Naruto's Fierce Thunder

"The winner, Nohara Rin!"

Thunderous applause erupted from the scene, and the chunin selection test, the finale, ended with Rin's victory.

"Lin, congratulations!" Obito appeared at the competition venue and congratulated.

"Obito, I'm one step ahead." Lin smiled.

At this time, Uchiha Itachi regained consciousness, stood up from the ground, and played alone in the field without saying a word.

Even though he was defeated, there was still no emotion or anger on his face, and he was as calm as water.

Obito looked at Uchiha Itachi's leaving figure and secretly remembered it in his heart.

"Unlike Kakashi, this kid is definitely not a good person..."

Although they are both members of the Uchiha clan, Uchiha Obito's parents have died. In addition, his talent has not been obvious since he was a child, and he has always been a low-end existence. Therefore, people in the clan do not pay attention to him at all, and he has always been in a state of letting go. I rarely interact with people in the clan.

Even the Uchiha clan didn't know about Obito's activation of the Mangekyō Sharingan.It was because of the strange rule that the Chuunin Examination was held recently.

Currently, thirteen of the fourteen ninjas at the same time as Kakashi have successfully been promoted to chuunin, and the only unlucky one who has not been promoted is named Metkai.

In the finals, Mike Kay faced Uchiha Itachi, and was easily defeated by Uchiha Itachi using Sharingan genjutsu.

With Metkai's ability at this time, it is absolutely normal for him to be caught off guard by the opponent's illusion.

When I met an opponent I didn't understand at all, I can only say that I was unlucky.

Of the fourteen new genin who advanced to the finals, only one Uchiha Itachi successfully promoted to chuunin.

Itachi Uchiha was walking home alone. His little mind was completely empty of anything related to the Chuunin Exam. Instead, it was filled with other things that should not be considered at his age.

"Why do people live? What is the meaning of living? What is the meaning of ninja? What is the meaning of death?"

"Why is it that my father only praised me for opening the Sharingan when my companion who lived with me day and night died?"

"Why does my father get impatient when I ask him these questions?"

He thought hard about these things for a month, but still couldn't figure it out.

As a precocious boy, without proper guidance, dangerous seeds quietly sprouted in Uchiha Itachi's heart.

He walked quietly, with no companions and no one to congratulate him.He stopped and found that he had walked up to a mountain without knowing it.

The name of the mountain is Mount Broken Crane, which is located on the edge of the Uchiha clan and also on the edge of Konoha.Itachi often comes to this mountain and stares at the scenery below in a daze.

However, today, Itachi felt depressed for no reason.

Is it because my parents were not present, or because I lost a game?Or is it because of some deeper reasons?

With no one to talk to, no one willing to listen, Itachi, who was alone with his random thoughts, had finally destroyed his own mentality.

Itachi closed his eyes and felt the breeze on the mountain.Leap.

"what is the meaning of life…"

"Perhaps if we end it directly, we won't have to worry about these problems..."

The acceleration of gravity caused Itachi's body to fall faster and faster, and the feeling of death instantly invaded his brain.

This was the first time Uchiha Itachi felt that death was so close!

At this time, life, ninja, and meaning all become unimportant. Only when you face death do you realize how valuable life is.

A strong desire to survive suddenly appeared in his mind. Itachi's eyes widened. Kunai appeared in his hands. He thrust the kunai in his hands into the rocks of the mountain.

It didn't help, the kunai quickly broke, and the speed of falling did not slow down at all!

Taking out the kunai again, the kunai broke again. Repeated several times, the kunai finally did not break again, but drew two long sparks along the mountain!

However, the force of the fall was far beyond what he could stop. The violent friction sound lasted for a long time, and the jaws of both hands were shattered. The bones of the arms were also in severe pain. Finally, the kunai could no longer be held, and it fell straight. The ground fell.

Half-conscious, Itachi heard several hoarse screams.He struggled to open his eyes and found a pure black crow standing next to him.

The crow rolled its eyes and tilted its head, looking at him curiously.

"Did you save me?" Itachi sat up with difficulty and stretched out his hand to the crow.

The crow seemed to be spiritual. Seeing Weasel extending his hand, he jumped up, nodded, shook his head, and then turned his head to the dense forest ahead.

Itachi followed the crow's line of sight and saw a man walking slowly towards him.

"Long time no see, Itachi-kun."

The man's face emerged from the shadows, with a sickly white complexion and a pair of golden snake eyes on his evil face, which looked both dangerous and indescribably charming.

"Who are you?" Itachi said blankly, and then remembered that the man in front of him had appeared at his father's birthday party.

That was at least two years ago.

"Are you, Lord Orochimaru?"

"You have a good memory, Itachi-kun." Orochimaru smiled, "Is there anything you can't think of that makes you jump off a cliff?"

"...Have you seen everything?" Itachi lowered his head and asked softly.

"Haha, those crows alone can't save you." Orochimaru said, "Among the juniors in Konoha, you are the one I like the most. Itachi-kun, if you have any troubles, you might as well try telling me."

Only then did Itachi realize that the reason why he survived was not only the crow, but also Orochimaru.

"Lord Orochimaru, a person's life seems to begin from birth and lead to death. What is the meaning of life?" Itachi raised his little face, that immature but precocious face, revealing the desire for knowledge.

Orochimaru looked at the young man in front of him, with a complicated look in his eyes.He didn't understand why such a young child could think about such profound issues.

"Life...has no meaning. If there is, it only exists when life is eternal." Orochimaru looked at the sky in the distance and said to himself.

"Then, what is the meaning of death?"

"Death is also meaningless. If there is, it only exists when death can be used."

"In that case, what are we living for..." After hearing Orochimaru's answer, Itachi felt very depressed.

"Life and death are meaningless. What is meaningful is the period between life and death, which is what you call living." Orochimaru knelt down and stroked Itachi's face, "While we are alive, we can find many meanings. Things like today, you found it and I saved you."

Orochimaru pointed at the crow on Itachi's shoulder, with an evil smile on his pale face, and his hoarse voice was inexplicably attractive.

"So I say, if life is meaningful, it only exists when life lasts forever. If you live long enough, you will find more meaningful things."

Looking at Orochimaru's retreating back, Itachi was stunned, and all kinds of thoughts arose in his heart.

……

Naruto Office.

"Old man, I'm back." Orochimaru's hoarse voice said lukewarmly.

"I expected to come back in three months, but you ended up going away for nearly a year, Orochimaru." The Third Hokage glanced at Orochimaru, his words full of blame.

Orochimaru grinned and threw a bottle to the third generation.

The third generation picked up the bottle and took a look. There was a bunch of animal hair that exuded a faint blue light. The amount of chakra contained in it was not large, but it was well preserved.

The third generation looked at it briefly, put the bottle of cat hair aside, and showed a slightly disdainful smile.

"In one year, you did this?"

"The legendary cat demon, the cat hair on the body of Futai Mataru. In Kumogakure, I am considered to be the second person to enter the palace. The mission did not go well, and I only achieved this little."

"Orochimaru, you are very good at doing this kind of thing." The third generation smiled meaningfully.

The second-tailed cat hair was obtained by Orochimaru secretly sneaking into the Hidden Cloud Village and using some shady methods.

The chakra of the Eight-Tailed Gyushi was also obtained by Orochimaru.

He secretly attacks the seals of the jinchūriki, triggering the tailed beast chakra in their bodies to cause them to go berserk, and then he takes advantage of the chaos to collect the body tissues of the tailed beasts.

Two tailed beasts went berserk in succession, turning the entire Cloud Hidden Village upside down.

The key point is that they haven't been able to find out what caused the tailed beast to go berserk, so they have been looking for the cause and working hard on the Jinchūriki and the seal.

I have to say that Orochimaru is quite smart.

He has a lot of experience in dealing with Yunyin, a group of people with strong limbs and simple minds.

So I caught their whole family and killed them!

"But this time, you are not as good as Jiraiya." Sandai took a puff of his pipe, looked at Orochimaru, and smiled mysteriously.

"Oh?" Orochimaru had a playful smile on his face, "What did that idiot do?"

The third generation took out an identical bottle from his body and handed it to Orochimaru.

Orochimaru picked it up and took a look, briefly felt it, and was suddenly shocked!

"This...this is?"

The chakra stored in this bottle gave him a feeling of déjà vu.

Jiraiya leads the army to look for the strong man with the Samsara Eye.No one was found, but some weird chakra was collected.

After research by the Konoha scientific research team, it was unanimously determined that this chakra contained the aura of the nine tailed beasts!

"The quality of this chakra is higher than that of pure tailed beast chakra. I feel many familiar atmospheres from it... By the way, these familiar atmospheres... I see..." Orochimaru stared at the small bottle in front of him, bright red. His tongue slowly licked the corner of his mouth, his expression gradually becoming excited.

"Such a powerful chakra, such a strange power, if it can be cultivated..."

"Sparasi..."

"Then, this task will be left to you?" Sandai asked, playing with the bottle in his hand.

"It's disrespectful..." Orochimaru replied.

The third generation chuckled and threw the bottle of cat hair back to Orochimaru.Orochimaru put away the two bottles and was about to leave, but suddenly turned back and looked at the third generation with golden snake eyes.

"Any question?"

"Old man, this is how you should look. I like it very much."

After saying these words, Orochimaru turned and walked away.

"Oh, it's inexplicable."

……

Not far from Konoha Village, there is a bustling attraction called Tanshu Street.

There is nothing here that you can’t imagine, and there is no service that cannot be provided.

This is also Jiraiya and Tsunade's favorite place.

But since it was noon and the sun was very strong, there were not many pedestrians on the street.

In a tavern on Duanzhu Street, three people were sitting around a table.There was only this table of customers in the entire tavern.

"Tsunade, you know I don't drink, why did you call me all the way here?" The hoarse voice sounded, it was Orochimaru.

"Don't you have to ask Jiraiya? He stood downstairs in my house and shouted to me, 'Orochimaru is back, Orochimaru is back'. His voice woke me up from a long way away, and I couldn't sleep well." Tsuna. He said with a pursed mouth.

"You don't even know what time it is. Besides, we finally got back, why don't we have a good get-together?" Jiraiya said, "Speaking of Orochimaru, what did you do without telling us? The old man also said it was a secret. Even we won’t tell you.”

Tsunade also looked at Orochimaru with curiosity.

"It's not something that can't be said." Orochimaru briefly told the two of them about this mission.

"Tsk, tsk, tsk..." After listening, Tsunade and Jiraiya looked at Orochimaru and shook their heads.

"what happened?"

"How many bad things did the people of Yunyin Village do to meet you?" Jiraiya and Tsunade complained at the same time.

"The war with Kumogakure is not over yet, so whatever you do is reasonable." Orochimaru licked his lips, and then said to Tsunade: "Where is the little girl you took with you when you left Konoha?"

"You said Shizune, since I'm back, I think I'll just stay for a while and send her to the ninja school." Tsunade said, slumping down on the chair, "Save me the trouble of bothering me every day. I take care of her. In the past few years, I have deeply realized how troublesome it is to take care of children."

"But from what I understand, it seems that Shizune takes care of you more often." Jiraiya teased.

"you shut up!"

"Isn't it too late to send her to ninja school? She should be ten years old this year."

"It's just a process. You have to have an identity. You can't follow me all the time." Tsunade shook the cup in her hand and drank the wine in one gulp.

"Since you don't like taking care of children, how about giving her to me and becoming my disciple?" Orochimaru raised his eyebrows and said with a half-smile.

As soon as these words came out, the atmosphere at the scene instantly became depressing.Tsunade lowered her head slightly and slammed the cup on the table.

"Orochimaru, why don't you open the pot and pick up the pot..." Jiraiya said with a frown.

Having believed his lies before, Tsunade died in battle not long after handing her younger brother Naoki to Orochimaru.

Although Orochimaru couldn't be blamed for that incident, it still happened in his hands.

"Indulging in the past may be the meaning of life, but this meaning is too sad, Tsunade."

"If you say one more thing, I will kill you right away!" Tsunade said calmly, but the faint aura around her already told everyone that she was in danger at this time.

"It doesn't matter, you don't understand anything, and talking to you is just a waste of time." Orochimaru stood up and walked slowly out the door.

It was a nice little reunion, but Orochimaru said a few words and broke up unhappy.

"It's really his style, it hasn't changed at all over the years..." Jiraiya looked at Orochimaru's back and complained helplessly.