Chapter 47 Main Quest 2: Let the Tailed Beasts Fight

Orochimaru was restrained by Naruto's shadow clone, and Sasuke's fire escape hit the target exactly.

Orochimaru, who was hit by the flames, suddenly began to melt, lost his human form, and finally turned into a lump of mud.

Seeing this situation, Sasuke and Naruto immediately looked around vigilantly.

"Where did you go?" Naruto asked.

Sasuke shook his head slightly and did not answer. He did not expect that under the combined attack of him and Naruto's mouth-to-mouth and ninjutsu, the opponent could actually use the substitution technique to escape.

The two of them stood guard for a while, but there was still no movement around them. Sasuke said, "They should have left."

"Damn it, I let him get away!" Naruto felt a little regretful that he couldn't get the scroll.

Sasuke stared at the soft mud left under his feet. He remembered the murderous aura that his opponent exuded when he appeared. Sasuke couldn't help but frowned. His intuition told him that this person might not be simple.

After driving Orochimaru away, Team 7 had a very smooth journey. They first encountered three people from the Sound Village. After a fight between the two sides, they successfully collected the two scrolls of heaven and earth.

Afterwards, Team 7 met their classmates from Team 10, Shikamaru Nara, Ino Yamanaka and Choji Akimichi. They were all new recruits who graduated from the same class. The two sides did not fight each other. Team 7 even teamed up with Team 10 to defeat a wave of ninjas from the Hidden Rain Village.

Finally, the two groups reached the finish line together.

After the second round of the Chunin Exam ended, after counting the number of people, the examiner decided to add an additional preliminary round to eliminate another half of the people.

The rules of the preliminaries are very simple, just draw lots, one-on-one PK, and the loser is eliminated.

In this preliminary match, Sasuke easily defeated his opponent and won the victory without even using any mouth-to-mouth tactics.

Naruto's opponent is the ninja Inuzuka Kiba from the same village.

Inuzuka Kiba was a classmate of Naruto in Ninja Academy. He was well aware of Naruto and Sasuke's verbal tactics, so when he saw that his opponent was Naruto, he simply put on earplugs. In addition, he also put earplugs on his ninja dog Akamaru.

Most of the Inuzuka family's ninjutsu are performed in cooperation with ninja dogs. When attacking, they usually use their sense of smell to track the enemy, so blocking hearing does not have a big impact on Inuzuka Kiba's strength. In addition, he has a ninja dog as his partner, so this match can be seen as a two-on-one.

Under the continuous attacks of Inuzuka Kiba and Akamaru, Naruto fell into passivity from the beginning. The reason for this was mainly because Naruto had not yet fully learned the Rasengan, and he did not have a killing move that could kill the enemy with one blow.

The ninjutsu used by Inuzuka Kiba and Akamaru is Yatongya. Yatongya's attack method is that the man and the dog rotate quickly at the same time and rush the opponent like a tornado.

All the shadow clones created by Naruto were dispersed by Yatongya. This passive feeling made Naruto very impatient because he always liked to take the initiative to attack. However, the power created by the rotation of Yatongya can not only attack the enemy, but also form a defense for itself, leaving Naruto completely helpless.

Naruto used the physical skills he learned from sparring with Kakashi to once again dodge Yatoya's attack. He seized the opportunity to create three shadow clones to confuse his opponent, and then observed the attacks of Inuzuka Kiba and Akamaru, looking for a way to break them.

"Bang--"

"Bang--"

The two shadow clones were dispersed one after another, and Naruto listened to the sound, looked at the attacking man and dog, and at the same time received the memories fed back by the shadow clones in his mind.

The memory of his shadow clone being dispersed by Yatongya's rotation reminded Naruto of the Rasengan he had practiced. The Rasengan is also a rotating attack, but it makes the chakra rotate.

In the previous training, Naruto had completed all the steps taught by Jiraiya, but he still could not condense the Rasengan in his hand. At this time, looking at Inuzuka Kiba and Akamaru cooperating with each other, Naruto suddenly had an idea...

"Bang--"

The last shadow clone was also dispersed. Before Inuzuka Kiba and Akamaru turned around, Naruto created another shadow clone. He asked the shadow clone to cooperate with him and help him control the chakra on his palm. This time he finally succeeded in using the Rasengan.

Naruto, holding the Rasengan, did not dodge, but used the Rasengan to attack Yatonga head-on...

Although it was a rotation against rotation, the Rasengan was rotating chakra, while the ones rotating Yatou Ya were Inuzuka Kiba and Akamaru. In the collision, the ones who were ultimately injured were the flesh and blood bodies of Inuzuka Kiba and Akamaru.

Naruto won the victory. He looked toward the corridor on the second floor and waved to Sasuke, Haruno Sakura, and Kakashi who came to watch the game: "I won!"

"It's so slow." After Naruto came up, Sasuke was the first to complain.

Naruto knew that Sasuke had already learned Chidori. When he heard Sasuke say this, he immediately challenged Sasuke after successfully performing the Rasengan: "Sasuke, do you want to compete after the exam?"

Sasuke looked towards Naruto, his eyes revealing the same eagerness as Naruto. Having just watched Naruto fight, he also wanted to fight Naruto at this moment.

Seeing the two men rubbing their hands in anticipation, as if they were about to fight before the exam was over, Kakashi sighed helplessly. He held their heads and reminded them, "You two, watch the game carefully!"

The next opponents were Tenten and Temari from the Sand Village, and Tenten was defeated in the end.

After this match, Haruno Sakura faced off against Yamanaka Ino. The two were good friends but also rivals. On the field, both tried their best and finally knocked each other down at the same time. Although both girls were eliminated at the same time, everyone still applauded for their wonderful performance.

Another battle worth paying attention to later is the battle between Hyuga Hinata and Hyuga Ningji. Both of them are from the Hyuga family, but because one was born in the main family and the other was born in the branch family, their fates are very different.

Hyuga Ningji is bound by the fate of the branch family. He believes that fate cannot be changed, but he hates his own fate.

During the battle, Hinata Ningji was merciless. He wanted to prove to Hinata that the fate of the weak cannot be changed and that Hinata is destined to lose to him.

In the corridor of the second-floor stands, Naruto thought of Hinada's previous help and couldn't help but cheer for Hinada.

However, Hinata lost the duel in the end, but she was different from what Ningci said. She had never been a weak person. She was just soft on the outside but strong on the inside. So even though she lost the duel, even though her chakra was sealed by Ningci's acupuncture points, she still did not fall down.

Among the remaining preliminaries, the most exciting match is between Gaara and Rock Lee.

Gaara possesses a sand armor that is said to have absolute defense. In order to break through the defense, Rock Lee opens the Eight Gates.

With the Eight Gates activated, Rock Lee's speed was so fast that it was difficult to catch with the naked eye. At one point he hit Gaara so hard that he had no chance to fight back. But unfortunately, all of Rock Lee's attacks were absorbed by the Sand Armor.

Gaara thought that Shingon would be watching the next ring match, and his determination to win made him not hold back at all, and he used a killing move on Rock Lee.

The final result of this duel was that Rock Lee lost consciousness, but even without consciousness, Rock Lee still stood stubbornly, with his hands in a posture that was the starting position for the attack.

The preliminaries were very exciting. When Shingo was watching this part of the comic, Sasuke and Naruto had already returned. Knowing that both of them had performed very well, he took them directly to Ichiraku Ramen to celebrate.

The last round of the Chunin Exam is a tournament, which is a promotion system. The loser is eliminated and the winner advances, until the first place is finally decided.

In this exam, winning, losing and ranking are not the key to determining whether a candidate can be promoted to Chunin. The examiner will evaluate the candidate based on his or her overall performance.

The candidates who passed the preliminaries have already been drawn into groups. The first match of the ring match is Sasuke vs. Ningji, the second match is Aburame Shino vs. Kankuro, the third match is Shikamaru vs. Temari, and the fourth match is Naruto vs. Gaara.

The original tournament was scheduled to be held three days later, when the Kazekage of the Sand Village and the Third Hokage of the Konoha Village would be present to watch the match. However, the Kazekage, who had just arrived in Konoha, suddenly had some difficulty acclimatizing, so the tournament was postponed another four days to seven days later.

The Kage from other ninja villages came to Konoha and were actually ill. When the Third Hokage heard about it, he immediately sent medical ninjas over. Regardless of whether the Kazekage trusted the medical ninjas of Konoha, as the host, Konoha had to observe proper etiquette.

As expected, the Kazekage refused the Konoha ninja's treatment and just said that he would be fine after a few days of rest.

And this Kazekage who needed to rest was none other than Orochimaru, the impostor.

Orochimaru returned to Konoha this time not only for Sasuke, he also planned a Konoha invasion.

Before coming here, Orochimaru could never have imagined that he would have trouble acclimatizing to the climate in his hometown after returning to it again. The two people who had trouble acclimatizing to the climate and environment were Uchiha Sasuke and Uzumaki Naruto.

In short, for the sake of subsequent plans, Orochimaru needs time to calm the "duet" in his mind.

As the tournament was postponed, the candidates had more time to collect intelligence on their opponents. Shingon was not worried about Sasuke, but he was a little worried about Naruto and Gaara. The two were the Jinchūriki of the Nine-Tails and One-Tails respectively, and were about the same age. He had thought about introducing the two to each other before, but he didn't expect that the two became opponents before they even got to know each other.

Shingon was thinking about Naruto and Gaara when a system that detected abnormalities suddenly came online.

[Host, what did you do? The deviation rate has increased to 29%!] Ever since the previous mission, whenever the spiritual system detects an abnormal deviation rate, it always feels that it is related to its host.

[I didn't do anything.] Shingon was really innocent. He didn't go to the first three rounds of the Chunin Exams, but watched the whole thing on the manga forum.

Inspiration system: [But the deviation rate has increased. ]

[Is it because I want to introduce Naruto and Gaara as friends?] Shinon could only think of this possibility, because the two of them are going to fight in a ring, so they can't be friends?

[There is a war between them, so they can't be friends.] As expected, the spiritual system also said so.

Zhenyan feels that being friends or not has little to do with fighting. If they become friends, they can have a friendly match. However, since the deviation rate has increased, he can only change his plan and wait until the ring match is over before introducing the two to each other.

Just when Zhenyan had made up his mind, he heard the system say: [In the comic author's imagination, the One-Tail and the Nine-Tail will also have a battle. ]

Mantra: [? ? ? ]

Does the manga author feel that the Chunin Exams aren't exciting enough, so he wants to do something bigger?

[Are you sure you want to let the giant fox and the fat cat fight in the ring? ] Zhenyan had to confirm it again, because he had already visited the ring competition venue. The ring was not big enough for even the giant fox to sit on, let alone a fat cat. Were the two tailed beasts going to be stacked on top of each other on the ring?

[There is a battle.] The inspiration system can only say that this is the current imagination of the comic author.

【I understand.】 He said truthfully.

[Host, you must not mess around anymore. You must ensure the main storyline develops smoothly!] The spiritual system was still worried and gave instructions again. [Yes, I understand. I will arrange it right away.] Zhenyan responded repeatedly.

Shingon thought that since they were going to let two tailed beasts fight, a normal arena would not be enough, so they had to find a wide open area, at least to prevent the two tailed beasts from affecting the village.

Of course, no matter where the venue is chosen, the safest way is to meet the two tailed beasts in person, discuss with them, and let them be careful when they take action.

Shingon decided to meet Kurama first. Before entering the main storyline, he asked for chakra from each tailed beast once, except Kurama, who asked for it twice. So after entering the main storyline, he did not look for Kurama again after asking for chakra from the eight tailed beasts.

But since they were going to meet this time, he might as well ask for chakra again.

Zhenyan found Mingren and said, "Mingren, Brother Zhenyan needs to see Xiaojiu once."

"Do you want Xiaojiu to pay off the debt?" Naruto asked.

"I guess so. We have some other things to discuss." Zhenyan said, "I will continue to keep it a secret for Brother Zhenyan this time."

"Yeah." Naruto nodded in agreement, and after thinking for a moment, he asked, "Brother Zhenyan, is anyone targeting Xiaojiu?"

"Why do you ask?"

"Before the Lecherous Sage taught me the Rasengan, he asked me if anyone strange had approached me." Naruto said, "The Lecherous Sage said that a bad guy had recently targeted the Tailed Beast."

Zhenyan was silent for a moment and said, "Indeed, there is."

Naruto: “Huh?”

Zhenyan pointed at the tip of his nose and said with a smile: "Isn't your brother Zhenyan helping Xiao Shi to collect his debts?"

"But Brother Zhenyan is not a bad person." Naruto said, "Brother Zhenyan does good things."

"Yes." Shingon looked into Naruto's clear blue eyes and added, "But sometimes, whether a person is good or bad, or a good thing or a bad thing, is not determined by the person himself or the thing itself."

"What determines that?" Naruto asked curiously.

Mantra: "Stand."

Naruto was even more confused: "What is the position?"

Zhenyan gave an example: "There are two children who have families who love them. But one day, a crisis occurred in the world and a person found out about it. In order to maintain world stability, this person deceived the families of the two children. If you were in the shoes of the two children, would this person be a good person?"

This question seemed a bit profound. Naruto couldn't help frowning when he heard it. It was not until a long time later that he looked at Zhenyan again, his eyes as clear as ever: "I think those who protect the world are heroes!"

At this point, Naruto pointed to his forehead with his thumb and said, "I want to be a great hero in the future!"

Zhenyan suddenly laughed, and put his hand on Naruto's shining golden hair, and said: "Naruto is already a very powerful hero for being able to lock up Xiaojiu!"

Naruto also smiled, his face glowing like the morning sun.

Zhenyan and Mingren entered the sealed space together. When they saw Jiu Lama again, Zhenyan waved and greeted him first: "Xiao Jiu, hello!"

"It's been a while since we last met. You seem to have gained weight. Is it because you lack exercise?"

Jiu Lama: “…………”

Jiu Lama didn't want to talk at all, because based on past experience, every time Zhenyan came, it was always bad.

Kurama didn't say anything, which didn't affect the truth. He looked at the big fox in the sealed gate and said, "Xiaoyi is a guest in Konoha, do you want to go out and entertain him?"

Jiu Lama: “…………”!