Naruto: If I ask you to kill Sasuke, you will become a succubus?

"I'm not a spy."

"Then why does this invader from the Sand Village care so much about your life?" "Gaara" said: "Kakashi has discovered your identity. He wanted to get rid of you, but you killed him."

"I didn't kill him!"

"That's not important." Gaara said calmly: "He can be killed by you."

I was stunned, and suddenly I felt cold all over: "You want to kill him and then blame me?"

I finally realized that "roots" are not someone with whom one can reason and communicate.

"…Are you here on Danzo's orders? Danzo has been wanting Kakashi-sensei's Sharingan for a long time, right?"

"You actually know about Danzo-sama? You are indeed suspicious."

"No matter how suspicious it is, I don't stare at other people's eyes every day, thinking about how to dig their eyes out!"

Gaara's kunai was pressing against my throat: "Watch your attitude."

While I was stalling for time, I quickly searched around to see if there were any other chakra reactions.

Since the enemy's spirit had entered Gaara's body, his body must be nearby.

This is somewhat similar to the secret technique of the Yamanaka family. I don't know if the enemy is from the Yamanaka family. But every time Ino uses the family secret technique, Shikamaru and Choji have to help take care of her body, so the enemy should also have at least one companion to protect his body.

What will be that companion's attack method?

"!"

The parasite I released brought back a message it had never sent before—it had met a member of its own species.

The other enemy is from the Aburame family? !

Oh no! If we control the bugs, they can easily take people's lives even if they don't show up.

Sensei Kakashi is now unconscious and cannot resist or escape.

But that was the eye that Obito left for him... I will never let Danzo succeed.

"Gaara!"

When the enemy's consciousness invades your body, the most taboo thing is to have your spirit suppressed and be completely controlled by the other party, but for Gaara, this is not a problem.

Because once he loses consciousness, the tailed beast in his body will wake up, and the enemy will either suppress the one tail or face a tailed beast. This ninjutsu must have a time limit, he can never occupy Gaara's body for a long time, and once his body is nearby, it is easy for the tailed beast to target him.

Gaara must have understood what I meant, and he must have cooperated with me, because the enemy behind me suddenly stiffened: "What... Damn it!"

I took the opportunity to summon Susanoo again with only one rib, protected myself, and ran towards Kakashi-sensei, bringing him under the protection of Susanoo.

To determine his condition, I pulled down his mask to check his face and lip color to see if he was poisoned or weak.

Fortunately, my parasite did not find other parasites on his body. The second enemy might have planned to deal with me and Gaara first and then deal with Kakashi teacher, so he has not attacked him yet.

"You... heh." "Gaara" leaned against the tree trunk, one hand supporting his forehead, revealing a painful expression. He gritted his teeth and said, "I didn't expect... the One-Tailed Jinchuriki could coexist with the Tailed Beast in this way, but you don't think you can turn against me like this, do you?"

Gaara held the kunai against his throat. He looked at me with a hint of sneer in his green eyes. "He's just an intruder anyway. What does it matter if he dies here? The Sand Village will lose their tailed beast, but I will just return to my body unscathed."

I supported Kakashi-sensei's body. When he lost consciousness, he felt just as heavy as he did in the Land of Waves.

Gaara said, "I advise you not to dispel Kakashi's genjutsu."

"..."

"He is a jonin of Konoha. He is even ready to kill you to protect the village. Do you think if you remove his genjutsu, he will believe you and become an enemy of Danzo-sama and fight against the Root, who are also members of the Anbu?"

"..."

"If he knows nothing, we can let him live, but if you wake him up now, he will die, unless you want to take him away from Konoha - how about it, do you think Hatake Kakashi will be willing to defect with you?"

"..."

I had no way to respond to his words, but I could see the skin on his face twitching, and he was trying hard to control his expression from being too distorted - he was fighting against the tailed beast in his body, and was gradually losing the upper hand.

Finally, when I thought he was almost at his limit, he apparently made his own judgment - he suddenly stabbed the kunai towards the side of Gaara's neck!

I've been waiting for this moment!

The white fang was instantly covered with frost and shot towards his wrist. As long as his wrist was frozen, even if it hurt Gaara, he could be saved!

But there was a figure that appeared even faster!

Someone suddenly appeared from behind Gaara and kicked the kunai in his hand away. Gaara's body fell down for a moment, then expanded rapidly the next second. In the blink of an eye, One-Tail laughed wildly: "I'm out--! I'm out! Hahahahahahaha!!!"

I asked in surprise, "Ningji!?"

Neji opened his eyes and his face was still a little pale. He landed beside me and together with me, he put Kakashi-sensei's arm on his shoulders and said to me seriously: "Follow me!"

It is better to have someone lead the way than to rush around in a forest with unknown enemies.

"Why are you here!?"

"I saw something was wrong outside from the window of the infirmary. I went out and found that something had happened in the examination room. Teacher Gai was at the scene and said that you took Gaara from the Sand Village to the direction of the Valley of the End, so I chased after you."

"But..." I was a little confused: "Why are you chasing me?"

Neji paused and said, "I was a little worried and thought that maybe you needed a helper."

"Didn't Mr. Gai tell you that Mr. Kakashi was with me?"

When people hear that Kakashi-sensei is traveling with me, generally speaking, few people would think that I need help, right?

"It turns out," Neji said, "you need me as a helper."

The insight of the Byakugan is even better than that of the Sharingan. I can't accurately judge the moment when the enemy leaves Gaara. It would be great if I can seize that moment, but if I can't, I can only trap his movements and wait for his ninjutsu to end.

But Neji could probably directly see when the enemy's chakra and Gaara's chakra separated.

It's always good to have help, but...

"How much did you hear?"

Neji and I ran several hundred meters with teacher Kakashi. We stopped and looked back. The One-Tail was furious in the woods next to the Valley of the End.

Those who didn't know the root left directly, still trying to subdue it, but fortunately this place is far away from the village, no matter how big a tail is, it can only destroy the forest and rocks.

Neji replied, "Starting from when you said, 'I'm not a spy.' Who was that man called Danzo? A high-ranking official in Konoha? Was he the one who planned the extermination of the Uchiha clan? Was he planning to kill you and Kakashi in the chaos when Konoha was invaded in order to obtain Kakashi and your Sharingan?"

"That's about right." These things are very complicated, and I can't explain them clearly in a short time. I want to evade them first: "Anyway, I can't stay in Konoha anymore. Can you take Kakashi-sensei to a safe place?"

"But they said Kakashi wanted to kill you before to protect the village. Why?"

Seeing that he would not agree to take Kakashi-sensei away unless I answered his question, I could only try to answer briefly: "Because I had a physical examination, my biological parents are two companions of Kakashi-sensei who died in the previous battle."

"!?"

"So he thinks that the origin of my Sharingan is suspicious, that I am in the same group as the enemy who invaded the village this time, and that I might have been mentally marked by someone and could be controlled by the enemy, which is a potential threat."

"You are indeed familiar with that Gaara...are you?"

"Are you from Konoha's interrogation team?" I couldn't help but glare at him. "I will never do anything that will harm Konoha! The problem now is that the enemy may include people from the Aburame family. My Susanoo can't last too long. Once I lose protection, I will probably be attached to my body by bugs, and that will be terrible."

"I have something to tell you."

"Do you have to tell me now?"

"If you plan to leave Konoha, it will be difficult to tell you if you miss this opportunity."

I said helplessly: "Then why don't you make it short?"

"After you left, Hyuga Hiashi came to see me. He told me about the circumstances of my father's death. He said that my father was not a scapegoat, but he chose to die protecting his brother."

When I left, I did see Hinata Hiashi.

"He knelt down to me in order to make me believe him. He is the head of the main family, and I am just the son of a branch family... so I believe he is not lying. But then I thought, my father said that choosing to die is the only chance in his life... The freedom to choose for himself... is his only chance to defy fate..."

Neji lowered his eyes and raised his hand to his forehead, "If I still had the bird in the cage, maybe I could understand his feelings, be able to let go of the main family, and reconcile with my own resentment, but I no longer have it. Because I no longer have the bird in the cage, I can understand my father's feelings and think that the only time he could make his own choice, he could only choose death. How sad it is."

He raised his eyes to look at me. "I began to think about what I should do without the bird in the cage. If I continue to stay in the Hyuga clan, can I make a different choice than my father? Or as long as I am in Konoha, it doesn't really matter whether I have a caged bird or not?"

"Because people are shaped by interpersonal relationships." I remembered what Kakashi once said to me, "Your personality, your habits, your abilities... are all closely related to the environment you live in, the people you are close to, your friends, your relatives, and your teachers. Even if you no longer have the bird in the cage, as long as those relationships are still there, you will still be in the original position. This is... a bond."

Bonds...turns out they are not only warmth, but also restraint.

"Then without the bird in the cage, am I still in the cage formed by the shackles? I want freedom, but what is freedom? It's ridiculous. I have always resented the bird in the cage, but after opening the cage, I don't know where to fly." Neji said: "So I want to come to you, because I can only confide in you about these things."

“…But I don’t know the answer either.”

"So what do you want to do?"

I thought seriously for a moment and answered him: "I want world peace."

Neji thought about it and said, "That sounds like a great wish. Then, I will make this my goal."

"You can work with me in Konoha!"

"If you were to leave Konoha, would you have anywhere to go?"

"...maybe join a mercenary group."

"Then I'll come with you, okay?"

The roar of a beast continued from not far away, but I felt that the sound seemed to come from another world.

I looked at Neji in a trance: "Are you kidding me? Do you know what defection means?"

"It means an execution order? It means I might be hunted down, and the worst outcome is death? But if I stay in Konoha, isn't the only thing I can freely choose to do is how to die? I want to get rid of all the shackles in Konoha and find a new self. I want to understand what the so-called freedom and the so-called control of one's own destiny are in an environment without caged birds."

"But the place I'm going to might be dangerous."

"Then you need a companion even more." Neji looked at me: "I will never hold you back."

Neji is not a Jinchūriki, and there is no tailed beast in his body. Even if he goes to Akatsuki, there shouldn't be... a problem, right?

But I still find it a little unbelievable: "You are not trying to trick me, are you? You want to trick me out of where I am and then inform Konoha to arrest me?"

Neji: "...So, in your eyes, I am this kind of person?"

"Oh, sorry, that's not what I meant. It's just that..." I stared at him blankly. "Defection is not a trivial matter. Do you trust me so much? What if I'm a spy and I trick you away and dig out your eyes? Then you're doomed, right?"

"I saw you trying to save Kakashi."

"Maybe it's because I want to dig out Kakashi-sensei's eyes myself?"

"You want to save Gaara from the Sand Village."

"Maybe it's because he and I are in the same group, and we are both bad guys who are planning to attack Konoha?"

"When you said you wanted to dig out Kakashi's eyes, you called him 'Kakashi-sensei'. When you said you were in cahoots with Gaara, you called the people who attacked Konoha 'bad guys'."

"..."

My speechless look was probably funny, because Neji couldn't help but laugh, "You said your dream was world peace. You didn't lie to me, did you?"

"No."

"So the first step to realize your dream is to help me get rid of the caged bird. The price is that you don't have to say hello to me anymore. And then when I come to you, you're going to trick me out and dig out my eyes? What if I never come to you again?"

"It will be very difficult to defect. You are in Konoha, and you are still the young master of a big family after all."

"The main family is the young master and young lady, and the branch family is just the servants who serve the young masters and young ladies." Ningci said calmly: "Since we all have to serve others, if I can choose myself, why don't I choose one to serve?"

"Do you have to wait on others?"

"Don't you need it?"

"unnecessary!"

"That's good." Neji smiled again, "Because I don't want to serve others either."

"Think about it carefully." I looked at him worriedly, "I didn't defect to enjoy myself, please think about it again."

"Actually, there is one more thing I'm curious about." Neji looked at me, "You said your ability is the manifestation of your inner self, and your ability is to change fate... What is the fate you want to change? What kind of fate do you have? Can you tell me?"

"No. Not yet."

"Then can I expect you to tell me one day?"

"If I succeed."

Neji smiled and said, "Then I will try my best to help you succeed."

He smiled more often than before, and his tone when speaking to me was much softer.

"We haven't had much interaction before, why are you so insistent on coming with me?"

"In addition to the reasons I mentioned before, there is another fact - I should have been exposed when I attacked that ANBU member. If I continue to stay in Konoha, I might become their target. I don't want to die outside while on a mission one day, and then report to the village that I died in the line of duty. I will no longer be a bird in a cage, and my eyes might even be dug out by him."

"..."

"I don't want to die yet, is this an acceptable reason?"

Thinking of the ways of Danzo and Root mentioned in the scroll, I no longer had any reason to refute: "...I understand."