Naruto: This Uchiha is too innocent.

Lying on the blood-stained rock in the wind, Maoyue was somewhat dazed. A shocking wound lay on his chest, and the white bone was faintly visible.

Ironically, his injuries were so severe that he couldn't even feel pain; instead, he felt numbness, as if his body didn't belong to him.

He doesn't have the protagonist's halo, so it's incredibly difficult for him to defy his superiors. In fact, he doesn't even know what kind of ninjutsu Maki uses.

He was so tired... He thought to himself, feeling a little sleepy.

At this moment, Maki came up to him, pulled a kunai from his pocket, and gently stirred it on Uzuki Kazunari's wound, glancing down at the scar on Uzuki Kazunari's chest.

"You're pretty strong. I was originally going to just chop your head off."

He was somewhat dazed by the wind in the month of Maoyue, as if his ears were stuffed with cotton. He didn't hear what Maki said, nor did he care.

"That move just now, called the Dance of the Crescent Moon? It's a very powerful sword technique. To be able to learn such a powerful sword technique, your talent is beyond question. As for me, I admire those who are strong. If we weren't enemies, we might become friends." Maki said to himself, his shoulder stained with blood, the dark red blood staining his ninja clothes.

He didn't know why he wanted to talk to Uzuki Kazunari about these things. Perhaps it was because Uzuki Kazunari saw the ruthlessness in that move just now? Or perhaps Uzuki Kazunari had hurt him?

"The ninjutsu I use is called Wind Blade, a unique A-rank ninjutsu of Sunagakure, characterized by its invisibility."

Finally, Kaze reacted, a look of doubt flashing in his eyes.

Maki smiled. "I just want you to die knowing why."

He stood up. "Tanuki, if you want revenge, then take yours. Let him die a quick death. The rest of you, come with me."

Everyone responded, leaving only the raccoon dog behind.

Tanuki looked at the dying Uzuki Kazunari in front of him and smiled wickedly. "To be honest, I really want to torture you, but unfortunately, my captain respects the strong and won't allow me to insult you. But it doesn't matter, the result is death anyway."

As he spoke, he squatted down, the kunai in his hand gleaming with a blinding cold light.

Uzuki Kaze calmly glanced at him, closed her eyes, and awaited death.

"roar--!"

Maoyue Fengzhong frowned slightly; he seemed to hear the roar of some ferocious beast.

He struggled to move his fingers, each movement sending a tearing pain through his body. Gritting his teeth and enduring the agony, he finally managed to open his eyes, only to witness a shocking scene before him.

A sandstorm, a terrifying sandstorm that blotted out the sky, raged wildly in this rocky area, seemingly threatening to devour everything. At the center of the sandstorm, a monster with a tail could be vaguely seen roaring towards the sky.

The raccoon was caught in the sandstorm and struggled in the air.

"Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique!"

A fireball shot into the sky and struck the struggling raccoon precisely. The raccoon let out a scream and then fell silent.

This time, without Machi's help, he died.

The "art of not killing" met its first victim.

Uzuki Kaze stared blankly at the figure standing before him. The small figure now seemed so enormous, and his heart was filled with complex emotions.

Why is he here? Didn't he go back to Konoha?

Uchiha Sora turned around and smiled, "Monkey, you look so disheveled, it's not like you at all."

After a moment of silence, Uozuki Kaze chuckled softly and spoke with difficulty, his voice hoarse as if he had smoked a dozen cigarettes in a row: "You... you actually disobeyed orders."

"There's nothing I can do. I care about your safety. Besides, you would be dead if it weren't for me." A hint of worry flashed in Uchiha Sora's eyes.

Maoyue Feng opened his mouth, coughed violently a few times, and blood gushed out.

"Hey, hey, don't move! He's half-dead already, so don't talk. I don't want the person I worked so hard to save to die like this," Uchiha Sora quickly said.

"Well, I know what you want to ask. Those two rogue ninjas, well, they were really unlucky. They had just left the hot spring town when some bandits came and hacked them to death." Uchiha Sora said this nonsense with a straight face. "So the mission you gave me failed, so I came to find you."

Uozuki Kaze's lips twitched. He thought to himself, "Even if you're going to make up an excuse, at least come up with something reasonable! You were hacked to death by bandits? Why don't you just say you were electrocuted by Ultraman's laser?"

"Alright, you can rest now." Uchiha Sora's voice suddenly softened. He tore open his sleeve, casually bandaged Uzuki Kaze's wounds, picked him up, and said in a low voice, "Now, we need to run for our lives."

He sensed an extremely dangerous aura rapidly approaching.

Without hesitation, they immediately fled towards Konoha.

A few breaths later, Maki appeared. He glanced at the mess around him and immediately noticed the charred raccoon dog. His expression darkened instantly.

"Useless trash! I was only gone for a short while, and you're already dead!"

As he spoke, his eyes locked onto a certain direction. "Run? Let's see where you can run to!"

……

"Damn! This guy is so fast!"

Sensing Maki rapidly approaching from behind, Uchiha Sora cursed inwardly. He had used every ounce of strength he had, but instead of widening the distance, Maki was getting closer and closer.

"What are the ANBU's intelligence team doing! They didn't even know that a Jonin from an enemy country had appeared on this mission!" Uchiha Sora cursed under his breath, leaving an explosive tag on the tree branch he had just jumped over.

A few moments later, Maki caught up. Stepping over the branches, his expression changed slightly as he felt the intense heat beneath his feet. Without hesitation, he lunged to the side.

boom!

An explosion rang out, shattering the tree into pieces. Maki's face turned extremely pale.

It was another detonation tag. Every time he was about to catch up with his opponent, detonation tags would interfere with him.

"I'd like to see how many explosive tags you have left!"

He suddenly accelerated and caught up.

Sensing the approaching presence behind him, Uchiha Sora's forehead broke out in a sweat.

Just as Maki had suspected, he was running out of explosive tags. He had already used seventeen or eighteen tags along the way, and because he couldn't guarantee that every tag would work, he had to use several each time.

He only had enough explosive tags for one last use.

"Damn it, explosive tags are such a money pit!" Uchiha Sora cursed. The twenty-odd explosive tags he bought with all his savings last time were now down to just a few. The speed at which he was burning through money was faster than the speed at which he was making it.

But he can't do without it, or he'll be caught and unable to beat them.

He gritted his teeth, took out the last three explosive tags, and threw them backward!

The next moment, a gust of wind whistled through the air, cleaving the explosive tag in two.

Uchiha Sora's expression changed. He hesitated for only a moment before being overtaken. Sensing the danger behind him, he decisively stopped.

"Secret Scroll: Water Waves"

The water wave blocked Maki's attack, but at the same time, Maki caught up with him.

"Run? Keep running?"