That was a clear morning, the sound of pigeons... there was no sound of pigeons.
Because they had collected both scrolls and had no shortage of food and water, Naruto and his team traveled at a leisurely pace, almost like tourists. At noon, they even set up a tent for shade and had a hot pot.
Eating happily, Naruto was struck by poetic inspiration, imitating the famous modern poem "A Person Came to Tennessee" from his previous life and improvising a poem called "Three People Came to the Demon Desert":
Undoubtedly
The hot pot I make
Is the most
Delicious in the world
Because the literary level of this poem was too high, Sasuke and Sakura couldn't appreciate it at all, and didn't even realize it was a poem.
It seems the cultural atmosphere of the Shinobi World isn't great. I'll have to find Jiraiya, that great writer, to judge it later...
What the three didn't expect was that while sitting in the tent, eating hot pot and singing songs, the tent suddenly disappeared, and they were blinded by sand as they came out.
It was at this moment that Naruto realized that his mini-map didn't have a weather forecast function. He was careless.
He didn't expect it to be a sandstorm, and a particularly large one at that. The scale of sandstorms in the Imperial Capital in previous years wasn't even comparable here. All that could be seen was yellowish-brown, and it was almost impossible to distinguish between the sky and the ground.
The demonic wind howled, causing the clothes on the three of them to flutter, and the sand grains stung their skin. Naruto even suspected that the Samadhi Divine Wind used by the Yellow Wind Monster in Journey to the West was probably only this powerful.
"Cough, cough, cough..." Sasuke and Sakura were caught off guard and choked. Suddenly taking a mouthful of sand while opening their mouths to eat was something even ninjas couldn't handle. Naruto was lucky; he wasn't picking up food at the time.
"Water Release: Water Formation Wall!"
The overturned hot pot on the ground was already ruined, but his two teammates could still be saved. Naruto quickly raised a 360-degree Water Formation Wall to block the wind and sand. However, after only a few seconds, the Water Formation Wall turned from blue to yellow, becoming a muddy Water Formation Wall.
This amount of time was enough for Sakura and Sasuke to adjust their condition. Naruto put his hands on their shoulders.
"The wind is strong, let's get out of here!" Naruto took the two of them directly back to the starting point, leaving behind a puddle of mud and an overturned hot pot. The tent had long since flown away.
Standing on the outer wall of the Demon Desert, looking at the great sandstorm that swept across the entire Demon Desert, Sakura exclaimed, "This is too exaggerated!"
"Wait here for a while, I still have to save people." Naruto said and disappeared.
Entering the sandstorm again, Naruto followed the Flying Thunder God Kunai he had given to Hinata and suddenly appeared, directly colliding with Hinata.
Hinata was wearing a cloak, covering her mouth and nose, and didn't bother to be shy, exclaiming, "Naruto-kun?"
"Hinata!" Naruto supported Hinata, looking her up and down, left and right, and asked with concern, "Are you okay?"
"Yes!" Hinata, who had been somewhat at a loss in the sandstorm, felt relieved the moment she saw Naruto.
Seeing that it was almost impossible to see his fingers, Naruto shouted, "Shino, Kiba, Akamaru! Are you all there?"
"I'm here!" Shino's low voice came from behind Naruto, startling Naruto. He was careless and didn't look at the mini-map.
"I'm here too!" Kiba covered his nose. This earthy smell was not very friendly to someone with a keen sense of smell like him.
"Woof~" Akamaru also responded weakly.
Naruto shouted, "Come closer, I'll take you out!"
Naruto held Akamaru in one hand and Hinata in the other, leading Team 8, people and dog, back. Thank goodness, Shino wasn't forgotten. Of course, it may also have been because he took the initiative to put his hand on Naruto's shoulder.
"Ah... saved!" Kiba lay sprawled on the ground, Akamaru diligently trying to clear sand from his nose.
"Sakura Bro, help them check up, I still need to find people."
"Okay."
Naruto gave Hinata a reassuring look and set off again, this time to find Haku and Karin, each with a Flying Thunder God Kunai in hand, the markings being Naruto's custom-made names for each person, making them easy to distinguish.
"Achoo!" Naruto sneezed upon reaching his destination, wondering if he had accidentally flown to the Land of Snow, it was so cold.
"Naruto?" Karin exclaimed in surprise.
Naruto snapped out of his thoughts, noticing Haku and Yakumo were also there, looking up at the roof, "This is?"
Haku's face was a little pale, he said, "It's an igloo I made temporarily, using Ice Release in the Demon Desert is really exhausting..."
"Alright, let's just get going."
After returning with the three, Hinata asked, "Naruto-kun, Neji and Shikamaru..."
"Them... I can only have my clones look for them." Naruto was helpless, they didn't have coordinates for those guys.
Kiba, having recovered his spirits, asked, "What about the exams?"
Sakura suggested, "Continuing the exams in this situation would be deadly, we should go back to the Surveillance Post and ask about the situation."
Naruto sent out dozens of clones to search the desert for people, while the main body followed his companions to the Surveillance Post, but he wasn't too worried, Shikamaru and Neji's abilities and intelligence were reliable.
According to the staff left behind, when the sandstorm was discovered entering the exam area, Gaara had already issued an order to suspend the Chunin Exams and ordered Temari and Kankuro to lead teams to rescue the examinees, he himself rushed to the scene, even Kakashi and the other three went to the exam site.
A staff member suggested, "You examinees should go back to the waiting room first, you will be notified later when there is news."
Everyone had no choice but to return to their rooms to rest, after three days of racing, and more than two days of running around and fighting, they really needed to rest, not every team could have logistics as worry-free as Team 7.
Naruto had just opened the door to the waiting room when the Nine Tails suddenly said, "Kid, Chong Ming and Shukaku are in trouble."
"Hmm?"
...
Time returned to more than half an hour ago.
The Sand Hidden's sensory unit suddenly detected a large sandstorm in the Demon Desert, Gaara assigned rescue missions, but still couldn't rest easy, deciding to personally rush to the scene to rescue people.
He had been smoothly rescuing several teams, but then suddenly discovered a Sand Hidden team being attacked by unknown figures.
This team was the one where Yukata and Gaara's disciple Xiao Ji were, Gaara said he couldn't tolerate this kind of thing, and immediately went on the offensive, then Gaara almost typed out GG.
In fact, this was a setup, planned by those who wanted to harm Gaara, they interfered with the Sand Hidden's sensory unit, so that the sandstorm was only detected when it was about to reach the exam site, just to lure Gaara out to rescue people.
And the person responsible for dealing with Gaara was a monk named Fa Yi, the successor of Bunbuku, the previous Shukaku Jinchuriki, who possessed secret techniques that could restrain tailed beasts, Gaara suffered a loss due to insufficient information, and by the time Shukaku recognized the secret technique and wanted to remind him, it was too late.
But in the moment of crisis, there was a loud noise in the sky, Fu made a dazzling appearance, and then also knelt down
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