Chapter 113
"Hurry up."
Naruto's cold voice rang out.
"Don't delay my Sealing Technique training!"
This urging made Hyuga Natsu involuntarily speed up her extraction.
"Ugh..."
Anxious, she immediately changed her sitting posture.
Facing the Tailed Beast Partner directly, she gazed at it.
Just as the most poisonous herbs can sometimes be used as medicine to save lives, so too can the terrifying Tailed Beast Partner have a life-saving effect.
As long as its life force can be extracted, Hyuga Hazuki can be continuously healed.
After bustling for a while, Hyuga Natsu still hadn't extracted the Tailed Beast's Chakra... or rather, its life force.
She couldn't help but feel even more anxious.
Naruto, on the other hand, appeared unhurried.
The Tailed Beast Partner that Uchiha Izumi "killed" last night was still full of vigor today.
Uchiha Izumi had underestimated the Tailed Beast's life force.
Otherwise, how could he have generously offered the Tailed Beast Partner's life force to save Hinata's mother?
"Naruto-sama..."
She didn't know what she remembered.
Or perhaps she learned it without a teacher.
After all, Hyuga Natsu's essence as a woman determined that her natural evolutionary genetic traits would surely carry some things from her ancestors.
For example, the Hyuga Clan's Byakugan.
For example, the instinct to use Gentle Fist.
For example... "Please, please guide me..."
Hyuga Natsu looked up slightly at the indifferent young man standing before her.
There was a significant age difference between the two.
To even out their heights,
One was standing, the other sitting.
Gazing at the pretty maid who had made her request, Naruto extended his hand and slowly placed it on her fair cheek.
Then... he slowly caressed it.
Hyuga Natsu's plea also made the Tailed Beast Partner aware of some danger.
It became more awake, its posture growing even more terrifying.
Naruto's gaze slowly moved down, from those white eyes, all the way to her small nose bridge, and finally... to the pretty maid's thin, pink lips.
"How can you catch tiger cubs without entering the tiger's den?"
Naruto spoke.
Before Hyuga Natsu could react to what he meant,
Naruto's guidance arrived.
Zzzzt!
Hyuga Natsu's eyes snapped open: "Ugh!"
The fully awakened Tailed Beast Partner began to retaliate, attacking anything that dared to harm it.
When it realized its life force was about to be drained, it attacked without hesitation.
However, this was also an opportunity.
The Tailed Beast's self-defense proved that its life force was indeed about to be lost.
Enduring the pain of the attack, Hyuga Natsu once again sped up the extraction.
"Whoosh!"
...Half an hour later.
Shion saw Naruto and the Hyuga maid return.
"Then... Naruto-sama... I, I'll head back first."
Hyuga Natsu bowed deeply, her head lowered.
In her hands was the already extracted medicine pot.
She held the pot and slowly retreated.
She was going to deliver the secret medicine to Konoha Hospital for Hyuga Hazuki's second course of treatment.
And by then, what would become of the Main Family Matriarch... Lady Hazuki?
Chapter 56. Izumi: I'm sorry, Itachi, I can't go back anymore... In the afternoon twilight, Itachi left the Anbu building.
This seemingly inconspicuous building was actually one of the locations set up by the higher-ups to monitor the Uchiha.
Inside the Anbu building, there were countless monitoring devices.
Monitoring the Uchiha's movements 24 hours a day.
Being suspected of involvement in the Nine-Tailed Demon Foxs Attack, relocating the Uchiha Clan to isolate them from the Village... these countermeasures and treatments were all to prevent an Uchiha uprising.
Initially, Itachi was shocked by the Village's attitude towards his Clan.
But then, thinking of Yashiro, Inaho, Tekka... and even his father's attitude, he felt relieved.
There was a reason for the Uchiha Clan being monitored.
However, Itachi doubted the effectiveness of these devices.
Because the Uchiha Clan had abandoned the path of "violent revolution" and switched to "peaceful evolution."
This more dangerous strategy would allow the Uchiha Clan to seize control of the Village without shedding a single drop of blood.
Especially after the Kumogakure War, the Uchiha's prestige spread even further.
His father's ambitions grew even more.
The attack on the priestess could have poured cold water on the Uchiha. However, thanks to Uzumaki Naruto's help, the mission was successfully completed. For this protection, his father directly dispatched Shisui to help, and Hokage-sama also agreed.
The Ninja of the Land of Demons would certainly not give up.
They would definitely come again.
If the Uchiha Clan Ninja could even eliminate Moryo... then, his father and the others, who were at the height of their power, would openly pressure the higher-ups.
At least they might force Elder Koharu and Elder Homura to step down!
Thereby inserting their own people!
Itachi believed his father and the others would do this.
So... Uzumaki Naruto.
It was Uzumaki Naruto again!
Thinking of Naruto, Itachi's expression twisted.
"Itachi, are you alright...?"
Gentle words, accompanied by a broad hand, rested on his shoulder.
"Kakashi-taichou..." Itachi mumbled his name.
"Monitoring your own people certainly won't feel good... I understand..." Kakashi comforted him.
No, you don't understand.
Itachi thought to himself.
He wasn't troubled by this matter, because monitoring Clan members was completely irrelevant.
"I'm leaving..."
Itachi took a step and departed.
Seeing Itachi so preoccupied, Kakashi had a bad feeling... In the twilight grove.
A man wearing an orange mask with flame patterns stood there.
He was dressed in a dark, casual kimono, with wooden clogs on his feet, as if he were a tourist.
"Hmph... Uchiha Itachi, I wondered when you would discover me..."
Obito turned and looked at the young Ninja of his Clan who had grown so much.
"Are you Uchiha Madara?"
Itachi activated his Sharingan, gazing at the other party.
The only man who could use space Ninjutsu and freely cross barriers was Uchiha Madara.
But this time... the outcome would be completely different.
"Don't be nervous, I have no intention of attacking Konoha... at least not today..."
Obito put one hand on his hip, believing the time was right.
To tempt Itachi and make him his pawn.
"I guess you're currently worried about the Uchiha Clan's intention to seize control of the Village, aren't you...?"
"!"
What Obito said struck Itachi's heart.
"What do you know?" Itachi demanded.
"Hmph... I said it a long time ago, I know everything about the Uchiha..."
Obito's tone became arrogant.
"Are you going to stand with the Uchiha, or with Konoha?"
"I am, of course, a Ninja of Konoha." Itachi answered without hesitation.
"Very good."
Receiving a satisfactory answer, Obito nodded.
"When I left the Village before, no one followed me. I harbor considerable resentment towards the traitors of the Clan..."
Obito began to mislead Itachi.
"This resentment, even after decades, has not diminished one bit..."
"..."