Naruto: All depends on Kyuubi C

"The target location should be ahead, there is a relatively obvious chakra reaction!"

Hinata, who was in charge of reconnaissance at the front of the team, was walking through the woods. Suddenly she seemed to have discovered something, and she quickly turned around and said to everyone.

Hearing this, Kakashi raised his hand to signal, and then everyone stopped and gathered around him.

Following Hinata's instructions, they moved forward carefully and saw the stronghold——

Under the cover of the surrounding trees, there is a cave that cannot be found unless you look carefully.

"Hinata, have you seen the whereabouts of the people inside?"

"... Chakra reactions are mostly like a barrier or a fixed continuous chakra. There is no human chakra reaction. It should be something like a mechanism. However, the space in the cave is very large, and there is no such thing as a chakra reaction. It’s not entirely safe to say there’s no one.”

After rolling her eyes, Hinata replied with a frown.

"And there is a barrier at the door."

At this time, Naruto also calmed down. His perception of evil thoughts was specifically aimed at sensing creatures, but he also did not capture any negative emotions around him.

"...It seems that the possibility of it being a cover-up is very high, but we still have to make the final elimination..."

Kakashi touched his chin and thought, then looked at Terumi Mei: "In this way, you and I can go in directly to investigate, and we can take care of each other if anything happens."

"no problem......"

Terumi Mei nodded, but then looked at Naruto and the others, indicating whether Kakashi needed to leave a clone or something to protect them.

"Don't worry, we will be ready to support you at any time!"

Naruto saw Terumi Mei's slightly confused look, but misunderstood the meaning, gave a thumbs up and smiled.

[I am worried about the safety of you three...]

But seeing Kakashi's expression of taking it for granted, Terumi Mei didn't say anything.

In her eyes at this time, these three children were just new students led by Kakashi, a jounin, and it was understandable that they should not be allowed to directly participate in high-risk tasks.

Kakashi and the others wandered in front of the cave for a while, after confirming the location of the barrier, they opened it and then entered the cave.

However, a while passed and they still didn't come out.

If Hinata hadn't kept her Byakugan open to observe the chakra of the two people still deepening, they would have been ready to go in and find someone.

"Kakashi-sensei and Mei-sensei have almost reached a depth of 100 meters underground."

"Is this place actually so big? Who made it happen?"

Naruto sighed, then looked behind Sasuke who seemed to be doing something with his eyes closed.

"what happened?"

"I always feel like something is wrong."

Sasuke looked at Naruto and frowned: "Did you hear anything?"

"Isn't it strange that there are sounds of animals in such deep mountains and old forests? I..."

Naruto was stunned when he heard this, and then he also heard the sound of something crawling towards them. It became clearer and clearer, and the sound began to become noisy——

At this time, Hinata also noticed something was wrong: "Kakashi-sensei and the others are rushing back, and something is chasing them behind them!"

But it was too late, and it was not long before Kakashi and Terumi Mei rushed out of the cave. Then Terumi Mei and Kakashi turned around almost at the same time, with the seals in their hands already completed, and they used ninjutsu one after another. ——

"Water Escape·Water Dragon Ball Technique!"

"Tu Dun·Tu Liubi!"

A huge water dragon condensed out of the water vapor behind him, and then roared towards the cave, directly submerging everything in it.

When the water dragon rushed into the cave, two earthen walls engraved with giant dog heads rose from the ground to protect them, Naruto and the others.

"boom!"

Almost as soon as the earth wall rose, a dull bombing sound came from the cave. The impact of the explosion caused the entire cave to collapse instantly, and rocks and soil rose into the sky!

Even though the water flow of Terumi Mei's water dragon bomb blocked most of the explosion effect, the power of the explosion was still enough to shake the entire ground, causing rolling stones and mud to fly around, mixed with some small black shadows that could not be seen clearly.

And when those black shadows landed, Naruto and the others also understood what had made the sound before.

Many snakes.

It's just that they were all blown up into a mess, and only some fragments of the detonating talisman were still attached to the snakes. More of them were blown up from the cave into unknown pieces, and they all shot up to the sky with the explosion.

"The trap you just triggered should be a counter-spiritual technique, summoning these ordinary snakes with spells..."

Kakashi sighed.

"What triggered me?"

Terumi Mei was immediately dissatisfied.

"You said you didn't know how to crack it, so you asked me to try it!"

"I thought your Melting Escape could directly crack it... It's my fault, my fault."

Kakashi immediately raised his hands in surrender.

"Hmph~ You're smart."

Terumi Mei raised her head.

"But this kind of trap is set up in the secret escape passage to directly destroy the entire base, and it is completely triggered by targeting and luring latecomers. It is impossible for anyone to hide in it...Naruto, come here. Down."

Naruto, who was still looking at the dog-head carvings on the earth flow wall in front of him with Sasuke and wondering how Kakashi managed to create such a thing while performing a spell, heard Kakashi calling him and hurriedly came over.

Then he was pulled to the side by Kakashi into the woods.

"You should have left the Mark of the Flying Thunder God in the village, right?"

"Of course. Didn't you see that I didn't bring much luggage? I left it all at home."

"How smart... Then please go back to Konoha and tell the Hokage-sama, confirming that 'the target location is confirmed to be Orochimaru's base, but it is a trap'."

"Orochimaru?"

"You must have read the information on rebel ninjas after you were promoted to chuunin. Orochimaru is the most dangerous one among them, and he is also a target that we need to investigate in this mission."

Naruto understood, and then left a mark of the Flying Thunder God on the tree with his hand, and disappeared from the place.

"...Flying Thunder God is so convenient." Kakashi sighed, and then he walked out of the woods, smiled and said to everyone: "Naruto said it would be convenient, let's wait here. He will then go to a nearby village to rest."

"Brother Naruto is really calm when it comes to things, he is so leisurely and elegant."

After looking at Hinata and Sasuke's surprised expressions, Terumi Mei also understood that this was obviously a perfunctory reason for herself.

However, she just smiled and didn't expose it. After all, it was Konoha's business and mission. She just had no place to follow them for the time being, and she wasn't very interested in asking what Naruto was going to do.

Refraining from exploring the secrets of both parties is the basis of an alliance and will also increase the goodwill of allies.

At least that's what Terumi Mei thought.

After a while.

Naruto, who had returned, also emerged from the woods. Although the reason he gave was not exactly the same as what Kakashi had given before, it could only be said that it was not the same thing at all.

Kakashi couldn't help but raise his forehead and think, next time this happens, he should consider exchanging codes with Naruto in advance.

After all, in terms of transmitting information, the effect of Flying Thunder God is too strong. It can't be used just once, right?