Escape From Konoha

This mistake cannot be repeated.

On the way back to Konoha Hospital, Zuo Jingxin warned himself more than once.

After failing two consecutive missions, his evaluation has dropped by a level in the hearts of his superiors.

If the mission of tracking Asami Masumi failed, it can be regarded as excusable. He is a very strong medical ninja, at least a master of the captain level of the dark part, with a very keen anti-reconnaissance ability, even if his ability is special, It is also impossible to achieve perfect tracking.

But this time was different, Naruto was taken away by a group of lawbreakers. Such a mistake was far more serious than the failure of the mission to follow Asami Masumi.

Jinchuriki is an important military force of the village, and has nothing to do with Naruto's own will. From the moment he became Nine-Tails Jinchuriki, he is a war weapon that the village must control.

His existence is indispensable to Konoha, just like Hokage is to Konoha.

Especially in this day and age, tailed beasts are even more valuable military resources.

If Naruto really had an accident and was taken away by outsiders, even if he died ten times, he would not be able to make up for such a mistake.

You are just a shadow in the dark.

Thinking of the contagious smile on Naruto's face from time to time, the warm chakra like spring, he felt like the shining sun in winter, dispelling the cold. Zuo Jing couldn't help but fell silent.

This kind of existence is quite unfamiliar to me.

In the future, maybe we will have less contact with Naruto to avoid being infected by the Chakra breath on him.

Abandoning feelings, names, and life is the meaning of his existence.

If you can't even do this, there is no value in existence at all.

While thinking this way, Zuo Jing put his palm into the ninja bag, rummaged through the contents, and suddenly his face froze.

—The picture book is gone!

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"Hey, isn't Zuo Jing here?"

In a single ward on the third floor of Konoha Hospital, Naruto, Sakura, and Tianzang came here. After seeing that the single ward was empty, they couldn't help showing surprised expressions.

But compared to Naruto and Sakura's confusion, Tianzang became thoughtful.

Did you go to meet Danzo? Tianzang can only guess so.

Zuoi is not an ordinary ninja, even in Konoha's ninja files, there is no record, just like those orphan ninjas who were secretly cultivated by the root, except for the records in the root, the village knows nothing about their past.

Even the name Zuo Jing is false.

It shows Danzo's control over the roots.

Such a major event happened, Zuo Jing was sure that the first thing he did was not to heal his wounds, but to plead guilty to Danzo.

Tianzang sighed helplessly. Although he knew that the root organization was not small, but with his strength, he was really powerless to contend with such a behemoth.

Even Tsunade, who looks extremely tough at this time, can only overwhelm the roots on the surface, but if he secretly wants to attack the roots, it will definitely cause disaster.

The current root is not only the root itself, but also the strength of the Wudou faction. From the perspective of power, it will not be much weaker than the Hokage faction.

It is impossible to change Zuo Jing's situation.

The roots are not charities, and the dark side of their leaves, what they do has nothing to do with love.

Bloody, cruel, and unscrupulous are their pronouns.

Just like choosing more than 20 babies with excellent aptitude to be the experimental subjects, and conducting experiments with Orochimaru in Wooden Dungeon.

There is really no lower limit to their rules and human ethics.

What they want is the end result, not the process.

As long as they are strong, Hokage may be able to sacrifice and betray them in their eyes.

"Could he have gone out for a walk? Is he in good health?"

Here, Naruto guessed again, and put the fruit basket in his hand on the cabinet next to the hospital bed.

"However, his injury does not allow him to move freely for too long..."

As a medical ninja, Sakura naturally knows how serious Zuo Jing's injuries are. Although she can act, for health reasons, it is still not recommended that Zuo Jing get out of bed so quickly.

Therefore, Sakura frowned, with a worried look on her face.

"Don't worry, both of you, Zuo Jing may have something to do. I believe he will be back soon."

Tianzang comforted at the side.

In fact, he didn't have the confidence in his heart, because the crime of causing Jinzhu Riki to disappear was very serious, and he was fine. Although Tsunade's punishment for him was serious, it was also a punishment within the rules.

But what is implemented at the root is not the rules of the village, but a set of regulations that are run by themselves.

Whether Zuo Jing can come back safely depends on his own value.

If his own value is not high in the eyes of his superiors, and he commits such a major mistake, it is absolutely impossible to forgive him easily, and even let the rest of his peers in the root replace him and re-enter the seventh class.

"Really? What a trouble. Doesn't he know we're coming to see him?"

Naruto went to the window and opened it to ventilate the room.

"Also, if it wasn't for you, Zuo Jing wouldn't have suffered such a serious injury. You have to thank him very much."

Sakura scolded Naruto for a glance.

"I, I know, I feel a little bit sorry now."

Naruto stiffened his mouth.

"I can't see it at all. Moreover, your previous performance in the mission was too poor. According to Captain Yamato, the strength of those few people should not exceed you by much. Got hit with a sap."

"Damn it, who would have known that they would be so insidious, they didn't give me a chance to fight in full suit, and they didn't follow the rules! It made me almost pee my pants!"

When Naruto thought of this, he became angry. He was urinating at the time, but he was suddenly attacked at that time. If he hadn't reacted quickly enough, he would have almost peed on his pants.

"Hey, don't talk about such embarrassing things! Besides, this is not the Chunin exam. It requires a one-on-one fair confrontation, and you need to say hello before the battle. Are you thinking too much?"

Sakura was speechless.

Is Naruto powerful? To a certain extent, he is so strong that even ordinary Junin can't easily hold him.

But the other side is weak.

His nerves are too thick, and his alertness to encounters is too low, which is similar to that of a normal ninja, and his performance is even worse.

But there is no way, the actual battle is different from the exam.

The exam is an actual combat assessment of candidates, but there are still many differences from real combat.

In an encounter in the wild, it is quite normal for the two sides to attack each other secretly.

A real battle will not be a one-on-one duel, and there is no rule that you are not allowed to kill your opponent, and there is no referee standing by to stop the candidate when he is in danger, so as to ensure that the candidate's life is safe.

Being taught by Sakura, Naruto shrugged and did not refute.

At this time, Sakura took out something from the ninja bag, which attracted the attention of Naruto and Tianzang.

"What is this? Why is it so familiar, it seems to belong to Zuo Jing..."

Naruto saw clearly what was in Sakura's hand, it was a palm-sized drawing book.

The cover and bottom of the picture book are two cute Q-version characters.

One of them is very similar to Zuo Jing, and the other is unknown, but the hairstyle is very similar to Zuo Jing, except that the hair color is white.

"This is Zuo Jing's drawing book. I remember that Zuo Jing accidentally dropped it when he was chasing the Four Celestial Elephants."

Tianzang thought of the source of this picture book, and said.

"Well, I think this picture book should be very important to Zuo Jing. I asked him not to let us watch it before, so I brought it with me."

Sakura nodded, she was still very curious about this picture book.

Zuoi's ninjutsu form appears in the form of ink painting, and creates physical objects, which can attack or restrain the enemy, and the effect is remarkable.

In addition, there is a strong ability to detect and transmit intelligence.

In actual combat, the functions are very comprehensive, and it can be said that it is a secret technique with almost no weaknesses.

"What's in it? That guy was very mysterious before, holding this drawing book in a daze, and didn't know what's interesting in it."

Naruto asked very curiously.

"I don't know, I haven't read this picture book yet."

"Then quickly open it and take a look. I'd like to see what that guy drew inside."

Naruto took the picture book from Sakura's hand, and flipped through it by himself.

"Isn't it immoral to look through other people's things like this without their permission?"

Having said that, Tianzang leaned forward very honestly, and focused his eyes on the picture book just like Naruto and Sakura.

He thought, it would be great if he could learn something about Zuo Jing through this picture book.

At least it can benefit the team spirit of the seventh class.

After all, if he didn't know Zuo Jing well, it would be difficult for him to entrust his back to Zuo Jing.

"Strange, what composition is this?"

Afterwards, Naruto, who flipped through the contents of the picture book briefly, showed a strange look on his face.

Although the painting style is very cute, from the perspective of outsiders, there is basically no problem, but for some reason, it always gives people a very strong sense of disobedience.

Sakura pointed to the content in the picture book and pointed out the interesting places she found:

"This should be recording the growth history of the two teenagers. For example, the picture on the right page starting from both sides is the boy on the cover and the bottom page respectively, but only the picture on the left page keeps changing enemies, and every time it changes, the two boys They will take away the opponent's equipment and weapons in the picture on the left page, and carry out the next battle."

After Sakura's analysis, Tianzang also nodded in approval.

"Indeed, from this point of view, they are two different teenagers, but they have a very similar growth history. They both grow up by defeating their enemies... But if this continues, the two people in the story will meet sooner or later. Sakura, turn to Take a look in the middle."

"good."

Sakura turned to the middle part, and the expressions of the three of them were stunned.

The picture on the right is a black-haired boy without a face, while the picture on the left is blank without any figures.

It stands to reason that the two people who kept defeating the enemy would eventually meet on the blueprint in the middle, but only one person appeared, a faceless person, and the left was a blank picture.

There is no doubt that this black-haired boy with no face drawn is Zuo Jing.

And the white-haired boy did not appear on the picture on the left page.

"What's going on here? Why does this boy who looks like Zuo Jing have no face? And where is that white-haired boy?"

Naruto blinked, bewildered by this.

Sakura and Tianzang fell silent for a while, perhaps thinking of something.

No face means no expression, think of Zuo Jing's fake smile on his face from time to time, strictly speaking, isn't it just a face that doesn't need expression?

Faceless.

Expressionless people.

Lost names, lost feelings.

There is no past and no future.

This is the root.

"Is it because I can't think of the final ending, that's why I haven't started painting?"

Sakura closed the drawing book and let out a long breath.

The white-haired boy who appeared above must be a very important person to Zuo Jing.

"It seems that the relationship inside is more complicated than we imagined."

Tianzang scratched his head and sighed.

He had some guesses of his own, but there were some things he couldn't be sure of yet.

But one thing is very clear, Zuo Jing did not completely cut off his past like the people at the root.

In his heart, there is a memory that he can't give up no matter what.

"Captain Yamato, what kind of organization is Genbu?"

This is the first time Sakura asked this question.

She realized that she didn't know as much as she imagined about this organization hidden in the dark of Konoha.

I can only get a general idea from some words and phrases of others - that is, the power of the root is very huge, so huge that when Hokage deals with them, they have to restrain their hands.

And such a description is enough to prove that the root is terrible.

A huge force that can challenge Hokage can be regarded as Konoha's second largest political body.

And their leader might not be weaker than Hokage in power, he belonged to the darkness, Konoha's second 'Hokage'!

Just as Tianzang was about to answer, a sentence came from the door of the ward:

"The root is Danzo-sama's private army organization. Joining this organization means giving everything, dignity and even life for Danzo-sama. For the members of the organization, Danzo-sama's orders come from the will of God .”

Naruto and the three turned their heads to look at the door of the ward, and found that Zuo Jing quietly appeared there at some point, with a usual smile on his pale face.

"Zuojing? When did you come?"

"Well... just came back from a walk, thank you very much for visiting me."

Zuo Jing walked in with a smile.

And Sakura took a step forward, handing the picture book in her hand to Zuo Jing.

"Here, this is your precious thing."

"..."

Zuo Jing lowered his head, only then did he notice that the drawing book in Sakura's hand was the one he had lost.

For a moment, the smile on his face became much more real.

The joy of regaining it, even though it didn't show on his face, did fill his chest and made him feel at ease.

"Thanks."

"Actually, there's no need... Sorry, I read the above without your permission."

Sakura smiled awkwardly.

In this regard, Zuo Jing did not express any views.

Compared with the joy of regaining what was lost, he didn't need to dwell on this little mistake.

Besides, even if the above things are known, it's nothing, at most they will think the stories he painted are very boring.

"Speaking of which, the person on one side is you, right? Who is the person on the other side?"

Naruto asked.

To Naruto's question, Zuo Jing was silent for a while, and replied: "It's my brother."

"elder brother?"

His answer surprised the three of Naruto.

They didn't expect Zuo Jing to have an elder brother.

"However, it's not the brother who is related by blood, but the brother who grew up with me in the root. He and I are both orphans. In order to survive better in the root, we chose to depend on each other and rely on each other for warmth."

A glimmer of darkness appeared in Zuo Jing's eyes.

One cannot know the suffocating darkness there without being in the roots.

The Danzo he is loyal to is a ninja dark shadow who will do whatever it takes to achieve his goal.

The root is not a charity that adopts orphans. Only strong orphans can escape the fate of being abandoned and treated as experimental subjects.

The strong survive the weak, it is an extremely dark primitive jungle.

"Really? It can be seen that you have a good relationship with your brother."

Sakura didn't know how to answer, so she could only say this.

"Of course, he taught me how to survive in the roots, and I have a lot of respect for him."

Zuo Jing nodded, not denying this.

"So, where is he now?"

"Dead, the cause of death is illness."

Zuo Jing narrowed his eyes and smiled.

This kind of smile made Naruto and Sakura feel a little uncomfortable.

"Well, having said that, I really want to thank you this time, if it wasn't for you..."

In order to ease the tense atmosphere, Naruto began to thank Zuo Jing.

"You're welcome, I just received the task of protecting you."

Zuoi looked at Naruto with a smile, and said this sentence calmly.

"Zuoi, you..."

Naruto frowned.

He felt that Zuo Jing in front of him was like a cold machine working non-stop, without the slightest taste of being a stranger.

"Zuoi is just a fictitious name to integrate into the seventh class. It can also be said to be a code name. I don't have a name. I am Danzo-sama's hand and foot, and I am root's minion. I... do not exist in this world. Naruto , Whether you admit it or not, there are things in this village that you cannot destroy. So, don’t try to change me, as a rooted ninja, I don’t need such things as feelings and fetters.”

Zuo Jing faced Naruto and interrupted what Naruto was about to say.

Even Sakura and Tianzang, who are bystanders, can feel the tension between the two sides.

"Hey, how can you say such a thing? Ninjas are also human, how can you give up your feelings?"

"That's why...your former teacher Hatake Kakashi betrayed Konoha."

When Zuo Jing finished speaking this sentence, Naruto and Sakura Tong Kong flinched and clenched their fists violently.

As if he didn't notice the ugly expressions of the two of them at the moment, Zuoi continued to say with a smile: "Kakashi Hatake's father Konoha Shirato, it was because of this **** that he committed suicide under the accusation of the villagers. If that Konoha Baiga had chosen to prioritize the task instead of saving his companions, this kind of thing would not have happened. Even your teacher Hatake Kakashi would not have betrayed Konoha, and eventually became the one who killed the Third Hokage A murderer. These are all tragedies that happen because they are too heavy on feelings and forget what the mission is."

"...Shut up! Mr. Kakashi, he is not what you said..."

Naruto's tone sounded like he was gnashing his teeth, trying to suppress the anger in his heart.

"But Konoha Baiga committed suicide, and Hatake Kakashi killed Hokage and defected. This is ironclad evidence. So, please give me more advice in the future, Uzumaki Naruto. Don't worry, this incident will not happen again, because I will protect it even if I die. Good for your safety! This is my life and my mission!"

Zuoi smiled and stretched out his hand in a friendly manner, as if he wanted to get to know Naruto again.

"Don't you think about it for yourself? Such a task..."

The anger on Naruto's face was obvious, he stepped forward and grabbed Zuo Jing's collar, as if he wanted to teach him a lesson.

However, Zuo Jing didn't panic at all.

"There is no need to retort so heartbreakingly. In this world, there is no equality between people. In the eyes of the upper echelons of the village, your life is more valuable than mine. Whether it is the past, present, or future , such facts cannot be changed. Life is valuable, and the initial cost is very low. The ultimate goal of everyone’s hard work is to increase the price of their own life, so that they will not be easily abandoned in the end.”

Then, Zuo Jing looked at Tenzang~www.readwn.com~ and said with a smile: "I think the captain also received an order similar to mine. For example, Hokage ordered to protect Naruto's safety with all his might. "

Hearing this, Naruto looked at Tenzo in disbelief.

Tianzang was a little silent about this. Although Tsunade had never issued such an order, as a middle and senior cadre of the Anbu, he had to take the initiative to do a good job in this regard.

"Naruto, don't blame Zuoi too much. Although his words are harsh, but for this era, his words are not a problem. For the village, your existence is unique. If that time really comes, I will make a The same choice as Zuo Jing."

Tianzang couldn't bear to deceive Naruto, this is the case in this era.

After leaving Konoha, it is a completely disordered world.

If people want to survive better, they can only rely on the most primitive violence to protect themselves and plunder the wealth of others.

Because in places where order cannot be restrained, violence is the most powerful solution, not one of them.

"how come…"

Naruto took a step back in a daze.

Sakura stood aside and wanted to say something, but she refrained from saying anything because of something.

"However, Zuo Jing, it's better not to say such things in the future. Naruto and Sakura are in a different environment from you, so don't judge others by your standards."

Tianzang turned his head and looked at Zuoi's fake smiling face, and solemnly warned him about this sentence.

"Don't worry, I will pay attention to it in the future, captain."

Zuoi smiled and nodded.

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