Chapter 689

There's nothing to do back at the hotel, so I might as well go join the fun.

By the way, now that Zhang Zifeng is an adult, is she trying to use this time to move up in the world?

Xu Feng expressed that it might be a bit inappropriate.

Even though you're an adult, you still look a bit too young.

Even with her lying underneath him, Xu Feng felt like he was committing a crime.

More importantly... her looks don't meet the standard.

Two weeks have passed since the broadcast of the Battle of Brothers and the Night of the Clan Massacre.

After the major climax, the subsequent episodes of Naruto have temporarily entered a period of gentle transition.

During the updates in between.

Sasuke, having awakened his Mangekyō Sharingan, declared that he would walk a different path than his two brothers.

He would neither sacrifice himself for Konoha like his eldest brother Uchiha Shisui, nor would he pursue power purely like his second brother Uchiha Itachi.

He would use his own method to revive the Uchiha.

The first thing he had to do was retrieve the right eye of Uchiha Shisui, whose whereabouts were currently unknown. "Don't you need me to help you transplant Itachi's eyes?" the masked man asked in return.

"I don't need that guy's eyes, and I don't need a transplant for now; I'm going to revive the Uchiha using my own method first," Sasuke said in a deep voice.

In the subsequent meeting, the masked man analyzed: "The Konoha higher-ups who attacked Shisui back then were planned by the Third Hokage Hiruzen Sarutobi, the Root leader Danzo Shimura, and the two assistants Homura Mitokado and Koharu Utatane. With the Third Hokage dead, only those three know the truth."

"In other words, the information about Shisui's other eye can only be pried out of their mouths." Hearing this, Sasuke said indifferently: "I just need to slaughter my way into Konoha, right? They are all my targets for revenge anyway."

"It's not that easy. They are the people who hold the highest power in Konoha. If you want to make a move against them, you have to get past the tens of thousands of Konoha ninja," Kisame teased.

Hearing this, Sasuke calmed down slightly and listened to the masked man's plan.

Immediately, both sides reached an agreement.

Akatsuki and Taka join forces!

Akatsuki currently has less than a third of its members left and is in urgent need of manpower.

Akatsuki needs Sasuke's help to capture the Eight-Tails.

And the masked man promised to help Sasuke find information on Uchiha Shisui's right eye as payment.

In the original work, the condition Obito offered was to give Sasuke a Tailed Beast.

This made Xu Feng curious in his past life whether Sasuke would use a Tailed Beast as a summoning creature or something later on. However, he only learned later that this was an empty check...

And in last week's update, another heavy-hitting scene that moved countless viewers to tears was presented—the Popsicle Kill.

"Master Jiraiya is dead."

Said Fukasaku the toad, who had fought side-by-side with Jiraiya in the Village Hidden in the Rain.

In the fans' original speculations, Naruto, upon learning this, would collapse and wail like Shikamaru did before. Instead, his face was ashen, and after a long silence, he coldly left one sentence: "If Pervy Sage had become the Fifth Hokage, he would never have let Granny Tsunade act so recklessly." After saying just this, Naruto left without looking back.

Everyone present remained silent.

Naruto, his heart dead, walked alone on the streets of Konoha.

Various scenes of his time with Jiraiya were interspersed in black and white from time to time.

Teaching him the Summoning Jutsu, learning the Rasengan, and... sharing a double popsicle.

By the time Naruto finished his memories, the time in the show had unknowingly reached late at night.

After a busy day, Tsunade walked out of her office alone, leaning against the wall. Like Naruto, various experiences of her time with Jiraiya surfaced in her mind... "You big idiot!"

The camera only showed the lower half of Tsunade's face, a stream of tears falling from her cheek, accompanied by a grief-stricken curse.

The audience was devastated by the emotional blow.

And the heavier part was yet to come.

Naruto, continuing to walk alone on the dark street, was now sitting on a bench under a streetlamp.

The double popsicle in his hand gradually melted, starting to drip onto the ground.

The camera focused on the ground; the melting speed of the popsicle seemed to accelerate, and large drops soaked the ground.

The next second, the camera cut to Naruto.

It turned out that what was falling wasn't the melted popsicle, but Naruto's tears!