He finally returned to Konoha. ”

Hearing the news brought by King Mu, Naruto leaned his back against the rock wall, his eyes closed, and his consciousness immediately entered the mirror world.

After a while, Sasuke suddenly separated into a shadow clone and walked towards the outside of the cave.

Sakura's eyes lit up: "Did Sasuke-kun let the shadow clone go out on guard?" ”

"Hmm."

Sasuke agreed with a blank face.

Sakura smiled and said, "Then I'll help too." ”

"Not yet."

Sasuke's eyes flashed slightly, and when he saw Sakura's face that was about to seal, he continued: "When my shadow clone comes back in the second half of the night, you can split the shadow clone and go outside to change my shift, so that we will each have time to rest and maintain our energy." ”

"Oh."

Sakura nodded thoughtfully, but she immediately wondered, "But is this so good?" Naruto had just gone out, and he should have split up his shadow clone to keep vigil around..."

"You don't know about him?"

Sasuke looked at Naruto, who seemed to be asleep, and said in a somewhat jealous tone, "This guy has been able to separate hundreds of shadow clones in school before he graduates, do you think we can compare to him?" ”

"Uh~"

Sakura's tone froze, and then she sat down with a stiff face, remembering that when she was usually doing tasks, Naruto was casually doing it for dozens of shadow clones, and this time the middle ninja exam was so dangerous, she felt that it was better to keep her chakra as much as possible.

At this time, another Sasuke who walked out of the cave found one of Naruto's shadow clones, and the two disappeared out of thin air without saying a word, and when they reappeared, the two were already standing in a bright laboratory in the land of snow.

"After the operation, go to the cultivation room on the second floor downstairs, someone there will take you back."

After Naruto finished speaking, he exploded into smoke with a "bang".

Seeing Naruto disappear, Sasuke knotted two shadow clones, then bent the five fingers of his left hand and grasped a small glass jar out of thin air, looked at the floating double hook jade writing wheel eye in the jar, and he walked to the operating table.

Ten minutes later, Sasuke was on the second floor downstairs, and after navigating a few corridors along the way, he stopped in front of a huge tall iron door.

"If cloning is used in the incubation room..."

Thundered!

As Sasuke pondered, the iron door slowly slid to the sides, and soon he saw an acquaintance walk out of his face.

"Keijiro?"

The person who stepped out of the door was Keijiro, and he bowed respectfully to Sasuke at the door, and then walked in the other direction without saying a word.

"Huh?"

Sasuke stared at Keijiro's distant back, in the past, when he saw Keijiro and others, he used the transformation technique, but judging from Keijiro's demeanor just now, it was obvious that he had known himself for a long time.

"It must have been Naruto's ghost...."

With a conclusion in mind, Sasuke stepped through the door of the cultivation room in two steps, and after entering the door, he was immediately attracted by the tall stone seat in front of the cultivation room.

"You're slowing down."

Naruto stepped out from behind the stone seat.

"Can you still use white eyes like this?"

Sasuke came to the bottom of the stone seat, looking up at a glass ball with a diameter of five meters suspended above the stone seat, the ball was almost crowded with white eyes, every once in a while, this ball would light up, and when it glowed, all the white eyes inside instantly merged into one, and reflected the images of mountains and rivers, people and buildings.

Naruto shook his head slightly: "Unintentionally inserted willow failure." ”

"Failure?"

Sasuke didn't think so, he reached out and handed Naruto a glass jar containing the three-hooked jade chakra that he had replaced, and at this time the ball shone again, and this time he saw not only the capital of the Snow Country, but also the ice field where he usually practiced.

Naruto took the jar handed over by Sasuke and said, "Now in the entire Death Forest, except for Yakushidou, only our seventh class is still on the periphery of the central tower. ”

"That pharmacist is looking for me."

A hint of gloom flashed in Sasuke's eyes, and the murderous intent was unconsciously revealed.

"I'm sorry, he can't die just yet."

Naruto looked at Sasuke and said, "This person is still a little useful to me. ”

"Huh?"

Sasuke frowned, "You want to use him to do..."

Swish!

Another Naruto appeared out of thin air in front of the two of them.

"Yakushidou is very close to us."

Naruto, who was standing next to Sasuke, handed the glass jar in his hand to Naruto who had just appeared, and then grabbed Sasuke's shoulder with one hand and launched the flying thunder god back to the outside of the cave on this side of the Death Forest.

"You let me kill all the people who Orochimaru sent to find me before, what do you want to do with him?"

Sasuke asked suspiciously

"You're so curious?"

Naruto smiled faintly and said, "If I said I kept him just to help me settle some personal grudges, would you believe me?" ”

"A personal vendetta?"

Sasuke raised his eyebrows, he remembered that Naruto had been beaten for acting during the day.

Could it be that he wants to use Yakushi's Pocket to get revenge on Orochimaru?

...........

"You even know Payne's identity?"

In the mirror world, Naruto was a little surprised to see Jiraiya questioning the three generations of Hokage about his three disciples, and the three generations of Hokage were silent for a long time in the picture, and then directly asked Moonlight Blaster to go to the archives to hand over the files of the Land of Rain about Hanzo to Jiraiya.

However, Jiraiya was obviously a little dissatisfied, he took the file and turned around and left, without saying a word to the three generations of Hokage the whole time.

"Heh~ This old man doesn't dare to tell the truth to his disciples."

The Nine Lamas said in a mocking tone: "Those files were all sorted out and reported by Tuan Zang, and the content of the meeting and conversation between Tuan Zang and the three generations of Hokage is different from the archives, and there is no such thing in the archives that Tuan Zang and Hanzang want to regain the eye of reincarnation. ”

"Jiraiya is not stupid, since he can take out the files of the rain country about his three disciples, then Konoha must have something to do with what happened to his three disciples, and the three generations of Hokage are obviously very weak in doing this."

King Mu raised his neck and continued: "What I am puzzled about now is that before the appearance of the data puppet of Tuanzang, we only knew that the Payne of the Xiao organization had the eye of reincarnation, but after looking at the memory of the group, it turned out that the person who had the eye of reincarnation was Nagato among the three disciples of Jiraiya, and at the same time, we also knew that the name of this Payne was Yahiko, and he was also one of the disciples of Jiraiya. ”

"But Yahiko had already died in the conspiracy of Danzo and Hanzo back then, but now he is alive and well, and he still has the eye of reincarnation, but that Nagato has disappeared, what the hell is going on?"

Isofu urn said: "Maybe that Yahiko is not dead, and he forcibly snatched Nagato's reincarnation eye from behind." ”

"I don't think that's the case."

Chongming flew into the air and said: "Look at the strength of that Nagato after the outbreak of the Reincarnation Eye, Tuanzang and Hanzo teamed up with a group of Shangnin to besiege him, and in the end they could only flee in the wilderness, no matter how strong that Yahiko was, it was impossible to take the Reincarnation Eye from him." ”

"This kind of thing actually has nothing to do with strength at all."

The Nine Lamas sat up and said in a deep voice: "Think about that Uchiha Shui Zhishui, first he was poisoned, and his strength was directly abolished, and in the end, if it wasn't for the overdraft of his vitality and desperately opened Susa Nenghu, it is estimated that both eyes will be taken away by Tuan Zang." ”

King Mu blinked, lowered his head, and said softly, "Naruto, what are you thinking?" ”

"I'm wondering how to find Jiraiya and get the seal key."

Naruto closed the pop-up frame, turned around and said, "The previous three generations of Hokage wanted Jiraiya to help me lift the Five Elements Seal, and by the way, let Jiraiya also guide me in cultivation for a limited time, so that Jiraiya and I could establish a master-apprentice relationship of mutual trust, but you just saw that Jiraiya brought up the matter of the three disciples of his Rain Country within a few words of meeting, and the three generations of Hokage didn't have time to ask him to contact me." ”

"In case Jiraiya reads the file and wants to go to the Land of Rain to investigate, then there is little hope that I will get the seal key, you also saw it just now, if Jiraiya hadn't taken the initiative to show up, no one in Konoha would have known that he was back."

"It's like I usually use the shadow clone as a guise to attract attention, and the chakra fluctuations of the body changing itself move at will in Konoha at will, and everyone can see that Jiraiya is in a bad mood when he comes back this time, and it is basically impossible to fall into the trap I prepared for him."

As soon as Naruto's words were finished, Isofu, King Mu, and Shigeaki in mid-air, the three tailed beasts looked at the Nine Lamas silently together.

The Nine Lamas pricked up their ears and glared at the three tailed beasts, and then said in a condensed voice: "I suspect that the group of toads from Myoki Mountain told him something, otherwise how could Konoha question the three generations of Hokage about his three disciples as soon as he returned." ”

"By the way, I don't think Jiraiya will leave immediately after coming back this time, we still have a chance."

"Oh?"

Naruto looked up in surprise, "Nine Lamas, what is the basis for what you say?" ”

"I don't say you'll find out soon."

The Nine Lamas called up a pop-up box, and after flicking it a few times, it popped out a paw and pointed at the pop-up frame and said: "Didn't the three generations of Hokage say it, this Orochimaru is also back, and Jiraiya, who is also a three-ninja, knows that the old friend who betrayed Konoha is back, no matter how much he cares about his disciple's affairs, he will help Konoha find Orochimaru before leaving." ”

"I actually overlooked this, in Orochimaru's memory, for so many years, Jiraiya has been tracking his whereabouts."

Naruto's expression moved slightly, looking at Orochimaru's avatar, he thought, "But the sudden return to the village is also likely to become a variable in our current plan, and we must find a way to get the third Hokage to send Jiraiya to me as soon as possible..."

The Nine Lamas grinned and glanced at the other three tailed beasts, and they all disappeared as streamers at the same time.

~~~~~~~~~~~~

The next day.

After the three of Naruto walked out of the cave and replenished each with a Kakashi-recommended Bing Food Pill, they stepped onto the trunk of the tree and continued their way towards the central tower.

It didn't take long for Sakura to jump into the air, and Sakura suddenly asked suspiciously, "Sasuke-kun~ We've collected all the scrolls now, why don't we hurry up?" ”

Sasuke stopped at his feet, turned his head to look at Naruto, and found that the latter was also looking at him with a strange look, his eyes were slightly condensed, and he said lightly: "The assessment requirement is to reach the center tower in 5 days to pass, since we have already obtained the scroll, we only need to arrive at the specified time, and the closer we get to the center tower, the more dangerous it is." ”

I understand!

Sakura suddenly realized, "There must be someone ambushing around the center tower right now, snatching other people's scrolls!" ”

Sasuke nodded noncommittally, his gaze swept to Naruto, and his heart suddenly sank when he found that the latter had an expression like Sakura.

"Yakushidou must be nearby!"

After guessing in his heart, Sasuke kicked his feet and continued to leap forward, and Sakura and Naruto immediately followed.

It wasn't long before a figure emerged from the ground under the big tree that Sasuke had kicked before, and after glancing in the direction Naruto and the others were running, he lowered his head and pulled out a stack of cards, and after pulling one out of it, he took out a pen from his back and began to write on the cards.

At the same time, the third Hokage came alone to the bottom of a small five-story building, he took a puff of his pipe, and walked into the corridor, and after a few minutes, he came to the roof, but there was already a burly figure standing on the roof.

"Where are their children?"

The burly man is Jiraiya, and this small building used to be the home of the four generations of Hokage, and it was still empty before, but after the explosion on the night of the Uchiha annihilation, this place has become the current small building.

"Old man, a lot has happened in the village over the years."

The third generation Hokage walked slowly to Jiraiya's side: "Because of my special status, I concealed Naruto's background and arranged for him to live elsewhere, and now he is in the process of selecting for the middle ninja exam." ”

"He's going to take the shinobi exam?"

Jiraiya stared at the three generations of Hokage: "If I'm not mistaken, when you sent me a letter last year, you said that he graduated this year. ”

"That's right."

The third generation Hokage nodded calmly and said, "This year, all the newly graduated Shinobi have taken the middle ninja exam, his instructor is Kakashi, and one of his teammates is the only boy who survived the night of the Uchiha annihilation. ”

Jiraiya's face softened when he heard that Naruto's instructor was Kakashi, but when he heard that one of Naruto's teammates was Sasuke Uchiha, his expression immediately changed.

"You want to control the Nine-Tails!"

"I don't deny that, but I mainly don't want the village to repeat the Nine-Tails Rebellion."

The three generations of Hokage sighed: "But now this expectation may be disappointed with the appearance of Orochimaru. ”

Jiraiya's expression was solemn: "Orochimaru? ”

"That's right."

The third Hokage spat out a string of smoke rings and said in a deep voice: "He has his eyes on Sasuke, and according to Azuki's report, Orochimaru himself said that he left the same curse mark on that child's body as Azuki Bean's shoulder, and said that Sasuke is very suitable to be his container." ”

"I can't help you."

Zilai also shook his head lightly and said, "I didn't leave him behind when he was seriously injured by you, and it is even more impossible to catch him now." ”

The three generations of Hokage were silent when they heard this, and after a moment he spoke: "I will personally solve the matter of Orochimaru, I came to you to ask you to solve Naruto's cultivation problems." ”

"Naruto's cultivation problems?"

Jiraiya's brows furrowed: "What kind of cultivation problem can't even you solve?" ”

"Alas~"

The third Hokage sighed, "Years ago, Naruto was tempted by the Nine-Tails in his body..."

~~~~~~~~~~~

"I didn't expect us to be ambushed!"

On the side of the central tower, Sakura excitedly handed over the two scrolls to an examiner, and after the examiner checked that the scrolls were correct, he led the three of them to the temporary rest room after passing the assessment.

Before the three of them could sit down, Kakashi suddenly walked in.

"Sasuke, come out with me."