The third round of the Chunin exam will start in half a month, Naruto feels that there is no need to continue to stay here, it would be better to take all these prisoners away.
In fact, he did just that.
And this time, in addition to Naruto, Sasuke, and Haku, there was one more Uchiha Izumi.
The number of Kirigakure ninjas guarding the prisoners also changed from six to nine.
Chojuro also joined in.
And Uchiha Izumi's best friend, Inuzuka Hana, also silently followed, and the ninja dog was panting and following behind.
In theory.
The ninjas of Konohagakure village should stop Naruto from doing this.
Because what Naruto did would offend many ninja villages, maybe, it would also pull the hatred of those ninja villages to Konohagakure.
Moreover, among the group of prisoners tied up by Naruto, there are quite a few Genin from their Konohagakure village.
At least there must be more than thirty.
This kind of "capturing prisoners" behavior is a bit too indiscriminate, right?
There seem to be some children of the ninja clan in Konohagakure village!
But to really stop Naruto and forcibly rescue those prisoners in a fair and square manner...
To be honest, they dare not bear the consequences of doing so.
Because this would offend the Whitebeard Pirate Crew.
Which is equivalent to offending Whitebeard.
If they angered Whitebeard and caused him to make trouble in Konohagakure, then they would be the sinners of Konohagakure!
So...
Whether it was the ninjas brought by Sarutobi Hiruzen or the Chunin examiners, they could only watch Naruto and others leave with complex expressions.
Until a group of Genin disappeared from sight.
Silence was the Forest of Death today.
Until the medical ninja who was treating Sarutobi Hiruzen suddenly spoke anxiously to break the silence, "Someone help me carry Hokage-sama to Konohagakure Hospital, although the wound on Hokage-sama's face has stopped bleeding, it still needs further treatment. Those three punches might have caused Hokage-sama a moderate brain injury."
"A moderate brain injury?" An Anbu ninja was dumbfounded, "Hokage-sama should be okay, right?!"
"The problem is not big." The medical ninja said: "Compared to the injury Hokage-sama suffered last time, this injury is much lighter."
After said that, the medical ninja realized that he had misspoke a bit.
He coughed awkwardly in embarrassment.
"I'll help you carry him!" An Anbu ninja changed the subject.
Many of the ninjas present who knew the situation kept silent about it.
The so-called injury that Hokage-sama suffered last time was actually when Hokage-sama was beaten up by Whitebeard.
That time almost cost Hokage-sama his life.
Compared to the last time, this injury is indeed not a serious one.
"Kurenai-sama, what should we do?!"
Next to Kurenai, a Chunin examiner asked weakly.
"...Everyone go home." Kurenai blurted out a sentence.
The situation has already developed to this point.
What else can they do?
"We are just the examiners for the second round of the exam, the third round of the exam in half a month, it has nothing to do with us."
Kurenai added: "As for... the things that just happened..." It also has little to do with us."
As for who it has a lot to do with.
Everyone knows it well.
But Kurenai couldn't say it.
"Sigh!"
Kurenai sighed, she had a premonition that in the next period of time, Konohagakure might lose face in the entire ninja world.
She doesn't think those foreign village Genin will keep these secrets.
Not to mention the Genin of the foreign village, even the ninjas of Konohagakure Village, she dare not guarantee that everyone can keep secrets.
Because Hokage-sama passed out and didn't have time to order a news blockade.
In addition, there is no wall in the world that doesn't leak wind.
Hokage-sama's secret...
I'm afraid it's hard to keep!
.....
Time passed.
It soon arrived in the evening.
"Damn it! Can't you let us put on our clothes?" As they were about to walk into the residential area of Konohagakure, a Sunagakure ninja among the captives suddenly twisted and blushed: "How... how can we walk into the residential area like this!"
Realizing what was going to happen next, even the most arrogant Sunagakure Village ninja couldn't be arrogant anymore.
As soon as he finished speaking, his butt was kicked.
"Bastard! What are you doing!" The Sunagakure ninja gritted his teeth and glared at a Kirigakure Village ninja.
"Heh! What am I doing? Reminding you to shut up!"
The Kirigakure ninja looked disdainful: "Naruto-sama has spared your lives, which is already the greatest tolerance. One or two of you are still chirping here, believe it or not, I'll cut your throat?"
The Kirigakure ninja who dropped the harsh words actually pulled out a Kunai.
He put the Kunai on the neck of the Sunagakure ninja.
The sharp edge of the Kunai had already cut the skin of the other's neck.
"Wait, wait... wait! Pretend... pretend I didn't say anything."
The Sunagakure ninja's face changed.
He forgot that all these Kirigakure Village ninjas were a bunch of madmen.
The ninjas who came out of the bloody Kirigakure Village.
Each one is a killer!
He just didn't understand why these Kirigakure Village ninjas would listen to Uzumaki Naruto's words?
What is their relationship? Why do they call him 'Naruto-sama'?
He couldn't understand at all.
Soon.
Under the escort of nine Kirigakure ninjas, all the candidates who participated in the second round of the Chunin exam entered the residential area of Konohagakure.
Suddenly...
It made everyone in the entire Konohagakure Village, including civilians and ninjas, open their eyes!
A group of nearly naked Genin from various villages gathered together, each one bound with ropes.
Such a scene was absolutely unprecedented.
The visual impact was undoubtedly immense.
"What... what is this?" A civilian from the Konohagakure village stared in astonishment, wide-eyed, at the "strange spectacle" before him. "Is this some new trend of naked bonding groups? This... this is... a bit too extravagant, isn't it?"
"Mom, that chubby, naked big brother looks even bigger than mom!" Ah? Ah? Ah?"
"....."
Whispers and various gestures around, making the group of Genin from different villages blush with embarrassment.
They couldn't muster any harsh words from their mouths.
They desperately lowered their heads, wishing to bury their heads in the ground so that others couldn't see their faces.
Some, with a cruel streak, directly turned their heads and collided with the head of the person next to them, causing blood to flow from the broken head.
Having blood on their faces made it even harder for them to be recognized.
Many passing Konohagakure ninjas also witnessed this scene.
They too were stunned.
Among them was Umino Iruka.
With a heavy heart, Iruka Umino concluded a day of teaching.
The reason for his heavy heart was that he knew his three students had taken a special route to participate in the Chunin exams.
"Sigh..." Iruka sighed, "I heard Naruto has already started the second round of the exam, and this second round is not as easy to pass as the first one!"
Iruka was worried about Naruto, Sasuke, and Haku.
Regardless of their identities.
At least, they were his students.
Iruka knew that as long as he understood this, it was enough.
"Hmm?" Suddenly, he noticed some commotion ahead.
"What's going on over there? Why is it so lively?"
Iruka adjusted the Konohagakure headband on his head.
He approached to satisfy his curious.
Pushing through the crowd, he looked ahead and was shocked to see a large group of people. They were all tied together with ropes, and most of them were bare-chested, without pants, wearing only lone underwear.
It seemed that only some girls were wearing clothes and pants.
Iruka was bewildered.
What's happening?
At this moment, three familiar faces appeared before him, making Iruka's eyes widen involuntarily.
"Huh? Naruto? Sasuke? Haku?"
Iruka was dumbfounded.
He almost exclaimed.
And Iruka's exclamation attracted Naruto's attention. In a glance, Naruto noticed Iruka's somewhat dark skin tone.
Iruka's skin tone was relatively rare in Konohagakure.
"Iruka-sensei!" Naruto flashed a bright smile and waved at Iruka.
Iruka, under the scrutiny of the surrounding crowd, briskly walked over.
Standing beside Naruto, Iruka quickly lowered his voice and asked, "Naruto, what's going on with you guys? Aren't you supposed to be in the Death Forest exam site? And... who are these people behind you?"
"Hehe, Iruka-sensei, we've already passed the second round of the exam!" Naruto grinned at Iruka and raised his thumb. "The second round is quite simple!"
Iruka: "....???"
Naruto's answer caused his brain to pause for a moment.
He then reacted.
"Passed?!"
This is the second round of the Chunin exam!
It's not a theoretical written test!
"Iruka-sensei, don't be so shocked? It's just the second round of the exam, simple." Sasuke crossed his arms, with a cool expression and a confident smile at the corner of his mouth.
Only Haku patiently answered Iruka's last question: "Iruka-sensei, these people behind me are all candidates from various ninja villages participating in the Chunin exam."
Haku pointed to the group of people behind him, and recalled according to his memory: "It seems to be a Genin from Sunagakure Village."
"That one, if I remember correctly, it should be Amegakure Village, right?"
"This one is from Konohagakure Village, that's a Takigakure Ninja, this is an Otogakure Ninja."
"Um, these few dressed ones are ninjas from Kirigakure Village."
Iruka: "???"
"Ah???"
Iruka and Haku stared at each other, Haku's eyes were very clear and pure, and Iruka's eyes were full of confusion.
"They... they are all candidates for the Chunin exam? Then why are they like this?" Iruka swallowed a mouthful of saliva in the dark: "Why... why are they all tied up?"
Haku smiled gently and replied: "It's very simple, they were all caught by me, Naruto, and Sasuke."
Haku continued: "They are all prisoners of the Whitebeard pirate group!"
Iruka: "!!!"
Haku's words can be described as shocking.
Anyway, Iruka was shocked to stay in place, his mind was stunned: "Prisoner? Prisoner of the Whitebeard pirate group?"
"Hehe, Iruka-sensei, we are going to exchange them for money!" Naruto grinned, using the most innocent smile of a child, and said the most creepy words: "As a pirate, kidnapping people and extorting money is quite normal, right?"
Iruka: "....."
"Senpai, save us!" In the crowd, several Genin from Konohagakure Village looked at Iruka with hopeful expressions.
After all, Iruka was wearing a Chunin vest.
And he is Uzumaki Naruto's teacher.
In the eyes of these Konohagakure Genin, if they beg Uzumaki Naruto's teacher to let them go, Uzumaki Naruto should give face, right?
Iruka opened his mouth.
"Iruka-sensei, this is the spoils of the Whitebeard Pirates!" Haku said with a smile: "Does Iruka-sensei want to save them?"
"Ah... this!"
For some reason, the image of Whitebeard, that tall and majestic figure, emerged in Iruka's mind.
Gulp!
His throat surged up and down.
The thousands of words in his mind, the thousands of exhortations that were about to blurt out, when they blurted out, they could only become like this: "Naruto, e... everyone is a ninja, and everyone has a family. Please try... try not to kill anyone."
"Haha! Don't worry!" Naruto was patting his chest and said: "How can a dead prisoner be as valuable as a living prisoner?"
"With your promise, I can rest assured as a teacher." Iruka wiped the cold sweat on his forehead.
There's no way.
He could only get so far with those prisoners. He could only get so far with those prisoners.
Iruka knows his own ability.
He can't even beat Naruto, if he really wants to "snatch food from the tiger's mouth" from the Whitebeard Pirates... Iruka feels that one day, he might need to let the students go to his grave and offer him a few flowers.
"Go, go, go, keep going!"
Naruto was ordering a group of Kirigakure ninjas.
I don't know if it's Iruka's illusion, he always feels that there is... a bit of a child's show-off nature in it.
Could it be that Naruto intends to parade these prisoners through the streets?
To show off how many prisoners the Whitebeard Pirates have plundered?
Or...
Is Naruto using this method to "notify" all the ninja villages, asking them to ransom their people back?
He watched as the Genin from various villages gradually disappeared from his sight.
Iruka murmured in shock, "It's indeed the Whitebeard Pirates! Such behavior has offended all the ninja villages except Kumogakure Village and Iwagakure Village, hasn't it?"
Could Konohagakure dare to do this?
Probably not.
.....
As time slowly passed, the events that happened in the Forest of Death spread like a virus in a very short time.
The group of prisoners certainly couldn't get the news out.
But the Kirigakure ninjas who were not captured were a group of loudspeakers.
It's unknown whether this group of Kirigakure ninjas did it intentionally or unintentionally.
They were discussing this matter loudly in various public places in Konohagakure.
No one doesn't like to hear "gossip".
When someone secretly heard what this group of Kirigakure ninjas was saying, the news inevitably spread.
And there are too many key elements contained in these news!
So much so that it's shocking to hear.
"Hey hey hey, is it true?" In a tavern in Konohagakure, the tones of two Chunin from Konohagakure village gradually rose, because the things they were talking about were shocking.
One of them looked incredulous, "How is this possible? Hokage-sama is a god of shinobi, how could he do such a thing? And... and that Uzumaki Naruto, he is the son of the Fourth Hokage?"
"No way? That kid... why didn't I know about his background before? Now suddenly you said that he is the son of the Fourth Hokage?"
The Chunin next to him was drinking a small wine, and hurriedly lowered his voice: "Shh, shh, keep your voice down!"
He said to his companion, "I heard that it was Uzumaki Naruto who confronted Hokage-sama in the Forest of Death, and Hokage-sama was refuted to the point where he couldn't say a word. Hokage-sama's reaction basically confirmed Uzumaki Naruto's background!"
"Ah this..." The companion was shocked, "Doesn't that mean that Hokage-sama held that kind of purpose to deliberately conceal Uzumaki Naruto's background, causing Uzumaki Naruto to suffer such ostracization and discrimination."
"Hokage-sama is too... what? This is completely different from the Hokage-sama in my impression! This is even more different from the Hokage-sama written in the textbooks!"
"Shh shh shh!" The Chunin drinking the small wine hurriedly reminded, "I told you to keep your voice down, if the Anbu ninja hears it, they might think we are speaking ill of Hokage-sama."
"Let me tell you, there's more than just this!"
Bang!
Suddenly, a wine pot hit next to the two Konohagakure Chunin, scaring them both.
They thought it was an Anbu ninja who appeared.
They were so scared that they quickly turned their heads to look.
As a result, they found... it was a very strange light-haired twin-tailed girl next to them, the other party showed a drunken look, a pair of blurred eyes were staring at them tightly: "What did you say? Repeat it to me?"
Tsunade squinted her eyes and continued, "What happened to the Hokage of Konohagakure?"
Yes, this light golden-haired little girl is Tsunade!
Tsunade has not left Konohagakure to this day.
She has been hanging around in various casinos or taverns in Konohagakure recently.
"Huh? Who are you..."
A Konohagakure Chunin's words hadn't finished yet.
Tsunade had already lightly slapped her hand on the thick table.
Crack.....
Under the slender palm, cracks spread out, and in just a short three seconds, the cracks had covered the table.
"Cut the crap, understand?"
Tsunade said, tipsy.
"...Understood!" Two Chunin from Konohagakure Village swallowed in the dark.
Their survival instinct was at its peak in an instant.
One of the Konohagakure Chunin hurriedly told all the "gossip" he heard today at the fastest speed.
Mainly these messages have already been circulated in the form of gossip, so they are not considered secrets anymore.
He has no guilt for saying it out loud.
Tsunade quietly listened in the tavern for about ten minutes.
She probably understood what the situation was.
"Hahahaha!"
Tsunade directly took the jug and blew it against the bottle.
She had no ladylike image at all, she slapped the table and laughed with happily: "Hahaha!!"
"The old man finally met his bad day!"
Tsunade laughed very loudly.
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