Naruto: The Brightest Star

Chapter 164 A Small Thing

Yellow sand was flying, and in the deserted ruins, a man wearing a cloak the same color as the desert appeared in the ruins.

"Is this Loulan?"

Uchiha Xing put away the map in his hand and began to walk into the ruins.

The broken skylight, the broken bridge, everything around looked so desolate.

Uchiha Xing looked at the platform in the middle of the tower that looked like an isolated island. He raised his hand and took out two special kunai from the weapon bag behind him. Then he shot one at the "isolated island" round platform in the middle of the tower and thrust the other into the ground.

The moment the kunai pierced the circular platform, Uchiha Xing appeared on the circular platform.

Uchiha Xing took down his kunai from the circular platform, and then walked towards the three-toothed kunai that was inserted into the special object.

Uchiha Xing squatted on the ground, brushed away the dust on the ground, and checked the sealing formation on the ground.

"I see. This is the Uzumaki clan's special seal formation. Ordinary people cannot break it. But..."

Uchiha Xing's mouth curled up.

"Fortunately, when I was teaching Karin how to seal, I learned a lot about the Uzumaki clan's sealing techniques from Shinna-chan."

Uchiha Xing carefully examined the seal formation, then took out a scroll and wrote on it the method to unlock the seal, as well as the method to open the dragon vein, and some vague and strange words.

After these things were ready, Uchiha Xing aged the scroll, then left the platform, found an intact box in the ruins, and put the scroll in it.

"Ah~ Really. The weather in the Kingdom of Wind is too dry. The butterflies of the Hundred-Eyed Butterfly can't survive here for long."

Uchiha Xing said this with great regret, and then left.

In the desert, a group of bandits were besieging a caravan.

In order to survive, the caravan abandoned their goods and fled.

The robbers cheered and then began to check the cargo.

A robber excitedly opened a huge box and found an exquisite and weathered small box inside.

"This is!"

The robber's eyes lit up instantly, and his intuition told him that it was a very important box, which might contain treasure!

The robber looked around vigilantly, and when he was sure that no one was paying attention to him, he secretly took out the small box from the big box.

Just as the robber was about to hide the small box in his arms, a voice sounded behind him.

"Hey! What are you doing?"

The robber's body stiffened, then he turned around and said with a smile: "Boss, this is what I found. It seems to be a special small box. There may be a treasure map inside."

The robber grinned and held the small box with both hands in front of the strong-looking man.

The bandit leader raised his hand, took the small box away, and seemed to open it.

I found that there seemed to be a very ancient scroll inside, and I opened it without thinking.

There were a lot of things written in it that the bandit leader didn't understand, but he understood the beginning.

Someone has hidden the power to change the world in Loulan. With this power, one can rule the entire ninja world.

The bandit leader was very excited, but unfortunately, he didn't know what the following content meant.

In the distance, in a place with a good view, there was a man standing. After seeing the robber take the scroll away, he smiled and then disappeared.

On Uchiha Sasuke's side, he met Deidara and Afei who came to find him specifically.

He has Andri, who is good at aerial combat, and the Lightning Release that can restrain Deidara's explosion.

The balance of victory in the battle seemed to tilt entirely towards Uchiha Sasuke.

And Deidara seemed to be planning to die together with Uchiha Sasuke.

“Art is – explosion!!!!”

Karin is looking for clues about Uchiha Itachi in a nearby town.

Suddenly, Karin sensed something.

"This chakra...it's Sakura! Why is she here?!"

Karin is a little different.

Karin hesitated for a moment and decided to take a detour. No matter what the other party's plans or missions were, her current situation was a bit special. In addition to Sasuke's matter, Karin didn't want to have too much interaction with the people of Konoha for the time being.

The ninja dog that had been sniffing the ground suddenly raised its head and looked in a certain direction.

"Xiaoying, the smell is getting farther and farther away. It seems that the other party has discovered us. Should we chase them?"

The ninja dog asked Haruno Sakura.

"Of course!"

Haruno Sakura nodded seriously.

"it is good!"

The ninja dog was about to chase when it suddenly found that the opponent was running away at an extremely fast speed, and there was no way they could catch up at their current speed.

After confirming this, the ninja dog hurriedly told Haruno Sakura.

"Is it the flying lion?"

Haruno Sakura remembered that Uchiha Sasuke had a flying lion as his summoning beast.

"seems not."

The ninja dog shook his head.

At the same time, an explosion suddenly occurred in the distance.

Even from a long distance, you can still see the huge exploding star in the distance.

"Sasuke..."

Karin quickly ran towards the explosion site.

When the smoke cleared, a spherical shield composed of countless octagonal transparent blocks appeared in the huge pit after the explosion, protecting Uchiha Sasuke and Andy in kitten form.

Sensing that the explosion was over, Uchiha Sasuke lifted the effect of the octagonal prism.

At this time, the octagonal prism in Uchiha Satoru's hand was already full of cracks.

It should be able to withstand a heavy blow.

Uchiha Sasuke thought about putting away the octagonal prism.

"Sasuke!!!"

Karin ran over at this time and checked Uchiha Sasuke worriedly.

"Don't worry, I'm fine."

Uchiha Sasuke said softly.

Hearing this, Karin couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

"By the way, Sasuke, I just found Sakura in a nearby town."

Karin told Uchiha Sasuke about the ninja she had just met.

Uchiha Sasuke thought for a moment and suddenly had a guess.

"Karin, let's get out of here as soon as possible, Andili."

As Uchiha Sasuke finished speaking, Andili jumped off Uchiha Sasuke's shoulder and transformed into a flying lion.

Uchiha Sasuke jumped onto Andili, raised his hand to pull Karin up, and sat in front of him.

"Andili, let's go."

"Yes, Sasuke-sama."

Andili flew upwards.

After a long time, Uzumaki Naruto and others arrived at the bombed place.

"What's going on here."

Uzumaki Naruto looked at the huge pit in disbelief, and somewhere in the pit, there was a circular green area with a diameter of one meter that looked very abrupt.

"It looks like someone started a war here, and then a huge ninjutsu appeared."

Nara Shikamaru observed his surroundings and came to a conclusion.

Parker knelt on the ground and kissed him, then his eyes were filled with shock.

"Parker, did you find something?"

Kakashi immediately noticed that something was wrong with Puck.

"Ah."

Puck nodded, then looked at Kakashi and said, "There are a total of four people's auras here, namely Deidara who I met last time, Uchiha Sasuke, and Karin. As for the other one, I don't know who he is, but he is probably someone from the Akatsuki organization who is in a team with Deidara."

"The ones fighting here are Deidara and Sasuke. The one who won is Sasuke. Their scent has disappeared. They must have fled into the sky."

"Etc., etc!"

Uzumaki Naruto ran over to Puck.

"Puck! Are you saying that my sister is with Sasuke?!"

"Yes, and they left here together through the air."

Parker nodded to indicate that was the case.

"But, but, my sister is obviously a ninja from the Hidden Rain Village..."

Uzumaki Naruto's voice became increasingly quiet.

"There are only two possibilities in this situation. One is that the adult that Hotarusa mentioned is Yuori Hoshi. Even the teacher that Uchiha Sasuke mentioned is him."

Nara Shikamaru spoke at this time.

"Impossible! How is it possible? Sister Yuori is so gentle and kind, how could she be the one who took Sasuke away?"

Uzumaki Naruto shouted loudly.

"Naruto I'm not finished yet."

Nara Shikamaru rubbed his temple, then said: "Another possibility is that Karin defected. On the way to defection, she met Sasuke, and then the two reached an agreement and teamed up together."

"That's even more impossible! My sister clearly loves her village so much. She once said that it is her bond and she will never leave her village."

Uzumaki Naruto shook his head, indicating that was even more impossible.

"Naruto, this is the fact. If you don't believe it, why would the two of them act together?"

Nara Shikamaru asked while looking at Uzumaki Naruto.

“This, this…”

Uzumaki Naruto didn't know what to say for a moment.

After all, no matter what the result is, it concerns the people important to him.

The others around also fell silent, not knowing what to say for a moment.

"Okay, okay, now the important thing is to find Sasuke. As long as we find Sasuke, everything will be solved."

Kakashi spoke at this time.

"Parker, can you find them by the smell?"

Kakashi asked Puck.

“It’s a bit troublesome, but you can try.”

Parker said as he continued to look for Uchiha Sasuke.

On the other side, on an isolated island in the sea, an extremely terrible incident was happening.

I saw six bad guys with orange-dyed hair, holding black sticks, beating up a white-haired old man in his fifties.

They even spared the old man's pet toad.

Fortunately, the toad ran fast and did not let them succeed.

After missing the first attack, one of the bad guys used a torpedo on the old man whose hands were broken by them, and blew the elderly man on the island into the sea.

Is everything over?

Ah~ Jiraiya’s heroic speechlessness came to an end.

The final chapter is about the frog in the well disappearing into the ocean.

Hehe~ I wonder what kind of expressions Naruto and Kushina will have when they know I'm leaving...

By the way, do you want to write a sequel?

Got it, it’s called “The Story of Uzumaki Naruto”.

Well~ I'll leave the rest to you, Naruto.

Jiraiya's consciousness became increasingly blurred. Before his consciousness returned to darkness, he seemed to see a figure swimming towards him.

Then countless white ribbons flew towards him.

Jiraiya couldn't feel anything, he just felt that the other person was getting closer and closer.

The moment Uchiha Star caught Jiraiya, he injected a bottle of potion into his body and then teleported him back to the Land of Rain.

"Ahem! I almost suffocated to death."

Uchiha Xing knelt on the ground and gasped for breath.

Jiraiya, who was beside him, turned his eyes slightly and looked at Uchiha Xing through the gaps in the silk ribbon.

Who is she, why is she there, why did she save me, and where is this place...

"Ok?"

Uchiha Xing seemed to feel Jiraiya's gaze and turned to look at Jiraiya.

"Hey~ As expected of Jiraiya, you can maintain your consciousness in this situation."

This voice... It's her! Hanako Hoshi!

Jiraiya's pupils shrank suddenly, somewhat incredulous.

"Let me take a look."

Uchiha Star approaches Jiraiya and then pulls all the black rods off his body.

"Cough cough!"

Uchiha Xing cleared his throat, then stood up and clasped his hands together.

"Shining Miracle~"

Uchiha Xing said, opening his hands.

With the Uchiha Star as the center, light and shadows shot down from above.

The light and shadow shone on Jiraiya, and his wounds began to heal at an extremely fast speed. The two broken arms began to wriggle, and then the bones, meridians, flesh, and skin began to grow rapidly.

Jiraiya's breathing began to even out.

Soon, Jiraiya's hands fully grew back and his vocal cords began to recover.

However, this effect only recovered 90% of Jiraiya's injuries.

Alive, alive!

Jiraiya opened his mouth and said in a hoarse voice: "Why did you save me, and how did you know I was there."

Uchiha Xing felt the chakra draining from his body, and then said, "Little Jiraiya, guess it, there will be a prize if you guess it right~"

Will using this technique consume my own chakra? I hope that when I use this technique, it won't drain me dry.

Uchiha Xing thought secretly in his heart.

Jiraiya thought quickly about what the other party wanted to do, and how he could go back and inform Konoha about this matter.

"Is it for information about Konoha, or for Naruto."

Jiraiya said two random words while thinking of ways to leave.

"Beep, beep, I guessed wrong."

Uchiha Xing said as he sat down to rest.

"Little Jiraiya, have you noticed that your chakra seems to be unusable? And your strength is also not working?"

Uchiha Xing smiled as he looked at Jiraiya who was tied up like a dumpling.

"It's a seal."

Jiraiya glanced at the silk ribbons on his body.

"Hyouka~ got it right~"

Uchiha Xing kept clapping.

"As a reward, I'll answer your first question: why did I save you?"

Uchiha Star stopped clapping.

"Because I need your help, little Jiraiya. Your strength and combat experience can help me. That's why I rescued you."

"Help? What are you going to do?"

Jiraiya looked at Uchiha Star very calmly.

"It's just a small thing."

Uchiha Xing said with a smile.

"Little things?"

Jiraiya didn't believe what Uchiha Xing said.

"Ok!"

"I want peace in the ninja world."

Uchiha Xing said with a smile.

"Oh, so there is peace in the ninja world..."

"Wait! You call this a trifle!!!"