Naruto Puppet Master

Looking at Hyuga Neji who seemed to be drunk and fell to the ground weakly, Aburame Shisun curled his lips and said disdainfully while carrying the giant hammer: "Hmph, who said you can't perform the lion's roar technique without inhaling or accumulating strength? ”

"I can deal with a rookie like you with just a few yells."

After saying this, Aburame Shizun, who looked extremely arrogant, stepped forward and stepped on Hyuga Neji. He held up the eight-sided giant hammer, looked around, and shouted to the surroundings in a loud and arrogant tone: "Still... Anyone?"

At this moment, if looks could kill, Aburame Shizun thought that everyone was watching him, and his dazzling figure would definitely be looked at like a hedgehog by countless people.

"Holy shit, not only did you scare me, but also Haimaru. Now he's so arrogant. I really want to beat him to death." He had just comforted the three-headed ninja who was frightened by Aburame Shisun's Lion Roar Technique. The dog's Inuzuka Hana said harshly when she saw the short figure holding the giant hammer high.

"Ai, you can't beat me." Akimichi Bingding reminded lightly: "I don't want to lie there like Hyuga Neji.

"Well, well, Bingding is right. Boss Hua, please don't be impulsive. The other party's instant lion's roar skill is too insidious. Once you roar, you will fall down. If you go up, you will just lie down!" Shiranui Gui looked nervous. comforted.

"You don't need to remind me. If I hadn't known that I couldn't beat him, I would have rushed up and thrown my shoe in his face." Inuzuka Hana said angrily.

"We should have done it earlier." At this moment, he looked around and found that no one dared to come forward. Aburame Shison, who completely ignored the curses in other people's hearts, stepped on Hinata Neji and felt extremely comfortable in his heart. , and regretted the countless similar opportunities that I had let go.

"Sure enough, it is wrong to seal my true heart. I don't need to wait for the emotional origin to be completely integrated with my body. Although emotional fluctuations will affect the physical foundation, the will of the emotional origin is my real foundation. It doesn't matter even if my physical body is broken. In the past I was really out of my mind to follow his plan and seal most of my emotions." Aburame Shizun thought happily.

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Shenyuan era, sixth year, July [-]th, late at night, today is a rare small event in Konoha Village. Obeying the order of the Red Sand Empire, the Third Hokage hurriedly stepped up the time to hold the Demon Hunting Assessment in the village.

Although the time is rushed, thanks to the overnight work last night, most of the preparations have been made, and the final list is expected to be handed over to the Red Sand Empire within three days.

The Third Hokage, who was currently processing the information on geniuses from all races collected through the assessment last night, looked at the talents of many outstanding talents, and his heart was filled with joy.

"Sure enough, Minato, you are right. The current Konoha Village is the village where the true will of fire is spreading. There is no secret frame-up and hiding among the various races. The vigorous vitality of the new generation makes the current Konoha Village full of people. What a surprise!" The third Hokage, who was in a happy mood, suddenly felt much better, even the mood that had become a little irritable and gloomy due to the destruction of the Uchiha clan.

He also once again remembered the Fourth Hokage, Minato Namikaze, who had dared to push the Leaf Village closer to the Red Sand Empire when he was still a Jonin.

"dong dong dong"

Just as the Third Hokage was looking at the row of huge stone statues outside the window and lost in memories, an urgent knock on the door came from the door.

The next moment, before the Third Hokage could recover and speak, the wooden door was opened with a loud creak, and a gloomy old man with a broken arm walked in quickly.

"It's Danzo! What, is there anything urgent?" Seeing his old friend's gloomy face, the Third Hokage frowned and asked.

He knew that although there were always some conflicts between him and his old friend, since his old friend recognized the world situation, he never made any other small moves. Instead, he really tried his best to help him maintain the operation of the Konoha base. Therefore, he has never done anything like this directly breaking into the Hokage's office in these years.

The Third Hokage knew that it was because his old friend who also aimed at Hokage hoped to retain the few authority and respect for the current position of Hokage, so every time he was anxious about something, he would subconsciously protect Hokage's face. He hoped that in this way, others would not dare to underestimate Naruto.

However, this time the direct intrusion of an old friend made the Third Hokage feel a strong sense of ominousness.

"Something happened." Sure enough, after Danzo entered the room, he directly said to the Third Hokage: "During the assessment, people with unknown forces were found, and they took action on the seeds."

"What, who was attacked? Are there any dead? How is the situation now? Has the news been blocked?" The third Hokage stood up in horror and asked one after another.

You must know that this assessment focuses on all the geniuses of Konoha's new era. If there are losses caused to each other due to the assessment, the Third Hokage will be uncomfortable, but he can accept it, while other tribes will have nothing to say even if they lose talents. It can be said.

But if other outsiders caused great harm to the geniuses of this village, then the Third Hokage who held this assessment overnight would definitely be complained by all the clans.

Especially those little ninja clan who originally concentrated most of their clan's resources on one or two geniuses due to their decline. They have already given most of their efforts and cannot accept that their geniuses will die in this kind of internal assessment. , once a large number of deaths occur, I am afraid that the Third Hokage will have to face the public outrage.

Danzo, who knew what the Third Hokage was worried about, immediately said quickly: "Don't worry, no large number of casualties have been found yet. The information I have received so far says that their only target is Kurama Yakumo, who has awakened to control the blood stains of the five senses."

"I have asked the root members to go to the blockade site first. Let's go and take a look first!"

After hearing this, the Third Hokage, who was temporarily certain in his heart, immediately said: "Okay, let's leave now."

Half an hour later, the Third Hokage and Danzo Shimura, who brought a large number of ANBU members, arrived outside the assessment forest that they had visited during the day.

As soon as the two came with a large group of people, a root member wearing ANBU costume came up to them.

"Danzo-sama, Hokage-sama." Anbu said respectfully.

"How is the situation? Have they been controlled? Have the candidates gathered together?" the Third Hokage asked continuously.

But he was anxious, fearing that something bad would change after half an hour's delay.

"Hokage-sama, Danzo-sama, the current situation is that we have too few personnel and cannot search all the candidates. Those who can be found have been protected. As for the enemies, except for the dead ones, we have already controlled them. ”

"It's just that we learned from the prisoners that they still have a group of people hiding in the forest, but we haven't found any trace of this group of people yet." Member Gen said calmly.

The Third Hokage, who had already expected this situation, immediately waved his hand behind him and said: "You also go and collect the candidates and that group of enemies, and protect the safety of all candidates."

"Yes, Hokage-Da

people. "As soon as he finished speaking, black shadows quickly darted through the forest.

Looking at the many ANBU leaving, the Third Hokage quietly breathed a sigh of relief. He was glad that he had just spent a few more minutes to bring enough ANBU, otherwise just collecting the candidates would have been an arduous and long task.

"How is Kurama Yakumo? How far did you just search?" Danzo Shimura asked from the side.

"Danzo-sama, Kurama Yakumo has been sent to the hospital by a pair of root teams first. The subordinates are not sure about her current condition. But when they just found her, she was in a coma due to excessive chakra energy overdraft. , members who know medical ninjutsu have given her simple treatment, it should not be life-threatening." The root member replied.

"And because we have limited personnel, we can only cover the [-] kilometers from the front and don't have enough energy to go deeper."

"Where's the enemy? Apart from that group of hidden people, have you found out any other information? Who is behind the scenes? Is there any other conspiracy?"

"Sorry, sir, the prisoner is dead and we haven't had time to ask for other information." The root member said with his head lowered.

"What did you say?" Danzo's single eye revealed unimaginable anger: "You actually let a prisoner who was defenseless die in front of you."

"How do you do things?" If he hadn't known that the ability of the root member in front of him to answer his question was actually quite good, the angry Danzo would have had the urge to kill him.

Facing the angry Danzo and the killing intent flashing in his eyes, this unknown root member could only lower his head and remain silent.

"Don't get angry yet. Listen to his reasons. I believe that even an ordinary genin will not let a prisoner die in front of his eyes." The third generation Hokage, who was equally angry at the side, suppressed the anger in his heart and said in a deep voice.

"Say." Danzo roared.

"Yes." The root member lowered his head and said, "The enemy behind the scenes has placed an unknown curse seal on the brains of all the prisoners. Once the prisoners take the initiative to leak information, the prisoners' brains will be automatically blown up."

"The most important thing is that the prisoners themselves are not aware of the existence of such restrictions, and there are chain reactions between restrictions."

"When a ban is activated, the bans on other people are also automatically activated one after another."

"So we didn't immediately discover the restrictions deep in their brains. When we interrogated a prisoner, we just got a little information, and his brain exploded. At the same time, other prisoners also died on the spot for the same reason."

"You're so careful?" Danzo's face moved slightly after hearing this, and he thought bitterly in his heart.

"Since the enemy is cunning, I won't deal with your dereliction of duty for the time being, but you know the rules. Go back and cooperate with the investigation." Danzo said, putting aside the murderous intention in his heart.

"Yes, Lord Danzo." The root members said with relief knowing that they would not die immediately.

"What a ruthless thought, what a cautious approach." The Third Hokage said in a deep voice: "When this happened, the people behind it calculated that as soon as we found out, they would be eager to investigate. By then, as long as these people were attracted, not even their subordinates would be able to do it. If you know the restrictions, you can naturally kill people and silence them."

"I'm afraid the person who spoke first was either the person behind the plan who arranged for dead soldiers, or he arranged for a large number of miscellaneous fish with a temperament that couldn't bear to be tortured to be mixed with a small group of real elites." Danzo speculated with a malicious look on his face.

"Then have you traced how they entered the Konoha Ninja Village base?" Looking at the dozen corpses lying there, the Third Hokage said in a deep voice: "And what is their strength?"

"You haven't sent people to investigate yet?" the root member replied:

After hearing the answers from the root members, the Third Hokage nodded and stopped paying attention to this aspect. After all, the top priority was to find someone.

"On the other hand, among the dead bodies, we assessed their bodies and chakra vitality and found that there were 12 of them in total, including eight senior warriors of various schools, three elite jounin who were proficient in the Five Elements Ninjutsu, and A Jonin who is skilled in the sealing and tracking techniques." said the root member.

"It's simply unforgivable to have such strength to lurk into the village." Danzo Shicun said angrily.

"This matter is not over, but it must be postponed. Now our top priority is to find the candidates, not to find unknown enemies."

"A hostile team composed of at least senior warriors or elite Jonin enemies will bring fatal danger to our talented candidates." The Third Hokage said seriously: "It is already midnight, we must find it as soon as possible All candidates may be able to locate the enemy team."

"Yes." After saying that, everyone, including the Third Hokage and Shicun Danzo, braved the sound of countless insects and entered the secluded forest.

As time went by, when the Third Hokage brought a large number of ANBU members to the forest to search for candidates and enemies step by step, some weak candidates from all races were killed one after another by a large number of ANBU because they did not advance far. member or root member found.

Half an hour later, the Third Hokage, who once again searched for a group of candidates, asked the ANBU next to him: "How far have we advanced inside now, and how many candidates have not been found?"

"From the last statistics, we still have a dozen candidates who have not been found, and we are now more than 30 kilometers deep into the forest." An ANBU said.

"Have we pushed forward more than ten kilometers again?" The Third Hokage first breathed a sigh of relief, and then said seriously: "This distance should be fast. I don't think the candidates will be able to go too far in one afternoon. Let everyone continue If we work harder, we will definitely be able to find all the candidates."

"Hokage-sama, we have discovered something." At this moment, a ragged ANBU in the forest ahead said as he flew over.

Hearing this, the Third Hokage was shocked and said eagerly: "Have you found any traces of the enemy?"

"No, Hokage-sama, my team discovered an abnormal situation at 10 o'clock from here. After going deep, my team discovered a huge insect tide there."

"What? Insect tide, how could an insect tide form here? Could it be that king insects just spawned here." The third Hokage said in shock.

"No, based on my subordinate's experience, it doesn't look like the King Insect evolved. Instead, I think it was artificially attracted by something." Anbu said.

"Are you saying that someone used some means to attract a large number of insect swarms to form an insect tide." The third Hokage said with eyes shining.

"Yes, and there is a lot of movement over there. If there are candidates nearby, they will most likely be attracted to it." Anbu continued.

"Okay, okay, okay" the Third Hokage shouted excitedly: "Immediately notify the nearby ANBU to come with me to investigate."

"Yes." The ANBU on the other side responded.