When we arrived at the back mountain where we practiced before, Naruto habitually opened Good and Evil Perception and scanned the surrounding kilometers.
No ANBU, no patrolling ninjas, no strange Chakra.
After confirming that no one was around, Naruto locked his mind on the activated Flying Thunder God Mark.
Whoosh!
The next second, his figure disappeared from the spot.
Grass Country, Kusagakure.
Karin was huddled in the corner of a room, clutching Kunai engraved with a five-pointed star in both hands, his fingertips turning white and shaking from exerting too much force.
Her wrists and forearms were covered with old and new teeth marks overlapping each other.
The room she was in was very small, with only a wooden bed and an old chest.
This room was the same room her mother lived in before she died.
The same four walls, the same windows, the same decaying smell, the same mouth that opens the door every few days.
Karin has been imprisoned in this room since she returned to Kusagakure with her teammates who threw her as bait to Brown Bear.
No one asked her if she wanted to be detained, and no one told her how long she would be detained.
For her, Kusagakure has never been a hometown.
Her mother was bitten to death here, and she inherited her mother's "job" here.
Kusagakure's ninja was injured during the mission. There is no need for a medical team or hemostatic medicine. He only needs to walk into this room, open his mouth and bite her arm, and then the wound will heal.
No matter how serious the injury is, as long as she can bite her, she will survive.
She is Kusagakure's most efficient medical resource and the cheapest painkiller.
After Konoha Crush Plan, the situation at the Fire Country border became tense. Although the major countries had not yet publicly declared war, the small buffer countries in the middle had begun to be affected.
Kusagakure As a small ninja village next to the border of Fire Country, the frequency of frictions during this period has skyrocketed, and the number of injured ninjas has also doubled.
And the more injured ninjas, the more people knocked on her door.
Today's batch is the fourth batch of people who came after Karin returned to Kusagakure. On average, there are three batches a day, one in the morning, one in the afternoon and one in the evening.
Karin pushed up his glasses and looked down at Kunai in his hand.
The five-pointed star on the handle reflects a very weak dark red light in the light, like a faint light coming from the darkness.
She touched the five-pointed star pattern, then gritted her teeth and injected all the little Chakra left in her body into Kunai.
Naruto said that as long as you enter Chakra into it, he will come.
Karin is not sure whether this sentence is true.
She only knew Naruto for just one night.
She never saw Naruto again after that night, but she kept the Kunai in her ninja bag. She gritted her teeth and kept silent when she was bitten during the day, and only took it out at night when she was huddled in a corner alone.
Touching the five-pointed star on it, Karin remembered what Naruto said to her by the campfire.
At this time, there was a chaotic sound of footsteps and the sound of metal collision outside the door.
"Karin That girl probably hasn't slept yet. She never sleeps at night. All she needs is a bite. Last time I was cut by Wind Release and her femoral artery was cut. The bleeding stopped after I bit her!
"Simply faster than Bleeding Stop Technique in the medical class."
A hoarse male voice sounded.
"Stop talking nonsense and hurry up. The wound on my shoulder has been infected for two days. If it continues any longer, my entire arm will be disabled."
"It's really all thanks to Karin this time. With her here, our Kusagakure can even save time on medical classes."
A young voice echoed, with a sense of matter-of-factness in his tone.
"I said, why are you two so anxious? She is in the house and can't escape."
"Anyway, she can't do anything except get bitten. Her mother came here the same way back then. This girl's physique is better than her mother!"
"This is our Kusagakure's precious wealth, hahahaha..."
A voice laughed and punched the iron door with his fist, causing the rust on the door to fall off.
Karin was listening to the conversation outside the door, biting his lip so hard that it was bleeding.
But Karin feels no pain.
She looked down at the Kunai in her hand. She didn't want to be bitten as a blood bag anymore.
In the past, she could still numb herself. This was something her mother had done. There was nothing she could do about it. This was her only value. Being bitten was better than dying on the battlefield.
But now she doesn't want to.
Naruto spoke to her by the fire, like a seed buried in the soil. After returning to Kusagakure, not only did it not wither, but it grew wildly, watered by loneliness and fear during the days of imprisonment.
"If you don't want to be locked in that room anymore, come to Konoha later!"
"You can choose to be a ninja, or you can choose to be an ordinary civilian and do what you want."
"We are all Uzumaki clan, so we should take care of each other."
Karin Hold Kunai tightly, inject all the last trace of Chakra into it, and then close your eyes.
clang clang clang...
The iron door opened from the outside, and there was a sharp hiss when it was pushed open.
Just when Karin was in despair.
"Whoosh!"
The figure of Naruto appeared in the room without warning, appearing in front of Karin like a golden beam of light.
"Karin!"
Naruto lowered his head and looked at the girl Red-Hair who was huddled in the corner. His eyes swept over the layers of teeth marks on her arms, and the temperature in his eyes instantly dropped several degrees.
Karin raised his head, and the moment he saw Naruto, the tight fear, grievance and despair on his face exploded at the same time.
She rushed over from the corner and hugged Naruto's waist, burying her face in Naruto's chest, her shoulders shaking violently, and tears rolling down from behind her lenses.
"Naruto...Naruto You are finally here!"
Karin's voice was muffled in Naruto's clothes, intermittently, pouring out all the expectations and fears that had been accumulated for more than ten years.
"Okay, Karin!"
"Don't be afraid, I'm coming."
Naruto's hand gently patted Karin's back, and at the same time he raised his head and looked at the surrounding environment.
I sensed that more than a dozen Chakras were rapidly approaching this room from different directions, and at least three of them reached the Jōnin level.
The fastest one is already less than twenty meters away from the door.
"Naruto, take me out of here."
"They're going to bite me. They're going to bite me to death like they killed my mother!"
"I don't want to be bitten, I want to leave this place."
Karin raised his head and cried out all his grievances.
"Okay..."
Naruto said one word, then looked down at Karin's eyes. "But before I take you away, Karin, do you want revenge?"
"I can help you get back the harm they have done to you, the years of imprisonment and oppression."
Karin was stunned.
revenge
This word had existed in her mind countless times, but she had never thought of realizing it.
Her power is too weak, her Kekkei Genkai heals instead of attacks, and now she can't even defeat Kusagakure's Genin, let alone the entire Kusagakure.
"Is it really okay?"
Karin with a hint of disbelief.
Naruto nodded.
Karin was silent for a few seconds and then raised his head, his eyes burning with a light that he had never seen before.
"People in this village like to plagiarize Ninjutsu from other ninja villages. From defecting to a big country to betraying the alliance, everyone only talks about interests."
"My mother was squeezed out to the last drop of blood by them in the calculation of interests..."
"I want this to end so they can never do the same thing to anyone again."
"I understand."