Naruto: Naruto's Uchiha girlfriend is too arrogant

Chapter 653 The Big Dog Chews and Chews

After that, Naruto and Sasuke didn't deliberately try to find their counterparts in another world. Having experienced Mai's world, and the worlds of young Naruto and young Sasuke, the two felt they had seen enough.

They witnessed the resolute determination of another Naruto who embarked on a completely opposite path, and they saw their youngest selves holding each other's hands for the first time in the snow. The rest was unnecessary to confirm through parallel worlds. And so, the real honeymoon began.

The two made simple disguises. Traveling without a destination is the most comfortable. They set off from the Land of Fire and headed west. They stayed in the Land of Rain for two days and saw that the country was now living in peace and prosperity under the leadership of Nagato, who was no longer obsessed with demons.

We then circled around to the Land of Grass and the Land of Waterfalls. Most of the places were just ordinary tourist attractions and hot spring inns, with no thrilling adventures or enemies to defeat.

They simply walked hand in hand through unfamiliar streets, stopping and starting, eating things they'd never tried before, and seeing sights they'd never seen before. After several days of this mundane existence, the two finally decided to go home.

However, the moment they opened the door, they discovered something unusual in the living room.

Several puppets lay scattered haphazardly on the floor, each one completely destroyed, with broken joints and smooth cuts from sharp blades and spiderweb-like cracks from being smashed by immense force on their torsos.

Their craftsmanship is extremely exquisite, and at first glance they are almost indistinguishable from living people. All of these puppets are covered up, with only pairs of dull artificial eyes showing, and there are no signs on their bodies that can identify them.

"What is this? Such exquisite puppet craftsmanship."

Zuo Yue crouched down, flipped over the remains of a puppet, and ran her fingers along the edge of the cut. The cut was smooth and clean, without a single burr, indicating it had been severed in an instant by an extremely fast sword.

The other one was smashed from the front by pure force, and the metal skeleton in the core was twisted and deformed.

"When did Konoha develop such advanced puppetry technology? It's not Sunagakure's craftsmanship."

"Something definitely isn't right."

Naruto crouched down to examine one of the puppet remains that had been cleaved in two. The cuts made by the sword were clean and sharp, the surfaces as smooth as if they had been laser-cut, while the other puppets that had been smashed showed a completely different kind of destruction—pure crushing force, without any trace of elemental chakra.

This is clearly due to two completely different fighting styles. Precise and ruthless swordsmanship, and brute force—and Naruto happens to have someone by his side who possesses both of these styles.

The two simply placed the puppet's remains in a corner and then headed towards Minato and Kushina's residence.

Before they even entered, they saw the large blue dog lying elegantly on the living room floor. Zaxiang rested its chin on its crossed front paws, its tail slowly sweeping across the floor.

"Naruto, Satsuki, you're back." Minato Namikaze poked his head out of the kitchen, his apron still on. Seeing his son and daughter-in-law return safely, a warm smile spread across his face. Kushina Uzumaki was sitting on the sofa in the living room. When she saw the two enter, she stood up, went over and gave Satsuki a tight hug, then stood on tiptoe and ruffled Naruto's hair.

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"Naruto, it might sound unbelievable. But that's really what happened while you were gone. If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I would have found it hard to believe."

Under questioning from the two, Minato recounted what had happened recently.

A while ago, a mysterious ninja organization suddenly infiltrated Konoha. Their infiltration method was extremely strange; the barrier team didn't sense any chakra fluctuations. Their target was clear—the Hyuga clan.

That night, the group of masked, mysterious ninjas raided the Hyuga main family's residence and kidnapped Hyuga Hanabi, the second daughter of the current head of the family, Hyuga Hiashi.

Just as Hinata Hyuga, the eldest daughter, was about to be taken away, Konoha's powerful ninjas finally arrived. When Minato arrived, the mysterious group of ninjas had already fled with Hanabi, leaving only a few puppets to cover their retreat. The enemy leader, a white-haired youth, stood on high ground as he left, looking down at the hastily arriving Konoha ninjas, and made a bizarre declaration: "What do you mean, the end of the world is coming?"

Just when the Konoha members were at their wits' end and had completely lost their bearings, Souxiang moved. Its form changed again in the light, and then, without even a word, it transformed into a streak of light and shot into the sky, disappearing towards the moon.

When Zaxiang returned, Hinata Hanabi was being carried in its mouth—completely unharmed, only slightly frightened. After gently placing Hanabi on the ground, Zaxiang went home on his own.

"...It sounds like something quite strange happened while Naruto and I were away."

Satsuki rubbed her forehead and, after listening to Minato's story, spoke in a tone that was somewhere between sarcastic and helpless.

Minato nodded with a wry smile. He had experienced all sorts of strange and unusual things in his youth, but none of them could compare to what had happened a few days ago.

There was a group of ninjas living on the moon. For some unknown reason, these ninjas wanted to destroy the world. Before they could even make a move, a large blue dog stormed into their home and devoured their leader.

But Minato has now fully accepted it. He accepts that there are ninjas on the moon, that they want to destroy the world, and that a single blue dog has single-handedly disrupted their plans. There's nothing he can do about it; the facts are there.

Naruto's expression was also somewhat strange. A ninja on the moon? His mind raced through his memories—Hamura Otsutsuki, the younger brother of the Sage of Six Paths; the descendant left on the moon to guard the Gedo Mazo; the thousand-year feud between the branch family and the main family; the Tenseigan. This sounded exactly like the events of that movie.

This time, however, before Otsutsuki Toneri could gouge out Hyuga Hanabi's eyes, kidnap Hinata to the moon, and begin his world-destroying plan, Zaxiang flew up first and wiped him out along with his lair.

"But it's all over now. It has nothing to do with Naruto and me anymore. Can I throw away those puppet remains?"

"Zuoyue asked. She wasn't particularly interested in the origins of these things or the technology behind them; she only cared that her and Naruto's house shouldn't be filled with junk."

"Well..." Minato scratched the back of his head, "Jiraiya-sensei has already been communicating with Sunagakure, hoping to reverse engineer the technology of the creators from these puppet remains. If this technology can be applied to Konoha's defense system, it will be an extremely important strategic asset. The Kazekage immediately agreed to our request and responded very readily."

"The Fifth Kazekage will soon arrive in Konoha to personally deliver the relevant technical data and hopes to have a more in-depth discussion with the village's leadership in person."

"...Gaara?"

Satsuki said the name expressionlessly.

"Yes," Minato continued with his usual cheerful expression, "The Kazekage has shown considerable enthusiasm in this diplomatic affair. Since the alliance between Sunagakure and Konoha, it's rare to see the Kazekage personally handling this level of technical exchange. It's wonderful that our ally has such a relationship; even Jiraiya-sensei said—"

"...Fine. What kind of puppet technology research he wants to do in Konoha is none of my business."

Satsuki interrupted Minato, "But those things, those puppet remains, can't be kept in Naruto and my house. Also, Naruto and I have no interest in participating in this diplomatic activity. Tell him to stop bothering us."