Chapter 705

Originally, Pain of the Six Paths was also considered one of the "meme kings" of the *Naruto* series.

What a pity.

Naruto's Six-Tails rampage undoubtedly delivered a massive visual impact to the audience.

Even without looking at the comments, Xu Feng could already imagine those "two-dimensional" fans in front of their screens, excitedly making monkey noises.

The Six-Tails Naruto and Pain of the Six Paths had already fought from inside the Leaf Village to the outside.

At this moment, the scene shifted to Hinata lying on the wasteland, with Sakura, Inuzuka Kiba, and other teammates rushing over to perform medical ninjutsu on her. "Naruto..."

Even in such a state, the unconscious Hinata was still thinking of Naruto.

And the vast majority of straight-male fans breathed a sigh of relief.

Thank goodness, they had been living in fear all week, terrified that this bastard Xu Feng would kill off Hinata too.

【I told you this scumbag Xu Feng wouldn't lay a hand on Hinata, right? Do you know the value of a childhood sweetheart?】

【It's going to be hard to wrap this up if Hinata and Naruto don't get married.】

【Hmm? Isn't the female lead Sasuke?】

【I think Naruto is better suited for a wandering hero ending like Jiraiya's.】

【Don't even think about it, Naruto's ending is definitely to become Hokage!】

Looking at Hinata, played by Zhao Jinmai, in a comatose state on screen.

Sakura, played by Zhang Zifeng, unfastened her outer garment, her palms emitting a faint, dark-green healing chakra to repair the wound on Hinata's lower abdomen.

Xu Feng felt a bit regretful again.

After all, when he was a pure middle schooler in his past life, he was genuinely shocked by Hinata's "conscience" during this scene.

As everyone knows, when a girl is lying on her stomach, that area looks incredibly large.

But it's not as easy to see when lying flat on one's back.

Yet, even lying flat, Hinata still displayed astonishing curves.

It left Xu Feng, who was just a middle schooler in Chunan back then, completely stunned.

He couldn't sleep for several days; the level of shock was only comparable to seeing Kagome and Kikyo's "points" when watching *Inuyasha*.

Honestly, Aunt Takahashi is so kind, drawing the points out for you.

Was the censorship in Japan really that lenient back then?

Xu Feng didn't make any changes to the battle between Rampaging Naruto and Pain of the Six Paths.

He even felt a bit of regret that he didn't replicate the deliberate "collapse" in quality from the animated version.

But fortunately, the audience in this world hadn't seen the original animation.

And the subsequent first meeting between father and son, Minato and Naruto, moved countless fans.

When Minato, played by Zhang Zhiyao, opened his arms to embrace his son.

He was met with a punch from Naruto.

Immediately following that was a near-breakdown, wailing cry.

Sixteen years of accumulated grief erupted all at once.

The audience subconsciously sniffled, feeling deeply unsettled.

Minato, wearing a look of shame, explained to his son why he had done what he did.

During the battle 16 years ago, he sensed that someone was manipulating the Nine-Tails' attack on the village from behind the scenes, which is why he chose to leave the Nine-Tails' power to his son, hoping he could protect the Leaf in his stead.

At the same time, because he was the Fourth Hokage, he couldn't pass this cruel responsibility onto ordinary citizens.

Even if his own child was innocent.

To this, after crying, Naruto remained silent for a long time before replying: "I understand, because I am the son of the Fourth Hokage."

Seeing this plot, the audience's feelings were exceptionally complex.

【I don't even know how to evaluate the character of Minato.】

【He is a good leader, but definitely not a good father.】

【This is the real "Root"; that bastard Danzo is always shouting about sacrificing for the village, but the moment something happens, he hides—this is what you call a real sacrifice, okay?】

【I hope I have a leader like him, but I don't want a father like him.】

At the end of this episode, Minato used his remaining chakra to help Naruto seal the Nine-Tails one last time.

He passed all his remaining chakra to Naruto, allowing him to enter Sage Mode.

And defeat Pain of the Six Paths!

The public leader of the Akatsuki organization was finally defeated!

However, the main event was in the next episode.

Xu Feng also felt nervous for the first time in a while.

After all, this episode was heavily criticized in his past life, and he didn't know if his revised version would satisfy the audience.

Fortunately, half an hour later.

When Naruto used Xu Feng's revised theory to persuade Nagato, and had him use the Samsara Heavenly Life Technique to resurrect the innocent people who died in the Pain attack.

Although there was still plenty of debate among netizens, overall, the audience basically accepted the argument Xu Feng presented through Naruto.

As for the debate, that was normal.

After all, this is a problem humanity has been arguing about for tens of thousands of years, and everyone has different views.

If there was a point of contention, it was the revelation of Yahiko's death—threatened by Hanzo of the Salamander using Konan, he chose to die on Nagato's kunai.

But the truth was a conspiracy between Hanzo and Danzo, who secretly joined forces to wipe out the newly formed Akatsuki.

Seeing this, the audience couldn't help but curse out loud again.

Damn Danzo, why are you everywhere!?

Xu Feng couldn't help but laugh awkwardly.

Honestly, Danzo truly lived up to his name as the "Scapegoat Shadow."

Damn, basically every piece of trash in *Shippuden* can be linked back to him.

Secretly cooperating with Orochimaru for human experiments, killing Shisui who was loyal to the Leaf, the night of the Uchiha massacre, Yahiko's death leading to Nagato's corruption, and indirectly causing the Fourth Shinobi World War by corrupting Kabuto...

Damn, it feels like this bastard never did a single good thing... at least Kishimoto never depicted his good side.

His only glorious achievement is probably just sealing a bridge.

Oh, and destroying Shisui's eye.

Although he stole that eye using dirty tricks in the first place.

Even so, in his past life, many people still praised him as "the Root buried underground, guarding the Leaf."

The Leaf really thanks you, damn it.

At the end of this episode, when Naruto returned to the Leaf.

The whole village waited there, cheering loudly for Naruto, a stark contrast to the environment of discrimination shown in the first episode of the first season.

Amidst the cheers of all the villagers, Naruto was lifted high by countless people and tossed into the air.

As the first person to acknowledge Naruto, Iruka recalled what the Third Hokage, Hiruzen Sarutobi, once said: "The Fourth Hokage hoped the village would see Naruto as a hero; he held this hope when he sealed the Nine-Tails and died..." The scene shifted back to Iruka, who was now moved to tears. "Third Hokage, Fourth Hokage, now... the hero is right before my eyes!"

The final shot of the episode froze on Naruto, being tossed high into the air by the villagers with a brilliant smile on his face.

【Damn, I'm moved.】

【Seeing this, it's like witnessing the first half of Naruto's life, from demon fox to hero, it really hasn't been easy!】

【I still think Naruto is too kind; if it were me, I would have killed all these villagers.】

【That's a bit much; in the beginning, those villagers just looked at Naruto through colored glasses, and they mistakenly thought he was the Nine-Tails Demon Fox, so it's understandable.】

The topic eventually turned to the relationship between the villagers and Naruto.

This issue also sparked a lot of discussion in his past life.

After all, in the original work, Naruto was treated so miserably as a child, yet he still protected the Leaf without hesitation, which was... very confusing.

It would have been good enough if he didn't kill you all.

Still protecting you?

Pfft!

So much so that many readers in his past life suspected Naruto had been brainwashed by Asura's soul. Fortunately, Xu Feng had already patched things up for Kishimoto in advance.

And he didn't design Naruto's childhood to be as excessively miserable as the original.

Things like drinking expired milk or being called a demon fox to his face by peers were all deleted.

After applying a bunch of patches, the audience felt the sense of dissonance wasn't as heavy.

It also indirectly explained why Kakashi hadn't looked after Naruto for those ten years.