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

"But the One-Tailed Shukaku is here, and there are masters of the Anbu on the other side. Even if we want to leave, we have to deal with them first. Neji... can you use your Byakugan to find their location?"

Neji looked in the direction of the One-Tail and the One-Tail with his Byakugan and frowned, "They are no longer around."

Whether it's the secret attack of the Yamanaka family or the insect swarm tactics of the Aburame family, they may be very tricky when fighting against humans, but they are unlikely to work against the tailed beasts. The opponent is a master of the Anbu, and he probably quickly judged this and evacuated directly.

"Then we only need to deal with the One-Tail now. It's so conspicuous and makes so much noise, it's likely to attract others. And Gaara can't get into trouble." I stood up holding White Fang, "...Ningji, think about it. If we leave Konoha now, we may really not be able to explain ourselves and come back."

Neji was very calm, "Since you have already decided to leave, can you explain clearly? What does it matter if you can come back or not?"

yes……

But my situation is different from his. Neji wanted to give up all the ties, but I didn't want to.

I would rather follow the plan on the scroll and become Tsunade-sama's disciple.

Even when Kakashi-sensei was most suspicious of me, I was trying to ease the relationship with him.

Where did everything go off the rails...?

It started in Wave Country, when I exposed my Sharingan in order to save Naruto and Sasuke.

But how could I just stand by and watch my companions face life-and-death crisis in front of me?

If I didn't have the Sharingan, I wouldn't have been able to survive the countless crises I encountered since then, and I wouldn't even be able to survive until now.

I tried so hard to stay in Konoha... I really tried. But it still didn't work.

What will everyone in Konoha think after knowing this?

Naruto, Sasuke, Shikamaru, Ino, Shino...

If they feel hurt by this, think that my feelings for them have been fake, think that I am using them and resent me...

Thinking of Shino, this reminded me of something. I took off the bell from my waist, stared at it for a moment, and then gently placed it next to Kakashi-sensei.

…It’s okay, it’s okay.

It’s all for a better future.

Even if they don’t understand, that’s okay.

I told myself, wasn’t there another way out on the scroll?

Go find Uchiha Itachi. As long as he doesn't make any mistakes this time, Lord Shikamaru's plan will definitely succeed!

I must not... fail again!

After calming down, I turned around and looked at the One-Tail that was walking towards us, and said to Neji, "Kakashi-sensei, I'll ask you to take care of it for the last time. I'll go deal with the One-Tail, and then we'll leave together."

"it is good."

Our chakra has been locked onto the nearest target by the tailed beasts. It seems that the two Anbu have left the attack range of the tailed beasts.

If it is still, it looks like a cute big raccoon cat, but when it is raging, even the cutest little cat can show a frightening beastly nature, let alone such a huge creature going crazy?

I put White Fang back into the scabbard at my waist, flew into the air, and used Raikiri in mid-air.

I need Raikiri's ability to charge quickly. At the same time, Susanoo attaches an extremely strong armor to me. They can protect me and prevent me from being defenseless when attacked by Shukaku in mid-air.

Shukaku took a deep breath, "Wind Style—"

It opened its huge mouth and blew out an explosive stream of air towards me. If I were hit by it, I would probably be crushed into pieces on the spot.

"Practice blank shooting!!"

I can't dodge in mid-air, can my Susanoo hold up?

I faced its training bullet head-on, and my mint-blue chakra armor burned to the extreme. I felt my chakra being quickly drained just like when I used the Mangekyō Sharingan before—

Naruto, Sasuke...

Please lend me some more of your strength...!

I tried my best to strengthen my Susanoo, and the chakra armor that originally had only one rib suddenly grew two huge slender arms.

Susanoo's arm was at a considerable distance away, but it pushed Shukaku to the ground fiercely. After withstanding the typhoon-like training bullets, I finally managed to land on top of it with the help of Raikiri's thrust, but I was almost exhausted.

Half of Gaara's body was fused onto Shukaku's head. At this moment, he closed his eyes, lowered his head, and fell into a deep sleep.

How can I wake him up?

I stood up weakly on my legs, staggered towards Gaara, pulled open his collar, and bit his neck hard.

Gaara's negative emotions were very strong, and they quickly transformed into new strength for me, making up for my losses.

“Hiss——!? Asaro…?”

I looked up at Gaara, his eyes still had a hint of confusion as if he had just woken up from sleep, "Where is this... where are you...?"

"Gaara, let's leave Konoha together!"

He suddenly came to his senses, his eyes widened, and a hint of ecstasy appeared in his eyes, "Do you want to go with me? Chaolu!"

Shukaku let out a huge roar of unwillingness, but the moment Gaara took control, its huge body instantly burst into countless pieces and returned to Gaara's body.

Gaara and I fell to the ground at the same time. After transforming into a tailed beast, he was weaker than before.

I supported him and Neji quickly came over.

Gaara frowned as he saw Neji land next to me, but before he could say anything, I explained, "Ningji will go with us."

"?!"

"Trust me," I shook Gaara's hand, "He can be trusted!"

Gaara looked into my eyes, pursed his lips, and raised his head to determine the direction: "Where are we?"

That’s right, it’s impossible for Gaara to be very familiar with the terrain of Konoha.

I had no choice but to look at Neji: "Can you see what the battle situation in the village is like now?"

Neji turned back towards the direction of the village and looked around with his Byakugan: "It looks like our people can hold on."

Our people...

Even though they were planning to defect, they still habitually referred to the Konoha side as "we"...

"Where is the Hokage-sama in the barrier? Who will win?"

"The place where Hokage-sama is is too far away. I can't see there."

"Can you find other people from the Sand Village? Kankuro-sama... Kankuro-kun and Temari and the others? Sasuke and Shino should be fighting with them..."

At that time, we wanted to stop their actions, but we didn't expect that now Neji and I would have to leave with the people of the Sand Village.

Neji frowned, "You have not found their location yet. Do you have to find them before leaving? If we stay in Konoha for too long, we might miss the best time to leave."

I looked at Gaara's weak appearance, and slowly gave him some of the chakra that was converted from the negative energy I had just absorbed from his body.

"But... Kankuro-kun and Temari are different..."

I glanced at Gaara: "They are Gaara's relatives..."

Gaara said, "There is an evacuation plan in the plan Maki gave us. We will go first. If they are still alive, they will follow us."

"I also suggest you not to go." Neji also said: "This invasion doesn't seem to be going smoothly. If Temari and Kankuro win, the One-Tail was so conspicuous just now, they must know that Gaara is here. If they don't come, then Sasuke and Shino won, and they also know that you followed Gaara here. When they come, it will be too late for us to leave. Since you have decided to leave, what's the point of meeting them again?"

"...Okay." Gaara and Neji both had a point. Now was not the time to be indecisive. I took a deep breath and said, "Ningji, use your Byakugan to find a way out for us."

……

We arrived near the wall of Konoha. Now all of Konoha's defense forces were concentrated in the village to engage in street fighting, so we easily climbed over it.

Not long after, Ningci, who had been paying attention to the direction of Konoha, said: "The ninjas of the Sand Village have evacuated."

Gaara whispered, "That means this operation has failed."

Neji snorted, "You think you can destroy Konoha with these people? I don't know whether to call you naive or stupid."

"This is how Neji talks," I said to Gaara, "sometimes it sounds arrogant and unpleasant, don't mind it."

Neji stopped talking.

Gaara shook his head, "It doesn't matter. Where are we going now, Asaro?"

"Is it really okay if you don't return to the Sand Village?"

"No. I want to follow you."

Ningci observed silently for a while, then asked, "So what is your relationship?"

I said, “It’s a friend.”

Gaara said, "It has nothing to do with you."

"...Alas, can you two really get along well?" I sighed worriedly, "Forget it, let's find a safe place to stay first. I'm going to the Land of Waves."

Neji asked in confusion, "The Land of Waves?"

"Well... before in Wave Country, I met two friends. They... uh, are rebel ninjas, so they should be able to help."

I briefly told Neji and Gaara what happened in Wave Country. Gaara said, "So the people we are looking for are the demons Zabuza and Haku?"

"Yes. We agreed on how to contact each other, and now I think they are the only ones I can trust."

It was two days later when we arrived at the beach.

We didn't take the main road, but kept traveling through the woods. When we rested, we camped in the wild.

Sometimes when I stopped to look at the surrounding scenery and my friends, I felt that I had left Konoha without any sense of reality.

We...defected.

Defection...is this what it feels like?

Apart from the fact that there was no jonin leading the team, the atmosphere seemed to be no different from when the group went out on a mission - it was just that the companions around me had changed, and one of them was from the Sand Village.

It wasn't as close and dangerous a chase as I had imagined, but sometimes I felt empty inside.

It's hard to say which is more painful: the feeling of emptiness and loss of place in the heart, or being hunted down without a break.

At night, I sat by the campfire, looked up at the starry sky, and suddenly said, "You guys are amazing."

Neji was throwing the branches that Gaara had broken off and collected during the day into the bonfire as firewood. When he heard this, he looked at me and asked, "What's going on?"

"It takes so much determination and courage to head towards a completely unknown future..."

They are not like me, who have the scrolls of Shikamaru-sama and Orochimaru to guide me.

"Because you know the direction, we just need to follow you, right?"

"Do you trust me so much?"

“It’s not a question of trust or not.”

I asked curiously, “What’s the problem?”

Neji retracted his gaze and continued to add firewood to the bonfire at a leisurely pace: "It's a question of whether we are willing or not."