[Naruto] The Disaster of the Red Sand Scorpion

With Sakura's help, Naruto and Sasuke were much more relaxed. Although Sakura's puppet control is not perfect yet, it can occasionally cause trouble to Shiro.

In the end, Sakura rushed over to block Sasuke's attack, and in contrast, Haku also blocked Kakashi's fatal blow for Zabuza and died.

This is what Scorpion heard from Naruto after the exchange.

"Sakura-chan is super handsome! That's the trick!"

Scorpion moved his hands and looked down. What he saw was his body covered with bandages.

He knew what Naruto was talking about, but he remembered that the little girl had only been exposed to puppets for a long time. Even with his experience and guidance, she shouldn't have grown up so fast.

What's more, most puppet masters control dead objects, and ordinary beginners cannot control living people.

Naruto asked curiously: "Let me tell you, how did Sakura-chan do it? Manipulate people or something."

It was Kakashi who answered: "Sakura has the strongest control over chakra, and Naruto, your training on the tree is far inferior to Sakura's."

Naruto's interest was suddenly extinguished.

Scorpion lowered his head and smiled.

It seems that little girl is really suitable to be a puppet master.

This mission ended like this, and Kakashiban set off back to the village.

At the entrance of the village, Kakashi was called by the Third Hokage, leaving only the three of them.

"Big Brother Naruto!"

A child dragging a long scarf ran towards them.

Scorpion recognized that this was the child who had previously issued a challenge to him. It was said to be Konohamaru, the grandson of the Third Hokage.

Konohamaru obviously had a very good relationship with Naruto, and the two of them laughed together without knowing what they were discussing.

"cherry."

Scorpio turned his head.

Sasuke, who finally found a chance to talk to Sakura alone, blushed slightly. He turned his head awkwardly, but his voice reached Scorpion's ears very clearly.

"Thank you before."

Sasuke was talking about Sakura protecting him from harm on the bridge.

"You're welcome." Although he was not the one who saved his life, Scorpion naturally thanked him and said in a friendly manner, "Rather than saying thank you, I think you should improve your strength and not be killed by a little girl one after another. save."

"..."

The strange emotion that had just arisen in Sasuke's heart dissipated with the wind with a "pop".

"What are you two whispering about? Let me tell you."

Naruto squeezed in between the two of them with Konohamaru.

Before Sasuke could speak, Konohamaru saw Scorpion belatedly. He took an exaggerated step back and said as if he was dead: "Let's duel!"

Scorpion glanced at Konohamaru, "You're too weak." After saying that, he was about to leave.

"Damn it!" Konohamaru was irritated. He wanted to catch up with Scorpion, but was stopped by Naruto.

"Sakura-chan hasn't recovered from her injury, so don't disturb her."

Xie went straight back to Haruno's house.

"Are you coming back today?" Haruno Zhao, who was watching TV in the living room, looked surprised when he saw him.

Haruno Meabuki came forward directly, "I heard from Hokage-sama before that your mission this time was very dangerous, and I was afraid that something would happen to you." She looked at Sakura up and down, her eyes full of concern, "Now you are still I feel relieved when I’m alive and kicking.”

I don't know why, but Xion, who should have ignored it, replied: "It will be fine."

Haruno Meabuki didn't notice his emotions and echoed: "That's right. I heard that Mr. Kakashi will not let anything happen to the three students no matter what."

"Ah."

In the next few days, due to the incident in the Country of Waves, Team 7 will have no mission for the time being.

When he was free, Scorpion could only wander around Konoha. He thought about things while walking. He remembered that he hadn't taken on a mission recently. Why didn't he change it for so long this time?

While wandering around, Scorpion met Naruto, who often stayed with Konohamaru. At this time, Naruto would send out date invitations, and Konohamaru would also send out fight invitations.

Scorpions all refused.

It's so boring. When will we do something interesting?

Soon, Scorpio encountered something interesting.

Near the Ninja School, Scorpio saw Kakashi and Iruka talking. From a distance, he seemed to hear the three syllables of "Sakura". So he restrained his breath and approached them.

"I'm really not a qualified teacher." Iruka was crestfallen. "Sakura has a different personality due to her past experiences, but I didn't notice it at all."

If Kakashi and the Third Hokage hadn't mentioned Sakura this time, he wouldn't have known that Sakura seemed to have a dual personality.

Kakashi, who was sitting opposite him, turned his thumb over a page of the book he was holding and said casually: "This kind of thing is not easy to see. Sakura has only made it so obvious recently. And people always have to grow. Yes, they are already ninjas, Iruka, don’t always look at them like children."

Obviously, the two of them were discussing the drastic change in personality after he and the little girl swapped bodies. It seemed that they successfully believed the illusion he created.

Even though he was comforted by Kakashi, Iruka was not happy. He continued: "But I didn't know that Sakura could use that kind of ninjutsu before. I really failed."

"Well, Sakura probably just learned it recently, so it's normal that you don't know." Kakashi closed the book, "Speaking of which, Iruka, what was Sakura like before?"

Although he didn't understand why Kakashi asked this question, Iruka honestly told some things about Sakura when he was a child. At the end, he proudly said to Kakashi: "It's cute, isn't it?"

After hearing this, Kakashi, who could only think about Sakura liking Sasuke, cheered against his will: "Yeah, you're right."

scorpion:"……"

Konoha is indeed very different from their Sunagakure Village.

>>>

After many days, Sakura came to Sand Hidden Village again and remembered the things she had messed up before.

The puppet was no longer in the room, so Sakura went straight to the laboratory, and sure enough she saw the unrepaired puppet on the experimental table.

Looking at the two puppets, she could probably piece together Xie's mental journey in her mind.

Mr. Scorpion's parents probably died when he was a child, but Mr. Scorpion, who longed for family affection, personally made these two puppets according to the appearance of his parents in his memory, so that they could accompany him instead of his parents.

He must, must have taken them very seriously.

But she used these two puppets to fight, and even broke them because her skills were inferior to others.

Sakura touched the puppet's face, feeling very uncomfortable. But then she steeled herself, determined to fix the puppet before switching it back.

Having said that, she didn't know how to fix it.

Sakura thought distressedly, why not make a puppet first and see its structure? If you know how to do it, you might understand how to fix it.

So Ying went to take the method of making Xixi to the laboratory and followed the steps step by step.

First, draw the drawing.

"..."

I got stuck on the first step.

As for the human puppet... Sakura brought a mirror and scribbled on the paper. After a while, the image of the scorpion appeared on the white paper.

The next step is to draw the joint points for splicing.

Sakura observed all the puppets in the laboratory. Of course, she was not sure whether Lord Scorpion had poisoned every puppet made, so she could only use chakra wires to observe.

After making all the preparations, she picked up the wood stacked in the corner and placed it on the experimental table to start making her own puppet.

Start with the body, then the limbs, and finally the head. Sakura would stop for a while to look at the making method and consider what to do next.

Although she went astray, she finally made a puppet that looked like a scorpion.

Sakura connected the body of the scorpion puppet with a chakra thread. The puppet moved around as she pulled it, and finally its limbs were intertwined and twisted.

Although I made a rough outline, it didn't work at all. Sakura dismantled the scorpion puppet. As expected, it was impossible for her to succeed so easily.

After re-splicing it several times, it still didn't work. Sakura was dejected. It was so difficult to make a puppet.

Wait, she seems to remember that Mr. Scorpion works in the puppet army. Scorpion-kun is probably not the only one in Sand Hidden Village who knows how to be a puppet, right? Then she remembered that all the puppets seemed to be made by Mr. Scorpion.

Sakura was lost in thought, and besides, she didn't know where the puppet army was.

She decided to hire foreign aid.

Sakura stayed by the window on the second floor, watching the people coming and going below. After her eyes locked on the target, she pretended to meet him by chance and waited for the other person to take the initiative to talk.

"Long time no see, Scorpion." Yashamaru and Guy waved to her.

Sakura originally only saw Yashamaru, but she didn't expect Guy to be with him. And it wasn't just Guy, there was also a gentle woman with the same hair color as him beside him.

"This is my sister, Garura." Yashamaru introduced each other to the two of them, "This is Scorpion, the very powerful puppet master in the village."

Sakura, who was originally thinking of saying something cliché, had an idea, "I'm not great."

"Don't be too modest, Senior Scorpion. In Sand Hidden Village, no one can compare to you except Granny Chiyo." Guy took over her words well, "Everyone knows this."

Grandma Chiyo...referring to Grandma Chiyo? Scorpion's grandmother?

Sakura was a little surprised. It turned out that Grandma Chiyo was not only a medical ninja, but also a puppet master.

However, if it was Grandma Chiyo, as soon as she asked, it was obvious that she was not Lord Scorpion himself.

It seems that this is the only way——

"Because my hand injury hasn't healed yet, do you want me to be the puppet for the puppet army first?"

Grandma Chiyo looked surprised when she heard Sakura's purpose. Her grandson would hardly ask her for anything. It was rare to find her today just for such a small thing.

Of course she agreed.

When Grandma Chiyo went to her laboratory to make a puppet, she found her grandson following her. She felt a little strange, but she didn't ask.

It's been a long time since I've spent time with Scorpio, so I just took this opportunity to have a good chat with him.

Then she noticed her grandson had been staring at the puppet.

Sakura wrote it down in her mind as she read it. It turned out to be like this. There was a step she didn't do. No wonder it didn't work. Scorpion Master didn't even mention it in his notebook.

"Xiao, are you still brooding about what happened in the past?" Grandma Chiyo suddenly asked.

Sakura woke up from her thoughts. What does "grieving" mean? She couldn't answer the call without the previous information. She could only try to figure out Mr. Scorpion's character and answer: "I have forgotten about that kind of thing."

Grandma Chiyo was silent. She didn't believe what Xie said at all. "It's true what you said. Why were you so seriously injured?"

She had previously thought that Scorpion could not be defeated, but after seeing "Father" and "Mother", she instead thought that Scorpion might be controlled by others because of these two puppets. With Scorpion's character, it is impossible for those two puppets to become tattered.

cherry:"……"

Sakura didn't know how to answer this.

Fortunately, Grandma Chiyo had already made the puppet, and while they were chatting, it was so fast that Sakura could not believe it.

Sakura, who knew what to do, quickly found an excuse to leave, but when she was at the door, Grandma Chiyo asked: "Are you still insisting on eternal beauty?"

insist on what?

Eternal beauty?

What kind of strange statement is this?

Back in Scorpio's laboratory, Sakura recalled the making process of Grandma Chiyo while thinking about the confused words she said.

With reference this time, Sakura quickly made a perfect puppet, even after attaching chakra threads, the limbs did not get mixed together.

Great success!

Sakura then took the scorpion puppet apart. Since she made it with her own hands, it was easy for her to repair it. With successful examples, Sakura is confident about repairing "Father" and "Mother".

>>>

Xie returned to his body, but what he saw when he opened his eyes was not the ceiling of the bedroom, but a bunch of puppets.

Among them, the intact "father" and "mother" are particularly conspicuous.

Xie picked up the puppet and looked at it carefully. He was sure that it was not the handiwork of Grandma Chiyo. In other words, this is what the little girl did.

But he remembers that he didn't teach her how to fix it, she couldn't even make it.

Thinking like this, Xie found that he was missing a lot of wood. He thought about it, searched for a long time in the laboratory, and finally found a puppet in a special corner, a puppet that looked like him.

And there is a piece of paper hidden in the puppet's mouth. Xie took it out and saw that the person drawn on the paper was him. The only drawback is that this figure painting has no eyes.

Looking at the drawing paper and puppet, Xie was silent for a long time, and then sighed softly: "It's so ugly."