Witty Naruto Life

Chapter 128: Secret Confrontation with Orochimaru

Chapter 128: Secret Confrontation with Orochimaru (4000 words)
The old father raised his eyebrows, snatched the gift box from Yachu's hand, and looked at it carefully.

Sasuke immediately frowned.

Afterwards, Haruno Zhao put the gift box aside and asked in a questioning tone: "What is your purpose?"

"Ok?"

Sasuke froze in place, he had clearly stated that the gift was given to express gratitude, but he still chose to ask again.

It's confirmed, he knows everything.

Sasuke took a deep breath and prepared to confront the two elders: "I know... I'm sorry, I didn't mean to disturb your lives. It was just a coincidence that I had this connection with Sakura."

"I hope I didn't offend you."

Sasuke also had his moments of loneliness, so he could understand the feelings of the two elders.

But Haruno Zhao was very excited. He quickly sat next to Sasuke and asked anxiously: "What on earth did you do to Sakura?!"

Sasuke remained silent. He had promised Mingying not to tell anyone about this secret involving the fragments, and it would only make the two elders more vigilant.

He pondered for a moment and chose a reasonable excuse: "I had a heart-to-heart talk with her when I was doing the mission before."

After hearing this, Haruno Zhao's face turned pale.

This statement is really too "yellow-haired".

If it was just a normal chat, how could the Uchiha Sasuke in front of him act so guilty?
There must be some deeper meaning behind this so-called heart-to-heart talk.

"What...what do you mean? What do you mean you had a heart-to-heart talk with her?" Haruno Zhao asked repeatedly.

"husband!"

Haruno Zhao subconsciously looked at Meibuki who looked unhappy, opened his mouth, but said nothing.

He didn't know how to tell his wife.

Yabuki didn't think too much about it, she just felt that her husband was too extreme.

She also knew about Uchiha Sasuke. Sakura had mentioned it to her. He was a comrade in the same class as Naruto. She didn't understand what her husband was making such a fuss about.

Isn’t it normal to chat in between tasks?
However, Sasuke found the two elders' reactions quite interesting.

Sakura's father is very direct, while Sakura's mother is very secretive and has an attitude of "just say whatever you want, ask whatever you want".

So what should he do?

This stumped Sasuke. He was good at fighting, but he was really bad at flattery.

But since his wife has such an attitude, he might as well be more direct in his words.

"Actually, it's okay to talk about it. We were discussing our respective psychological traumas. Sakura said she had a nightmare before, dreaming of a group of rats chasing her..."

"Wait a minute, what's with the psychological trauma?" Haruno Zhao was a little confused. He didn't remember his daughter having any psychological trauma.

Or was this a hint? Was he actually saying that he had caused Sakura some psychological trauma?

So he feels guilty now and comes to apologize?

"Ah~ She talked to me about this before!" Meibuki seemed to understand something and continued with Sasuke's words: "She said she was bitten by a rat while walking through the grass. I think it was during your mission?"

Walking through the bushes? What was she hinting at? Sasuke keenly grasped this 'key information'.

Is Madam saying that the kingdom they originally lived in was in the forest? And that Sakura was injured during the escape?

Or is their country surrounded by forests?
Combined with the fact that the rat tide destroyed the country, she was implying that the rat tide destroyed the ecological environment, causing them to flee. Is this the truth behind Sakura's displacement?
However, Sasuke noticed another thing. Although the lady didn't mind sharing their past with him, she expressed it very vaguely. This might be because she was wary of the Anbu, or she hoped that I wouldn't tell this to anyone.

That's a really wise suggestion.

The three of them chatted with each other, constantly imagining things while talking about their own things, but miraculously they ended up chatting together.

It should be noted that among the three, only Haruno Meibuki thought that she was just chatting with Sasuke.

After Sasuke left with a heavy heart, Haruno Zhao sat on the sofa angrily. Meibuki frowned and ordered him to help with the housework now and not look so bitter and resentful.

Unexpectedly, Haruno Zhao suddenly said: "I think Uzumaki Naruto is better."

"what?"

"I say, Uzumaki Naruto is much better than this Uchiha Sasuke. Even if our Sakura has to choose in the future, she will choose Uzumaki Naruto!"

"Snapped!"

Yachui slapped him on the back of the head: "What nonsense are you talking about? It's incomprehensible."

But after a pause, she added: "But it is true that Naruto is better."

"Hmm? You think so too?" Haruno Zhao raised his eyebrows.

"It's not that Sasuke is bad, I just feel like there's something odd about this kid... I was just chatting with him about some family matters, but he looked so serious and made a fuss out of nothing."

She had heard from the villagers that the Uchiha clan members were a little mentally abnormal, but she didn't quite believe it.

Now it does seem a bit abnormal.

Naruto is still better.

At this moment, on the wall next to Sakura's house.

A tall figure in white stopped meditating, slowly stood up, and said respectfully to the pink-haired girl in front of him:

"After listening, they chatted about family matters for a long time without mentioning any confidential information."

Sakura frowned slightly and asked, "Are you sure? Sasuke isn't hinting at anything?"

"He mentioned your psychological trauma, and then your mother talked about the experience of you being bitten by a rat while on a mission. Sasuke didn't continue the topic."

"...Repeat everything the three of them said tonight, word for word."

"Yes."

After a long while, Sakura sighed and said, "I know. Thank you for your hard work tonight."

"It's my pleasure."

The man in white bowed respectfully and then disappeared into the night.

Sakura shook her head. She still didn't know what Sasuke knew. This conversation was too weird.

It feels like an act.

She walked back to her door and knocked.

On the other side, Sasuke was walking home.

"Some of what Sakura's mother said today matched my guesses, but some were strange."

"I always feel like something is wrong..."

He paused, thinking hard, and a guess came to his mind:
Maybe his previous guess about Sakura was wrong.

"The only thing that's certain is that Sakura was really bitten by a rat."

This still doesn't mean anything. It's normal for girls to suffer psychological trauma from mice.

Return to the cold home.

Sasuke sat at his desk, looking at the photos taken by Team 7 and gently dusting them off.

He sat there for a moment, then took out a notebook from the cabinet and wrote on it:
【Question 1: What did Sakura experience in the past? 】

[Question 2: Why did Naruto change so much? ]

[Question 3: What are they hiding from me?]

Then, Sasuke wrote two more sentences:
What did they experience together that led to Questions 2 and 3?

Rats are not the key factor

[Clue: Sakura's inner world - a school environment that is different from Konoha]

Sasuke felt like he was just one key clue away from connecting the dots. Just one small hint.

After writing and looking at it for a few seconds, he tore up the paper and burned it, then went to the training ground.

Keep practicing.

……

The next morning, Tance Street.

Naruto got up on time, shot up, quickly gathered himself, and headed outside.

He kept thinking on the way.

Finding the bargaining chip that would satisfy Tsunade within two days was essentially the same as Orochimaru's promise to resurrect Tsunade's lover, which was to fulfill her wish.

Naruto doesn't know how to use the move "Resurrect My Love!", so he has to choose an alternative.

After thinking painfully for most of the night, he finally realized: the answer had actually been there for a long time.

Tsunade has many wishes: such as reforming the medical system, eliminating the root causes of war, seeing her lover again, etc.

It is very difficult to achieve these great wishes, so Naruto chose a smaller wish: to cure hemophobia.

Naruto has the fragment, and he can enter Tsunade's memory space and greatly alleviate Tsunade's illness by defeating her inner demon.

He believed that fragments + reasonable psychological counseling could enable Tsunade to overcome her hemophobia in the shortest possible time, at least to prevent her from being unable to move after seeing blood.

However, this also raises a question: How to explain the existence of the fragments? Or, how to complete psychological treatment without letting Tsunade see the fragments?

Solve this problem and everything will fall into place.

After breakfast, I immediately consulted with Sakura.

He quickened his pace, but soon realized something was wrong.

The surrounding environment seems a little too quiet.

He looked at the building beside him and suddenly found that the surrounding environment seemed to be distorted, and his eyelids became heavy.

Naruto seems to be in danger!
He almost instinctively disrupted the chakra in his body, and then in a half-awake state, he took out a kunai from his ninja tool bag and stabbed it hard into his leg!
"puff!"

The illusion is lifted.

Naruto woke up instantly and found himself in an alley. He immediately wanted to fly away using Flying Thunder God!
"Haha, don't be so anxious."

The hoarse voice made Naruto's eyelids jump. He took out the Flying Thunder God Kunai with one hand and began to condense the Rasengan with the other hand. He took a fighting stance.

From behind, footsteps were approaching Naruto. His ears moved and he was about to launch a Rasengan at the enemy behind him, but the next moment, his wrist was caught by a strong hand.

"I thought you were going to cut my muscles."

Without turning around, Naruto spoke coldly to the person behind him, who smiled and responded warmly, "Naruto-kun, why are you so excited?"

This was the voice of Kabuto Yakushi, and behind him, Orochimaru was slowly walking towards Naruto.

"Uzumaki Naruto... we meet again."

There was a thin layer of sweat on his face and he was not in good condition. Naruto turned slightly and considered whether to fly away immediately.

But reason told him to listen to what the two men had to say first.

"Long time no see, Orochimaru. How are your hands?"

"Thank you for your concern, I'll be fine soon," Orochimaru said calmly. "But you, you told me last time that you wanted my Heaven's Curse Seal, right?"

"I can give it to you right now."

"Sorry, I'm not in a good mood today and don't really want to accept your gift."

Kabuto narrowed his eyes and was about to say something when he saw that the Rasengan in Naruto's hand suddenly began to spread out and no longer maintained its previous stability!
"boom!"

Kabuto subconsciously let go, and a chakra cyclone scratched his arm, leaving a thin bloody mark. Naruto's hand holding the Rasengan was even worse off, leaving many bloody marks, looking bloody.

This is equivalent to deliberately letting the high-speed rotating chakra get out of control, causing it to explode disorderly around the arm, reducing its lethality and expanding its killing range.

Kabuto frowned slightly, he found that Naruto's hand had begun to make a 'sizzling' sound, obviously recovering from the injury.

Turning around and glancing at Kabuto, Naruto said calmly, "Don't worry, these are just scratches. Kyuubi will help me recover."

Naruto's attitude was very clear - if you want me to surrender, you have to pay a price.

Orochimaru looked at Naruto's reaction and couldn't help licking his lips. What a beautiful realization.

"Hehe, Naruto, I really like you more and more."

"I don't deserve it. You're the best at being ruthless," Naruto said, scanning the surroundings. "But blocking me so early in the morning isn't the intention to recruit a disciple, is it?"

Kabuto nodded: "Indeed. But we also have good intentions. After all, you are a seedling that Lord Orochimaru values."

"You're saying this with good intentions, 'Stay away from Tsunade, or we'll treat you badly,' right?"

Naruto stuck the Flying Thunder God Kunai at his feet and said in a deep voice: "Let's compete fairly and see who can win Tsunade's favor."

His idea was simple, not to confront Orochimaru head-on, but to complete the task in the simplest way.

In the original work, Orochimaru gave Tsunade a week to consider, but Naruto only took two days to intercept Tsunade, so the advantage was in his hands.

Orochimaru was slightly stunned, then wiped off the sweat and laughed hoarsely:
"Interesting, very interesting. You seem determined to get Tsuna."

"That's not the case, but I don't think you can offer any good conditions."

"why?"

Naruto smiled and shook his head slowly at the two of them: "Your information has been made public in Konoha. Impure World Reincarnation is amazing, and this technique just 'perfectly' meets Tsunade's needs. Am I right?"

Orochimaru narrowed his eyes slightly: "Then why do you say that I can't offer good conditions?"

"Because Tsunade healed your hands, you are going to put the destruction of Konoha on the agenda. She will never agree to this."

At this point, Kabuto couldn't help but retort: "What makes you think Lord Orochimaru will definitely destroy Konoha? Maybe he has already got what he wants."

"No problem, just tell Tsunade so when the time comes."

Naruto's tone was somewhat disdainful, as if he had determined that the two were just deceiving him and that his plan to destroy Konoha would not waver.

Orochimaru did not refute him, but was just thinking: Can Uzumaki Naruto come up with anything better?
Although he was caught off guard and even a little embarrassed, he was not panicked and did not feel embarrassed by our arrival.

He will surely be able to offer better terms.

Thinking of this, Orochimaru came up with an idea.

"What a pity, Naruto, what a pity," Orochimaru sighed and spoke slowly.

"I originally thought you were a good seedling. The Third Hokage thought so highly of you. If he had you, those old guys in Konoha would be furious."

"But now I think it might be a good idea to keep you here forever."

Naruto narrowed his eyes and said, "You can't keep me..."

Unexpectedly, Orochimaru suddenly answered: "Flying Thunder God Technique, right?"

Naruto was silent.

At this time, Orochimaru smiled and said: "You can return to Konoha immediately, but I will definitely take Jiraiya's life."

It was 6:40 in the morning. Jiraiya had drunk a lot of alcohol last night and was still hungover.

Naruto frowned slightly.

He wasn't sure Orochimaru could do it.