Moryo was just a soul; without a body, he disappeared in an instant. Neji sighed softly and jumped into the vortex behind him, vanishing.
With Moryo's destruction, all the terracotta soldiers stopped moving and turned back into statues. Thus, all the battlefields were calmed down. This war, which almost swept across the entire ninja world, came and went quickly, strangled in its infancy.
In a small mountain forest in the Land of Demons, Neji and Shion walked side by side. After the war ended, Neji stubbornly disregarded everyone's objections and directly took Shion away, although the girl who was taken away was happy about it.
"Hey, Neji, where are we going?" Shion asked cheerfully. Having lost the restraints of being a priestess and with Moryo defeated by Neji, she felt lighter than ever before, both in body and mind.
"Land of Wind," Neji said calmly.
"Why not go to the Land of Earth first? Isn't it closer to the Land of Demons?" Shion asked, biting her pinky finger.
"Obviously, the Land of Earth and the Land of Fire don't have a good relationship. It's better to leave that kind of trouble for last."
Actually, there was another reason: Deidara and Sasori were about to attack Gaara, and he couldn't miss that.
"I see," Shion tossed her long hair and said with a knowing smile, "So, we're just walking there? Hmm?"
Even though she usually stayed in the village and didn't go out, she knew how far the Land of Demons was from the Land of Wind. At that distance, it would take her, an ordinary person, forever to walk there.
So, at that moment, she looked at Neji with a "you know" expression, which made Neji feel a little dazed. Her personality was too different from what was in the story. Fortunately, she was only like this in front of him, otherwise, with Shion's beauty, who knows what trouble might happen.
"Understood," Neji said calmly, but a faint smile appeared on the corner of his mouth. How could he refuse such a perfectly reasonable request?
Without saying much, Neji picked Shion up on his back. At that moment, Shion's whole body was pressed against his back, and Neji fully felt her amazing figure, which immediately made him feel restless.
Fortunately, he wasn't an ordinary person and quickly calmed down. At the same time, he decided in his heart that he shouldn't let Shion go out alone in the future; it could really cause a great war.
"The host carries Shion for a walk, reward received: [Word Spirit]."
Word Spirit: A type of spell that is cast through language, which can control creatures other than oneself, and even control rules. It is an extremely powerful ability.
"This time it's Word Spirit, a spell," Neji wasn't too surprised.
Just before, when he took Shion away, he had gotten an ability called [Life Catalog] for holding her hand. It seemed to be an ability to absorb the characteristics of all living things through touch.
"Shion, hold on tight."
Then, Neji jumped and disappeared into the depths of the forest.
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The Land of Wind covers a vast area, but it's located in a desert region, surrounded by sand all year round. The living environment is the worst among the Five Great Nations, the complete opposite of the Land of Snow. However, the Land of Snow has now become the "Land of Spring"...
In the vast and boundless desert, with rolling sand dunes, a very close pair of men and women, looking just like lovers, walked through the yellow sand. Behind them were deep footprints that hadn't been covered by the sand yet.
"This country's environment is too bad," Shion complained, pouting her small mouth. They had been walking in this yellow sand for two days, but they hadn't seen a single person.
Honestly, if it wasn't for Neji's company, she would have given up a long time ago.
Neji also wiped the sweat from his forehead, secretly complaining about the Land of Wind's natural defense: a desert everywhere. Unless there's something going on, who would come here?
"Fortunately, my sensing ability is strong, ensuring that this is the right path. If it were someone else, they would have been defeated by their own hearts long ago."
Finally, as the sun set in the west, with the afterglow like blood, Neji faintly saw a village in the distance.
"Finally here," Neji thought to himself happily.
"Who goes there?!"
As soon as Neji and Shion appeared, the ninja who were guarding around Sunagakure Village noticed them and immediately gathered to surround them, asking in a cold voice.
The first time they saw Neji, they knew he was from Konoha Village, but they still didn't let their guard down. Although Konoha and Sunagakure were allies in name, the complexity of the ninja world... well, if you take it seriously, you'll lose.
"We're here to find the Kazekage. This is the priestess of the Land of Demons, and she has something to discuss with the Kazekage," Neji said without blushing or skipping a beat.
It was impossible to sneak in and stay for a while without being discovered. Rather than causing a bigger misunderstanding later, it was better to admit it now.
"Priestess..." the guarding ninja was shocked. Perhaps they hadn't heard of the priestess before, but a war had just been fought because of the priestess. Someone with that kind of position must have important business coming to Sunagakure Village.
With this thought, the guarding ninja didn't dare to delay and immediately sent someone to report to Gaara.
After a short while, Temari walked over with the ninja who had left earlier. Her original smiling face twitched strangely when she saw Shion.
"Alright, let them in."
"Yes, Lady Temari."
After entering the village, Shion stayed close to Neji. In this unfamiliar place, only that could make her feel safe.
"Tch," Temari's eyes darkened slightly.
Just like that, the group walked in silence all the way to the Kazekage's office building.
"So, what are you here for?" Gaara's dark circles under his eyes twitched slightly, and he stared at Neji with an unfriendly gaze.
Unlike the ninja below, as the Kazekage, of course he knew about Neji "taking away" the priestess of the Land of Demons. He wouldn't believe any mindless excuses about having important matters to discuss.
"Just here on our honeymoon," Neji said with a straight face, holding Shion's hand.
Although Shion was playful, she also knew that she should cooperate with Neji at this time, so she generously admitted it.
"That's right, that's it."
The mome
nt she finished speaking, you could hear a pin drop...
"Are you serious?"
The black circles under Gaara's eyes twitched more and more violently, and a look of "are you kidding me?" appeared on his ever-unchanging face.
Although he didn't want to admit it, what newlyweds would choose a place like the Land of Wind for their honeymoon?
"Forget it, since he's someone Naruto approves of, I'll just trust him for now." After taking a deep look at Neji, Gaara had people take them down to arrange their lodging.
After the two left, Gaara looked at Maki and asked, "How's the investigation into that organization going?"
Seeing Maki's silence, Gaara sighed slightly, "I see, we still haven't gotten their details."
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