Naruto : Gamer System-Chapter 76 : Fooling Raikage

Just when Haruto was hesitating, Sasuke pulled out Kunai fiercely and stabbed at Raikage.

"Crack!" Haruto opened Sasuke's hand.

Sasuke looked at Haruto excitedly: "Haruto? What are you still hesitating about? Kill him, kill him."

"I—"

Sasuke said and pointed to Naruto who was lying on the side: "He is the one who killed Naruto. If you don't kill him then I will."

"Wait, Sasuke."

Haruto glanced at Naruto lying on the ground: "I didn't say I wouldn't kill him."

"Raikage, I didn't expect you to look rude, but you actually have so much extravagance."

Looking straight into Raikage's eyes, Haruto slowly said: "Maybe what you said is very likely to happen, but you exaggerated the consequences several times. You know I will not destroy the Land of Thunder, because the relationship between Konoha and the Fire Country doesn't allow it at all. The most I can do is to destroy Kumo Village. But you equate the Land of Thunder with Kumo, trying to shake my mind, and equate yourself with Kumo, wanting to force me not to kill you. I have to say, I was almost shaken. It's just... you think everyone else is too stupid."

"Boom!" Haruto punched Raikage hard in the face.

"First of all, even if I kill you, you cloud ninjas may not dare to continue to fight with our Konoha. It is undeniable that there may be many people who still hate Konoha, but under the deterrence of our strength, I don't believe it. If a leader of Kumo dares to go to war, what is more likely to happen is your village will bury your hatred in your heart and silently look for opportunities."

"Secondly, even if I destroy the cloud ninja or greatly weaken their strength, causing the balance of power among the countries to be broken—as long as Konoha does not digest the results alone—the Rock Ninja and the Mist Ninja may not fight. Konoha may not necessarily participate in the war between the two countries. It's more likely that the three major powers will carve up Kumogakure together. Although it may cause damage, that can be ignored."

"As for the small countries—there is no doubt about this. They have no value for existence. The original small countries will be destroyed, and new small countries will be born at the new borders. But all of this will not cause real chaos. At most, the situation will calm down after the pain is over. So all your reasons are untenable."

After being silent for a moment, Raikage suddenly laughed: "It's not easy to be exposed by you. You're not an easy brat, but what I said is not completely a lie. Killing me may not affect the big picture, but if Kumo village is destroyed, the balance of the entire ninja world will really be broken. And not only will many people die in the Land of Thunder, but many small countries will be destroyed."

"And once the Rock Ninja and Mist Ninja have digested the results of the battle, they will inevitably turn to the weakest Sand Ninja, triggering a new war. And we are not unprepared before. We have already dispersed the people in the village. Even if you can destroy our village, as long as our people are still there, you will not end the war as easily as you imagined, and—"

"Enough. Are you scared? I thought you were really not worried at all. Did you stop acting at last?" Haruto looked at Raikage indifferently.

"Even if a lot of people will die, so what? If peace is really broken, do you expect me to let you go if you killed my partner?"

Raikage gradually fell silent and said after a while: "Actually, this is my own decision, and it has nothing to do with others. You can completely vent your anger on me, there is no need—"

Haruto interrupted Raikage: "Do you think I will still be as naive as you said?"

Raikage suddenly became depressed: "Well, the matter has come to this point, there is nothing to say. In fact, I was really moved by the peace proposal you put forward at the beginning, but the reality is like this. There is no way to achieve real peace with enthusiasm. Even someone as kind as you chose war in the end. This is the most real side of this world. Just like I killed your companion and you can't forgive me—you want to rely on mutual understanding to make peace... is totally impossible."

"Okay, kid. Kill me. You can torture me if you want, but you should understand that torture is meaningless to ninjas like us." Raikage stared blankly at the sky, his eyes filled with dead silence.

Haruto picked up the knife and slowly put it on Raikage's neck.

A moment later, Haruto withdrew his knife sharply and cut off the hair on Raikage's head.

"You go."

Raikage looked at Haruto in surprise. "? ? ?"

"As you said, because hatred cannot be resolved, people kill each other and then there is no peace. And now... I want to prove that this is possible."

"Haruto, you!" Sasuke was about to rush over but was held back by Kakashi.

"Why? How could it be." Raikage, who had been calm at first, suddenly became agitated: "Are you crazy, brat? Why did you make such a stupid decision? Relying on mutual understanding to achieve peace is simply impossible."

"Enough, you're noisy. I Spared your life—isn't this what you want? Since I have already decided to let Cloud Village go, what's the point of killing you again? It will only deepen the hatred between us. I... want to prove that peace can be achieved by mutual understanding. If not, then by force. I... really don't want to see more people die." Haruto said these words very sincerely, even with a bit of crying.

"You know what to do after you go back. Hurry up and surrender unconditionally, otherwise I will go to your Cloud Village tomorrow to play around. Don't force me to really destroy the Land of Thunder." Haruto turned his back to Raikage to prevent him from seeing his expression. Only his sobbing could be faintly heard.

After a long silence, Raikage left with his subordinates and their severed limbs in a daze. Suddenly, Raikage stopped.

"I'm sorry. If you want, my life can be taken away at any time."

"Come and help, Kakashi-sensei." Haruto asked Kakashi to come over after Raikage and the Kumo Shinobi had finished walking.

As soon as Kakashi let go of Sasuke, he rushed over.

"Haruto, you!" Sasuke punched Haruto in the stomach and asked with tears, "You just let them go? Naruto?"

Haruto endured the pain and hugged Sasuke's neck, and slowly exited the curse seal state.

"Hold me up."

"Haruto, you—"

"Don't worry. Naruto is not dead."

Sasuke's eyes widened in surprise.

"The Kunai I gave you is not only able to teleport, but also can detect your life state. I found out when I was fighting just now. Naruto's life force is so strong. I checked it before saving you. He's fine."

"Really?" Sasuke cried again.

"Don't cry, you're so disgusting, the snot is all over me."

Haruto sighed: "Actually, it doesn't matter if Raikage is killed or not. Even if he is killed, it won't affect the overall situation. It can even be used to deter other countries. I really wanted to kill him just now, and I really wanted to do it for everyone to vent. But I couldn't."

"You don't know—just now we had fallen into a deadly situation. Kakashi-sensei and I had no fighting power, and you were too injured. Once we killed him, wouldn't we all die if his subordinates rushed over?"

"Although Raikage has been acting to lie to me just now, in fact, I was also acting to lie to him. I originally wanted to hold him hostage and let us leave. But once he really saw that I had no fighting power, he would want to let us all die here. I worked very hard to convince him that I really did not kill him for peace."

"Haruto. Is that the way to go?"

Haruto was silent for a while, and looked at Sasuke and Naruto who fell on the ground in disappointment.

"What else can I do? It's a relatively good ending now. Konoha's current situation is very dangerous. I don't think my injury will heal in a short time. I've lost the deterrence I should have. Once it drags on, if other villages join the war—even if we really kill him—we might drag Konoha into the quagmire of war. I hope Raikage can keep his promise."

"Sasuke, support me, just walk back like this, if others see that I have no fighting power, I will be in trouble." Haruto said with difficulty.

"Yeah." Sasuke nodded lightly, and carefully lifted Haruto into a pose. From the eyes of others, it seemed that Sasuke was injured and Haruto was helping him.

Soon a few people walked to Naruto's side, seeing that Naruto was really safe and sound, Sasuke quietly moistened his eyes again.

"This idiot, none of this is dead."

"Help me on my knees." Haruto commanded Sasuke after Sasuke helped him up, "Cry quickly, cry loudly, the louder the better."

Oops!!!

Sasuke curled his lips: "I can't cry."

"You have to cry if you can't cry, and Kakashi-sensei, you cry too."

A moment later, Sasuke's mournful cry sounded suddenly, and Kakashi put on a sad expression, weeping silently.

Raikage, who had already walked a long way, suddenly stopped and looked in the direction where Haruto was.

"Darui, maybe this time... I was really wrong."

Darui leaned on a cloud ninja with difficulty, and also looked back: "I never thought that he would actually let us go, we killed so many of his companions, and the most important companion, he actually can forgive us."

"You go to pass the order first, the war is over." Raikage said casually, directing a Jonin.

Raikage looked back again, and sighed: "He is really an amazing junior. I am sorry for him. If only I believed in him from the beginning. I suddenly believed that the peace he said would really come. Let's go, let's go back quickly. There are still many things waiting for us to deal with."

When Haruto, Sasuke and the others were crying miserably, Naruto suddenly quietly opened his eyes.

"Haruto, Sasuke, what's wrong with you? Why are you crying, me—"

Before Naruto could finish speaking, Sasuke covered Naruto's mouth.

"Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo—"

Naruto just wanted to struggle, but Kakashi also held down his two hands.

???

Naruto looked confused, not understanding what was going on.

"Don't talk now, lie quietly on the ground and pretend to be dead, understand? Just nod when you understand."

Although he didn't understand very well, Naruto still nodded his head.

After letting go, Sasuke talked about the general situation, and Naruto understood the current situation.

Suddenly Naruto stood upright like a zombie and stopped moving.

"Naruto, I'll checked on you before, you're obviously dead, why are you all right?" Haruto asked.

"Am I dead? I don't know, but I had a dream just now. In the dream, there was an old man who said that he was a person at the boundary between Yin and Yang. I don't really understand him. He should be the god of death, he said I didn't deserve to die so he sent me back, and he also said that he would give me some kind of power."

Sasuke and Kakashi didn't think too much, just thought it was an ordinary dream, but Haruto instantly thought of a person—Sage of the Six Paths.

"That's right, how could the Sage of the Six Paths watch Naruto die? He saved Naruto, and that's what he said, but I don't know if the power he gave Naruto is true or not." Haruto murmured quietly in his heart. After a long time, he finally accepted this reality safely. Sure enough, Naruto is the biggest hanger.

Suddenly, Haruto felt a sharp pain.

"Ah—"

"Haruto, what's wrong with you?"

"I'm fine, don't worry, be quiet."

The sharp pain came so suddenly and intensely that Haruto almost fainted on the spot.

It seems that the injury was much more serious than I imagined. Haruto felt the pain in his body and constantly analyzed his injury.

In fact, Haruto's injury mainly came from the fact that he opened six of the Eight Gates. Originally, Haruto should have died on the spot after opening the six gates with a physique that did not reach the Kage level, but Haruto opened the curse seal at the same time to make his physique reach the Kage level, thus reducing the damage received. But after the effect of the spell disappears and the physical fitness is reduced, the injury that was not very serious for the Kage-level physique is quite serious for Haruto with the Jōnin-level physique. He had not felt the pain before—that's because a hormone that isolates pain can be produced in the curse seal mode. Now after the curse seal effect disappears, the pain sensation gradually recovers.

Haruto tried to move his hands, and suddenly there was a heart-piercing pain, and at the same time, a feeling of abnormally slow reaction emerged.

If I didn't guess wrong, I'm afraid I hurt my nerves.

"How are you, Haruto?"

Haruto, who was about to speak "I", suddenly felt dizzy and fell down.

"Haruto! Haruto!"

After a group of people frantically carried Haruto away, Black and White Zetsu appeared again.

"It seems that this war will not be fought. It's rare that we are all prepared. Is it really going to end like this?" White Zetsu complained.

"It doesn't matter. There was no war in the original plan. Our biggest gain from this trip is that we found this brat." Black Zetsu greedily looked at Haruto's back, with a dangerous gleam in his eyes.

"I have to say that this kid has amazing talent and strength. I think he can become a better tool than Pain in a few years."

"It's just that it's a little difficult to make this kid into Pain. He's not just a few friends like Nagato. It's very difficult to make him fall into darkness." White Zetsu doubted.

"So what? As long as he still longs for peace, as long as he still values feelings, he can definitely be used by us, just like Nagato back then. I think as long as he sees the shattering of peace and the death of his companions, he will definitely come to his senses." Black Zetsu grinned sullenly.

"Then what should we do?"

"I think it might be a good choice to inform the Cloud Ninja that he has no combat power. In addition... Didn't the previous information say that the origin of this war came from a girl from the Hyuga family who was taken away by the Cloud Ninja? Without her, even if the two sides want to negotiate peace, it may be very difficult, hehehe. Let him see the shattering of peace with his own eyes."

"Will it really work?"

"Hey, even if we don't succeed, we have nothing to lose, right?"

After a while, Black Zetsu carefully collected all the blood from Haruto's previous battle.

"This is also a very important achievement. Maybe it will cultivate a White Zetsu army full of Jōnin strength."

"How is it possible, you can stop dreaming, at most you can increase White Zetsu's strength a little bit."

"Keep your voice down, someone is coming."

Soon, Black and White Zetsu sank into the ground and disappeared, as if nothing had happened here.