What happened here?
As Shimura Danzo stood before the mangled remains of Shirakumo Hayama, just as he was about to call for his men to continue the pursuit of Tsunade, Hiruzen Sarutobi appeared with the reanimated forms of his two teachers.
"He was just a ridiculous guy. He used his life to cover Tsunade's escape. But he didn't know that Tsunade would never be able to return to Konoha. A large number of Root's people were all deployed on their way back to Konoha."
Danzo Shimura waved his hand, ordering the Root members nearby to continue pursuing Tsunade, then turned to look at Hiruzen Sarutobi.
"What happened at the Root base? How did Tsunade manage to escape?"
Danzo looked at the two reanimated bodies guarding Hiruzen Sarutobi from the front and back with a slightly uneasy gaze. These familiar faces reminded him of the scene when he was reprimanded by his teacher when he was a child.
Honestly, he also wanted to experience having his two teachers as his bodyguards; that would definitely be fun. Unfortunately, he simply didn't have any talent for the Impure World Reincarnation technique. Even though the experimental material was from Root, and the two of them started training around the same time, Hiruzen Sarutobi was able to quickly master the Impure World Reincarnation technique.
Despite being the biggest contributor, he did not receive any reward!
"The Root base has collapsed, but that's a minor matter. The priority now is to continue the pursuit; we can't let Tsunade ruin things!"
Hiruzen Sarutobi was adamant; he now wanted Tsunade to return to Konoha even less than Danzo did.
Kill! I want to kill!
I will take my revenge and utterly destroy this ridiculous thing, this laughable Konoha!
Tsunade staggered and ran for her life, screaming inwardly the whole way.
Shirokumo Hayama sacrificed himself to cover her retreat, and just now on her way to Konoha, she saw the corpse of Yamashiro Aoba. It was a pitiful body that had died from poison, and even in death, its eyes were still wide open and refused to close.
Concerned about the pursuing Root members, Tsunade didn't even have time to conceal herself. At the same time, Tsunade encountered a group of patrolling Root ninjas nearby, who signaled and attacked her as soon as they saw her.
The waves of Root and Anbu ninjas blocking the way to Konoha completely extinguished Tsunade's hopes of returning to Konoha.
Among those chasing her, Tsunade saw many ninjas from major Konoha clans, some of whom were wounded soldiers she had treated.
This blow left Tsunade somewhat disoriented; she felt like a homeless, pathetic creature. Overwhelmed by intense anger and the feeling of betrayal, Tsunade became hysterical, her mind consumed by thoughts of killing and revenge.
Rewind one day, and Hinata Kaze was also working to take in a pitiful, homeless girl.
At that time, he had just finished a night of intense taijutsu training with Uchiha Mikoto, Kurenai Yuhi, and Anko Mitarashi. The intense taijutsu training caused Mikoto and the others to fall asleep without a care for their image.
Hinata Kaze possessed incredible stamina; a night of training left him feeling no fatigue whatsoever, and on the contrary, he appeared radiant with energy.
Just then, he suddenly received a message from his Blood Shadow Clone: the sealing site of what appeared to be the Uchiha's ultimate weapon had been found. Hyuga Kaze raised an eyebrow excitedly. He gently covered the sleeping Kurenai and the others around him with blankets to shield them from the dazzling white light before getting up and entering the training room.
In the next instant, he swapped places with his clone and appeared on a towering hillside. All around him were jagged rocks, endless stretches of overgrown weeds and trees, and no trace of human habitation.
Hyuga Kaze flew through the air and surveyed the surrounding scenery. His powerful eyesight spotted a repulsive scene in the distance—the Hokage Rock!
"Tsk tsk tsk, it's actually so close to Konoha, less than 100 li in total." Hyuga Kaze looked around and saw that there were continuous forests for dozens of li, so he focused on studying the location of the seal.
This place is completely far from any transportation routes, and there are no other people for dozens of miles around, making it extremely secluded. Even the seal marks here are very subtle; it would have been virtually impossible to find them without the ancient scrolls unearthed by the Sarutobi clan for comparison.
Even finding the general location doesn't guarantee you'll discover the seal, because it's inside the mountain. When the Senju and Sarutobi clans completed the seal, they also completely blocked the passage.
In other words, the Blood Shadow clone tirelessly dug more than a dozen tunnels through the nearby mountains before finally reaching the vicinity of this seal.
Before Hinata Kaze were tunnels nearly 30 meters long. As Hinata Kaze entered the tunnel, he found a barrier blocking his way.
Behind the barrier was a small, narrow cave. After discerning it, Hyuga Kaze realized it was a warning and concealed barrier and blasted it open with a single palm strike.
The rest of the process went smoothly, except that the sealing technique on Uchiha Hikaru was a bit complicated and took Hyuga Kaze a lot of time.
This sealing technique completely sealed off all of Uchiha Hikari's life activities, even completely sealing off her connection with the outside world.
This also made Hyuga Kaze understand why the Senju and Sarutobi clans didn't directly kill Uchiha Hikari back then—because they could only imprison her with a seal. Attacking her might break the seal, and once the seal was broken, they would face Uchiha Hikari's counterattack!
"Woo"
Not long after Hyuga Kaze broke the seal, the little girl Uchiha Hikari woke up groggily. She subconsciously let out a cute whimpering sound, like a young animal calling for its family.
Unfortunately, this adorable expression vanished the moment she fully woke up. Before Uchiha Hikaru had even fully opened her eyes, she took a few steps back and assumed a guarded stance.
She then opened her eyes and quickly scanned her surroundings before finally fixing her gaze on Hyuga Kaze. Her cute eyebrows furrowed, and she stared warily at him with her blood-red three-tomoe Sharingan, asking, "Are you from the Senju clan or the Sarutobi clan?"
Hinata Kaze looked the legal loli up and down. She was far more pure and beautiful than he had ever seen in his previous life, which made Hinata Kaze's mouth water.
“I am not from either of these two races. In fact, it has been a hundred years since you were sealed away. I came here specifically to rescue you.”
Hinata Kaze explained to Uchiha Hikaru with a gentle and kind smile, and then he saw that delicate little face switch on to a different expression.
At first, she was disdainful and skeptical, then she looked at Hinata Kaze's determined expression with a hint of shock, and finally she was confused and angry. Her fair face showed a variety of expressions, which was quite a sight.
"The Uchiha clan of today have long forgotten your past. It must be hard being used as a weapon. Why don't you become my partner?"
As Hyuga Kaze said this, he recalled the happy times he had with Kurenai and the others, and then tried his best to imitate the expression of Orochimaru when he kidnapped children.
He thought his smile was friendly, but the little girl opposite him became even more wary.
"Do you think I'm one of those fools who can be seduced by a nobleman's words? Disgusting thing, stop with your lewd thoughts!"
Uchiha Hikari looked at Hyuga Kaze as if he were a maggot. If she hadn't been so confused about the situation and her body hadn't recovered from being out of the seal, she would have already attacked.
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