[Naruto·Itachi bg] A clear spring

However, it was impossible to get a good night's sleep.

Because he let go of his worries and used some incense to aid sleep before going to bed, Uchiha Izumi had a very solid sleep.

In fact, the cuckoo who was communicating could not wake her up even by hopping left and right, so the cuckoo who had no choice but to shoulder the mission had to——

Plop, plop, plop, plop, plop.

Feathers were flying for a moment, and she couldn't help but wake up from the pain in her cheeks, sneeze——

After completing the task, the cuckoo fell to the wall in a strong blast of air. Cuckoo cuckoo, after shouting a few words meaningfully, it turned into a puff of smoke and ran away as soon as possible.

With her head in a chicken coop, she was confused for a long time before she remembered the message from the cuckoo - time was urgent, so gather immediately.

It disturbs people’s dreams. Didn’t the dedicated teacher say yesterday that he would not accept the assignment?

Reluctantly, I got up from the bed, threw on some clothes, grabbed my emergency bag, and rushed out.

After several large-scale missions, she was walking very fast and arrived at the seventh training ground in less than a moment.

"Here comes the last one."

"Senior sister...didn't you comb your hair?"

In hindsight, I grabbed a handful of hair and found that it was a mess. After picking at it a few times, a few feathers fell out.

It's really... too embarrassing.

"Okay, time is urgent, let me explain the situation first." Teacher Sarutobi who summoned them also looked tired and looked like he had not taken care of himself. "Two hours ago, there was an ANBU announcement that Lord Orochimaru's hidden laboratory was related to the young ninja who had recently disappeared in the village. Lord Yondaime ordered a thorough investigation. The first batch of ANBU to go to the laboratory suffered heavy casualties. But Lord Orochimaru was nowhere to be seen. , the order given to us by the Sandaime is to report the enemy immediately after discovering his traces, and he will lead the team to deal with it."

The three people's originally unconscious minds immediately cheered up when they heard this, Lord Orochimaru?How could one of the Three Ninjas of Konoha... attack the ninjas of this village?

After arriving at the first scene of the incident, they soon knew that this was not a dream.That lord really made a killing move——

The laboratory in the forest of death was filled with the cold breath of death, and there was a blur of blood foam at the entrance. Perhaps the incident happened suddenly and the department responsible for the aftermath had not yet arrived. The scene of naked massacre and crushing was displayed before their eyes.

He covered his mouth and resisted the urge to vomit. After walking through the entrance of the cave, there were spacious laboratories.There is a special antiseptic smell in each room, and in the rooms without smell, there are young and seemingly alive people floating in the transparent glass jar with unknown colored bubbles.

"These are all people from the village. There are villagers who have died of illness or have passed away unexpectedly and have not been treated by the hospital. There are also ninjas who have disappeared for no reason in the reports in the past few months."

"The patrol team that first discovered this laboratory survived except for the person who reported it. It is said that... Lord Orochimaru is studying the method of rebirth."

"Afterlife? Is it..." Yu Hayata seemed very excited after hearing this. He never interrupted the conversation and firmly grabbed the other person's wrist pointing at the experimental subject.

"Hayata, calm down." Teacher Sarutobi on the side pressed his shoulder.

After seeing clearly that the person lying on the experimental table showed no signs of life, he let go of his hand dejectedly.

Yes, how could a person be resurrected after death? It was just his obsession.

"In short, this is the situation. We can't be sure where Orochimaru-sama will go after he leaves here." The ninja responsible for conveying the message also seemed to be very afraid, looking away and unwilling to look at the experimental subjects.

"Besides us, are there any other teams tracking you?" Sarutobi Kino continued to ask.

"Yes, ANBU have been dispatched in eight directions. At this moment, Orochimaru-sama should not have left the border yet. By the way, three-quarters of an hour ago, senior Gin from the ANBU went west alone with his ninja dogs. He said If there are reinforcements, try to follow him."

"Okay, let's follow him."

The three people who said nothing after exiting the cave silently followed Sarutobi-sensei, trying to track down Gin-senpai who left not long ago.

"Hinata, did you see anything?"

"No, we are too far apart."

"Did you follow the wrong direction?" Izumi Uchiha, who was running next to Hinata, felt inexplicably that there was a familiar power in a certain direction, the kind that was mixed in the wind and came from the weak induction in the blood, hot and manic. .

"Which way do you think it is?" Sarutobi Kino, who took the lead, did not ask her the reason, but just asked her to point in a direction.

"It should be...a little south, I'm not sure. It feels very weak."

"There is someone in the south!"

"how long it takes?"

"20 minutes at full speed."

"I'll go first, you guys will wait." As soon as she finished speaking, she felt a strong wind blowing in front of her. Teacher Sarutobi was thrown away for several miles in an instant. He kept moving away from them in their eyes without knowing what kind of magic he used.

"What's that trick, teacher? It's so fast."

"I don't know how it happened. It should be...accelerating due to the direction of the wind." The wind was blowing from the southwest today, and she could feel it.But how to use the weak wind to your advantage?

During the ten minutes of running at full speed, Yu Hayata was too silent. He was only responsible for pressing the end at the end, ignoring the concerned looks from his two teammates who looked back from time to time.

When they were only 5 minutes away from their destination, they immediately sensed three intertwined chakras, which were in an explosive state.

A weak thunder chakra.

One came from Sarutobi-sensei.

The other one was terrifyingly powerful, icy cold, with a chill that made one's spine tremble.

"Oh, here are a few more cuties." The thin, cold voice is like a little snake burrowing into the collar, spitting out a message and approaching your fatal spot wetly.

Uchiha Izumi felt a little weak, but still stood firm and did not move.The other two teammates weren't much better.

This is a warning from the strong. The huge gap makes people want to retreat, and the instinct of survival almost takes over.

"Long time no see. I didn't expect you, Sarutobi, to have brought a few good students with you. The decorations of Hinata's house, the stubborn men, and this... well, a blood successor who is as sweet as Itachi. What's your name? Little one? girl."

When the golden pupils swept over her, she felt a suffocating chakra, as if someone was pinching her neck with their hands and spitting out the words——

"I...Izumi."

"You are not strong enough yet. Come to me when you long for power and eternity." The thin and pale man squinted his eyes, and his golden pupils swept across the five people present. He covered the bleeding wound on his abdomen and moved forward slowly. Come.

"Lord Orochimaru, please don't come any closer..." Sarutobi Kino picked up the kunai and made a blocking gesture. Kakashi on the side also held on and refused to fall. A line of blood slowly dripped from his forehead.

"You can't kill me yet," the cold man approached step by step until he passed them in the opposite direction, "Don't become the second Team [-]..."

The man left, and the end of his words was already unclear.

"Huh--" The three people who were relaxed kicked and collapsed.

"Is this... the power of the strong?"

Uchiha Izumi wiped the cold sweat from her forehead. Although the man left, the strange boiling feeling in her body did not disappear.A tingling sensation spread throughout her limbs and bones, and she soon fell into coma.

"Hey, Uchiha!"

"School girl..."

She is... what's the matter?

She entered a vast white world with no reference and no end. She walked for a long time... until she fell asleep again, her father's familiar voice sounded in her ears:

"There may be sequelae, but it's better to forget than to remember..." There was another vague ending, accompanied by a severe headache.

------

When I woke up, everything around me was white.

She entered the hospital again, and she was in the same ward as Kakashi-senpai.

"Water..." Her throat was hoarse as she just woke up.

Kakashi, a patient in the same room, was reading a book with the setting sun by the window. He reluctantly turned his head and raised his chin to indicate to her that there was water on the table.

And the table - by the far door.

I tried to move other parts, but a feeling of weakness soon came over me.He gritted his teeth and sat up, just as he was about to go to the door.

The door to the ward creaked open——

The person who came in was Sarutobi-sensei.

She took a few sips of the water handed over by the teacher before she took a breath. The cool liquid slid across her dry throat, bringing some relief.

"Koizumi, how do you feel?"

I tried turning other parts of my body, but there didn't seem to be any strange feeling, just a little weak. Maybe I could recover quickly after taking a rest.

"It doesn't seem like there's a big problem."

"I mean..." Sarutobi Kino glanced at the boy who was quietly reading a book, and saw that the other boy had no reaction. It was obvious that he had not recovered from the world in the book.The left eye that could not be closed all year round has been covered with gauze, and the cloth is slightly red.

"I mean, try to see if you can use ninjutsu."

"Here?" Although she felt a little strange, she still tried the most basic ejaculation technique.

It was useless, she could feel the presence of chakra and even extracted it, but it dissipated after a while.

"I am..."

"The doctor tried to input chakra to explore the cause of your coma, but chakra cannot circulate in your body."

Chakra cannot circulate

what does that mean?She blinked, not yet thinking about the consequences.

After a while, the girl slowly lowered her head, letting her brown hair cover up the expression on her face.

"Xiaoquan, maybe things will turn around in a while...Have you ever been in a situation like this before?"

"In the past... yes, it was always difficult for me to condense my chakra, and it was easy to dissipate at the last moment." It's not that there are no signs. It can only be said that the problem is getting more and more serious.

Genin without chakra can only do simple tasks, such as taking care of the daimyo's pets and helping with moving.

This is not the life she wants.

"During this period, I plan to let you train in the village and avoid the mission of leaving the village. It's time for our team to take a rest."

"Ah."

Now that Sarutobi-sensei is gone, he probably won't report her situation so quickly, but if she keeps dragging her feet like this, there's no guarantee she won't be replaced.After all, their team is very special.

"Stop pulling, the sheets are going to be torn." Kakashi, who had straw-like white hair on his head, closed the book.

She released her grip and looked at the patient beside her.

"Then senior, what do you think... should I do?"

"You don't have to be able to become a ninja only by knowing ninjutsu. Some people can be outstanding by just relying on physical skills." Following Kakashi's gaze and looking out the window, the boy in green with one leg hanging upside down on the tree seemed to be very excited - —

"Yoshi, Kakashi, you finally found me."

"Come to fight with me?" Kakashi's voice revealed helplessness, but his tone was very gentle.

"No, I heard that you were beaten to the ground when you went to stop Orochimaru-sama who had defected?"

……

Kai-senpai is so straightforward.

"Yeah, so you came to see me?"

"I'm here to fight you! Another day!"

……

It seemed like a pleasure to watch the two best friends bicker.

When the wind blows again, the old page on the calendar falls off, revealing the brand new numbers underneath.

Konoha 48.

One of the three Konoha ninjas and a disciple of the Third Hokage, Orochimaru confirmed his defection.