Konoha: Otsutsuki from the Earth

Chapter 56 A Lifetime Promise
The morning after Sasuke left, Tsunade, who had just woken up from the file, opened his eyes and received a report from his subordinates.

Kamizuki Izumo and Goko Tetsu, who were in charge of helping Tsunade organize the files, happened to pass by the place where Sakura fell asleep.After kindly waking her up, Sakura immediately reported to the two that Sasuke had left alone.

Tsunade, who had already had contact with Orochimaru, immediately suspected Orochimaru's head.Feeling deeply headache, she immediately asked the two to call Qi Fei and Shikamaru to Hokage's office.

No way, the current Konoha Village has lost nearly half of its mid-to-high-end combat power due to the destruction of the previous "Konoha Honkai Plan".

With the total number of missions unchanged, there are not enough ninjas who can perform missions.Now, except for the necessary left-behind personnel, all others have been sent out to perform tasks.

I scanned the list of ninjas in my mind, and only the two newly promoted Chunin, Qi Fei and Shikamaru, had no missions and could delegate missions.

Looking at Qi Fei and Shikamaru who were present, Tsunade told them straight to the point that Sasuke had left the village alone, and at the same time told them bluntly that this incident had something to do with Orochimaru.

Originally, Tsunade wanted to send Qifei and Shikamaru together to chase Sasuke back, and let the clever Shikamaru assist the powerful Qifei. Basically, there would be no problem with this mission.

But Qi Fei is going to operate on Xiao Li with her today, so he can't go with Shikamaru.

So Tsunade thought about it, and decided to arrange it as follows: Shikamaru will lead the team to chase Sasuke first, and after Qi Fei completes the operation, he will immediately lead a new team to support Shikamaru.

Qi Fei, who was listening to the task arrangement, suddenly thought that Gaara and the others were the support team in the original book, and now Gaara and the three of them have been arrested by him, and he doesn't know what happened.

Thinking of this, Qi Fei directly asked Tsunade about Gaara's current situation.

Faced with Qi Fei's sudden question, Tsunade told him after a moment of stupefaction: After Gaara completely surrendered in Sand Hidden Village, it was returned to Sand Hidden Village as a peace condition in exchange for huge compensation.

After leaving the office, Shikamaru still told Qi Fei privately that Naruto had actually dragged him to persuade Gaara.After all, Gaara, who woke up after being caught, has been refusing to cooperate, trying to die together.

Naruto is in charge of persuading Gaara emotionally, and Shikamaru is in charge of persuading Temari and Kankuro intellectually.

In the end, Gaara believed Naruto's words and decided to continue living to find someone who recognized and accepted him.Naruto also became his first friend.

Temari and Kankuro are even easier. If Gaara goes crazy, they will definitely not be able to escape.Now that Gaara is fine, they naturally don't have to die with each other.

After listening to Shikamaru's narration, combined with his understanding of Naruto after getting along with him, Qi Fei can generally understand why Naruto is so obsessed with Gaara.

Naruto, who has been neglected because he has always been regarded as a "demon fox", meets someone who has the same experience as him for the first time.

Especially when he saw that the other party became cold-blooded and bloodthirsty because he was not recognized, he felt Gaara's loneliness and pain in his own place.

So empathetic Naruto decided to save Gaara just like Mr. Iruka saved himself.

【So, no matter what, Naruto will be Gaara's salvation.In other words, he is the salvation of all the tailed orcs. 】

"Wait for Shikamaru." Just as Shikamaru was about to go to find a trustworthy teammate according to Tsunade's request, Qi Fei pulled him to a remote corner.

Kachacha——A palm with wooden patterns slapped Qi Fei's shoulder, and with the palm's forceful support, a puppet in the shape of a human was torn from Qi Fei's back.

Shikamaru was stunned, and the wooden dolls turned into Qi Fei.

"This is my avatar, you can take it with you when the time comes." Patting the avatar on the shoulder, Qi Fei introduced to Shikamaru, "On the one hand, he can protect your safety, on the other hand, he can also serve as my back-up coordinate of."

Seeing that Shikamaru seemed to be a little suspicious, Qi Fei said: "This is the wooden clone, which is much more stable and powerful than other clones, not the one that collapses at the touch of a finger."

"Wooden avatar?" Hearing this somewhat familiar name, Shikamaru finally accepted the avatar.

In his mind, it's fine even if the avatar doesn't participate in the battle.Compared with fighting, the white-eyed vision provided by the avatar is the most important part of this mission.

Seeing what the main body wanted to say to him, the wooden avatar said directly with a disillusioned attitude: "Don't worry, I don't make trouble, I'm just a ruthless killer."

After that, Qi Fei separated from Shikamaru and went to Konoha Hospital to prepare for Xiao Li's operation.Shikamaru took Qi Fei's wooden clone and started looking for team members in the village.

After shopping around, I finally found the three of them, Choji, Naruto, and Kiba.

Qi Fei once suggested that Shikamaru go to Neji.It turns out that Neji, who has long been a Chunin, has left the village with his team to perform tasks.

[It seems that it will be difficult to have an intersection in the future. 】

Different from the original book, now only Hinata and Neji have an intersection in "Konoha Twelve Xiaoqiang", and the others basically don't know each other.

And Neji's strong strength has also attracted the attention of Konoha's senior management, and some people have begun to recommend Neji to join Anbu.

This is the information Qi Fei got from Hinata when he was looking for Ning Ci.

The five stood at the gate of Konoha Village, discussing how to catch up with Sasuke who had been running all night.

Shikamaru also unabashedly told everyone the reason why Sasuke left the village, and at the same time told others that this pursuit may encounter a lot of trouble.

After all, Sasuke is a person that Orochimaru values, and he will definitely not let Sasuke leave the village alone, there must be someone who will support or break up.

Therefore, as the team leader, Shikamaru must take into account various unfavorable situations.

"In short, since it is a rescue operation, we are on the side of the pursuers, and it is easy for the enemy to take the lead.

"So, in order to deal with the enemy's methods, I will decide the formation when moving.

"If you ignore my words and act, everyone will die."

Seeing everyone's serious expressions, Shikamaru continued: "First of all, the most important thing is that you are in charge of the investigation head."

After all, Ya walks the dog all the year round, so he knows the terrain of the Land of Fire very well. Coupled with his strong sense of smell, he can spot enemies and traps as soon as possible.

Shikamaru was writing and drawing on the ground with a pen and paper while explaining his thoughts to everyone.

"I'm in charge of the second one. In addition to helping the tooth share information here, I can also raise my hand at any time to notify the people behind me of the latest arrangements."

"Qi Fei is the third one. After all, he is just a clone and is relatively fragile. But at the same time, the ability to roll eyes is very important. So I put him in the safest center of the team in theory. Qi Fei, the rear of the team is also very important. Please keep an eye on it."

"No problem. In theory, I can be responsible for the 360-degree security around me."

"Clone? Shadow clone?" Hearing Shikamaru's words, Naruto looked at Qi Fei curiously.

"No, it's much more stable than the shadow clone." Qi Fei replied, "Actually, you don't need to protect me. Even with the clone, my strength is far beyond your imagination."

"Cut, you'll brag." The tooth on the side thought disdainfully in his heart.

The strength of Qi Fei's body is indeed unmatched, but the clone is much worse. It's not that he has never played "Naruto Xiao Xiao Le". Compared with the difficult main body, the avatar is just like paper.

Considering everyone's characteristics and abilities, Shikamaru finally arranged a formation like Kiba, Shikamaru, Qifei, Choji, and Naruto.

When the five of them determined their formation and mission requirements and were about to set off, Sakura also came to the gate of Muye Village.

"I've heard about the specific situation from Hokage-sama." Shikamaru, who could tell Sakura's intentions at a glance, said directly, "I'm sorry that I can't take you on this mission.

"Because you failed to convince Sasuke, so we can only rely on us to persuade him with brute force. Sakura, your appearance is over."

"Has Sakura already met that guy Sasuke?" Naruto asked in surprise.

Hearing Shikamaru's words, Sakura could only bow her head in disappointment, and said to Naruto with tears, "Naruto, this is my lifelong request. Please bring Sasuke... please bring Sasuke back.

"I can't rely on me alone. I couldn't keep Sasuke alone. Therefore, the one who can stop Sasuke, the one who can save Sasuke... Naruto, only you."

Seeing Sakura crying bitterly, Naruto pulled the corner of his mouth and said: "Because you like Sasuke the most, Sakura. So now I deeply understand how much pain and suffering you have in your heart."

Xiao Ying looked at Naruto who was comforting herself, and thought of how she treated him and how she hated him in her heart, she folded her arms guiltily and said, "Naruto, thank you!"

"I must bring Sasuke back, this is our lifetime agreement!"

Naruto gave Sakura a thumbs up and said with a smile.

(End of this chapter)