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Chapter 159: Capturing Hinata
"Naruto!" Kakashi said seriously. "Don't harbor fantasies about the enemy! Your dream and Nindo are precious things; you can persist in them yourself, and they will eventually be realized."
"Yeah, Naruto." Shikaku Nara was also worried about Naruto being stubborn. "Hatred isn't something that can be dropped just by saying so right now. Even if you want people to understand each other, we have to subdue her first and make her listen to you properly."
"Kakashi-sensei, Uncle Nara." Naruto clenched his fists, his voice very low. "I know, you might all think I'm naive. But I will always persist and strive for it. I believe that one day, the era of mutual understanding will definitely come."
He looked at Konan. "Isn't that beautiful future exactly what Yahiko and Nagato wanted to see?"
"I indeed can't make my comrades let go of their hatred for you or understand your pain right now, but I will work hard to do it—"
"No." Konan shook her head, interrupting coldly. "Don't always say you will work hard to do it. Having hot blood but knowing no concrete methods, you are just a hot-blooded idiot."
"Then I ask you, how will you do it? Have you thought of any method to make people let go of hatred and reconcile with each other?"
"Is it just relying on a mouth?"
"Although I don't know how to do it yet," Naruto looked firm, not discouraged at all, "I will always work hard and strive toward this goal. I will never give up!"
Konan almost laughed speechlessly...
"So, you have never considered methods for people to reach reconciliation; you just need to firmly uphold 'As long as I do it, the dream will definitely come true'? Truly a childish and laughable philosophy..."
Thinking that she was persuaded by such words back then, Konan shook her head internally. Hard to understand how she got infected by something with no substance, just slogans. Even believing Naruto would definitely do it and entrusting the dream to him. She really must have been dizzy. The power of "Talk No Jutsu" was indeed terrifying.
"Naruto-kun!" behind him, Hinata looked at Naruto worriedly. She was very afraid he would be struck down by the opponent's words.
"Appeared?" Konan suddenly turned her head, her cold gaze locking directly onto Hinata in the crowd.
The last Hyuga bloodline.
"Talk is useless. Naruto, I will no longer entrust Yahiko and Nagato's dream to you." She spread her wings and slowly rose into the air. "Their dream, the pursuit of world peace, I will forge it myself."
"You... what are you going to do!" Kakashi kept a close eye on Konan, a bad premonition suddenly rising in his heart. Back then, Deva Path Pain had also flown into mid-air like this and destroyed Konoha with a massive-power ninjutsu.
"Konan!!" Naruto looked up and roared, "I will absolutely not give up my Nindo! And I won't let you harm Konoha!!"
Swish!
He dispelled the Shadow Clone that was gathering Sage chakra in a remote place, and his main body instantly entered Sage Mode. The other Konoha ninjas immediately entered defensive states under Shikaku and Kakashi's orders.
Konan hovered in mid-air and waved her hand. A large number of kunai emitting cold air shot down with swish sounds. A direct saturation strike.
"Not good! Dodge quickly!" Kakashi hurriedly shouted a reminder. "Don't intercept! The opponent's Ice Release is very powerful!!"
The kunai from the sky poured down like a rainstorm, causing the Konoha ninjas below to scurry with their heads covered. If not for Naruto's Shadow Clones in Sage Mode rescuing them in time, there would have inevitably been mass casualties.
"Ah!" Just then, Hinata suddenly screamed.
White paper appeared from nowhere, wrapping her up in an instant and flying into the sky.
"Hinata!!" Naruto looked anxious, disregarding saving other Konoha ninjas. His legs stomped the ground hard, shooting toward the airborne Hinata like a cannonball.
Unfortunately.
The flight speed of the white paper was faster than him. Even when his momentum ran out, he couldn't touch Hinata wrapped in white paper. He could only watch helplessly as she flew high into the sky, floating behind Konan.
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