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

Feeling apologetic, I returned to the ground with Neji.

Although he looked normal in front of everyone, I was still a little worried that he was suppressing his discomfort.

I'm not a boy, so I don't quite understand the pain of having my Adam's apple bitten. What if it lasts for a long time?

Is it really alright? Do I need to massage it again or use medical ninjutsu to treat it?

And as soon as we appeared, Gaara walked towards us.

"The Land of Grass is closest to Konoha. Konoha will leave some people here to wait for reinforcements to take away the remaining information. We and the ninjas of the Sand Village can leave now."

He paused after saying this, "Kankuro hopes that I can go back to the Sand Village. I... want to go and take a look."

"It would be good to go and report your safety." I smiled, "Temari must be worried about you, as well as Karura and Yashamaru... go check on them."

Although the progress is slow, I think Gaara can definitely feel that his relationship with his family is slowly getting closer.

He nodded: "...Yeah. Can you come with me?"

"Anyway, there aren't any missions lately, so Neji and I can go with you. Shiro can come too!"

"Eh, me?" Bai finished talking to Konoha and came over. "I might... there are still many things going on in Kirigakure. If Lord Zabuza is alone, he will probably be overwhelmed."

"But Shiro rarely comes out," I tried to gain his support, "Shiro hasn't been to the Sand Village yet, right?"

Bai hesitated: "Well, although it is like this..."

"Shiro should spend more time with us! Usually we are always out on missions, and Shiro is always in the village. We can only see each other a few times a year, and rarely go out together - besides, this is also a business matter. Shiro can meet with the acting Kazekage as the representative of the Hidden Mist Village! Maybe we can reach more cooperation, and we can also show Gaara's family that we will definitely take good care of him. It's good both in terms of public and private matters, right?"

Shiro thought for a moment, "So... what Chaolu said is true. Then I... well, I'll write another letter to Zabuza-sama, telling him that I might be able to return a little later."

I said happily, “Okay!”

While we were talking, I could always feel that people from Konoha were looking at me frequently, so after discussing the next destination, I said goodbye to my companions and walked towards Konoha.

My eyes passed over the faces of Kakashi, Naruto, Shikamaru, Sakura, Shino, Gai-sensei, Lee-senpai, and Tenten one by one, and I smiled brightly at them.

"It's been a long time since I left Konoha. If the situation allows, I really want to sit down and have a meal with everyone and have a good chat."

Shikamaru smiled bitterly, "My duties are in my hands... It's really troublesome."

Kakashi said: "Why not leave a contact number."

"Contact information...Would you please remember my smell?"

Kakashi joked, "I'm not a dog."

"I didn't ask you to smell it. Isn't your summoning beast a ninja dog?" I was both angry and amused. I cut off a piece of my clothes with a kunai and handed it to him. "With this, you should be able to find me, right?"

Kakashi took the cloth, and the soft cloth hung on his slender fingers. The black cloth made his fingertips outside the gloves look even cleaner and whiter.

To be honest, although I always complain about Sasuke wearing dark clothes, I always wear dark colors myself because... it's really convenient and it doesn't get dirty.

"Then I'll take it." Kakashi curled his eyes and put the cloth into his ninja tool bag.

Naruto looked at me with some confusion, then looked at Kakashi.

I asked with concern: "What's wrong?"

Naruto frowned: "Strange... I always feel that there is something strange between Chaolu and Kakashi-sensei..."

Shikamaru said, "Because Asaka doesn't use honorifics anymore."

Naruto suddenly realized, "Ah! Yes! That's right! Asaka used to call me 'Kakashi-sensei'!"

"She didn't use honorifics before. Did you just notice it now?" Shikamaru sighed, "Ever since she kidnapped Kakashi-sensei and exchanged his eyes."

Naruto was a little unhappy: "Why did Chaolu suddenly call him by his name? This is the same as calling him Sasuke!"

I looked at Naruto, feeling a little embarrassed, not knowing how to explain, "How should I put it... because... I have no manners."

"What kind of talk is that! Damn it, Chaolu, please stop trying to fool me!"

"Okay, okay," I smiled and comforted Naruto, "Besides that, there is one more thing I want to tell you."

Kakashi asked, "What's going on?"

"Information about Akatsuki. You probably don't need information about Sasori anymore. His partner Deidara is a traitor from the Iwagakure Village, and his ability is to use Explosion Release to create explosions. Uchiha Itachi originally belonged to Konoha, so there's no need for me to say more. His partner Hoshigaki Kisame is known as the 'tailless tailed beast', so you can imagine how huge his chakra is. The ninja sword Samehada he possesses can absorb the enemy's chakra for his use - by the way, if Konoha fights him and obtains Samehada, hopefully they can return it to Kirigakure. Then there are the members named Hidan and Kakuzu, and their combination is called the 'Immortal Team'."

Shikamaru frowned, "The Undead Group?"

"Yes. Hidan's ninjutsu is very special. He can be said to be immortal. Moreover, once he gets the blood, he can curse the owner of the blood and connect himself to the physical feelings of the owner of the blood. When he pierces his own heart, the cursed enemy's heart will also be damaged, but he will not die."

Shikamaru thought about it and said, "Similar to the Yamanaka family's Heart Transmigration Technique? But instead of entering the enemy's body to control them, they can control them from within their own body?"

"almost."

"This is very important information," Shikamaru said with a serious expression, "If we don't know it in advance, we will be very passive in the first fight. Maybe someone will be sacrificed."

All the information about Akatsuki is written in the scroll. Except for the "leader" Pain, whose ability introduction is very long due to the large number of people, the longest part is the content of the Undead Group.

For the other members, at most they just introduced their respective abilities, but only for Kakuzu and Hidan, Shikamaru carefully wrote down how to defeat them.

These treatment measures are very detailed, and you can never know them unless you experience them yourself. So, the Undead Group was defeated by Lord Shikamaru?

Even after defeating them, Lord Shikamaru still wrote down all their weaknesses in great detail. The fear in his expression even made me feel a hint of hatred.

Lord Shikamaru... Has he ever suffered a great loss at their hands?

Even so, he did not instruct me to hand over the information about Akatsuki. He just told me to let nature take its course and try not to interfere in anything.

But for some reason, I always feel that Shikamaru-sama wrote such detailed information about Akatsuki on the scroll, as if it were a silent request for help. Does he actually hope... that I can do something about this information?

That might just be my own unfounded speculation, but if I tell Shikamaru the information about Shikamaru-sama...what will happen?

Shikamaru is so smart, maybe he will make things develop in the direction that Lord Shikamaru wants.

"And Kakuzu. It is said that he is a master who once fought against the First Hokage."

"Fought with the first Hokage?" Sakura was surprised. "No, wait, then shouldn't he be very old?"

"He has a special ninjutsu that allows him to take other people's hearts. One heart is equivalent to one life. Perhaps he also takes away other people's lifespans at the same time? In short, he did live for a long time."

"In other words," Shikamaru said, "if his heart isn't completely destroyed, he won't die?"

"Yes."

Tiantian thought about it and showed a headache expression: "No wonder they are called the Immortal Group. If you encounter this kind of enemy, if you don't know their weaknesses, you will really think they are unkillable. Once you get into a tug-of-war, you will be desperate."

"In addition, there is the Akatsuki organization's apparent leader, 'Pein'. He can use special ninjutsu to control corpses, a bit like an upgraded version of Scorpion, except that he doesn't use chakra lines, but special black sticks. He can control six puppets at the same time, known as the 'Six Paths of Pein'. Different puppets have different abilities, so it's a bit complicated to explain, I'll write it down later..."

I glanced at Kakashi, "Then send it to Kakashi."

As long as it is for exchanging information, then contacting each other would seem very legitimate. This is something I learned from him before.

Kakashi smiled. "I can't wait to hear from you."

"Before that, you have to write to me first before I can reply. After all, I don't have your contact information, so there's no way I can take the initiative to contact you."

"So when would be a good time for me to write to you?"

"About a day later. By then we should have settled in the Sand Village."

Kakashi nodded in cooperation, his attitude could even be described as docile: "I understand."

Naruto was silent for a while, then suddenly shouted, "No - I still feel it's so weird!! Is it so weird just because I don't use honorifics?! Why?!!"

"Because they don't use honorifics, it sounds like they are equals." Shino calmly interrupted, "And Naruto, if you keep using honorifics to address Kakashi-sensei, it will seem like you are of a different generation than Asaro."

"But I don't find it so weird that Sasuke calls Kakashi-sensei by his first name!!"

"It's the gap!" Xiao Li said, "Because Sasuke never called her that from the beginning, but Chaolu used honorifics at the beginning, but now she suddenly stopped using them, so you're not used to it!"

Tenten and Sakura looked at each other.

They stepped aside in unison and whispered to each other: "Don't you think... after Chaolu stopped using honorifics, her expression and tone of voice when looking at Kakashi-sensei have changed..."

"Yeah." Sakura whispered, "That atmosphere... how should I put it? Rather than a former teacher and student, it's more like a woman and a man talking...?"

"But considering that they used to be a teacher and a student, this normal conversation would seem very strange..."

"Yeah... I understand..." Sakura nodded seriously: "There will be an inexplicable sense of guilt..."

They spoke very cautiously, their voices were almost breathy, and it was hard to hear clearly. But...

Lip reading was taught in Ninja school.

I probably figured it all out. I looked at Kakashi and he probably understood it all.

Tenten added, "And Kakashi-sensei is clearly at a disadvantage... What's going on? It feels like he's being overwhelmed in front of us... It's embarrassing to watch. Naruto probably feels the same way..."

Sakura was also confused: "Kakashi teacher is obviously not weak, he is a very strong and reliable teacher, but I don't know why he seems so fragile sometimes... and if he can feel a little ashamed himself, maybe we don't have to feel ashamed. But he behaves so naturally, why can't we help but feel ashamed for him!"

Tenten pondered and stretched out his voice: "Yes. A delicate teacher who was overwhelmed by the momentum of a former student... It's hard to say."

Sakura nodded in agreement, "It's hard to say."

I looked at Kakashi, who now made an awkward "uh" sound and looked like he didn't know what to say to me.

I didn't expect that it was not until this moment that I felt the feelings of the rebel ninja - severing the original ties would not only make oneself feel uncomfortable, but would also cause shocks to other original ties, because they also had to adapt to the new changes and reconfirm their position with other connections.

However, I want to distinguish him from the future "Kakashi-sensei", just like I used to call Shikamaru "Shikamaru-sama" and I won't call him that wrong again.

"Then, I'll leave first."

"Wait, Chaolu!" Naruto called me. He looked a little anxious, like a puppy with separation anxiety who was abandoned by his owner. "When can we... meet again?"

I smiled at him and opened my arms: "Soon. Don't worry, Naruto, although we are no longer partners in the same village, my heart is always with you."

Naruto rushed into my arms and hugged me fiercely, "Really? Promise!"

I hugged him back, tilted my head, and pressed my cheek against his, "I promise!"

Shikamaru snorted softly: "It seems that your heart is always with many people."

I hugged Naruto and said, "Because you are all my most important friends!"

Shikamaru:"……"

He crossed his arms, his tone was emotionless, and he said numbly: "Ah, so that's it."

Neji's voice called to me from not far away: "Asaro, let's go."

"Oh, okay! Right on!"

I knew that I would eventually part with everyone in Konoha, and I thought I could remain calm. But when I really turned around and realized that I could never look back, I suddenly felt a little reluctant.

After running a few steps, I hesitated, looked back at them again, then ran over and hugged Shikamaru.

He was caught off guard and was stunned for a moment.

I hugged him tightly, "I will miss you guys."

After saying that, before he could react, I let him go and hugged Shino again.

His whole body was stiff. This familiar reaction actually relieved some of my homesickness.

I laughed and said, "Why are you still the same as before?"

Shino didn't say anything. He stood there straight, as if he had turned into a tree or a stone. Senior Xiao Li, who was beside him, had already opened his arms and looked at me with burning eyes.

I smiled and hugged him: "Senior Li, please stay so energetic!"

"Asaro, you too!!"

I looked at Tenten and Sakura again and opened my arms to them.

Tiantian felt a little embarrassed: "Eh...? Eh? Do I want one too?"

Sakura had already hugged him, "When we get back to Konoha, I'll help you pass this hug on to Ino. She's been missing you a lot. She cried for a long time after you...left the village."

Her pink hair fell in front of my eyes, it was really the color of spring cherry blossoms, very beautiful.

"Thank you, Sakura."

"You're welcome."

She smiled and let me go, then Tiantian hesitated, came forward and hugged me gently.

She whispered, "Ningji... I'll leave it to you."

"give it to me."

She looked up at me for a moment and laughed, "Hey...you all need to be well."

"You too." I patted her back gently. "I look forward to seeing you next time."

"Goodbye."

We waved goodbye to each other and finally parted.

But I didn't expect that before Kakashi's ninja dog found me, an eagle swooped down towards me first.