Su Yu surveyed the destruction Naruto and his two teammates had caused, then looked at the three of them and nodded in satisfaction.
"Very good. Your performance has met my expectations!"
With Su Yu's approval, Naruto and Sakura beamed, and even the corners of Sasuke's mouth rose.
"Then I hereby declare this month of special training over!"
"Yeah!" Naruto cheered.
"Mr. Su Yu, thank you very much!" Sakura and Sasuke expressed their thanks.
"Come on, come on! Let's go get ramen!"
Naruto had not eaten ramen in a month, but he had not forgotten its flavor. Instead, whenever he thought of ramen, its taste seemed to surface on his tongue and in his mouth, making him drool uncontrollably.
During their month of training, Konoha's Anbu had frantically searched for Orochimaru's whereabouts, but found nothing.
This did not mean the Anbu were useless. Rather, Orochimaru was too skilled at such things, and by then, he had already left Konoha and disguised himself as the Kazekage.
In fact, even Orochimaru was wavering over whether to carry out this Konoha Crush Plan.
The main reason was that an uncontrollable factor had appeared, and that factor seemed rather difficult to handle...
When he recalled Naruto unleashing the Nine-Tails' power and beating him senseless that day, his body began to ache.
An aged and weakened Third alone was nothing to him, but this Jinchūriki was rather hard to deal with.
After thinking it over, he decided to go through with it. At worst, he would have his subordinates use the Four Violet Flames Formation to seal him in with the Third. Surely, no matter how strong the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki was, he could not break through its barrier.
He only needed to kill the Third inside. After that, with his escape techniques, no one could keep