After taking over the snake uncle's foundation, Sasuke came to surrender on his own initiative.

Konoha Village.

The earth shook violently and the roar of explosions was endless.

Like Kimimaro, Neji's expression was slightly gloomy, but he didn't say anything too serious. "It's okay. Fortunately, Lord Ototake has a backup plan."

"Backhand?" Kimimaro raised his eyebrows slightly and turned his head. The two red eyebrows on his forehead suddenly came together curiously. "What backhand?"

Ningci shook his head, "You'll know in a moment."

"...... Humph." After staring at Neji's calm face for a while, seeing that he still had no intention of speaking, Kimimaro could not help but snort coldly. Then he turned his head away from him, his face regained its coldness, but with a curled corner of his mouth, he could not help but mutter in a low voice, "If you don't want to say it, then don't say it. What's the big deal!"

"Hehe... Karin, look at him..."

Seeing this, Sakura pulled Karin over, their heads close together, their hands covering their mouths, eyes smiling, and they started chatting. "Sure enough! Kimimaro still likes the cold and arrogant type like Neji..."

Sakura frowned and said worriedly, "What should we do? We have to get him over quickly! But there are no girls of this type in our village."

"Hmm..." Karin pouted as she thought, and suddenly her eyes lit up, "What about Tayuya? I didn't realize before that since Orochimaru's death, that shameless guy has also been eyeing Lord Ototake! How about...matching them together?"

Sakura shook her head slightly, her long pink hair falling naturally, making a soft tremor, "Tayu is not good enough, she is just a simple mouth, Kimimaro will definitely not like her."

"What should I do then..." Karin pouted her lips cutely, her face full of sorrow, "Why do you all want to snatch Brother Ototake from me?"

"I can't help it. They are both handsome guys. Neji is focused on training, and Kimimaro doesn't have the mature and domineering temperament of Lord Ototake. He is just too tsundere."

Kimimaro: “…”

His face darkened, and he could no longer hold back and turned his head to look at Sakura and the other person in the corner, and said viciously, "Boring woman!"

"Hehe..." Karin grinned at him, her cheeks rosy, looking very pretty and cute.

Sakura put her hands on her hips, raised her round chin to Kimimaro, and said in a delicate voice, "What's wrong with us girls chatting about some gossip? You are really narrow-minded! If you don't want to listen, you can use chakra to close your ears, right?"

"Huh?" Shigeo, who was also annoyed, brightened his eyes, "Is it still possible? Let me try."

"Psycho...the clown is really mean!" Sakura rolled her eyes in anger and turned her head away with a snort.

Girls are born with the ability to love, how can you treat this little fairy like this?

"Humph!"

Jūgo and Kimimaro looked at each other, shook their heads and stopped talking.

On the rooftop, silence returned once again.

After a moment's silence, the two women began to whisper again.

"Is brother Ototake really okay facing the Third Hokage alone?" Karin's face was filled with worry as she stared at the stands in the distance. It seemed that no movement had come out of the lavender light that was rising into the sky.

"That was the Third Hokage who single-handedly defeated the other three ninja villages. Is it really okay for us to just watch?"

Thinking of this, Karin's face showed annoyance, and she hated herself for being too weak and unable to help Yinzhu.

At this moment, Neji, who had been silent all this time, suddenly turned around.

"Karin, you got one thing wrong!" He looked at Karin indifferently, but corrected her seriously.

"It's true that Konoha defeated Sand Village, Iwagakure, and Kumogakure in three wars." Neji's eyes turned cold as he said this, "But this is all the work of the Fourth Hokage. What does it have to do with the weak and stupid Third Hokage?"

"That's right..." Feeling the air suddenly become suffocating, Karin's face trembled, she forced a smile, and was secretly shocked, "How terrible... When Neji came to Konoha this time, he seemed to be a completely different person..."

But Sakura did not agree with what Neji said and retorted.

"But if there hadn't been the Third Hokage, Konoha might not have survived until the Third Ninja World War!"

Ningci's brows suddenly frowned.

Seeing this, Kimimaro glared at Sakura in dissatisfaction, "Stop talking!"

Sakura stiffened her neck and stared back without any fear, "I'm talking to Neji, what does it have to do with you, Kimimaro!?"

"You!" Kimimaro's eyes flashed with anger, he gritted his teeth, but forced himself to hold it back.

All the Sound-ninjas in Konoha today are trusted confidants of Sound-Take.

He didn't want to make the relationship too strained, or even report it to Yin Zhu, otherwise people would think that Kimimaro was intolerant and bullied the weak.

"Hmph!" Sakura snorted coldly, and then a smug look appeared on her face. She turned to look at Neji and said in a sarcastic tone.

"Kimaro is always pestering you. Maybe... it's because he had a different childhood than most people, hehe..." Sakura sneered and glanced at Kimimaro with disdain. "Sure enough, it's because he has no parents! So his orientation has changed."

Kimimaro had been an orphan since he was a child, and had never experienced the love of family members, so he had no reaction. But Neji's expression changed, and there was a hint of coldness in his eyes when he looked at Sakura.

"Um!!?"

Seeing this look, Karin's heart was shaken. She quickly grabbed Sakura's arm and scolded in a low voice, "What are you talking about!"

But Sakura, who was getting excited, pushed him away.

"If you're alone, you won't have your parents nagging you." Sakura spread her hands with disdain, "So that's why Kimimaro doesn't even know the most basic manners of respecting girls? And don't you think it's very rude to interrupt a girl when she's talking?"

Click...click...click...

Neji slowly clenched his fists.

Faced with Neci's cold gaze, Sakura felt a chill in her heart, but her unyielding character made her grit her teeth and reveal her true thoughts over the years.

She shrugged calmly, and her words... seemed to have a hidden meaning.

"Besides, since the ninjas of the Ninja Clan have special privileges, it is normal for them to be pulled out to take the blame at critical moments..."

boom--

On the rooftop, the air froze instantly.

White eyes - coercion!

Sakura's pupils suddenly trembled, and she felt as if her heart was hit hard by a huge rock.

With a "puff" sound, a large amount of blood spurted out instantly, and a few drops of blood flowed down from the corners of her lips and dripped onto her body.

The blood was like ink, staining her white clothes with bright red. Sakura's feet went limp and she fell to the ground. She looked up at Neji with a horrified expression, not daring to even breathe.

pat-

Neji stopped in front of her, his body straight and his handsome face expressionless, but when he looked down at her, his eyes were red and murderous intent was hidden in them.

"Wrong is wrong! I won't allow anyone to speak for that bastard!"

After saying this, Neji took a deep breath, veins on his face throbbing, as if he was holding back something. After a moment, the bloodshot in his eyes slowly faded, and he silently turned back to Kimimaro.

"Ha! Drink! Ha! Drink! Ha..."

Sakura's face relaxed, and she began to gasp heavily while lying on the ground, as if she was almost suffocating.

But immediately afterwards, the cold voice that floated from the edge of the rooftop made her face turn pale, her back felt cold, and cold sweat overflowed from her broad forehead.

"If you keep saying things like you have no father or mother...I will kill your Konoha father!"

......

The scene in the Four Purple Flame Formation was extremely strange.

They didn't look like an assassin and the assassinated, but more like acquaintances who hadn't seen each other for a long time. They were actually chatting leisurely at a distance of four or five meters.

"What's going on, Kakashi-san?"

"have no idea......"

Kai began to scratch his head, and his face became a little impatient. "Why haven't they started fighting yet?"

"I don't know..." Kakashi stared at the 'Intimate Paradise' in his hand and said without turning his head.

This made Kai mad, and he said angrily, "It's already this hour, and you're still in the mood to read pornographic comics!? The person imprisoned in there is the Third Generation!"

"I know." Kakashi then withdrew his eyes from the book and glanced at Zabuza who was carrying a big sword on his shoulder. He looked a little helpless, "With that guy guarding us, what can we do?"

"..." Kai also fell silent. The black-clad ninja opposite him was so powerful that it was terrifying.

......

"Rosa actually followed us secretly. He must be worried about the tailed beast in Gaara's body. His son's life is not that important..."

Inside the barrier, Yin Zhu glanced at the battle in the distant sky filled with yellow sand.

If the tailed beast is sealed back in time before the Jinchūriki dies, there is indeed a great possibility of saving the Jinchūriki's life.

Retracting his gaze from the sky, Yinzhu's eyes flashed, "But in this case, Shukaku will be completely useless..."

But fortunately, after some beatings, I believe that Dou will not let him down.

As for unsealing the Nine-Tails in Naruto's body and controlling it with the Sharingan, Zabuza couldn't do it, and he himself was unwilling to waste a huge amount of pupil power to try something with a high probability of failure.

One reason may be that the pupil power is not enough.

If there was a backlash, he was not Obito, who had an indestructible "will" that even the Ten-Tails could not shake...