Water bears at the beginning, wet bone forest eating old people

Swah——

"Shinzo-sensei, Sandaime-sama...uh, what's wrong?"

The Anbu ninja who was delivering Hiruzen's message jumped to Gu Zang's side in a few flashes, but the look in Gu Zang's eyes when he raised his head and looked at him made him feel something was wrong.

Have murderous intentions?

Gu Zang stared at the Anbu ninja, unusual thoughts rolling in his mind.

My failed attempt at pretending to be cool was discovered, and I was seen coughing violently. What should I do? Wait online, should I get rid of him?

"Hahahaha~ Sorry, my friend, I'm not feeling well and I feel a little fragile sometimes~"

Gu Zang stood up and touched his crew cut, then greeted the Anbu with a smile.

"What did you say just now, what happened to Hiruzen?"

"No... Hiruzen, no, the Sandaime-sama asked you to go to the Hokage's office tomorrow or the day after tomorrow. If you're not busy, you can go tonight."

The old Anbu ninja was left speechless by Gu Zang's interruption.

"Busy! How can I not be busy? Even though my students have graduated, I still have to prepare their files, spare forehead protectors, and subsequent Chunin uniforms. I am responsible for their lives!"

"Teacher is such a selfless and busy profession!"

"Tonight I have to write a record for those newly graduated ninjas, find their photos, post the outstanding students, and..."

Gu Zang kept talking to the Anbu ninja for a long time, which made him feel overwhelmed.

The teacher at the Ninja School...is he really that busy?

A big question mark appeared in the mind of the Anbu ninja. For a moment, he felt that being a teacher in a ninja school was a more noble and advanced profession than being an Anbu ninja.

By the time the Anbu ninja came to his senses, Gu Zang had already waved his hand and left.

"Report this to Hiruzen and have him come find me himself. I'm not available."

Looking at Gu Zang's receding figure, the Anbu ninja felt physically and mentally exhausted.

Me? Looking for the Sandaime Hokage? Reporting like this?

This isn't something for you two big guys to play with, so please don't put me in the middle for fun, okay?

The old Anbu calmed down and returned to his calm state, then flashed away towards the Hokage Building again.

"Is that what Shinzo said?"

Hiruzen pondered for a long while after hearing this, smoking his old pipe.

The Anbu ninja was standing nearby. He had just endured half an hour of Gu Zang's chanting, and now he had to endure another half hour of smoke and fire from the Third Hokage.

The strange thing is that as an Anbu ninja, he has a very good memory and repeated almost everything that Gu Zang said to Sarutobi Hiruzen. The longer he talked, the longer Hiruzen smoked him.

"Third generation, if there is nothing else, I will..."

"Well, you go ahead."

The old Anbu breathed a sigh of relief. He was afraid that the Sandaime would say "wait" again, which would be real torture.

"Shinzo..."

Hiruzen leaned back in his chair, squinting his eyes and enjoying the pleasure of being surrounded by smoke.

the other side.

Gu Zang broke away from Shinzō's human body and returned to the Senju family residence, accepting the memories of the shadow clone left behind.

Although the insect body cannot release ninjutsu, Shinzo can, with shadow clones and transformation techniques. In today's Konoha, no one would rashly break into Shinzo's room with his identity, so it is almost impossible for him to be discovered.

......

"Mr. Gu Zang!"

"Ahem... Rope Tree is back."

Shengshu squatted at Guzang's door and did not go into the house. He knew Guzang's habits. He did not like sunlight and buried himself in the mat. He looked so old. Shengshu did not have the heart to go into the house to disturb Guzang. He would only chat with Guzang occasionally at the door.

"Teacher Orochimaru taught me snake ninjutsu today! I am indeed a genius, I can learn it right away, but Teacher Orochimaru doesn't want me to learn more advanced snake ninjutsu~"

"Ahem... Orochimaru is also a genius ninja, he must have his reasons."

“That’s right.”

Shengshu rested his chin on his hand and looked up at the sky.

"Teacher Orochimaru said that I should focus on developing Water and Earth Release Techniques, and it would be best if I could even learn Grandpa's Wood Release Technique~"

"Hmm...Hashirama's Wood Release...a distant memory..."

Shengshu was afraid of touching upon Gu Zang's bad memories, so he quickly changed the subject.

"That's right, Grandpa Gu Zang, isn't the village about to go to war? I've applied for a mission, and I'll be going to the front line the day after tomorrow at the latest~"

"Be careful..."

"Don't worry, Grandpa Gu Zang! I'm the Thousand Hands Rope Tree! Hahaha~"

Nawaki has not yet been promoted to Chunin, and the only missions he can apply for are to transport small batches of unimportant supplies, and he can only apply for them before the real war begins. Once the real war begins, it will be impossible for a Genin to apply for a transportation mission alone, and at that time the transportation mission will be upgraded to B level.

......

After absorbing the shadow clone's memories, Gu Zang shook his head.

Shengshu probably won't be able to come back after this trip.

Three days passed in a flash. On this day, Gu Zang did not use the shadow clone because he knew Tsunade would come back.

bang——

The door of the Senju residence was unexpectedly slammed open, followed by the sound of Tsunade falling to the ground.

Gu Zang pushed open the door and saw Tsunade in the yard.

He slowly crawled out of the room, closed the door of Senju's house, then crawled under Tsunade to grow in size and carried Tsunade into the house.

It was easy to get under Tsunade's body, after all, there was a gap.

"Tsunade-chan, ahem...why are you so drunk?"

"Ok?"

Tsunade opened her hazy eyes, looked at Gu Zang, and looked around. It was her home, her own room.

"Mr. Gu Zang."

Tsunade grinned miserably and stretched out her arms.

That hand was holding something tightly.

When he opened his palm, he saw a crystal necklace, the necklace of the first generation.

Seeing the necklace and the familiar and reassuring environment, Tsunade could no longer hold back and burst into tears.

"Mr. Kozang!!! Rope Tree! He's dead!!! Ah!!!"

Pain is not enough to describe Tsunade's emotions. She roared heart-wrenchingly, but her body was paralyzed by alcohol and she had no strength at all.

"Ahh!!! Rope Tree!!!"

Tsunade slammed her fist on the ground in anger, but the former powerful woman was now extremely fragile, as if she was even weaker than the old Gu Zang sitting opposite her.

"Ugh......"

Kozo was lying next to Tsunade and just sighed.

Tsunade cried continuously, and was tired and sleepy. She finally asked Gu Zang a question before falling asleep.

"Mr. Gu Zang, you must be as sad as I am, but why don't you suffer so much..."

"I have seen too many separations and deaths. The dead cannot be brought back, but the living must move on. Tsunade-chan... go to sleep, a good night's sleep will be all that is needed..."

Gu Zang shook his body, closed the door and returned to his room.

On the other side, inside the laboratory.

Orochimaru crushed the experimental equipment in his hand.

Too many things like this happened today. He was surrounded by silent experimental research ninjas, and no one would dare to provoke Orochimaru at this time.

Orochimaru didn't explain. He just shook his hands, threw the waste into the garbage pool, and simply washed his hands.

"Rope Tree... Why do people live...?"

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