Chapter 149 Deep Pond (Ch 149)

“Naraku-senpai!”

After his hands and feet were untied, Shisui immediately threw himself into Naraku’s arms and pressed his face against the latter’s warm chest to listen to his heartbeat.

He had to confirm again and again that this person was indeed alive and not just an illusion he had imagined.

“Okay, it’s okay.”

Naraku touched Shisui’s head to comfort him, and his hands moved quickly, untying the bindings and seals of Inuzuka Hana and Obito in a few seconds.

Throughout the whole process, Inuzuka Hana kept staring at Naraku with curious eyes.

This was the first time she saw the “Naraku-senpai” that Shisui always talked about. It turned out that he lived up to his reputation and could break into the enemy’s stronghold and rescue people single-handedly.

“Naraku, I’m glad you’re still alive! How did you find us? Where are the enemies? Who are they?”

After being freed from his restraints, Obito jumped up and asked a string of questions in rapid succession.

“We’ll talk about this later.”

Naraku didn’t have time to answer so many questions. He took the three people out of the secret room and did the same to the door next to it, rescuing another three Uchiha children.

At this time, dozens of ninjas had broken into the perception range and gathered deep into the base.

“Stay with me.”

Several arcs of electricity emerged from Naraku’s hands and coiled around the ninja sword like little snakes, climbing from the handle to the tip of the blade, clearing out all the sticky and warm blood.

“I’ll lead you to fight your way out.”

The moment the last syllable fell, Naraku’s chakra boiled, thunder and flames burst out around him, and the sound of explosions echoed in the dark corridor.

The children only saw his figure flash, and in the blink of an eye he was more than ten meters away. He pulled out a long knife from the chest of the attacking enemy, and left a corpse at his feet.

“Hurry up.”

Without Naraku saying much, Obito was the first to react. He ran to Naraku and squatted down, looted many weapons from the corpse, and distributed them to the children who followed one after another.

The children of the ninja clan have all started to receive more or less ninja training since they learned to walk. Although it is cruel, the benefits are truly reflected at this moment.

Even though this was the first time they saw a dead person, everyone present did not panic too much. Instead, they held on to their weapons tightly and subconsciously concentrated their chakra.

“If that’s not enough, there’s plenty more up there.”

Following his memory, running through the numerous passages and corridors, Naraku had to slow down so that everyone could keep up and not fall behind.

It is also because of this that every slash and every movement he made when encountering the enemy was deeply engraved in their eyes.

The lights of swords, fire, and lightning intertwined with each other, and in the little hearts of these children who had not yet truly come into contact with the world of ninja, a spark of fire named “Uchiha Naraku” was planted.

After killing another person, Naraku gasped and reached out to hold the wall, then immediately continued to move forward. The electric arc surrounding the knife gradually dissipated, waiting for the next explosion.

In order to not waste as much time and at the same time ensure the safety of the people behind him to the greatest extent, he opened his Sharingan almost every time he attacked, maintaining the momentum of killing anyone who stood in his way, and killing with every strike.

Obito has lost count of how many people Naraku has killed, and is worried that he will not have enough chakra to continue fighting.

“Do you need to rest, Naraku? You’ve been-“

“No, if you’re slow you won’t be able to get out.”

Naraku just turned around to confirm that everyone was in good condition when he saw an enemy coming around from behind.

A thick square rock pillar suddenly grew out from the wall and crashed towards Uchiha Shisui who was trapped behind.

“Shisui!”

At the same moment when Naraku instantly returned and cut the rock, Shisui also narrowly avoided the attack by brushing the edge. His pair of blood-red eyes were visible in Naraku’s Sharingan.

Even though he had seen it in the anime, Naraku still pretended to be surprised.

“You, this is…”

He was just about to ask Shisui when, when he saw two enemies appear at the end of the side passage, and they immediately formed seals and cast a spell.

Fire Style: Black Flame Technique!

The long and concentrated fire line had an extremely high temperature and penetrated the bodies of two enemies one after another. The remaining power hit the stone wall and burned a large area black.

He turned to look into Shisui’s eyes again.

As if he read everything from the other person’s expression, who was trying hard to hide his sadness, Naraku showed a sad and guilty look between his brows. His throat moved, but he finally swallowed the words back into his stomach silently.

“Let’s go out first.”

He murmured something with almost no fluctuation in tone and turned back to the head of the team.

Shisui felt that Naraku-senpai seemed different from before.

The night we met by the river, he looked like a quiet and gentle lake, occasionally ripples caused by the breeze and sparkling tiny points of light.

But now, compared to a lake, he is more like a dark and silent deep pool, meekly swallowing up everything brought to him by others, accumulating all emotions to the bottom of the pool, and allowing the increasingly deep deathly energy to spread wildly from it.

Naraku had just returned to the front of the team when he keenly felt a slight vibration under his feet.

Then, a rumbling sound of collapse came from above their heads, as if a huge rock had rolled down the mountain, getting closer and closer to them, and was in front of them in an instant.

“Get down!”

The moment Naraku saw the cracks appearing on the ceiling, the magatama in his eyes connected and three crescent moons intertwined into a net.

…

“I refuse!”

Uchiha Fugaku’s tough attitude was beyond the expectations of most people, causing the ninja clan leaders and high-ranking officials who had previously thought he was too weak to look at each other in bewilderment, and even Sarutobi Hiruzen was stunned for a moment.

“If you don’t hand over the children today, and the real murderer who killed Naraku, the Uchiha will never let it go!”

“That’s enough!”

Sarutobi Hiruzen quickly adjusted his words and shouted, “Everything requires evidence! Who do you want to accuse and investigate? Show us the evidence! Otherwise, we will treat it as a rebellion and suppress it!”

“Of course we have evidence,” Fugaku looked around at everyone who was pretending to be stupid, his eyes full of sarcasm, “I’m afraid you all don’t dare to see! You all pretend to be blind! You bury your heads in the ground and live in shame!”

He almost laughed out of anger, and shouted: “Konoha is already the world of wolves and hyenas. If Uchiha dies today, guess who will be the next one!!”

“Don’t stop talking!!”

Sarutobi Hiruzen waved his hand fiercely and made a downward chopping gesture. Nearly a hundred Anbu, together with many jonin and chunin, swarmed forward, intending to inflict heavy damage to Uchiha first, so as to gain the advantage in this battle.

Fugaku’s chakra surged all over his body, and the magatama in his eyes flew around.

Just as the kaleidoscope was about to appear, a light-colored figure dropped from the sky and punched the center of the ground between the two opposing parties.

Accompanied by a deafening roar.

“Let’s see who dares!!!”

boom–!!

Countless huge cracks opened up from under her feet, the earth crumbled inch by inch, and the earth shook for a moment, and the attack was forced to stop.

The man who walked out of the smoke and dust glanced at the ninjas who were interrupted in their attack and were ready to move, then put his hands on his hips and stood in the middle of the battlefield.