Naruto: As a genin, I just want to live a normal life.

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After searching for his brother for over a year, it turned out that the brother was not the one he had originally intended to marry.

Even if Rope Tree is still Rope Tree, his soul and body are both correct.

But after experiencing many things and undergoing tremendous changes, the moment a loved one finds the other, their heart may be completely broken.

"Uuuuuu——"

Shirahoshi reached out and patted the crying Tsunade on the back, thinking to herself, "He just finished taking a bath, what's with you crying on his bathrobe like this..."

but,

He thought he heard something outside...

Outside, in the next room.

boom! !

"You just told me where Shirahoshi is?!"

The female guard was also startled. She quickly raised the pistol hanging at her waist, aimed it at the iron pillar, and raised the table to smash Uchiha Mikoto.

"Don't mess around!"

"If you mess around again, I'll shoot!"

"Go ahead and drive! Who's afraid of you?! Kill me if you dare!"

The female guard guarding Shirahoshi and Tsunade's room was sweating profusely: "Is it really necessary?"

"It's just being locked in one room."

"What do you mean it's not that bad! If your husband slept with another woman and locked you in the next room, wouldn't you break down?!"

At this moment, Mikoto's bracelet was becoming increasingly uncontrollable. The female guard couldn't figure out the specific situation either, so she picked up the walkie-talkie and said, "Location: Cell No. 2 on the fourth floor of Tower No. 21, Name: Uchiha Mikoto, Current Status: Target out of control, bracelet seems to be about to malfunction!"

click-

The female guard was nearly hit by splinters of wood from the wooden table inside and landed hard on her bottom.

My God?! What's wrong with this woman?!

On the walkie-talkie, Garuro's voice suddenly rang out: "I'll be there right away."

After Mikoto's attempts to smash things failed, she could only squat in the corner and cry, "We lost, we all lost."

The female guard opened the door, and Gallo, upon entering, saw the extent of the damage inside and made a preliminary calculation: "It will have to be compensated."

You will be responsible for compensating for all the damaged items here.

"Who can't afford to pay for this?!" Uchiha Mikoto heard someone come in, and instinctively stood up, throwing a powerful punch—thud!

The protective sand gripped the young woman's fair wrist, and Karura glanced at Uchiha Mikoto:

"Those who attempt to attack important officials of Loulan are guilty of an even more serious crime."

"What? You want to stay locked up even longer?!"

"Damn it, let me go!!" At this moment, Mikoto's emotions reached their peak.

Anger, discontent, and despair ignite and rise to their peak simultaneously!

click-

Karura's expression changed; Uchiha Mikoto's chakra had been restored! A pair of three-tomoe eyes appeared in her gaze.

Immediately afterwards, the three black magatama on the red background began to spin rapidly.

Karura's eyes narrowed slightly, and a sage's seal quietly unfolded on a certain spot on her leg...

Sage Mode - Activated!

Karura's Sage Mode only features a touch of light brown eyeshadow around her eyes, which is abruptly added beneath the mask.

At the same time, the power of the sand began to undergo an astonishing change.

The First Hokage's Wood Release technique could absorb the chakra inside the body of anyone he captured.

However, judging from Yamato's Wood Release, it at most served the purpose of suppression and sealing.

It lacks the ability to absorb.

This is why Wood Release was not combined with natural energy.

Karura's sand abilities combined with natural energy create Sage Chakra, which is comparable to the absorption capacity of Rope Tree Release.

In an instant, Mikoto Uchiha felt a glimmer of hope for escaping her predicament, only to have it thwarted by Karura's appearance. The rotation of her Sharingan also abruptly ceased at that moment.

Finally, Mikoto fainted again. This time, Karura took out the S-type iron handcuffs, specifically designed for restraining Kage-level opponents, from his pocket and put them on Mikoto.

"The power of the Uchiha clan."

"The Mangekyou Sharingan?"

At the moment of stopping, Karura clearly saw the pattern on Mikoto's eyes take shape: a strange pattern resembling a triangular shape with three lightning bolt lines stitched together.

Next, Karura arrived at the door next door, carrying the unconscious Mikoto, and said, "Open the door."

"I'm going to throw this person in too."

"..." The female guard paused for a moment, then looked at Carolo: "Um, this was a special instruction from Lord Tree..."

"how?"

Beneath the mask, Garuda's eyes narrowed, and the air immediately became quiet and oppressive.

"Am I, the third seat holder and the third strongest in Loulan, not qualified to command you?"

"No—" the female guard hurriedly lowered her head, saying bitterly to herself, "You important people shouldn't torture a lowly woman like me!"

click-

The iron bars on the cell door were switched off and slightly pushed open. The two people inside heard the sound and instinctively spread out to either side of the sofa.

"Oh. You two seem to be having a lot of fun." Karura threw Mikoto, whom he had been carrying, onto the floor and looked at Tsunade, whose eyes were red from crying, and Shirahoshi, who had a calm expression: "This person will stay in this room tonight."

"in addition."

"Your name is Shirahoshi, right?"

Shirahoshi: "......" What do you want to do?!

"It's me, what's wrong?" Shirahoshi nodded and looked up at Karura.

"I'm going to interrogate you now."

"Come with me."

"..."

Tsunade wiped away her tears, got up and went to Karura, saying, "If you want to interrogate her, come to me."

Karura glanced at Tsunade with displeasure: "Get out of my way!"

Plop—

Sand grabbed Tsunade and threw her onto the large bed, along with Mikoto, binding the two of them to the bed. At the same time, Karura walked up to Shirahoshi: the female guard silently closed the door.

Karura raised her hand and pinched Shirahoshi's chin, exhaling a warm, heavy breath that hit the mask. "You look pretty cool, bro."

"Let go of Shirahoshi!!"

"Let him go!!!"

Karura glanced at Tsunade on the other side of the large bed, "Stop yelling."

"Do you still want to leave? You have committed the crime of attacking high-ranking officials of Loulan."

"Under normal circumstances."

"It's a capital offense."

"All of this was only because of the Ninth Seat's personal reasons that you were spared."

"And you. Come with me. Don't make me do it!"

Karura pinched Shirahoshi's smooth face, looked into the questioning eyes, and chuckled, "What's wrong? Do you think I wouldn't dare kill them?"

Shirahoshi glanced to the side and immediately saw the sand transform into sharp scimitars, hovering above the two women's faces.

"it is good."

"No, don't go! Shirahoshi!!"

No matter how much Tsunade called out, the sound of departing footsteps silently faded away, until finally the door closed, and the sand on her body slid off, flowing into the crack of the door and disappearing.

"Little brother. No, no..."

Tsunade helplessly embraced Mikoto, and then fainted again.

......

A proper tavern in the inner city of Loulan.

Nawaki sat opposite Jiraiya, sipping the sweet wine that Loulan had made. Jiraiya, however, was somewhat uneasy: the three members of his team were nowhere to be found, and Minato and the others had returned to the prison.

"Jiraiya-senpai."

"Drink it, are you afraid I'll poison it?"

Rope Tree laughed.

"Poisoning you? I actually hope you do it, so you won't be the Nawaki I know. Then I can kill you without any guilt."

Jiraiya picked up the wine glass on the table, and without any warning, raised it to his lips and drank it all in one gulp before putting it down.

"tasty."

"The prescription isn't very high."

"But can you tell me why you're doing this? What good will it do for you, for Konoha, for your sister, and for Shirahoshi, with whom you once shared life and death?" Jiraiya said, his voice as low as he could, his eyes fierce.

"..."

Rope Tree silently drank a glass of wine, then poured another, looked at the bubbles in the glass, and finally said:

"And me."

"I already know which path I need to take."