Naruto: Nawaki was already dead, how could you bring him back to life?

"Lord Tsuchikage, you flatter me. Sakumo is not worthy of such high praise."

Upon hearing this, Hatake Sakumo's expression changed. Ohnoki was publicly praising him to death!

"Heh." Onoki chuckled, then changed the subject, "You can protect them for a while, but can you protect them forever?"

"I won't trouble you with things from now on, Lord Tsuchikage," Sakumo retorted sharply.

“Very good.” Onoki nodded slowly, looking down at Sakumo and said, “It is indeed beneath my dignity for me to personally participate today. Consider this a victory for you.”

"However, I haven't lost either."

Onoki said something meaningful, then slowly rose into the air, not even glancing at Chiba and the other two, and flew away into the distance without looking back.

"Lord Sakumo, how could I possibly live without you?!"

Having survived the ordeal, Nawaki knelt down in front of Sakumo with a thud, hugged his leg, and cried.

"Get out of here, stop making a fool of yourself!"

Chiba pushed aside the conspicuous bag that was Nawaki, then bowed to Sakumo and said earnestly.

"Thank you, Lord Sakumo. If it weren't for you, we would probably be in danger today."

Chiba's hands were still trembling; the tension and excitement of being between life and death were still tugging at his nerves.

"Oonoki, I will remember this grudge, and I will repay it a hundredfold in the future!"

Weakness is the original sin, and Chiba became even more determined to become stronger. He didn't want to experience that helplessness again.

"Haha."

Sakumo patted Chiba on the shoulder and teased with a smile, "No need to thank me, just consider it a favor you owe me, remember to pay it back later."

At that moment, Shuo Mao had no idea that his joke would later become a self-fulfilling prophecy.

"Thanks to you so much today, Sakumo," Kosuke said, rubbing his aching back.

"You don't need to be so polite with me, Senior Kosuke. You even mentored me back then," Sakumo said with a smile.

After a brief exchange, Sakumo warned with a serious expression, "I can't stay here any longer. You must be careful. Onoki won't let this go, and he'll probably target you again."

"I understand, Lord Sakumo," Chiba replied solemnly.

At this moment, a figure suddenly broke through the crowd, rushed in front of the group, and bowed to Chiba and the other two without saying a word.

"Sir, what are you doing? Get up!"

This was an elderly man with white hair and beard. Upon seeing this, Rope Tree quickly stepped forward to help him up.

"Children, I'm so sorry for making you go through that desperate situation."

The old man was the same high-ranking commander who had said "Fuck your mother" earlier. He grabbed Sheng Shu's hand and said with tears streaming down his face.

"But I had already knocked down another commander. We really didn't order you to be recalled. Someone must have acted on their own initiative and shamelessly did this kind of thing to save the dead!"

"Wait? You knocked down another commander?" Chiba stared in disbelief at the old man in front of him.

"Don't worry, after we defeat the Iwa ninja here, I will definitely find a way to find him and deal with him as a traitor. I just hope you..."

The old man choked up as he said, "I hope you won't blame Konoha. We can't let such a despicable person affect your good children's opinion of Konoha!"

Seeing the old man weeping bitterly, Chiba and Nawaki exchanged glances. Their anger had indeed lessened somewhat, but Chiba still found it hard to have any goodwill towards Konoha.

……

Southern battlefield, Iwagakure encampment.

"I'm going back to Iwagakure. I doubt Sakumo Hatake will stay here any longer. Once he's gone, you should launch a full-scale attack on Konoha."

Onoki instructed his subordinates, "Put a bounty on those three. Whoever kills one will be rewarded with a million taels of silver. If all three are captured alive and brought to Iwagakure, I will reward him with ten million taels of silver!"

"Yes, Lord Tsuchikage!"

……

Sakumo came and went in a hurry, taking with him a portion of the Konoha squad that had come to bolster their morale.

Chiba and the others did not leave. If they were to relocate rashly or follow Sakumo to the main battlefield, it might be even more dangerous. Therefore, Uchiha Fugaku volunteered to lead the team to stay behind and protect Chiba and the others.

"Kill! Slaughter all the Konoha bastards!"

"You bastards from Iwagakure, die!"

As Sakumo had predicted, not long after he left, the Iwagakure forces launched a fierce attack on Konoha.

Under pressure, even the ninjas from Konoha's command and communications department had no choice but to participate in the battle.

"Nawaki, can you find out who sent you the message?" Chiba asked in a low voice from the rear of the battlefield.

There was another reason why he didn't leave: he wanted to deal with the bastard who had tricked them into coming here to die, so he wouldn't bother the old man!

Chiba's moral values ​​are very simple. He doesn't care about camps or positions; if anyone tries to harm him, he will kill them.

"it should be OK."

After pondering for a moment, Rope Tree replied, "That person contacted Flower Fruit Mountain through a special technique, and should still have some residual energy on him for a short time."

"Kill, kill, kill!"

The Iwa ninja in front had broken through Konoha's formation and were roaring as they charged towards Chiba and the others behind them.

"Humph!"

Seeing this, Chiba snorted coldly and said, "Kousuke-senpai and I will cover for you. You better find that person right now!"

"understand!"

Rope Tree responded, bit his finger until it bled, intending to summon his communication ape to pinpoint the person who had contacted him.

"Water Release: Water Cannon Technique!"

Chiba formed hand seals, and a cannonball formed from condensed rainwater whistled past, knocking away an attacking Iwa ninja. Kosuke, who was standing to the side, was stunned.

"Earth Release·Rock Spear!"

A rock ninja formed hand seals, and three long spears made of rock suddenly pierced towards the three men.

"Water Escape·Water Formation Wall!"

Chiba calmly changed his hand gestures, and a stream of water rose up, blocking all three incoming spears.

"Hmm, is it just my imagination? Why does this child's water escaping technique look so familiar?" Kosuke fell into deep thought once again.

The old man drew his long sword from his back, wincing in pain from his back, and blocked two Iwa ninjas who were rushing towards the rope tree in an extremely contorted posture.

Whoosh!

Just as Chiba and the others were focused on the Iwa ninja charging ahead, a shuriken came from behind them, shooting towards Chiba's back at an extremely concealed and tricky angle.

"Nani?!"

Chiba broke out in a cold sweat. He instinctively dodged and narrowly avoided the vicious shuriken.

"Damn it, I was wondering why I was betrayed by my own people, turns out there was a mole in the team..."

Chiba's face was extremely pale.

If he hadn't been a master of concealed weapons and extremely sensitive to the trajectory of various concealed weapons, he might have been hit just now!

"Nawaki, Kosuke-senpai, don't just look ahead, watch out behind you too!"

After Chiba gave a reminder, he looked at Nawaki again: "Have you found that guy, Nawaki?"

"found it!"

On the other side, Rope Tree had already canceled the summoning technique. He pointed to a spot not far away and said in a low voice with certainty, "It's that big-bellied guy over there!"

Chiba looked in the direction Nawaki was pointing and saw a large, pot-bellied figure fleeing from the rear of the battlefield, causing a lot of trouble for the nearby Konoha ninja.

"At this distance... that shuriken from earlier, it might have been thrown by this guy!"

Chiba quickly made a judgment in his mind, and looking at the slightly disheveled figure, a cold smile appeared on his face.

"Very well, leave the rest to me!"

Gu Jie remained silent, pretending not to have heard anything.

Nawaki even took the initiative to remind him, "Be careful, Chiba, don't let anyone find a way to use it against you."

"I know." Chiba nodded slightly.

He was already thinking about how to kill that guy without anyone noticing or leaving a trace!

Chapter 28 Fugaku's Excessive Self-Discipline

With the help of Nawaki and Kosuke, Chiba dealt with the attacking Iwa ninja while subtly approaching the pot-bellied communications team member.

"This guy's panic doesn't seem faked. Could it be that he's not the mole, and this idiot has just been misled?"

After observing closely, Chiba's face showed a puzzled expression.

"There's a hidden weapon!"

Just as Chiba was pondering, a Konoha ninja in front of him suddenly shouted a reminder.

The next instant, a poison sac suddenly landed among the crowd, hissing and releasing purple poison gas that enveloped the nearby Konoha ninja.

"Ok?"

While everyone else was rushing away from the instantly formed poisonous fog, Chiba not only didn't dodge, but even took the initiative to go up and take a deep breath.

"Hiss, hiss, this smell... is it the poison from Sunagakure?"

Chiba chewed the antidote pill while savoring the taste of the poison.

To the average person, all poisonous gases may seem similar, but to Chiba, an expert with a deep understanding of toxicology, especially Sunagakure toxicology, he can distinguish them by just one smell.

Just like how girls can identify lipstick shades, boys can name Ultraman.

"It seems that Sunagakure is unwilling to accept defeat and wants to use Iwagakure to vent their dissatisfaction on Konoha."

Chiba's lips curled up slightly. The best way to cover up the traces of a crime is to make them blend completely into the traces at the scene.

On a battlefield filled with Sunagakure poisons, if you use Sunagakure's methods to poison someone to death, even Conan would be stunned, right?

Swish.