Flying is humanity's eternal dream.
Seeing that he was about to leave, the group of ninja couldn't possibly let him take Naruto away so easily.
They all began to attack.
Unfortunately, the speed of their ninjutsu was too slow compared to Yang Tao's flying speed; only one figure soared into the sky, and it wasn't Konoha's Azure Beast, Might Guy.
Instead, it was a figure in a Root uniform, and a large bird made of ink painting followed closely behind Yang Tao.
'Sai?'
Yang Tao wasn't very familiar with Sai, who had replaced Sasuke as a member of Team Seven; he only knew that his drawing ability was very interesting.
He immediately turned around and appeared in front of Sai.
Sai extended his hand, unfurled a scroll, and with the other hand rapidly sketched on the painting, and in almost an instant, a large bird made of ink flew out from the scroll.
Yang Tao reached out and gently squeezed, crushing the bird, and the 'lifeless' ink fell from the sky.
"Interesting... Come learn to draw with me!"
He charged towards Sai with undiminished momentum; Sai, in mid-air, had nowhere to escape and could only watch as Yang Tao arrived in front of him.
Through the holes in his mask, one could clearly see the pair of emotionless eyes within.
Compared to others, Sai was definitely a qualified ninja.
Cold, ruthless, with only the mission in his heart.
A tiger suddenly leaped out from the painting, but Yang Tao merely shifted his body slightly, and the tiger plummeted towards the ground.
Yang Tao: "..."
He couldn't understand why, if they were both ink paintings, an eagle could fly but a tiger couldn't.
Was it because it lacked a pair of wings?
But the eagle's wings were also made of lines.
He grabbed Sai by the neck, applied a slight force to knock him unconscious, and carrying Sai, vanished from above Konoha, actually using the effect of an Invisibility Potion to return to the Uchiha compound.
Sasuke was pacing back and forth in the courtyard at this moment, looking quite restless.
"Let's go..."
Hearing the voice, Sasuke looked at the empty courtyard and asked, "Boss, have you brought Naruto back?"
"He's back, and there's a bonus gift. Let's go to Land of Waves first..."
Taking Sasuke, Naruto, and Sai, he used the fireplace brick to arrive in Land of Waves.
He threw Naruto and Sai at the villa entrance.
Hearing the commotion, Zabuza and Haku walked out of the villa:
"Sir Yang."
Looking at the two people lying on the ground, Haku immediately stepped forward to check their condition.
Yang Tao said with a smile, "No need, their problems aren't big. One had his mind eroded by Nine-Tailed Fox Chakra, and the other was choked unconscious by me."
Haku nodded slightly at his words and retreated to Zabuza's side.
He reached out and removed the mask from Sai's face, revealing a fair but bloodless face.
Sai's face was like his ability, a 'blank canvas' with simple facial features drawn on it; unconscious, he looked quite delicate.
"Boss, what happened to Naruto?"
"I don't know. I suppressed the Nine-Tailed Fox Chakra burst, and he just fainted."
Yang Tao felt it wasn't due to overexertion; it should be some kind of mental stimulation. He quietly looked at Naruto.
Then he took out a pair of Three-Tomoe Sharingan from his backpack and equipped them. His originally black pupils transformed into a pair of Three-Tomoe Sharingan.
"I'll try to see if I can enter Naruto's mental world..."
After equipping the Sharingan, he could feel a special power, which should be the so-called ocular power.
He stared intently at Naruto's body, mobilizing the power in his eyes to merge into Naruto's body. In an instant, a space appeared in his 'vision'.
Unlike others entering the sealing space in the plot, he was more like playing a game with VR glasses.
The real world and the sealing space overlapped.
What appeared before him was a dark, damp sewer, with at least seven or eight centimeters of standing water on the ground.
Water droplets fell from above into the puddles, causing ripples.
"This ghostly environment, if I didn't know better, I'd think I was back in the Backrooms..."
After muttering two complaints to himself, Yang Tao walked forward. The sewer was very short, and he reached a huge space in almost no time.
The first thing that caught his eye was the tall iron gate, behind which a pair of enormous vertical pupils stared fixedly at him.
Just a big fox, he had fought them before. The independent Nine-Tails in the Battle Tower didn't even qualify to guard the last ten floors.
He scanned his surroundings and quickly spotted Naruto's figure in the corner.
Naruto in the corner was sitting in the standing water, hugging his legs tightly, his eyes vacant as he stared ahead, muttering incessantly: "Why... why..."
Oh? Was he broken by Danzo?
"Hey, Blondie!"
This ghostly address instantly caught Naruto's attention. He lifted his vacant eyes to look at the smiling Yang Tao.
"What's wrong? You're like this just from a setback?"
Before Naruto could answer, a low voice came from behind the iron bars: "He was controlled by the genjutsu of those eyes."
Hearing Nine-Tails' voice behind him.
Yang Tao didn't turn his head, and said with a slightly mocking tone: "A Jinchuriki controlled by genjutsu, Nine-Tails, shouldn't you be the one feeling guilty?"
Bang...
A huge fox head pressed against the barred gate and roared, "That's Mangekyo Sharingan's genjutsu! And why should I help this brat!"
"Oh? Why help him? Isn't it because he's your Jinchuriki, and if he dies, you'll have to be reborn?"
Nine-Tails stared fixedly at Yang Tao without saying a word.
"Don't you think this kid is very interesting?"
Yang Tao gently picked Naruto up from the puddle and looked at the environment in the sewer.
However, with a slight thought, the surrounding environment completely changed. The originally dark and damp sewer transformed into a vast, boundless grassland, with bright sunshine and a gentle breeze.
The only thing spoiling the scenery was the sealing space where Nine-Tails was located. Although the sewer space disappeared, the iron gate serving as the seal still stood isolated on the grassland.
This was a very abstract concept; there was only an iron gate, and even the surrounding grassland looked connected, but Nine-Tails was still in a 'sealed' state.
Doing all this was not without cost; at least Yang Tao's Chakra was completely depleted.
He noticed this problem after entering; although there was standing water on the ground, he still walked on the surface without sinking, which could only mean this was a spiritual space.
In the original work, even though both were spaces that sealed Nine-Tails, the spaces of Uzumaki Kushina and Uzumaki Naruto were completely different.
After doing all this, Yang Tao placed Naruto on the grass, turned around, and said with a smile to Nine-Tails behind the bars:
"Also, I'll tell you a secret: this little guy is the reincarnation of Asura's Chakra..."
Nine-Tails: "..."
Seeing Nine-Tails remain silent, Yang Tao's main body pulled out a Military Ration Pill from his backpack and popped it into his mouth.
In an instant, his depleted Chakra was almost fully restored.
He teleported to the iron bars.
He reached out and touched the seal on it, and under Nine-Tails' disbelieving gaze, Yang Tao gently tore off a corner of the seal.
The next moment, a figure appeared beside him and grabbed his wrist.
"I didn't expect you to grow so big in the blink of an eye..."
Bang...
Yang Tao punched the Chakra preserved by Namikaze Minato, sending him flying, and angrily said, "Damn it, taking advantage of me! Your son is over there in self-isolation, hurry up and go persuade him!"