"Follow the Hayate, but also be mindful of what's behind you."
After Naruto said this seemingly impressive line he didn't know where he'd heard it from, the three of them stopped and turned around simultaneously.
They saw three Sand Ninja with unremarkable faces jump out of the sand. The leader said, "Konoha ninjas, meeting my lord Da Wan is your misfortune. Prepare yourselves!"
Naruto stared at the man with bandages wrapped around his head for a while, then asked, "You're called Da Wan?"
Da Wan said in surprise, "Oh? Has my great name already spread to Konoha? In that case, quickly hand over the scroll!"
Sakura couldn't remember who this person was at all, and asked doubtfully, "Is he famous?"
Naruto nodded with an air of importance, saying, "Of course, this Da Wan is known as Red Sand Dust. It's said that he's Temari's childhood friend and will become the Kazekage's right-hand man in the future. We absolutely can't underestimate him."
Da Wan's two teammates were stunned, "So Da Wan, you're so powerful? We never knew!"
"It's nothing, it's nothing." Da Wan chuckled awkwardly, waving his hand 'modestly'. Bullshit, I didn't even know I was this powerful. But since people from other villages are saying so, maybe I really am strong?
"This makes it worth fighting!" Sasuke's Sharingan activated in excitement. He rushed up and took down Da Wan with a sweeping kick, then turned his head to look at Naruto with a puzzled expression, "Gaara's right-hand man? Is that it?"
Naruto looked up at the sky, as if saying, I didn't say anything. This guy was ridiculously weak; he didn't know how he got through the first round of the exam.
Sasuke didn't get a response. His Sharingan stared at Da Wan's two teammates, Maybe these two are strong?
Then Da Wan's two teammates knelt down cleanly, prostrating themselves on the ground, "We're sorry!"
As they spoke, they took out the Heaven Scroll from Da Wan's body, placed it on the ground, and dragged Da Wan away by one leg each.
Sasuke picked up the scroll, ignoring the three clowns. The Heaven and Earth Scroll was collected just like that?
...
Now that they had the scroll, there was no need to rush. The three of them unhurriedly identified the direction and continued on their way. The only surprise along the way was a giant scorpion ten meters long suddenly emerging from the ground, but it couldn't withstand Sakura's punch.
Thanks to its appearance, Naruto and the others no longer had a food crisis. Sakura Bro determined that the scorpion meat was edible and rich in various nutrients needed by the human body. After cutting it off, Sasuke just needed to breathe fire on it to roast it.
If the Uchiha family members didn't become ninjas and opened a barbecue restaurant, they might be able to make a fortune, after all, they were all masters of playing with fire.
The three of them spent a cold night in the desert around the fire. The next morning, they were awakened by a rumbling vibration.
Naruto rubbed his sleepy eyes and asked, "What's going on? Is it an earthquake?"
"Not sure." The three took turns keeping watch at night, and Sasuke was the last in line, but he didn't notice anything unusual beforehand.
"A sudden incident?" Naruto opened the mini-map, "Tenten? And someone else, I don't know who, is running towards us, with something chasing behind them."
"Let's go take a look." The three of them felt it was necessary to rescue Tenten, and casually covered the fire with sand—although they felt there shouldn't be a fire in the desert, they had to develop good habits.
After the three approached, they saw Tenten and a girl from Amegakure running nervously, with a large dark mass chasing behind them.
Naruto waved his hand and shouted, "Hey, Tenten, what happened?"
"There's no time to explain, run!" Tenten grabbed Sakura's hand when she ran to the three of them and shouted, "Run!"
Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura then saw clearly that behind them was an endless swarm of large ants, each more than two meters long, estimated to be thousands of them. They really didn't know how so many giant insects were raised in the barren desert area. Was the ecological environment sure it wouldn't collapse?
Naruto and Sasuke had no choice but to run with them. While running, Naruto asked, "What exactly did you guys do? Who is she? Where are Neji and the others?"
"She's Ziyang Hua from Amegakure. Neji and the others should still be looking for us. As for why this is happening..." Tenten recounted her experience.
After she and Neji and Rock Lee set off, they hadn't encountered any other teams, until this morning when they arrived at a place that looked like ruins and met Ziyang Hua's team. After confirming that their scrolls were different, there was nothing to say and they started fighting directly.
Then Tenten was surprised to find that Ziyang Hua was the same type of ninja as her, using a Ninjutsu called Sealing Opening Technique, which, like Tenten, could summon a large number of ninja tools to fight. Tenten was overjoyed and immediately said that she would deal with this person.
At first, it was a collision of various ninja tools. Later, Tenten took out an Exploding Tag, but she didn't expect it to collapse the ground. The two fell into the underground ruins. In the process of finding an exit, the two had a preliminary friendship.
However, on the way, Ziyang Hua wanted to catch a big ant as a summoning beast, but Tenten accidentally attracted the attention of the ant colony. As a result, the two were chased all the way to the present, running out of the underground ruins, without even having time to meet up with their teammates.
Naruto stared at Ziyang Hua with a strange look for a while. Ziyang Hua felt uncomfortable and asked, "Even if I've implicated you, you don't have to look at me with that 'you're going to die' look, right?"
"Ah, sorry, I was thinking about something else." Naruto didn't mean to, he was thinking of this Ziyang Hua, she was the Second Generation Animal Path of the Six Paths of Pain.
The First Generation Animal Path was a man, and after being caught by Jiraiya, Pain turned Ziyang Hua's body into the Second Generation Animal Path. Also, because of her small size and young voice, she was called the Loli Path by a group of gentlemen in a certain mobile game.
She should have died not long after becoming a Chunin, which is why Naruto looked at her like that.
After roughly understanding the cause and effect, Naruto suddenly asked, "So why are we running?"
Tenten said as a matter of course, "What else can we do if we can't beat them?"
Naruto weakly said, "We can beat them..."
"Chiii--" Tenten slammed on the brakes, leaving two marks on the desert.
"You should have said so earlier..." Tenten put her hands on her knees, she was exhausted. Since Naruto said they could win, then they shouldn't need to run anymore.
Ziyang Hua hesitated and stopped, looking at Tenten: "So many ants, is it really okay?"
Tenten said without thinking, "Of course, the first rule of Konoha ninjas: believe in your comrades, save your comrades."
Sakura also stopped to help Tenten and Ziyang Hua heal their small wounds, and said, "Naruto and Sasuke are both very strong, they will definitely be able to handle it."
Ziyang Hua didn't say anything else. One of the tasks assigned to her by the angel was to observe the geniuses of other ninja villages. Since those two teenagers were very strong, then she just had to watch carefully.
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