The Fifth village Hokage:Uchiha Douhuan

Chapter 246: The Ancient Kingdom of Rōran

"People who care about me?" Gaara was stunned upon hearing this.

"Yeah, your sister is currently doing something very risky so that you can return to the Sand Village safely," Naruto said. "That's why she asked me to look after you for a while," Naruto said.

"My sister?" Gaara lowered his head. With Naruto's words, the figures of his sister Temari and his brother Kankurō, whom he had always ignored since he was a child, unconsciously appeared in his mind.

It was only then, looking back on the past, that he was suddenly shocked to realize that when he was constantly being indoctrinated by his biological father that he was just a weapon, there were a few people who, although their eyes showed fear when they looked at him, also held an unconcealable care and worry within that fear.

"So, I wasn't alone?" Gaara muttered to himself.

"So, what you need to do now is to learn to control your own power, in your own identity, not as some weapon," Naruto said with a laugh.

"Control my own power?" Gaara muttered to himself.

In the next second, a huge noise sounded in this space. Shukaku, who had already been beaten into a pulp, was thrown to the side of the two by the Nine-Tails. The Nine-Tails dusted off its claws, then returned behind Naruto and said, "I've already made it clear to this guy. This fellow will be well-behaved from now on."

"Thanks a lot, Big Brother Kurama!" Naruto turned back and showed the Nine-Tails a brilliant smile.

In the next moment, Naruto and Gaara left this space together and returned to the side of the bonfire.

After Gaara came out of the seal space, he sat blankly by the bonfire, his eyes staring straight at the dancing flames.

"Hey, are you hungry?" Naruto handed a roasted sand rat to the dazed Gaara.

Faced with the thing that suddenly appeared in front of him, Gaara instinctively took an attacking posture. Then, after a moment, he froze on the spot. According to the past, if his emotions fluctuated, the big guy inside his body would take the opportunity to amplify his negative emotions, and then he would become abnormally irritable.

However, this time, Gaara did not feel anything unusual.

"Thank you," Gaara, having come to his senses, put away his attacking posture and took the sand rat from Naruto.

"Big Brother Kurama told me that the big tanuki in your body will be well-behaved for a while, so you don't have to be too nervous," Naruto said with a cheerful laugh.

"You... and it, are you comrades?" Gaara asked.

"Are you referring to Big Brother Kurama?" Naruto said. "He and I are not just comrades, but more like family. After all, since I was born, he has been with me the longest. But it also took me a long time back then to get Big Brother Kurama to acknowledge me. I believe you can also get along well with the Tailed Beast inside you."

"Hmph! I, Shukaku, would rather be trapped in a Jinchuriki's body for a lifetime than be friends with a human like this stinking fox!" Just as Naruto's voice fell, Shukaku's roar sounded in his ear.

"If you don't want a beating, then show some respect to my Jinchuriki!" the Nine-Tails also spoke up at this time.

"Stink... Kurama, you even told him your name? Did you really, with this kid..." After hearing the Nine-Tails' words, the wounds on Shukaku's body, which were still faintly aching, made him calm down a bit.

"Hmph, I have never needed to explain my actions to others!" the Nine-Tails said with a cold snort.

If it were any other Tailed Beast, like the Seven-Tails Chōmei who came to Konoha on its own initiative, or the Two-Tails Matatabi and Six-Tails Saiken who were caught and brought to Konoha, or the Three-Tails Isobu who was still sleeping inside Karin, the Nine-Tails would not be stingy about telling them his speculation, which was that Naruto was very likely the boy from the prophecy that the old Sage of Six Paths had told them about back then.

As for Shukaku? The Nine-Tails indicated that he was too lazy to speak, and this fellow wasn't worthy of hearing it.

"How nice," Gaara looked at Naruto and said, somewhat lost in thought.

The two were eating roasted meat by the bonfire and chatting. Suddenly, Naruto heard the croaking of a frog not far from their bonfire.

"Eh? What's going on? Are there frogs in the desert too?" Naruto scratched his head in confusion upon hearing this sound.

From the direction of the frog's croak, a middle-aged man with white hair strode towards the two of them.

...

The border of the Land of Swamps.

Shion, who had been knocked out by Neji's hand chop, slowly woke up at nightfall.

As soon as Shion woke up, she saw in their camp that Taruho, whose death she should have foreseen, was lying on a pallet in the camp. A wet towel was on his forehead. The ferocious green runes on the surface of his body had disappeared, but his right arm was now empty.

"Taruho..." Shion looked at the scene before her in disbelief. In the prophetic vision brought by her ability, Taruho was clearly supposed to die for her.

"Miss Miko, it seems I've won this bet," just then, Sasuke came to Shion's side and said with a light laugh.

"I..." Shion looked at Taruho, whose breathing was stable, in the camp, her expression extremely complicated. After a while, Shion was crying, but she let out intermittent laughter.

"Haha... hahaha... hahahaha!"

"Miss Miko, you don't think you can get out of our bet by pretending to be crazy, do you?" Sasuke said with a frown, looking at Shion's state.

"Hahaha! This cursed prophecy, finally... finally... finally it can be broken!" Shion said, crying and laughing.

"If you could have provided a little more information, even his right arm could have been saved," at this time, Sakura looked at the seemingly crazed Shion and couldn't help but say coldly.

In the surgery just now, in order to buy time for Karin to analyze this resentment-like energy and thus construct a seal that could target this energy, Sakura had no choice but to directly amputate Taruho's right arm to prevent the poison of this energy from invading Taruho's internal organs. But if only Shion could have provided a little more information, this step could have been completely avoided.

"I... I'm sorry..." Shion's expression also became downcast.

"Forget it. It's already very fortunate that young man Taruho could keep his life," at this time, Karin acted as a peacemaker.

"Miss Miko, regarding the enemies this time, what other information do you know? Please tell us everything now," at this time, Neji also came to Shion's side and said.

...

"Pervy Sage?" Naruto's face changed as he looked at the person walking towards their camp by the bonfire.

He was still a rogue ninja of Konoha.

"Naruto," Jiraiya walked into their camp with a cheerful smile. "You child, why are you running all over the world? You made me search so hard for you."

Seeing Jiraiya's attitude, Naruto also breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed the Pervy Sage wasn't here to drag him back to Konoha.

"Haha, I originally just wanted to wander around the Land of Wind, but I didn't expect to get involved in some matters of the Sand Village."

"Move over, give me a skewer too," after coming to Naruto's side, Jiraiya pushed Naruto a little from the stone he was sitting on to make some space, then held out his hand towards Naruto.

Naruto handed the extra food to Jiraiya. After taking the roasted sand rat, Jiraiya first took out a wine gourd from his waist, and then began to eat, one bite of sand rat and one sip of wine.

"Your skills are not bad. I heard from Kakashi that you always eat ramen. I thought you didn't know how to cook. I didn't expect you to have this skill," Jiraiya laughed.

"I learned it from Choji when I skipped class to go out and play back in the academy. It's not bad, right?" Naruto said.

The way the two were chatting was very much like a grandfather and grandson having a conversation in an ordinary family. Anyone who saw them would probably find it hard to imagine that one of them was a rogue ninja.

"By the way, who is this child?" Jiraiya also noticed Gaara, who was staring at him and Naruto with a special gaze, and couldn't help but ask.

"Oh, a friend I just met," Naruto said.

"He has chakra fluctuations. A ninja from the Sand Village?" Jiraiya asked further.

"Yes, a ninja from the Sand Village, the One-Tail Jinchuriki," Naruto said.

"Pfft!"

Just as Naruto's voice fell, Jiraiya spat out a mouthful of old wine.

Come on, man, you've only been out for a few days, and you've already hooked up with another village's Jinchuriki?

"Naruto, if you interact with the Sand's Jinchuriki like this, once the Sand Village finds out, they will consider this behavior as Konoha declaring war on the Sand," Jiraiya couldn't help but remind him.

At this point, Jiraiya also understood why Uchiha Douhuan had asked him to come and follow Naruto. This kid was too much of a troublemaker. He'd only been out for a few days, and he had already taken away another village's Jinchuriki. In a little while, was this kid going to challenge the Kage of other villages?

"But his sister, the princess of the Sand Village, asked me to take care of him. It shouldn't be considered a provocation, right? Besides, whatever I, a rogue ninja, do, it shouldn't involve Konoha," Naruto shrugged, then took out his scorched forehead protector and said.

"His sister, the princess of the Sand Village, asked you to take care of their village's Jinchuriki?" Jiraiya also showed an expression of disbelief upon hearing this, but soon, he also reacted, "Did something happen in the Sand Village? That's right, when I entered the Land of Wind's territory this time, I didn't see a single Sand Village ninja at the border. It seems something really has happened in the Sand Village. Do you know what happened?"

"The Sand Village? It's probably undergoing a coup right now," Naruto said.

"A coup?" Jiraiya was stunned upon hearing this.

"Yeah, Gaara's sister is probably staging a coup in the Sand Village right now so that Gaara can return to the village normally in the future. I even called Teacher over to be her advisor," Naruto said.

Jiraiya: ...

Alright, since Uchiha Douhuan is also involved in this, then he can't manage this matter either. After all, his current rank in Konoha is still a demoted genin.

"But why did you come here?" After no longer dwelling on the issue of Gaara's identity, Jiraiya turned to ask.

"This area of the Land of Wind is a large uninhabited area, and there's a very dangerous place ahead," Jiraiya said.

"We just wandered here. Grandpa Jiraiya, do you know where this is?" Naruto said.

"This place was once the area where an ancient kingdom called Rōran was located. However, over the years, after the ancient kingdom of Rōran declined, only some ruins and a few remnants of the Rōran people remain here."

"The ancient kingdom of Rōran? There's such a country in the ninja world?" Naruto scratched his head. As a top student who perennially skipped culture class, Naruto's geographical knowledge was basically limited to knowing that there were five great nations in this ninja world, and within the five great nations, there were five great ninja villages.

"Of course. However, more than ten years ago, this once-prosperous kingdom seemed to have evaporated from the face of the earth and suddenly declined," Jiraiya explained to Naruto. "Speaking of which, your father, before he became the Fourth Hokage, also came here to perform a mission. However, regarding that mission, I remember that when your father came back, the mission report he submitted to the Third seemed very strange. There should be some hidden story in it. But at that time, Konoha soon faced the threat of war, and this matter was left unresolved."

"So it's a place where my dad performed a mission?" Naruto nodded upon hearing this, then slammed his right fist into his palm. "It's decided! Let's go check out the ruins of this ancient kingdom of Rōran. After all, it's a place where my dad fought. Gaara, want to come along?"

"Hey! Naruto! Don't just come up with ideas on the spot. That place might be very dangerous," Jiraiya, seeing this, also had a headache and couldn't help but remind him.

"What danger could there be," Naruto waved his hand. "By the way, Grandpa Jiraiya, what did you come looking for me for?"

"It was your teacher who asked me to come and watch over you, and at the same time, teach you some things," Jiraiya said.

"Let's not worry about those things for now. Let's go check out the ruins over at Rōran first," Naruto said. After learning about Rōran, Naruto also became extremely excited. After all, ever since the Third came back to power, the traces of the Fourth in the village had also been erased by some people with ulterior motives. After learning his own life story, Naruto had also tried to find the traces his parents left in the village. But besides the Hokage Rock in the village and the photo in the Hokage's office, Naruto couldn't even find anything related to his father, Minato Namikaze.

And now, in this Land of Wind, there was a chance to see the traces of his father's battles. Naruto was naturally unwilling to give up this opportunity.

And Gaara, facing Naruto's invitation, also nodded after a moment of silence. He also really wanted to see the style of the legendary Golden Flash, the Fourth Hokage, Minato Namikaze. More importantly, he wanted to know what the difference was between this Fourth Hokage and his biological father, the Fourth Kazekage, both being Kage.

(End of chapter)

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