"

Thirteen-year-old Nawaki's young face was filled with delight.

A faint blush flashed across Tsunade's cheeks.

However, Tsunade quickly realized that Uchiha Gōka's body had not yet recovered, and he could only barely sustain the two of them in reaching the Pure Land.

This trip to the Pure Land was brief and time was tight. They could not delay.

So Tsunade spoke.

"Listen to me, Nawaki."

"Clan Head Karmic Fire has severely depleted his physical and spiritual energy. We can only stay in the Pure Land for a short time this visit."

"Also, Clan Head Karmic Fire is developing a perfect Resurrection Technique. I believe it won't be long before he can revive you."

Hearing his sister Tsunade's words, Nawaki's heart shook, and delight appeared in his eyes.

"I can be revived?"

Then Nawaki turned his gaze back to Uchiha Gōka. There was even more shock in his eyes as he thought, Sister's boyfriend... is so strong! He really isn't ordinary!

The Resurrection Technique he developed can even revive me after I've died!?

As Tsunade and Nawaki spoke...

All of a sudden!

Uchiha Gōka sensed an abrupt change in the real ninja world.

"Not good!"

"The spiritual energy I left behind in my body in the real ninja world has let me sense that someone has broken into the basement!"

Karmic Fire's words made Tsunade's expression change sharply.

"What!"

"How could anyone dare break into the basement???"

If Uchiha Gōka and Tsunade's bodies in the real world were destroyed, the consequences would be unimaginable.

If it truly came to that, Uchiha Gōka and Tsunade would remain in the Pure Land forever.

Without the slightest hesitation!

Uchiha Gōka swiftly formed hand seals.

"Resurrection Technique! Return!"

Their soul bodies instantly became two yellow meteors and streaked toward the distant horizon.

In the real ninja world, two streaks of yellow light cut across the sky as they flew toward Uchiha Gōka's home...

A moment later.

Uchiha Gōka and Tsunade's soul bodies returned to their bodies in the real world.

The moment their souls settled back into place, faint rustling sounds rang out in the room.

Inside the basement.

Four black shadows crept stealthily into the basement and discovered Uchiha Gōka and Tsunade sitting on the bed without the slightest reaction.

After hiding in the shadows and observing them from afar for a while—

Uchiha Gōka and Tsunade remained motionless for a long time, as though they were two wooden statues.

The four ANBU ninja were deeply puzzled and unable to make sense of it.

They desperately wanted to find out what the two of them were doing.

So, driven by curiosity—

The four ANBU ninja gathered their courage and gradually crept closer...

They watched Uchiha Gōka and Tsunade, seated on the bed, from close range.

"They're sitting facing each other on the bed with their eyes closed."

"They look like they fell asleep sitting up."

"We came in, yet they didn't notice us at all!"

"What are they doing?"

Uchiha Gōka and Tsunade sat still on the bed with their eyes closed, concentrating.

The four ANBU ninja found it exceedingly strange.

Suddenly, Uchiha Gōka and Tsunade snapped their eyes open!

"Whoosh!"

The four ANBU ninja in the basement were thoroughly startled!

The instant he opened his eyes, Uchiha Gōka's face was pale and weak.

Tsunade did not look much better.

This was because they had been disturbed from outside during the activation of the Resurrection Technique.

Uchiha Gōka and Tsunade's physical and spiritual energy had suffered backlash.

As the one who activated the Resurrection Technique, Uchiha Gōka suffered a far more severe backlash.

After opening their eyes, Uchiha Gōka and Tsunade saw the four ANBU ninja in the basement.

Uchiha Gōka forced himself upright and said coldly, "How dare you trespass into my home without permission!"

When Tsunade saw the four people dressed in black robes and wearing cat-face masks, she naturally knew they were ANBU ninja, and rage rose in her heart.

"Damn that old man Sarutobi!!!"