Naruto: Son of the Fourth Hokage

"There are about five hundred people inside, less than two hundred of whom are ninjas, and the rest should be ordinary people. They... are all locked up and look very weak."

Hinata said this with some reluctance, because those ordinary people could not be described simply as weak; they should be described as sallow and emaciated or skin and bones.

These people were used to provide energy. Shinno had infiltrated various countries as a traveling doctor. Because his Chakra was usually not much stronger than that of ordinary people, and his medical skills relied entirely on his superb surgical skills, no one suspected him. He even treated and saved people like an ordinary doctor for more than ten years. This is why Naruto and the Konoha sensory ninjas did not detect any abnormalities at all, and did not even feel any malice.

By chance, Shinno finally obtained the method of creating an artificial Tailed Beast—the Zero Tails—in the Land of Fire: first, a specific technique was needed, and second, 'Dark Chakra' was needed.

The source of Dark Chakra is the emotions of anger and hatred towards the root cause of misfortune when people are sad and desperate.

It can be simply understood as needing strong negative emotions, so Shinno captured hundreds of villagers and locked them in the Fortress, keeping them in a state where they would not starve to death, constantly generating negative emotions to cultivate the Zero Tails.

If Lü Shu and Lü Xiaoyu knew about this way of collecting negative emotions, they would probably despise him.

The purpose of Shinno's attack on Konoha by the Sky Ninja Village this time was to take advantage of the chaos to confirm some data about the Eight Gates provided by Orochimaru, so as to improve his so-called 'Ultimate Body', with recovery power comparable to Tsunade's Mitotic Regeneration, and becoming stronger each time after injury and recovery.

As for that map of Konoha's defenses, whether it was real or fake, Shinno didn't care. It was just a loss of some subordinates.

Of course, Orochimaru didn't give this information for nothing, but exchanged it for Shinno's research results on the activity of the body over the years.

However, what he didn't know was that Orochimaru not only sold fake information, but also sold one piece of information to two parties. What was even more excessive was that he also sold Shinno's information to another party.

Like many big villains, Shinno's pursuit of the Ultimate Body and the power of the Zero Tails was just a process to realize his dream, because he had a simple and very lofty goal, which was to overthrow the five major countries and lead the Sky Ninja Village, or rather the Land of the Sky, to rule the world.

Anyway, after learning Shinno's purpose in some way, Orochimaru sneered. He wanted to provoke the five major countries with his skills? Besides, what's the point of ruling the world? Researching the true meaning of life and researching immortality is more interesting. He should hurry up and get what he needs before he is beaten to death.

Huh? Maybe he can wait until he dies and then ask? Thinking of this, Orochimaru decided to take a two-pronged approach, both trading and trying to get some of his body tissue. When the time comes, he can have another assistant for research. Guren really doesn't have this talent.

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After listening to Hinata's introduction, everyone was a little embarrassed. If they were all enemies, it wouldn't matter how they destroyed it, but there were civilians, and they were victims. Even if they weren't Konoha civilians, they had to be treated as hostages.

Naruto didn't have much experience in rescuing hostages. What he was best at was actually the Russian rescue method—two Tailed Beast Balls down, and then report to the superiors, killing five hundred enemies, no hostages...

Naruto really hadn't played much with lurking. The most impressive time was when he "inquired" about news at Raiha's place, and then Kakashi criticized him.

In fact, if there was a chance to be Uzumaki Hassan once, Naruto would be happy to try it, but it concerned the lives of hundreds of people, so forget it.

But it doesn't matter, Naruto is not good at lurking, others are good at it. Naruto directly took out a Flying Thunder God Kunai and said, "If there is a way to send this in, I can move everyone away in a few seconds."

"Leave it to me."

"I... cough cough... can."

Shisui and Hayate spoke at the same time, but everyone still preferred to let Shisui go.

Although Naruto knew that Hayate Gekko was also very good at lurking, reconnaissance, and assassination, he was always worried that he would accidentally cough, so he voted for Shisui.

Maybe it was because he had been with Minato for too long, Shisui's temperament was becoming more and more like Minato's, always giving people around him a feeling of 'this person is reliable'.

After accepting the task, Shisui said gently to Hinata, "Can you help draw the path inside the Fortress?"

"Okay." Hinata nodded, took the paper and pen that Naruto handed over, and began to draw a map. Hinata's hands were very skillful, and the plan view she drew was very standard, indicating how many people were on guard, where the Prison was, and where people were patrolling, clear and understandable, so good that Naruto suspected that she had installed a CAD drawing software on her hand.

Shisui put away the Kunai that Naruto handed him, quickly memorized the map drawn by Hinata, took off the mechanical wings he had just put on, and then carefully used the Body Flicker Technique to move behind various stones and trees, avoiding the sight of the Sky Ninjas and approaching the Fortress.

When Naruto was curious about how he would hide from the two guards standing guard at the door, he saw Shisui suddenly appear at the door, and then swaggered in, but the two guards turned a blind eye!

Hinata opened her Byakugan and could see that the Chakra in the two people's bodies was disturbed. She disappeared and said, "They are under a Genjutsu."

"As expected of Shisui, his Genjutsu is still so powerful!" It seemed Genma and Shisui had a good relationship, as he was the first to praise him.

After that, Hinata broadcasted Shisui's actions, and Naruto automatically translated it into the voice and tone of Shan Tianfang:

Speaking of that Shisui, he broke into the Sky Ninja base alone. All you could see was him flashing and moving, passing through beams and over roofs. The patrolling people couldn't see him at all. How can you see the good qualities of Shisui? There is a poem to prove it:

With soft bones and a strong body, thick eyebrows and bright eyes.

His body is as light as floating catkins, and his steps are like a flying immortal.

...

"Naruto-kun, Shisui-aniki has sent a signal!" Hinata wasn't familiar with Shisui, she heard Naruto call him Shisui-aniki, so she followed suit.

"Understood!" Naruto instantly disappeared from the spot and appeared next to Shisui. Shisui's expression was a little unsightly.

Because there were hundreds of people imprisoned in the Prison, from sixty-year-old elders to six-year-old children, all of them were ragged, thin, and listless. Even when they saw Shisui take down two guards, they didn't make a sound, not knowing if it was because they didn't dare or didn't have the strength.

"These people..."

"They must have lost too much Chakra or stamina. Hurry up and save them, be careful, the Chakra of the people inside will be continuously absorbed."

"Okay." Naruto gently put the Kunai through the gap between the bars, afraid of scaring them if he threw it directly.

After using the Flying Thunder God Technique to get in, Naruto felt the speed at which his Chakra was being absorbed and calculated that if he stood still, he could probably last for seven days—before starving to death.

What kind of broken technique is this? Absorbing for ten minutes isn't even as much as the Chakra leaked by the Nine Tails wagging its tails twice.

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