It's better to be a rebel ninja than to be a Hokage

"Sa...suke?"

Sakura sensed the unfamiliar chakra coming from Sasuke.

The chakra in Sasuke's body is like poison, making people afraid and unwilling to get close to him.

In order to avoid the chakra that was suffocating her, Sakura didn't even notice that she had shrunk towards Naruto.

It wasn't just Sasuke's chakra that felt unfamiliar.

Sasuke's appearance also changed strangely.

Irregular black markings like burning flames appeared all over his body, making Sasuke look ferocious.

Sasuke glanced at everyone present, finally stopping his gaze on Naruto.

Noticing Naruto's weak appearance covered in blood, Sasuke's expression darkened: "Naruto, who made you like this?"

"It's me! Facing my Sky Slashing Wave, the others would have died long ago! That loser is lucky to be alive."

Before Naruto could say anything, Sack took the initiative to admit it.

Sasuke's attention was immediately drawn to the three Sound Ninjas in front of him.

"You are from Otogakure..."

Looking at the ninja forehead guards on Sack and the others, Sasuke narrowed his eyes and said, "You are the 'test subjects' that Orochimaru mentioned... who will let me fully experience the powerful force?"

"Test subject?"

Hearing the name Orochimaru from Sasuke's mouth, and hearing Orochimaru addressing the three Otonin as if they were unimportant props that could be used and discarded.

Toss, who was able to become the leader of the three Sound Ninjas, obviously thought of many things.

The more he thought about it, the more he felt that he was being completely used as a pawn by the Lord Orochimaru whom he admired, and Toss's will to fight began to weaken...

What on earth is Lord Orochimaru thinking...

"Forget it, none of this matters."

Sasuke looked at Sack and said in a cruel tone: "You dare to attack my companions, and I will return the pain he feels to you a thousand times!"

As soon as Sasuke finished speaking, he suddenly disappeared.

The speed of his teleportation technique is terrifying!

Before Sack could even blink, Sasuke appeared behind him.

"Oops!"

Shikamaru exclaimed, hastily disabling the Shadow Mimicry Technique.

Shikamaru's judgment was correct and decisive.

As soon as Shikamaru's shadow returned to his side, Sasuke had already twisted one of Sack's hands.

Sack's twisted hand was hanging on his shoulder in an extremely strange posture, with the bones completely shattered and the muscles torn off.

Sasuke used only physical skills to make Saku lose his fighting ability.

Sasuke's behavior was no longer a normal fight, but rather one-sided sadism.

Even for ninjas who knew life and death well, it was hard to accept Sasuke's cruel toying with his enemies.

"There are two left."

Sasuke paid no attention to Zack who was kneeling on the ground and wailing in pain, and his eyes fell on Qin who was beside Zack.

Being stared at by Sasuke's fierce, cold and merciless eyes, Qin - or Ino who was occupying Qin's body with the Mind Turning Technique - was so frightened that she was speechless.

Sasuke quickly formed seals with his hands.

"Art fire escape ho fireball--"

However, Sasuke's ninjutsu release was interrupted at the last moment.

"Stop it, Sasuke! The guy in the female Oto-nin's body is Ino!"

Naruto appeared beside Sasuke and grabbed Sasuke's hand which had just completed the hand seal.

Naruto glanced at the frightened Qin, whose eyes were wet with tears: "Ino, undo the Heart Turning Technique, or you will be hurt by mistake."

Naruto's calm reminder brought Ino back to her senses in Qin's body. She put her hands together and formed the seal to release the Heart Turn Technique.

As Ino's spiritual power left Qin's body, Qin lost consciousness and fell to the ground.

Ino herself emerged from the bushes not far away.

Once the Yamanaka clan uses the mind-transfer technique on an enemy, their own body will fall into a coma and become extremely vulnerable.

When fighting against multiple enemies, the Yamanaka clan must protect their own bodies if they want to use the technique of mind transformation.

"Let go, Naruto!"

Sasuke stared at Naruto with his Sharingan, and there were already two magatama in the red Sharingan.

The power of the curse seal directly transformed Sasuke's single magatama Sharingan into the current double magatama Sharingan.

Looking at the sudden altercation between Naruto and Sasuke, Toss took the opportunity to retreat to the side of Sack and Jean.

"We lost this time, please let us go - this is our little sincerity."

Toss took out the "Earth" scroll owned by the Sound Ninja Team and placed it on the ground.

Toss's behavior was both a sincere request for peace and a hope to use the scroll to divert the conflict of interest.

They also had the primary goal of passing the second Chunin Exam.

Since he had not seen with his own eyes the magatama-like scar on Sasuke's body that Naruto had mentioned, Toss could temporarily suppress the doubts he had about Lord Orochimaru's orders.

It has now been confirmed that Sasuke has indeed been inflicted with the power called "Cursed Seal" by Lord Orochimaru.

Toss immediately gave up the idea of ​​fighting.

The order that the three Otoninins received from Lord Orochimaru was to get rid of Sasuke, but now Sasuke possesses the power of the curse seal.

Toss naturally knew about the curse seal. Those who possessed the curse seal were valued by Lord Orochimaru.

The five strongest people in Otogakure received this power bestowed by Orochimaru.

That is not a force that Toss can contend with, even with Sack and Qin.

Since Uchiha Sasuke is valued by Lord Orochimaru, why did he give them the order to get rid of Sasuke?

Could it be that as Uchiha Sasuke just said, the three Sound Ninjas are "test subjects"...

Once doubts arose, Toss could no longer continue to fight without worries.

"How could I let you get away so easily!"

Noticing Toss's movements, Sasuke temporarily gave up the stalemate with Naruto.

The most urgent task is naturally to get rid of these Sound Ninjas.

Sasuke thought that with the power of the curse seal, he could easily break free from Naruto's hand.

But Sasuke suddenly discovered that Naruto was incredibly strong.

He failed to shake off Naruto's hand immediately, and just watched Toss escape with his companions.

"Naruto!"

Sasuke looked back at Naruto, angry at Naruto for standing in his way.

It was when he looked back that Sasuke discovered that the hand that Naruto was holding him with was covered in blood.

The source of the blood was Naruto's abdomen. Naruto had been covering the wound with his hands to stop the bleeding...

But in order to stop Sasuke's atrocities, Naruto didn't even have time to care about his own pain.

"Sasuke, those who use the power of the Fallen may seem powerful, but in fact they are all weaklings with a phony appearance... I have no objection to you using this strange power, but if the person using the power is controlled by the power in turn, in my opinion, you are a weakling who can't even defeat yourself."

Naruto looked directly into Sasuke's eyes, making no effort to hide his disdain for Sasuke's current power-intoxicated behavior.

"If a person cannot even defeat himself, there is no way he can defeat others."

"Or is this really all you can do?"

The reason why Naruto stopped Sasuke from killing the three Sound Ninjas was not because he was too kind-hearted and felt sympathy for the enemy.

The three Sound Ninjas are nothing to be feared.

But if Sasuke killed the Sound Ninja in such a brutal state, he would fall right into Orochimaru's trap of putting Sasuke in darkness.

Sasuke's rampage will greatly affect Naruto's future plans regarding Karin.

By now Konoha should have known that Orochimaru had contact with Sasuke. If something happened to Sasuke in advance, he would definitely be controlled by Konoha - Naruto, as a member of Team 7, would not be immune.

If this happens, Naruto's plan with Karin will fail at the last moment when it is about to succeed.

Orochimaru mixed his spiritual power into the curse seal, and Sasuke, who had darkness in his heart, was easily misled.

Given Sasuke's character, he would indeed choose to devote himself to darkness in order to take revenge on Uchiha Itachi.

However, Naruto also knew that Sasuke was more worried that he did not have enough strength to take revenge on Uchiha Itachi.

Naruto used Sasuke's psychology to prevent him from being controlled by the curse seal and going berserk.

Sasuke's rationality made him realize that what Naruto said was true.

If he gained power now but stopped growing, he would not be able to defeat Uchiha Itachi.

Naruto watched Sasuke's reaction, it seemed his persuasion had worked.

The curse seal on Sasuke's body dissipated and returned to the three magatama marks on his shoulders and neck.