Tosu froze.
For a brief moment, he couldn't comprehend what had just happened. Shock, confusion, and blank disbelief flickered across his eyes, laying bare his helpless state of mind.
The icy kunai was mercilessly devouring his life. He tried to turn around, but a powerful hand slammed down on his head, holding him firmly in place.
Sakura stared at the scene before her, feeling as if she had fallen into an icy abyss. Her body trembled slightly—not only because of Tosu's death, but because of the identity of the killer…
Tosu's eyes widened as he violently twisted his body, desperately trying to see the face of the person who had attacked him.
But that iron grip gave him no such chance.
In the end, Tosu's body went limp. His legs buckled, and he collapsed to his knees like a puppet whose spine had been ripped out. Yet his eyes remained wide open, unable to close.
He would not find peace.
"Clatter—"
Something fell to the ground.
Sakura stood there in a daze, only one thought echoing in her mind: Impossible.
No—perhaps she never should have tried to understand this time traveler using common sense in the first place. This person's way of thinking was completely inhuman.
The woman glanced at Tosu, then at her own blood-soaked right hand. Her breathing quickened at first, but then she fixed her gaze on Sakura. Her eyes were clear, eager—almost expectant—craving praise, a stark contrast to the brutality of her actions.
"Dead… finally dead…" she murmured softly at first.
Then she looked at Sakura and broke into a twisted grin.
"Hahahahahahaha! He's finally dead! Come on—let's talk…"
Before she could finish her sentence, a flash of red light streaked behind her.
A hand clutching a purple Rasengan slammed straight into her back!
"Boom!!"
Before the Rasengan could fully detonate, the woman's body exploded, dispersing into a thick cloud of white smoke.
Seeing this, Naruto immediately infused the Rasengan with the Nine-Tails' chakra and extended it outward. The violent chakra vortex erupted at a distance, shattering a massive tree into fragments.
At present, Naruto could only be considered to have completed the second stage of training. His rotation and power had reached their peak, but maintaining compression still needed work.
"Shadow Clone Technique…"
Facing a powerful enemy head-on, Naruto leapt to Sakura's side and whispered, "Sorry. I was watching from the sidelines, waiting to ambush the time traveler when they showed themselves."
Indeed, Naruto had already arrived when the Sound ninja attacked Sakura. But instead of stepping in immediately, he chose to stay hidden, carrying out his bait plan to lure the time traveler into revealing themselves.
Naruto felt uneasy. If that time traveler hadn't self-destructed, he would never have known the truth. He could only sigh, realizing he really had no talent for playing mind games.
You people who scheme to trap others… your hearts are truly vicious.
"It's fine," Sakura said, nodding calmly as she looked at the woman emerging from another patch of bushes.
The woman brushed her long black hair back and looked toward Sakura. A hint of cunning lingered in her smile, making her thoughts impossible to read.
Kin Tsuchi, a genin from the Sound Village, had attacked Sasuke under Orochimaru's orders. Moments earlier, she had personally stabbed Tosu from behind.
Kin pulled out a handful of senbon and casually tossed them at the unconscious Zaku, as if nothing had happened. Blood sprayed instantly, and he died moments later.
It was as if she were merely dealing with a trivial matter.
"Naruto, kill her."
Naruto's eyelid twitched. He instinctively cast a mocking glance toward the Nine-Tails within his mindscape.
This demon fox, saturated with countless negative emotions, wanted him to kill the time traveler?
No—something wasn't right.
Naruto realized the killing intent surging inside him was dangerously intense. If he attacked again, it might resonate with the Nine-Tails' chakra and completely seize control of his emotions, turning him into a puppet.
Yet the murderous urge didn't surprise him.
Every single action this woman took screamed one thing at him:
This person must not be allowed to live.
"You help us one moment, then hurt us the next," Naruto said slowly, forcefully suppressing the Nine-Tails' chakra as he stared straight at her."I don't understand you. Why won't you tell us what you actually want?"
Kin tilted her head and fell silent for a moment. Then a mist welled up in her eyes.
"Y-You think I hurt you?" she cried out. "I've been helping you all along!!"
"During the first exam, I greeted you nicely, but you pretended nothing happened—didn't even want to say hello!"
"After entering the Forest of Death, I left clues along the way! If you followed them, you'd find the Earth Scroll!"
"Sakura, I hinted it to you already, but you insisted on staying here! I had no choice but to clean up your mess— I even had to kill my own teammates! Ha… hahaha…"
Her blond hair was a mess, her eyes wild, the corners of her mouth twisted into an eerie smile. Her emotions teetered on the brink of collapse.
"How about this!" Kin suddenly jumped in front of Tosu's body, rummaged around, and then held up the Earth Scroll."The Earth Scroll! Take it! This counts as helping me!"
She stepped forward, frightening Sakura and the others into retreating again and again, as if they were staring at a ghost.
"What kind of logic is that?!"Naruto was furious. He never imagined she could interpret her actions in such a warped way.
Threatening to expose secrets was a greeting.Leaving notes with sadistic undertones was a hint.Killing teammates was just "cleaning up the mess."
Corporate-level reasoning.
"Then what about earlier?" Sakura asked, picking up the note attached to the kunai, the word [Heh] written on it."What was that supposed to mean?"
"Haha, Sakura, you're just too capable…" Kin laughed softly."If you took care of them all, then I'd be useless, wouldn't I? Haha…"
Naruto's expression twisted as if he were constipated."Let's… let's not go there. It almost makes sense…"
He tried—unsuccessfully—to understand her thought process.
Sakura stiffly turned to Naruto."…Why is she like this?"
"…If that's the case."
Understanding failed.
Seeing the increasingly bizarre looks directed at her, Kin grew visibly anxious, on the verge of a breakdown. She abruptly threw the Earth Scroll toward them and said:
"How about I work under you instead? I can't go back to Orochimaru anyway. No—no! I can pour tea, run errands—"
As she spoke, her eyes suddenly regained clarity. Her gaping mouth slowly closed, her expression no longer manic—but when she looked at Sasuke, a flash of fear crossed her eyes.
"Boom!!"
A massive surge of black chakra exploded beside Sasuke. His eyes snapped open as he slowly straightened, turning his gaze toward the three of them.
The moment Naruto turned his head, Kin spun around and fled, vanishing from sight!
"Chase her?" Sakura asked anxiously. She was worried—only Naruto, as the Nine-Tails' jinchūriki, could reliably suppress someone like her.
Naruto glanced at Sasuke.
Sasuke swayed slightly, as if drunk, then a sinister smile spread across his face as he looked at the two of them.
"…Who was that person just now?"
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