Witty Naruto Life

Chapter 168: Scorpion and Chiyo's Inner Hearts

"Eternal art..." Naruto's lips moved slightly and he looked at the shocked and stunned old man behind him.

As the one who led Scorpion to become a puppeteer and is also his relative, the one who is most conflicted and painful at this moment is undoubtedly Chiyo herself, but the current situation requires her to cut the Gordian knot and end Scorpion's life.

It’s just that in order to maintain a smooth rhythm of battle in the original work, Kishimoto expressed it very restrainedly.

Now, Naruto had to be careful with his next words.

Seeing Chiyo stunned, Scorpion couldn't help laughing when he thought of what Naruto had just said: "You still want to say I'm an antique? Maybe you two can't understand what avant-garde is?"

"Next, let me show Grandma Chiyo my most proud masterpiece."

As Scorpion spoke, he took out a scroll with one hand, on which was written the eye-catching word "three".

"Haha, it took me a lot of effort to kill him..."

"Oh!"

With a loud bang and a crackling sound, the puppet of the Third Kazekage suddenly appeared before their eyes.

"This is... the Third Kazekage!" Chiyo only felt a pain in her chest, her body trembling slightly, and was supported by Naruto.

"It's really hard for you, an old reclusive woman, to come out of the mountains. You are ill but still want to hunt me down in person." There was a gentle smile on Scorpion's face, and his mouth, which was 36 degrees Celsius, spoke words that were as cold as minus ten degrees Celsius.

Naruto helped Chiyo up and comforted her softly, "Grandma..."

But Chiyo interrupted Naruto, staring at Scorpion: "I already had too many concerns to die in peace... I never thought that my grandson would become a bad person, betraying the village and attacking the Kazekage three times..."

"Orochimaru, who killed the Fourth Kazekage, was also under your orders, right?"

Naruto didn't continue speaking, but silently placed his hand on Chiyo's shoulder, allowing him to suppress the black steam that was gushing out.

Scorpion shook his head: "The matter with Orochimaru has nothing to do with me. It was just my subordinates who instigated him to do it. But even if it was me who ordered it, so what? It doesn't matter whether he betrayed the village or not, right?"

"But you, Chiyo-chan, as a ninja, actually have so many concerns... That's why you can't create such a perfect work of art, right?"

Scorpion gently stroked the chin of the Wind Shadow Puppet, with a proud look on his face, like a child proudly showing his favorite toy to his parents.

Unexpectedly, Naruto suddenly said: "Why can't a ninja have concerns? I think you are becoming less and less like a ninja."

Naruto's words shifted Chiyo and Sasori's attention to him. The latter was obviously very disdainful. He raised his chin slightly, his eyes full of amusement.

"You, Jinchūriki, are quite unique. I remember that you were the one who spread some of the strange ideas that were popular in the village before, right?"

Scorpion was referring to the "humanistic" thought that Naruto had advocated before. In Scorpion's opinion, if he really followed this approach, he would be doomed, at least his art would be completely ruined.

"How about I teach you a little bit about what a ninja is?"

Scorpion had no intention of giving Naruto a chance to talk him into a conversation. He was not willing to listen to Naruto's chatter like the villains in traditional stories. It was meaningless.

He wanted to use the most intense crushing to completely shut Naruto's mouth!

"Qiang!"

The Wind Shadow Puppet extended a huge sickle from its right hand, which was stained with venom, and pounced towards Naruto!

"boom!!"

The sickle hit the place where Naruto and Chiyo were originally standing. In just a moment, Naruto took Chiyo and flew to a place not far behind, avoiding the fatal blow.

"Mother-in-law, you continue to control my body. When I make a gesture towards you, you will untie the chakra strings on my body."

Chiyo looked at Naruto seriously, nodded, and then stuck the chakra line back to the back of Naruto's body.

At this moment, Naruto suddenly whispered: "Grandma, I am practicing hard because I am worried about you."

He was finishing what he had not said to Chiyo. They could be at a disadvantage in battle, but they could never lose to the enemy verbally.

"Really..." Chiyo took a deep breath, her eyes becoming more determined than before. She understood what Naruto said in an instant.

Some people are strong because they have no worries, while some people are strong because they are full of worries. She and Naruto belong to the latter.

Chiyo waved her hand and the battle began.

"Click--" The sound of the puppet's mechanism echoed around. Naruto focused his eyes and found that his father and mother had joined the battle at the same time as him. The Wind Shadow Puppet stretched out its right hand, and the mechanism slowly unfolded, revealing the talisman on it.

The next moment, the spell summoned thousands of arms, each of which was stained with highly toxic venom.

Thousand Hands Martial Arts!

Naruto's right hand instantly condensed a Rasengan. Chiyo noticed this and controlled Naruto to accelerate and leap towards the millions of big hands. At the same time, the hands of the parents puppets merged and pulled out a thin steel wire.

The next moment, the speed of the parent puppets instantly surpassed Naruto, cutting Senju Sobu into pieces, while Naruto stepped on his father's back as a stepping stone and rushed straight towards Scorpion's body!
This is a clever use of visual dislocation. Naruto is allowed to run in front first, and when everyone's attention is focused on Naruto, the parent puppets suddenly exert force and jump over Naruto.

While the parent puppets dealt with the Senju, Naruto pounced on the original body again and completed the decapitation.

Scorpion's eyes were always fixed on Naruto. When Naruto ran towards him with the Rasengan, he immediately stretched out a bamboo tube from his arm and sprayed out a large amount of poisonous mist!
At the same time, Senju extended its vines, attempting to wrap around Naruto's body and trap him in the poisonous mist. At the critical moment, Naruto gestured to Senju, who immediately released the chakra line. Naruto summoned a shadow clone in the air, which transformed into a giant shuriken and was thrown directly towards Scorpion's body!
"Oh!"

The moment the shadow clone was released, Scorpion did not retreat, but instead ordered the Wind Shadow Puppet to perform ninjutsu.

"Magnet Release·Satetsu Shigure!"

In an instant, iron sand like waves appeared in the air, and then the iron sand formed countless fine needles and shot towards Naruto at a very fast speed, far exceeding the speed of the shuriken flying!

At this moment, the shuriken suddenly changed direction in mid-air! It turned from flying straight towards the scorpion and narrowly avoided the sand iron needle.

These fine needles followed their original direction and stayed in front of the scorpion's eyes, almost accidentally injuring their owner.

The moment the sand iron needle appeared, Chiyo reconnected the chakra line to Naruto and manipulated him to change the direction of flight, thus escaping the disaster.

It can be said that even when it comes to manipulating objects after transformation, Chiyo can do it with ease.

"Oh!"

The shuriken transformed back into Naruto and looked back at Chiyo.

"The condition is much better than before..." Naruto said in his heart. Chiyo was no longer as worried as before, but began to get better, as if she had returned to her former glory.

This psychological state is easy to understand. After all, ninja is the career that Chiyo has devoted her life to. Letting her return to her ninja identity is also to let her regain her original sense of achievement.

It is similar to a workaholic who becomes depressed after retirement, but his depression improves significantly after he finds a job again.

"Hehe... As long as the old woman keeps manipulating you, there's no end to it."

Scorpion looked at Chiyo behind him with a gloomy face, which was noticed by Naruto. He had an idea and said to Scorpion sarcastically:

"I originally thought you were cold-blooded and heartless, but now I realize you're the most emotional of the three of us."

"What did you say?" Scorpion couldn't help but stop what he was doing, looking at Naruto with more and more impatience, feeling extremely unhappy that he interrupted his spell.

Scorpion is well aware that his values ​​are different from Naruto's, so he only wants to use combat physics to convince Naruto.

But this guy's occasional questioning made him upset, just like the enemy started to mentally pollute him halfway through a fight.

"Nothing, I just figured out a lot of things all of a sudden." Naruto did not respond directly, but turned to Chiyo: "Granny, do you know why Scorpion is so obsessed with the producer puppet?"

Chiyo's eyes fixed, but she said nothing.

"Actually, just look at [Father] and [Mother] and you'll know. This guy has a psychological trauma from his parents' death, so he wants to turn people into puppets."

"People will disappear, but puppets are eternal, right, Scorpion?"

If you look closely at this time, you can find that Scorpion's facial expressions seem to become vivid, as if he is no longer a puppet, but a living person.

He simply pursued eternal art, but now the guy in front of him actually interpreted his pursuit of art as fear. How could he tolerate this? No, he couldn't.

"Alright, alright... Arrogant fellow, I'd rather throw you into a stinking ditch than make you into a collection!"

Scorpion sneered at Naruto repeatedly, obviously very angry about this interpretation.

"Why are you so anxious? I haven't finished yet," Naruto continued to exert his strength calmly. "You spend most of your time hiding in the puppet you made not to avoid the puppeteer's weaknesses, but because of your original fear of death."

"I think the reason you maintain your youthful appearance is because you've made yourself into a puppet. This just shows that you're afraid of the possibility of aging."

Scorpion stared at Naruto expressionlessly, his eyes trembling slightly, and his whole body seemed as if he wanted to eat him directly, his momentum was very scary.

But for some reason, he couldn't open his mouth to refute Naruto.

When Chiyo heard this, her eyes widened slightly, and then she suddenly realized.

"So you have fallen to this point..." Chiyo's voice was a little hoarse, her expression was complicated, her mouth was a little dry, and the wrinkles on her face were sometimes tense and sometimes relaxed, as if she could hardly digest this fact.

"I'm sorry, Naruto..." Chiyo couldn't help but speak.

"Did I lose my composure just now? Haha, my grandson has turned into this half-human, half-ghost appearance. As a grandmother, I can't escape the blame."

"It's okay, mother-in-law."

Naruto knew very well that the process of analyzing Scorpion's psychology might accidentally hurt Chiyo, causing her to subconsciously blame himself for Scorpion's downfall.

He softened his tone and turned to Chiyo, saying softly, "It's okay to feel guilty and upset. We are human, not gods. It's natural to regret what we have done."

“It is because there are no standard answers in life that we keep worrying, and we must keep worrying.”

Naruto turned to Scorpion again, and this time, his tone became cold again: "But if there is no worry at all, that's bad, it means that this person has been avoiding reality."

"People who are afraid to face their inner selves and deny their past and present are the most pathetic, right?"

(End of this chapter)