Orochimaru Appears

In the forest of death.

Naruto and Sasuke were eyeing a Genin team again.

At this time, their team was hiding on top of a big tree, eavesdropping on the conversation of the Sunagakure Genin's below.

They seemed to be discussing about Gaara, and their words were full of complaints and dissatisfaction with Gaara.

Naruto looked at Sasuke not far away and the latter nodded.

Next second—

Sasuke jumped out in an instant, and at the same time quickly formed signs with both hands, performing Fire release ninjutsu.

"Fire release: Great Fireball Technique!"

A huge fireball in the sky struck straight at the three Sunagakure ninjas below.

The Sunagakure trio obviously hadn't expected that they would be ambushed, and they immediately dodged Sasuke's attack.

As soon as the three avoided the Great Fireball falling from the sky, they were instantly paralyzed by Sasuke's Lightning release.

Immediately, Sasuke used another Lightning release ninjutsu, false darkness.

A flash of lightning pierced straight through the bodies of two Sunagakure Genins and they instantly died.

The last remaining Sunagakure Genin escaped by chance.

With terrified eyes, he ran away without looking back.

"Naruto!"

Sasuke yelled.

Next second—

A yellow figure descended from the sky.

"Konoha Hurricane!"

Boom!

The Sunagakure Genin, who had just escaped, was kicked back by a heavy blow.

Sasuke swiped forward and ended the life of this poor guy with the Kunai in his hand.

Plop~!

The corpse fell to the ground, Naruto and Sasuke looked at each other and smiled.

"Found it! It's the Earth Scroll!"

Over there, Sakura found a copy of the Earth scroll from a Sunagakure Genin's corpse, which happened to be the scroll that they needed.

However!

At this moment!

Clap! Clap!

Who?

The three looked vigilantly in the direction where the applause came from.

A figure slowly came out from behind the tree.

"As expected of a descendant of the Uchiha clan. Sasuke, I am really satisfied with your performance."

"Who are you?"

Sasuke stared at the man who had come out from behind the big tree.

The other party's cheeks were long and narrow, his eyes were like snakes, and his pale skin made him look like a dead man.

At this time, Orochimaru, who came out from behind the tree, looked at Sasuke with a smile on his face, as if he was admiring a piece of art.

'Itachi, your brother is also very good!' Orochimaru thought to himself.

He would never forget what Itachi had done to him.

When he was still in the Akatsuki, he had tried to snatch Itachi's eyes.

But Orochimaru's soul was very weak because of him changing vessels again and again.

Orochimaru, who once had almost no shortcomings, was defeated by Itachi with a genjutsu.

This was definitely a great shame for Orochimaru.

Although the person who defeated him was Itachi who had slaughtered his entire clan, he was Orochimaru, one of the legendary Sannin.

In terms of seniority, he was the senior of Itachi.

How could he Orochimaru, who had once dominated in the Ninja World War be so embarrassed?

Even when he defected from Konoha, his condition was not as miserable.

Therefore, after the Itachi incident, Orochimaru set his sights on the blood of the Uchiha clan.

If he was just curious at the beginning and wanted to research Itachi's pair of Mangekyō, then after being humiliated by Itachi with a genjutsu, Orochimaru coveted the blood of the Uchiha clan.

He hoped to make up for his weakness against genjutsu and at the same time take revenge on Itachi.

Kill two birds with one stone!

This time, the reason he launched the Konoha collapse plan was not just to give his teacher Sarutobi Hiruzen a ride to the afterlife.

At the same time, he had also come here to inspect his target in person—Uchiha Sasuke.

He wanted to see if Sasuke had the talent that Itachi had.

Now it seemed that even though Sasuke was not as good as Itachi, he was still an exceptional Uchiha.

At a young age, he already possesses the strength of an elite Chūnin, and he will very likely reach the level of a Jōnin after another two years.

Such talent was enough to satisfy Orochimaru.

Sasuke was a good vessel for him.

"Hey! Who are you? What do you want to do to Sasuke?"

Naruto looked at Orochimaru who had a malicious look on his face, and felt very upset.

This guy just stared at Sasuke, but completely ignored his own existence.

His performance just now was obviously also very good.

"Naruto, be careful! This guy an the enemy!" Sasuke yelled at Naruto.

"Ah?!"

Naruto looked back at Sasuke.

At this time, Orochimaru stared at the people in front of him with a malicious intent a terrifying murderous aura instantly enveloped the three people in front of him.

"What?!"

Sasuke suddenly felt as if he couldn't move.

The feeling this guy gave him was even more terrifying than the Zabuza he encountered in the mission in the Land of Waves last time.

The murderous intent of Zabuza was already terrifying.

But in comparison, the murderous aura of the enemy in front of him was more than twice as terrifying as that of Zabuza.

Under such a terrifying murderous aura, Sasuke found that he couldn't even do a basic counterattack and he could only sit and wait for death.

"Damn! I've obviously been working hard to become stronger, why is it still like this?"

Sasuke gritted his teeth, trying desperately to move his body.

While on the other side

In the sealed space inside Naruto's body, Nine Tails also opened his eyes and glanced at the outside world.

"Orochimaru?"

"Wasn't Naruto taking the Chūnin exam? How did he meet this guy?"

Nine Tails was a little puzzled.

He didn't care much about the affairs among ninjas.

But because of being sealed in a Jinchuriki's body, he could observe the outside world through the Jinchuriki's eyes.

Therefore, he knew a lot of things that had happened in Konoha in the past.

For example, when Orochimaru defected from Konoha, he had heard Minato mention it.

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