Escape From Konoha - v2 Chapter 18

There can be no more mistakes this time.

On the way back to Konoha Hospital, Zuo Jing warned himself more than once.

After two consecutive mission failures, his evaluation has dropped a level in the hearts of his superiors.

If the mission to track down Masumi Asami failed, it can be considered excusable. It is a very strong medical ninja, at least a master at the level of the captain of the dark part, with a very keen anti-reconnaissance ability, even if his ability is special, Perfect tracking is also not possible.

But this time was different, causing Naruto to be kidnapped by a group of outlaws. Such a mistake was far more serious than the failure of the mission to follow Masumi Asami.

Renzhuli is an important military force in the village, and it has nothing to do with Naruto’s own will. From the moment he became the Nine-Tails Renzhuli, he was the weapon of war that the village had to control.

His existence is indispensable to Konoha, just as Hokage is to Konoha.

Especially in this age, tailed beasts are even more valuable military resources.

If Naruto really had an accident and was kidnapped by outsiders, even if he died ten times, he would not be able to make up for such a mistake.

You are just a shadow in the dark.

Thinking of the contagious smile on Naruto’s face from time to time, the warm chakra of spring gave him the feeling that it was like the shining sun in winter, dispelling the cold. Zuojing could not help but fell silent.

Such an existence is quite unfamiliar to him.

In the future, maybe you should have less contact with Naruto to avoid being infected by the chakra breath on his body.

Abandoning feelings, names, and life is the meaning of his existence.

If you can’t even do that, the root has no value.

While thinking so, Zuo Jing put his palm into the ninja bag, rummaged through the contents, and suddenly his face froze.

——The picture book is gone!

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“Hey, isn’t Zuojing here?”

In a single ward on the third floor of Konoha Hospital, Naruto, Sakura, and Tenzo came here. Seeing that the single ward was empty, they couldn’t help showing a surprised expression.

But compared to the confusion of Naruto and Sakura, Tianzo was thoughtful.

Did you go to meet Danzo? Tianzang can only guess so.

Sakai is not an ordinary ninja, even in Konoha’s ninja archives, there is no record, just like those orphan ninjas who were secretly cultivated by the root, except for the record in the root, the village knows nothing about their past.

Even the name Zuai is false.

This shows how well Danzo has control over the roots.

When such a major thing happened, Zuojing was definitely not recovering from the injury at the first time, but went to Danzo to plead guilty.

Tian Zang sighed helplessly. Although he knew that the root organization was not harmful, he was really powerless to compete with such a behemoth.

Even if Tsunade, who looks extremely tough at this time, can only press the root end in the open, but if you secretly want to do something to the root, it will definitely cause a catastrophe.

The current root is not only the root itself, but also the strength of the martial arts faction. From the point of view of power, it is not much weaker than the Hokage faction.

It is impossible to change Zuojing’s situation.

The root is not a charity organization, the dark side of their Konoha, what they do has nothing to do with loving-kindness.

Bloody, cruel, unscrupulous, is synonymous with them.

Just like the selection of more than 20 infants with excellent qualifications to become experimental subjects, and to conduct experiments with Orochimaru.

They really have no lower limit to the rules and human ethics.

What they need is the end result, not the process.

As long as they can be strong, Hokage in their eyes, maybe they can be sacrificed and betrayed at will.

“Could he go out for a walk? Is his body okay?”

Here, Naruto guessed again, and put the fruit basket in his hand on the cabinet next to the hospital bed.

“However, his injury does not allow him to move freely for too long…”

As a medical ninja, Sakura naturally knew how serious the injury was on Zuojing’s body. Although he could act, for health reasons, it was not recommended that the other party get out of bed so quickly.

Therefore, Sakura frowned, and a worried look appeared on her face.

“Don’t worry, the two of you, Zuo Jing might have something to do. I believe he will be back soon.”

Tian Zang comforted him next to him.

In fact, he has no confidence in his heart, because the crime of causing Ren Zhuli to disappear is very serious, and he is fine. Although Tsunade’s punishment to him is serious, it is also a punishment within the rules.

But the root is not the rules of the village, but a set of laws and regulations that are run by themselves.

Whether Zuojing can come back safely can only be expected of his own value.

If his own value is not high in the eyes of the superiors at the root, and he has committed such a serious mistake, it is absolutely impossible to forgive him easily, and even let the rest of his peers in the root replace him and re-incorporate into the seventh class.

“Really? It’s really troublesome, doesn’t he know we’re coming to see him?”

Naruto went to the window and opened it to ventilate the room.

“Also, if it wasn’t for you, Zuo Jing wouldn’t have been injured so badly. You have to thank them.”

Sakura glanced at Naruto reproachfully.

“I-I see, I’m a little bit sorry now.”

Naruto’s mouth hardened.

“I can’t see it at all. Also, your performance in the mission was too poor before. Listening to Captain Yamato, the strength of those few people should not exceed your own by too much. Got slapped with a sap.”

“Damn, who would have known that they would be so insidious. They didn’t give me a chance to dress up and fight at all. They didn’t follow the rules! They even made me almost wet my pants!”

Naruto got angry when he thought about it. He was taking a **** at the time, but he was suddenly attacked at that time. If he hadn’t reacted quickly enough, he would have almost urinated on his pants.

“Hey, don’t say such embarrassing things! Besides, this is not a Chunin exam, it needs a one-on-one fair confrontation, and you have to say hello before the battle. Are you thinking too much?”

Sakura was speechless.

Is Naruto strong? To a certain extent, he was so strong that even a normal Jōnin couldn’t easily hold him.

“Heaven Comes”

But the other side is weak.

His nerves are too thick, his vigilance for encounters is too poor, and he is similar to a normal sub-ninja, and even his performance is even worse.

But there is no way, the actual battle is not the same as the exam.

The exam is a practical evaluation of candidates, but there are still many differences from the real battle.

In an encounter in the wild, it is normal for both sides to sneak attack on each other.

The real battle will not be a one-on-one duel, and there is no rule against killing opponents, and there is no referee to make a case for it.

Being lectured by Sakura like this, Naruto shrugged and did not refute.

At this time, Sakura took out something from the ninja bag, which attracted the attention of Naruto and Tenzo.

“What is this? Why is it so familiar, it seems to be from Zuojing…”

Naruto saw clearly what was in Sakura’s hand, it was a palm-sized picture book.

On the cover and bottom of the picture book, there are two cute q-version characters.

One of them is very similar to Sakai, and the other is unknown, but the hairstyle is very similar to Sakai, but the color is white.

“This is Zuo Jing’s picture book, I remember it was accidentally dropped by Zuo Jing in the process of chasing the Four Heavenly Elephant Man.”

Tianzang thought of the source of this picture book and said.

“Well, I think this picture book should be very important to Zuojing. I asked him to let us not watch it before, so I brought it with me.”

Sakura nodded, she was still very curious about this picture book.

Sakai’s ninjutsu form appears in the form of ink painting, and creates physical objects, attacking or restraining the enemy, and the effect is remarkable.

In addition, there are strong reconnaissance and intelligence transmission capabilities.

In actual combat, the functions are very comprehensive, and it can almost be said to be a secret technique with no weaknesses.

“What’s in there? That guy was mysterious before. He’s been holding this picture book in a daze, and he doesn’t know what’s good in it.”

Naruto asked curiously.

“I don’t know, I haven’t seen this picture book yet.”

“Then open it up and take a look. I’d like to see what the guy has drawn in there.”

Naruto took the picture book in Sakura’s hand and looked at it for himself.

“It’s a little immoral to look at other people’s things like this without their permission?”

Having said that, Tianzang’s body came up very honestly, and like Naruto and Sakura, he focused his eyes on the picture book.

He thought that it would be great if he learned something about Zuojing through this picture book.

At least it can be beneficial to the team spirit of the seventh shift.

After all, if he didn’t know the bottom line of Zuo Jing, it would be difficult for him to really entrust his back to Zuo Jing.

“Strange, what kind of composition is this?”

Afterwards, Naruto, who roughly flipped through the contents of the picture book, showed a strange look on his face.

Although the painting style is very cute, from the perspective of outsiders, there is basically no problem, but for some reason, it always gives people a very strong sense of violation.

Sakura pointed to the content on the picture book and pointed out the interesting things she found:

“This should be recording the growth history of the two teenagers. For example, the pictures on the right page starting from both sides are the teenagers on the front and the bottom, but only the picture on the left page keeps changing the enemy, and every time it changes, the two teenagers All will take away the equipment and weapons of the opponent in the picture on the left for the next battle.”

After Sakura’s analysis, Tianzang nodded in approval.

“Indeed, from this point of view, they are two different teenagers, but they have a very similar growth history. They both grew up by defeating the enemy… But if this goes on, the two people in the story will meet sooner or later. Sakura, turn over Look in the middle.”

“it is good.”

Sakura turned to the middle part, and the expressions of the three of them suddenly froze.

The picture on the right page shows a black-haired teenager without a face, while the picture on the left page is blank and has no characters.

It stands to reason that the two people who keep defeating the enemy will eventually meet on the drawing in the middle, but only one person appears, still a faceless person, and the left side is a blank picture.

There is no doubt that this black-haired boy with no face painted is Sakai.

And the white-haired boy did not appear on the left page.

“What’s going on here? Why does this boy who looks a lot like Zuo Jing have no face? And where’s the white-haired boy?”

Naruto blinked, bewildered.

Sakura and Tianzang fell silent, perhaps thinking of something.

Faceless means no expression, I think of the fake smile that Zuojing hung on his face from time to time. Strictly speaking, isn’t it a face that does not need expressions?

faceless.

Expressionless person.

Lost names, lost feelings.

There is no past and no future.

This is the root.

“Is it because you can’t think of the final ending, so you haven’t started painting?”

Sakura closed the book and let out a long sigh.

The white-haired boy who appeared above was a very important person to Sakai.

“It seems that the relationship inside is more complicated than we thought.”

Tian Zang scratched his head and sighed.

He has some guesses of his own, but some things are not completely certain.

But only one thing is very clear, Zuo Jing did not completely cut off his past like the people at the root.

In his heart, he kept a memory that he could never give up no matter what.

“Captain Yamato, what kind of organization is it at the root?”

This is the first time Sakura asks such a question.

She found that she didn’t know as much about this organization hidden in Konoha’s secrets as she imagined.

I can only understand a general idea from some of the words of others – that is, the power of the roots is very large, so huge that when Hokage is dealing with them, it has to be restrained.

And such a description is enough to prove the terribleness of the root.

A huge force that can compete with Naruto can be regarded as Konoha’s second largest government.

And their leader, the power may not be weaker than Hokage, belongs to the darkness, Konoha’s second ‘Hokage’!

Tianzang was about to answer when the following sentence came from the door of the ward:

“The root is the private military organization of Lord Danzo. Joining this organization means giving everything, dignity and even life for Lord Danzo. For members of the organization, Lord Danzo’s order comes from the will of God. .”

The three of Naruto turned to look at the door of the ward, and found that Zuo Jing had quietly appeared there at some point, with the usual smile on his pale face.

“Zai? When did you come?”

“Well… I just came back from a walk. Thank you very much for visiting me.”

Zuojing walked in with a smile.

Sakura, on the other hand, took a step forward and handed the sketchbook in her hand to Sakai.

“Here, this is your precious thing.”

“…”

Zuojing lowered his head, only then did he notice that the picture book in Sakura’s hand was the one he had lost.

For a moment, the smile on his face became much more real.

The joy of being lost and found, although not shown on his face, did fill his chest, making him feel at ease.

“thanks.”

“Actually no need… I’m sorry, I read the above without your permission.”

Sakura smiled awkwardly.

In this regard, Zuojing did not express any opinion.

Compared with the joy of being lost and found, there is no need for him to struggle with this little mistake.

Moreover, even if the above things are known, there is nothing, at most, the story of his painting will be very boring.

“Speaking of which, the person on the one side above is you, and who is the person on the other side?”

Naruto asked.

For Naruto’s question, Zuo Jing was silent for a while and replied, “It’s my brother.”

“elder brother?”

His answer surprised the three of Naruto.

They didn’t expect that Zuojing had a brother.

“However, it’s not the brother who is related by blood, but the brother I grew up with in the root. He and I are both orphans. In order to better survive in the root, we chose to live with each other and rely on each other for warmth.”

There was a hint of darkness in Zuojing’s eye.

There is no way of knowing there, the suffocating darkness, without being in the roots.

The Danzo to whom he swears allegiance is the darkness of a ninja who will do whatever it takes to achieve his goals.

Root is also not a charity organization that adopts orphans. Only powerful orphans can escape being abandoned and escape the fate of being regarded as experimental subjects.

The strong survive and the weak die, it is an extremely dark primitive jungle.

“Really? It’s obvious that you and your brother have a good relationship.”

Sakura didn’t know how to answer, so she could only say this.

“Of course, he taught me how to survive in the roots, and I have a lot of respect for him.”

Zuojing nodded and did not deny this.

“So, where is he now?”

“Died, the cause of death was sickness.”

Zuojing narrowed his eyes and smiled.

This kind of smile made Naruto and Sakura feel a little uncomfortable.

“Well, then again, I really want to thank you this time, if it wasn’t for you…”

In order to ease the tension, Naruto began to thank Zuoi.

“You’re welcome, I just received the task of protecting you.”

Zuojing looked at Naruto with a smile and said these words calmly.

“Zai Jing, you…”

Naruto frowned.

He felt that Zuo Jing in front of him was like a cold machine that was constantly working, without the slightest taste of being a stranger.

“Zai is just a fictitious name to integrate into the seventh class. It can also be said to be a code name. I don’t have a name. I am Danzo-sama’s hands and feet, root’s minions, and I… do not exist in this world. Naruto People, whether you admit it or not, there are things in this village that you can’t destroy. So, don’t try to change me, as a ninja of roots, you don’t need feelings and bonds.”

Zuo Jing faced Naruto and interrupted what Naruto was about to say.

Even Sakura and Tenzo, who were onlookers, could feel the tension between the two.

“Hey, how can you say such a thing? Ninjas are also human, how can they give up their feelings?”

“That’s why… your past teacher, Hatake Kakashi, betrayed Konoha.”

When Sakai finished saying this, Naruto and Sakura Tong Kong shrank, their fists clenched tightly.

As if not noticing the ugly expressions of the two at the moment, Zuojing continued to smile and said: “Hatake Kakashi’s father Konoha White Ya, it is because of this kind of fetters that he committed suicide under the accusations of the villagers. If that Konoha White Ya had chosen the priority of the mission instead of saving his companions, this would not have happened. Even your teacher, Kakashi Hatake, would not have betrayed Konoha and eventually became the one who killed Hokage III. Murderer. These are all tragedies that happen because they put too much emphasis on feelings and forget what the mission is.”

“…Shut up for me! Kakashi-sensei, he’s not what you said…”

Naruto’s tone sounded like gritted teeth, trying to suppress his inner anger.

“But Konoha White Ya committed suicide, Hatake Kakashi killed Hokage and defected, this is iron proof. So, please give me more advice in the future, Naruto Naruto. Don’t worry, this incident will not happen again, because I will protect myself even if I die. Keep yourself safe! This is my life and my mission!”

Sakai smiled and stretched out his hand friendly, as if to get to know Naruto again.

“Don’t you think about it for yourself? Such a task…”

The anger on Naruto’s face was obvious, he stepped forward and grabbed Zuo Jing’s collar, as if he wanted to teach him a lesson.

However, Zuojing was not at all flustered.

“Don’t be so heart-wrenching to refute, in this world, there is no equality between people. In the eyes of the upper echelons of the village, your life is more valuable than mine. Whether it is the past, the present, or the future ~www.mtlnovel.com~ This fact cannot be changed. Life has a price, and the initial cost is very low. The ultimate purpose of everyone’s efforts is to raise the price of their own life, in order not to end will be easily discarded.”

Then, Zuojing looked at Tianzang and said with a smile: “I think the captain has also received an order similar to mine. For example, the Hokage ordered to protect Naruto’s safety with all his might.”

Hearing this, Naruto looked at Tianzang in disbelief.

Tianzang was a little silent about this. Although Tsunade had not issued such an order, as a middle and senior cadre in Anbu, he had to take the initiative to do a good job in this regard.

“Naruto, don’t blame Sakai too much. Although his words are ugly, for this era, his words are not a problem. For the village, your existence is unique. If that time comes, I will make Same choice as Sakai.”

Tianzang couldn’t bear to deceive Naruto, this is the case in this era.

Out of Konoha, it is a completely disordered world.

If people want a better survival~www.mtlnovel.com~, they can only rely on the most primitive violence to protect themselves and plunder the wealth of others.

Because where order cannot be restrained, violence is the most powerful solution. There is no one.

“how come……”

Naruto took a step back in despair.

Sakura stood aside and wanted to say something, but considering something, she refrained from saying it.

“However, Zuoi, it’s better not to say such things in the future. Naruto and Sakura are in different environments than you, so don’t judge others by your standards.”

Tianzang turned his head to look at Zuojing’s fake smiling face, and solemnly warned him about this.

“Don’t worry, I’ll pay attention later, Captain.”

Zuojing smiled and nodded.