Witty Naruto Life

Chapter 88 The Mastermind (4000 words)
Naruto and Sakura looked at Uchiha Sasuke with wide eyes. At this moment, he maintained the previous posture, with his back to them, his eyes fixed on Shisui's eyes, and his body trembling slightly.

He seemed to be in some indescribable state, his breathing became more and more rapid, and a faint black mist emerged from his body. Unlike when he was given the Heavenly Curse, this black mist diffused in the air, revealing a strong sadness and indignation.

When Naruto called Sakura, he could no longer hear the sounds they made. He seemed to be possessed by a demon, and fell to his knees on the ground, with two lines of hot tears slowly flowing down his face.

And Naruto realized in just a moment that something was wrong.

"Oh no...it's the mastermind!"

Sakura stood up almost at the same time as Naruto and shouted at Sasuke at the top of her lungs: "Sasuke!!"

Naruto instantly burst out with all his strength, forcibly supporting his body and bouncing off Danzo, determined to approach Sasuke immediately and wake him up from his sorrow.

"boom!!!"

Suddenly, an inexplicable air wave bounced around with Sasuke as the center. Naruto and Sakura were knocked over by the air wave at the same time and rolled down!
At the same time, thick black liquid erupted from Sasuke's body, and countless malicious black tentacles emerged from his back, knocking the two men to the ground with one blow each, and their faces landed on the ground with a loud bang!

"boom!!"

Naruto's eyes were full of stars, but his fighting instinct made him raise his head suddenly, and he saw that the black tentacles began to flow slowly, gradually changing from the shape of an irregular slime to the size of a middle-aged man.

Sasuke's head dropped to the ground, and he seemed to have fainted, but thick black vapor flashed more and more frequently inside his body. At this time, the black sticky substance on the middle-aged man's body began to solidify, and finally, it completely turned into the appearance of a human.

He had black hair that fell close to his cheeks, a round face, fair skin, and soft lips, giving off a warm and gentle impression. If it weren't for the thick black aura emanating from his body, no one would have associated him with the mastermind behind the scenes.

He smiled and looked at the two people in front of him with admiration, then turned back to look at the unconscious Sasuke, made a "tsk" sound, and nodded.

"good."

A gentle middle-aged man's voice came out of his mouth. Naruto endured the pain and looked at him, feeling a chill running from his heels to the top of his head.

For some reason, a deep sense of despair inexplicably surged in his heart.

"First, he killed Jin Chengyou, and then he connected with Watanabe Chinatsu, but the most exciting thing was you..." He looked at Sakura with an interested expression, as if he was looking at an exquisite toy.

"You've almost completely grasped the mechanism of time travel, and your name is excellent, 'Inner Demons', it perfectly captures their characteristics."

"I plan to follow the name you gave me from now on."

With just a few words, he made a final judgment on all the actions of the two after they traveled through time, and he did not care about any counterattacks they made.

It's like a puppy barking at a terrifying ape. No one will feel threatened, they will just think: Wow, so cute.

Mingying didn't say anything, but silently exerted force with her body, trying to break free from the grip of the black tentacles, but the force became tighter and tighter, causing both of them to suffer.

The man noticed the two people's struggle and said calmly: "It has absorbed a lot of negative emotions. You are no match for it now."

"Ha..." At this moment, Sakura suddenly spoke, causing the man to look sideways and smile at her.

"Your ugly ability... is quite intimidating... but if you're so strong... why... didn't you just start... right from the start?"

She was panting, her face flushed, and she continued to use her body to resist the pull of the tentacles, while Naruto helped her say the rest of the words:
"You have concerns, so you only dare to hide behind the scenes...right?"

The surroundings suddenly fell into silence, and the only sounds were the sound of muscles pulling and the rustling of gravel rolling on the ground.

The smile on the man's face disappeared for a moment, but soon he smiled and shook his head and said, "Hey, you're half right."

He let the tentacles rise slowly, and the two of them went from lying on the ground with their heads propped up to look at him to being caught in the air by the tentacles, looking at him straight in the eyes.

Then, the man let the extra black tentacles slowly form half of his body. His eyes were yellow, his gaze was dark and deep, and he exuded a strange aura.

"But this isn't some ugly ability..."

"This is Black Zetsu's ability."

……

……

The two stared blankly at the man before them, their hearts agitated, their eyes wide, their faces etched with the expression 'impossible'. The man didn't seem surprised, and was very satisfied with their reaction.

He snapped his fingers again, and a twisting and spinning hole appeared beside him.

"This ability is called divine power,"

"It's the thing you used when you teleported with the fragments..."

"Not fun?"

Naruto's brain froze. He seemed to have lost the ability to think all of a sudden. His clear thoughts became muddled. The various calculations that were running at high speed in his mind just now stopped quietly with the man's shocking words.

"Why?" he couldn't help but blurt out.

The man didn't hide anything, but smiled and said, "I'll give you some information for free: as long as you collect enough negative emotions, I can unlock a new way to play."

"Such as this..."

The thick black mist around him dissipated in an instant, but what followed was a burst of unparalleled air pressure on his cheeks. Looking carefully at the surrounding buildings, the surrounding buildings centered on the man instantly cracked and collapsed, turning into powder!
"Shinra Tenzheng!"

"boom!!!"

……

……

After a long time.

Sasuke was still lying unconscious on the ground, emitting thick black vapor, like a seed that continued to take root and sprout.

The two remained in the same position, caught by the tentacles and suspended in mid-air. After a while, they woke up in a dead atmosphere.

At this moment, the corners of his mouth were slightly raised and his eyes were gentle. This contrast made him look like a terrifying evil ghost in the eyes of the two people, staring at them grimly, like a jackal staring at its prey.

Naruto turned his head and glanced at Sakura, confirming that she did not seem to be fatally injured, then turned to the man:
"Why not just torture us?"

The man narrowed his eyes, staring straight at Naruto, holding his chin, and whispered:

"You are indeed a very special person..."

Naruto's heart trembled. He didn't understand for a moment, but this sentence seemed to contain a huge amount of information, which made his almost shut down brain start to work again.

"Logically, you should have been driven mad by your negative emotions a long time ago, but you've been fine since you traveled through time. Why is that?..."

"Why exactly?"

One of his hands gently placed on Naruto's face. The moment the warm touch touched his cheek, countless thoughts suddenly emerged in Naruto's mind, and these thoughts seemed to be wrapped in endless sadness, which could make him hysterical at any time.

Fragments of memories from before the time travel began to flow through his mind like a raging tide.

"Uhhhhhh!"

Naruto screamed in pain, his voice shrill. The man then pulled his hand back and nodded. "That's right, you and Sakura both have more than one psychological trauma. How can you just wear Yue and it will be fine?"

"You almost cured her, ruining my plans."

After saying this, he took his hand away from Naruto, who stopped yelling and stared at the ground with a somewhat distracted look.

"...Naruto?" Sakura looked at him anxiously, her voice hoarse. Seeing Naruto lower his head and remain silent, she glared at the man fiercely: "What on earth did you do to him?!"

The man smiled and shook his head. "In Earth's popular language, this is called the Great Memory Restoration Technique."

"But I still find it strange. Why hasn't he remembered it after traveling here for so long? Unlike you, you've almost remembered it..."

"After all, you used that fragment so diligently, didn't you?"

Sakura felt her breath hitch. Had he been doing this on purpose all along?

"No wonder, with Black Zetsu's powerful control ability and Kamui's spatial ability, you should be able to retrieve the fragments at any time..." Sakura murmured softly, the bitterness in her heart becoming more and more obvious.

"Hey, that's not necessary."

The man waved his hand, pretending to be magnanimous, and then looked at Sasuke behind him: "But I am also constantly learning. For example, I just discovered today that the original characters can also have inner demons, haha."

"This will save me a lot of effort. After all, many time travelers have read the original Naruto novel, so they might cause some trouble for me."

As he said this, he actually sat down cross-legged, looking at Sakura leisurely, and suddenly said: "But you didn't recognize him, which I didn't expect."

Sakura looked up suddenly, her heart skipped a beat, her breathing became rapid, and she felt an extreme sense of unease.

"It's him, that idiot," the man looked at Sakura playfully, his eyes full of aggression, as if he had Sakura in his hands completely.

Sakura was puzzled, but she seemed to have thought of something. Her eyes widened slightly, and her expression gradually broke down completely. She quickly pieced all the clues together in her mind, and what followed was her almost collapsed emotions.

"Shiba Seizumi..."

Anger, sadness, confusion, and shock all surged in her eyes at the same time, completely swallowing up all her calmness.

"You... you actually let this kind of person travel to the Naruto world... You're going to hell... You beast, you beast!!!"

She let out a shrill scream, tears pouring out like a flood, all the blood vessels in her heart seemed to be tangled together, negative emotions surged rapidly, the man laughed out loud, his joy reached its peak in an instant, and after a long time, his emotions returned to calm again.

"Otherwise, how can you be called a great special education teacher..."

The man murmured softly, watching Sakura heartbroken, crying until she lost consciousness and passed out.

Special education teachers, whose full name is special education teachers, are a group of teachers who provide educational services specifically for people with disabilities.

Before crossing over, Qingquan was not Lao Li, nor was he mentally retarded. To be more precise, he was an autistic child and had been Xiaoying's student.

When he got home, his regular entertainment was to put the disc of "Bright Sword" into the player and watch the TV series. Over time, it became a stereotyped behavior.

Sakura had visited the child's home before and had some impression of the child's interests and hobbies.

The mastermind behind the scenes is dedicated to collecting all the negative emotions in the world. In order to maximize efficiency, he targets them, a group that suffers from social discrimination. Presumably, the negative emotions they carry must be extremely huge.

"I didn't expect that his soul was shattered the moment he crossed over. The negative emotions I collected were actually limited. Or was it that his soul was already broken from the beginning? It doesn't matter, but it's okay..."

The man muttered to himself, quietly walking towards Sasuke and looking at him calmly.

"I collected valuable 'data'."

……

A few hours later.

【▆▆▆▆Notes】

I was startled by the loss of a small piece of the core. Fortunately, I quickly found the trail and it fell into the hands of Haruno Sakura. I thought about it and decided to wait and see what happened. After all, my presence had been exposed, and continuing the action might not be a good thing.

The most reliable way of development remains unchanged. The negative emotions I get now are very stable. All I need to do is keep picking up corpses until it is completely complete.

……

Things are a bit strange. The two people I had the highest hopes for didn't react much. Could it be that Konoha really gave them warmth?
……

The key to the problem was discovered, it was Uzumaki Naruto. He was very strange and was not affected by negative emotions. Did he lose his memory when he traveled through time?

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Shiba Qingquan also lost his memory. So that's why there was a mistake when he traveled through time.

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No. Too many things don't make sense. From observation, it seems that Shiba Kiyozumi and Uzumaki Naruto are two completely different situations.

……

They began to use fragments more frequently, temporarily reducing the frequency of observation.

What’s interesting is that I’m starting to understand Shiba Kiyozumi, but Uzumaki Naruto still doesn’t quite get it.

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Uzumaki Naruto is a bad guy. He influenced Haruno Sakura and increased her positive emotions a lot, which is very ugly.

Take a risk and hope to gain something.

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Judging from his actions, Uzumaki Naruto intends to destroy Danzo. Judging from his trajectory, he will most likely call Uchiha Sasuke along.

Maybe there is room for me to play here. I plan to do an experiment to verify a certain hypothesis.

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Completely restored Naruto's memory and shattered his Dao heart; harvested Sakura's negative emotions.

The conjecture was also successfully verified: the characters in the original novel can also have inner demons.

Next, I can pause the transmission of the time traveler and see how to pollute the original character first.

The time traveler may know the future plot, but the original characters definitely don’t.

The only problem now is that we cannot make Naruto and Sakura decide to die. If they die immediately, the negative emotions they can collect will be too limited, which will be a huge loss.

By using a little core power, it is possible to remotely monitor the life and death of the two people.

Continue to lurk and wait and see.

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a few hours ago.

Naruto fell to the ground, his face ashen, his eyes staring blankly at Sasuke in front of him. The psychological shadow of that unbearable past was like a maggot in his tarsal bones, making his mind buzz.

How to break the impasse?

These words had been floating through his mind from time to time a few minutes ago, but were quickly shattered by the unbearable memories before he traveled through time. This cycle repeated itself, making him gradually restless.

But in fact, only a few minutes had passed since the Black Hand appeared, but it felt like a century.

In fact, the memories before the time travel are not the most fatal, Naruto is very clear about this.

Sakura was also once affected by psychological trauma, but she has persisted until now, which shows that psychological trauma can be temporarily overcome.

The most fatal thing is the difficulty in front of him. This time even he feels helpless.

The enemy has been lurking behind the scenes, and every attack is a thundering blow. His abilities are exaggerated, and his growth potential is invincible. His power of persuasion is extremely strong, and a few words can completely break Sakura's defense and make her unconscious.

Is this a big deal?
Naruto just lay on the ground, lying in the same place with the confused Danzo, ready to die and end his journey of time travel.

What he didn't notice was that his heart was being gently held by a pair of transparent, warm little hands.

(End of this chapter)