[Naruto] The Disaster of the Red Sand Scorpion

[My affairs have nothing to do with you. If you have time to investigate my affairs, why not practice your puppetry more. I guess you haven't finished reading the book on medical ninjutsu I gave you. 】

This was the first time Sakura saw Xia leave such a long message for her. She ignored his first sentence and only read the last few sentences, which looked like awkward concern.

But... what does "my business has nothing to do with you" mean? If she couldn't get it back in her lifetime, then she would have to use his body for the rest of her life. In this case, of course she had to know everything about him.

Sakura packed her things and walked out of the room. She was going to ask the Third Kazekage.

At this time, the Third Kazekage was still thinking about what Xia said.

——"I will wait for her to come to me."

The child who hated waiting was actually willing to wait for someone. The Third Kazekage was a little relieved. Although Xia hated him, he was still happy to see Xia's changes.

Maybe one day in the future, he could see Xie's eyes filled with the same vivid color as that child's.

Just as he thought of the child, there was a knock on the door. After he said "come in," Xie walked in with his head tilted.

It's that kid.

He asked: "What happened?"

After confirming that only the Third Kazekage was in the room, Sakura said hesitantly: "I want to know about Scorpion-kun, his parents and his past."

As if she was afraid that the Third Kazekage would reject him, she quickly added: "He knows everything about me and even read my old diaries, but I know nothing about his past. It's so unfair."

After listening to what she said, the Third Kazekage neither agreed nor refused, but asked her a question: "I want to know what you think of Scorpion."

What is her opinion on Scorpio?

Sakura was a little confused and said tentatively: "He is a genius?"

"It's not like this." The Third Kazekage laughed, "From your perspective as a friend or from another perspective, what do you think of Scorpion? What kind of existence is he to you?"

friend? She and Scorpion should be friends. From the perspective of friends, Scorpion to her...

"I do not know."

Sakura thought for a long time but couldn't figure it out. She could only answer honestly: "I don't know."

There was an apologetic and nervous look on her face, as if she was afraid that her answer would make him feel uncomfortable, so he would not tell her about Scorpion.

But the Third Kazekage didn't have any dissatisfaction. Instead, he nodded, "I understand." He knew that the relationship between the two people was not as simple as he imagined. "The matter about Scorpion started when he was born. Let’s talk about it.”

>>>

When Scorpion came over, he was in a tree hole.

He lowered his head slightly and saw two unconscious teammates. The one with yellow hair looked like he had simply fainted, while the one with black hair had a look of pain on his face and his whole body was shaking. He turned his head again and saw a pile of broken parts.

It looked like it had been a hard fight.

But the girl was not harmed. Xie, who had already checked her body, looked at the notebook left by Sakura. After Zaisuke explained in detail the troubles she had encountered before, she crossed out the content that asked him to change the headscarves covering the heads of the two companions, only She asked him to help guard Yishou for her sake.

【please! I’ll treat you to some prunes then! 】

She was very kind to these two people.

He looked outside the tree hole. He was quite smart and knew how to make traps and disguise them.

If you don't even bother to repair the puppet even though you're making traps, will you die here? And with her soft personality, she would definitely not kill her.

Xie wanted to check the trap, so he lowered his eyes, saw the last sentence on the notebook, and then smiled softly. He no longer thought about the trap, but took out the scroll containing the tools and began to repair the broken golem.

The whole morning was spent repairing puppets. After Xie repaired one of the puppets, he did not continue any action.

He looked towards some bush.

"Come out."

There was a rustling sound, and the three Sound Ninja he had seen before appeared in front of him.

"We don't want to embarrass you." Toss stood at the front, "Wake up Sasuke, we just want to fight him."

Xie sat still. He put away the pink-haired puppet and said nonchalantly without raising his head: "But I want to embarrass you, what should I do?"

Sound Ninja Trio: "..."

Sac, who had a more aggressive temper, wanted to rush forward, but was stopped by Toss.

Toss walked to a certain marked point and lifted up the turf on the ground. "It's such an obvious trap. Are you looking down on us?"

Scorpion nodded matter-of-factly.

Sound Ninja Trio: "..."

Sark couldn't take it anymore, and Toss didn't stop him. The three of them jumped up, and from the corner of his eye, Toss caught a glimpse of the pink-haired man's disdainful mouth.

Could it be that……? .seven

Toss looked up, and sure enough, there was a trap up there, but it was a pity that it was so simple, otherwise she would have succeeded.

That pink haired guy is nothing more than that.

Wait, Toss suddenly felt something was wrong, and he quickly stopped Sark who was about to split the wood, but it was still too late.

A strange smell flowed into their brains along with their breath, and the three of them instantly fell weakly, and finally fell into the pit under the turf.

It's actually drugged.

Scorpion walked out of the tree hole and looked down at them. If he were allowed to come, he would directly put the fatal poison. This little girl is still too kind.

"The kid from the Uchiha family can't have an accident in my hands." Although Xia was terrible, he still abided by the agreement - even though it was an agreement unilaterally imposed on him by Sakura, "I won't stop you tomorrow, you can come and kill him alright."

Sound Ninja Trio: "..."

>>>

【I won’t keep you waiting too long. 】

【I will try my best to run towards you. 】

On the notebook, red writing was heavily printed on it. The writer wrote these two sentences very seriously and with a serious mood.

Xia took one look and approached the Third Kazekage, "You guys really like to meddle in other people's business."

"She cares about you very much." The Third Kazekage said, "In the short time we got together, I saw that the child is a very kind person."

Scorpio holds the opposite opinion: "It's weakness."

"But you never thought about asking her to change."

"..."

Scorpion can completely guide the child to become a ninja like him, and he can also control her and make her become a part of his puppet - after all, when it comes to body swapping, most people will choose to include the other person in their applause.

But Xie didn't. Not only did he not do this, but he chose to wait for the other party, waiting for the other party to run towards him.

This is not Scorpio's style.

"Are you done?" Xie raised his head coldly, "How do you know I haven't thought about this kind of thing?"

The so-called B-level mission was part of his test. It only required eavesdropping. This was all a lie. His purpose was to let her choose between the mission and her companions. Anyway, she couldn't win with her strength.

But what he didn't expect was that she would dare to rush forward and block others. Did she know that she was a genin?

At that time, he was angry partly because of "father" and "mother", partly because of her character - such a person would never be changed by him, especially when he saw his puppet.

"It's really stupid."

>>>

Sakura was surrounded by an ominous chakra.

"Sasuke...kun?" Sakura shouted uncertainly, looking at the curse marks all over Sasuke's body.

Sasuke seemed not to have heard her call and raised his hand with satisfaction. "I feel full of strength all over my body." He smiled.

In front of him were the sound ninja who were suppressed by him. He stepped on their hands fiercely, as if he was going to kill them in the next second.

No, this is not Sasuke.

"Stop now!"

Sakura quickly grabbed Sasuke with a chakra cord and shook Naruto awake. Fortunately, Naruto didn't sleep to death and woke up quickly.

Naruto was aware of Sasuke's change and the fierce look the latter was giving him.

"We have to stop Sasuke-kun." Sakura winked at Naruto, "Go and knock him out."

Toss, who stepped back after being rescued, clearly saw the chakra line in Sakura's hand. This kunoichi was a puppet master, but Lord Orochimaru did not mention it - including the fact that he placed a curse seal on Sasuke. No, it would be better to say that Orochimaru never thought of telling them the information, he just used them as Sasuke's whetstone.

Looking at the two people trying to wake up Sasuke, Toss only felt that they were doing useless things. Once the curse seal was activated, they would not have clear consciousness and would only become violent.

This is indeed the case.

Naruto and Sasuke fought together. Sasuke killed him without distinguishing between friend and foe, and Naruto was also indifferent.

What? She obviously asked Naruto to hold Sasuke-kun back. Sakura had a headache. She took out a thousand books, and when Sasuke had no time to pay attention to her, she quietly touched his back and pointed a thousand books at his sleeping hole.

Sakura caught Sasuke who fainted. Fortunately, she had been studying medical skills recently and knew the acupuncture points distributed on the human body. But this is her first time making a move, so I don’t know if she’s done it right, so she should be fine, right? She thought a little guiltily.

Toss is a reasonable ninja, even though he is Orochimaru's subordinate. He placed the Book of Earth on the ground, "This, in exchange."

Neither Sakura nor Naruto cared, letting him and his companions leave.

Sakura and Naruto carried Sasuke into the tree hole together. She told Naruto not to run around while walking to her pile of puppets.

There were still a day or two before the allotted time. When Sakura took out the scroll containing the tools, she accidentally touched another one. She opened it and inside was the repaired Sakura puppet.

This Sakura puppet is exquisitely crafted and looks exactly like a real person at first glance - I guess it's a masterpiece of Scorpion.

He also left an instruction manual, pointing out his improvements and added weapons, hoping that next time she could make full use of the puppet's due strength and not be shattered all at once.

Sakura tried it out and found that the added device was just right. The projection of the weapon was much more consistent than hers. As expected of Scorpion Lord, he was indeed much better than her.

But having said that, why not help the other three repair it?

As if predicting her thoughts in advance, there was a note on the back of Sakura's puppet, written in Scorpion's handwriting.

【My art is not something everyone can enjoy. 】