Chapter 585 Am I cleared?

Chapter 585 Am I cleared?

Chapter 585 Am I cleared?
Naruto defected?

Lu Li looked at Erzhuzi in front of him, and his mind was confused for a moment.

Look at Sasuke in front of him, he is wearing Konoha's standard Jonin tactical vest and a ninja sword on his waist, he looks extremely capable.

No matter how you look at him, he looks like a standard good jonin of Konoha. He doesn't have that arrogant aura at all. What's wrong with you? Are you the second pillar that I know?

Lu Li saw worry and anxiety in Sasuke's eyes. Obviously, as a member of the Konoha family and the youngest son of the Hokage, Sasuke, who was the son of a rich and powerful official, cared very much about his childhood friend.

It’s just that I don’t know if his natural character is influenced by Indra Chakra, which prevents him from being too agitated, otherwise he will probably become even more anxious.

"what happened?"

Lu Li spoke up and prepared to understand the situation of this world first.

Because he had a past identity that was directly inherited, the space did not give him any extra memory information. The place where he started seemed relatively safe, so Lu Li was not in a hurry to go out and kill indiscriminately.

"Senior Natural Disaster, you know that Naruto...has always been dissatisfied with Konoha..."

Sasuke seemed to find it difficult to speak, and his expression was strange when he spoke, mainly because he felt that Senior Calamity should take the blame for Naruto's defection.

"Let me tell you."

At this moment, a cold and hoarse voice came from outside the door.

The door of the room was pushed open, and a familiar figure came into Lu Li's sight. It was Orochimaru.

Orochimaru is still dressed the same, but his eyes have turned into Sharingan. It seems that he has fulfilled his dream and successfully installed Obito's Mangekyō.

"Sasuke-kun, don't be so anxious. Lu-kun just woke up and may not understand the situation yet."

Orochimaru said as he walked closer, "Lu-kun, how are you feeling? Have you recovered a bit?"

He first showed concern for Lu Li, checked the instruments placed next to Lu Li, and checked Lu Li's vital signs.

Lu Li also noticed that he was not only sitting in a wheelchair, but also had patches on his hands, feet, and chest, connected to instruments, just like a critically ill patient. The only thing missing was a breathing mask.

I don’t know what kind of experience this space has arranged for him this time. According to his idea when he left the Naruto world last time, he actually wanted to pretend to investigate Uchiha Madara and disappeared.

However, because of his previous excessive practice of martial arts, he became an old man, which affected some of the settings when he landed in this world.

I'm afraid that in the eyes of Orochimaru and the others, I had met with some accident and had my vitality sucked away. They just found me recently and put me in the laboratory to recuperate.

"Much better. Where did Orochimaru-senpai find me?"

Lu Li asked curiously, pretending that his memory was unclear due to the serious injury.

Orochimaru noticed Lu Li's 'amnesia' and frowned slightly at first, then put on that creepy smile again, "I found Lu Jun in an underground base on the border of the Water Country. At that time, you looked like a dried corpse. I still recognized you from your Sharingan and brought you back."

"The border of the Water Country?"

Lu Li roughly guessed what happened. He might have been found by Orochimaru in Uchiha Madara's underground base.

This setting also fits the reason why he left before, but it is not clear how Uchiha Madara sees this matter.

"It's really amazing. The equipment in that base has been out of use for many years, but it can be seen that there are high-end life-support equipment. I don't know who hid it there and used it before."

Orochimaru said with a smile, curiosity evident in his words, and he obviously hoped that Lu Li could give him an answer.

"I just woke up, and my memory is still a little confused. Let's not talk about that for now. Senior, please tell me about Naruto. Why did he defect?"

Lu Li glanced at Sasuke while speaking. It was obvious that Sasuke was the person who cared about Naruto the most in the room, and he was looking at him eagerly at this moment.

"What happened to Naruto-kun...I am actually partly responsible."

Although Orochimaru said this, there was no guilt or embarrassment in his tone. Instead, there was a sense of gloating.

Next, Orochimaru told Lu Li roughly what had happened in recent years. First of all, it was now the 68th year of Konoha.

That is the Shippuden period in the original work. Judging from the world situation, the time of the original Ninja World War should be approaching.

At this time, Sasuke and Naruto were already sixteen or seventeen years old, which was the period when they were at the peak of their second-year status.

After Lu Li brought Naruto to Orochimaru, Naruto has been training under Orochimaru. His childhood began to change from then on. Not only did he have many companions of similar age, but he was also accompanied by his parents who were resurrected by the Impure World Reincarnation.

Therefore, Naruto completely accepted the current situation and did not miss Konoha Village at all. He stayed under the guidance of his parents and Orochimaru to practice, and under the guidance of his parents and Orochimaru, he showed amazing talent.

Yes, although Naruto is an unreliable ninja, his talent is unquestionable, especially after Lu Li helped Naruto train the Nine-Tails. For a long period of time, he grew very fast and even surpassed Sasuke at one point.

However, Sasuke is also an awkward king of curling. The two of them grow while competing with each other and always maintain a comparable level.

Under the instruction of such famous teachers and famous schools, the two of them already had the strength of Jonin at the age of 8, which was even more outrageous than Kakashi back then.

By the time they were 12 years old, they had already become elite jonins and could stand on their own in the ninja world. The situation began to change at this time, because Uchiha Fugaku had already consolidated his power in Konoha. In recent years, he had married into various families by "selling seeds" and even spread the Uchiha bloodline throughout the ninja world.

Combined with the strategic guidelines Lu Li had given before, the Uchiha family is now both powerful and wealthy. With their almost all-powerful influence in Konoha, and under the manipulation of the young clan leader Uchiha Itachi, the media began to change the tone and whitewash Lu Li.

The reasons for clearing Lu Li's name seemed quite outrageous to Lu Li himself.

The Hokage lineage stated that they had discovered a long-forgotten confidential file in the Anbu. The file stated that they had used Lu Li as a spy, infiltrating the Hidden Cloud Village, Akatsuki and other hostile organizations, exporting intelligence to Konoha and making great contributions.

As for Lu Li's attack on Konoha, after reviewing the incident, they were shocked to find that during the entire attack, Lu Li did not harm any civilians, and the number of Konoha's elite Jonin killed was also very limited. He only wiped out the treacherous old Hokage advisory group.

But judging from this, no matter what, Lu Li is a great sinner who attacked and destroyed Konoha, there is no way around it. How can he be whitewashed?

The crucial operation is yet to come. The young leader of the Uchiha clan released part of the "investigation documents", revealing the inside story of Lu Li's attack on Konoha.

It turned out that at that time, the Akatsuki organization had planned to attack and destroy Konoha and capture Konoha's strategic decisive weapon, the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki.

Tianzai, who was thinking about his fellow villagers in his hometown, was undercover in the Akatsuki at the time. He believed that Konoha was facing a catastrophe because the leader of Akatsuki was too powerful. If he took action himself, based on his hatred for Konoha, he might wipe out Konoha completely and not even let a mouse go.

In order to save the lives of the elders and folks of Konoha, Tianzai did not hesitate to bear the infamy and personally asked the leader of the Akatsuki organization to attack Konoha.

The result was that although many of Konoha's basic buildings were destroyed, except for some important members of the Hokage lineage who died in battle, Konoha's foundation was not damaged, and the civilians and children were also safe.

The most important thing is that although Lu Li took away the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki, he did not hand it over to the Akatsuki organization. As for how Lu Li handled it and allowed Konoha to enter a long period of peaceful development, the Uchiha clan said they were still investigating.

After listening to Orochimaru's narration, Lu Li was completely dumbfounded and thought to himself, is this even possible?
Is this still the stupid Uchiha I know? I can only say that after taking power, Uchiha Itachi's brain is getting better and better, and he doesn't seem like a paranoid psychopath.

Uchiha Fugaku announced the power of his Mangekyō Sharingan to the Konoha high-level officials. After that, everything he said had a prophetic nature, which added a lot of credibility to the news.

As a result of various factors, the new generation of Konoha (middle school boys) actually developed a trend of respecting Natural Disaster, believing that this hero standing in the shadows is also a hero, and that Natural Disaster should be welcomed back to the country.

Uchiha Fugaku obviously didn't expect that the publicity would be so effective. He originally just wanted to whitewash Lu Li for political purposes so that if he needed to cooperate with Lu Li again in the future, he wouldn't be criticized.

The result was so good that people all hoped that he, as the Hokage, would bring Lu Li back, but how would he know where Lu Li was at that moment?
So he could only say that Tianzai was still on a secret mission and could not return to Konoha for the time being.

Of course, not everyone believes the lies of the Hokage. Although Konoha has indeed developed better in recent years than before the "Konoha Destruction Plan" and people's happiness index has obviously increased, Lu Li was not really as good as the Hokage said.

He also killed many people in the Konoha destruction plan, and people like the family members of the former Hokage must have great resentment towards him. For example, Asuma, an elite jonin who was lucky enough not to die, was a staunch opponent of natural disasters and publicly questioned Uchiha Fugaku's investigation results many times.

On the contrary, Jiraiya and Tsunade, the three ninjas who were lucky enough to survive that battle, took the natural disaster attack on Konoha lightly.

Not to mention Tsunade. Before her change, she was a woman with a weak sense of responsibility. If it weren't for the Third Hokage's earnest persuasion, she would not have bothered to return to Konoha to defend it.

She was exhausted in the battle of Konoha, and eventually became a useless person with no fighting ability. After Konoha compiled some knowledge of medical ninjutsu into a book based on her experience, she went out to travel and now no one knows where she is.

Jiraiya was also half-crippled by Lu Li in that battle, and his strength was not as good as before. However, he was a realistic optimist. He found that Konoha became richer and richer after this disaster, so he slowly let it go. Now he also travels around the world, and the update speed of Intimate Paradise is much faster than before.

This made many readers of Intimate Paradise say that the author had too many side jobs in the past and did not focus on writing books, which is why the updates are so slow.

Orochimaru said that Jiraiya had also come to the Land of Rice for a trip, and when he saw Naruto training here, as well as the Minato couple, he seemed to understand something.

From then on, Jiraiya no longer clamored for revenge against Orochimaru and the natural disaster, and he had no intention of taking Naruto back by force.

Not to mention that he no longer has the strength, he has no right to do so. Kushina was just about to point at his nose and scold him. Konoha was never good to Naruto, and the old Hokage lineage did have many inhumane aspects.

Jiraiya expressed his desire to meet Lu Li, as if hoping that Lu Li could continue to be the invisible guardian of Konoha and help monitor the Akatsuki organization or something, but because Lu Li had disappeared long ago, Jiraiya naturally did not meet him.

In short, the old generation of talents in Konoha are fading away, those who should retire are retiring, and those who should travel and write books can write books well. With not many old forces happening, Uchiha Fugaku's brainwashing work went very smoothly, and it really made many middle school boys feel that Lu Li is a hero in the shadows.

Well, that's quite outrageous.

Although from the starting point, Lu Li originally carried out the plan to destroy Konoha with the idea of ​​making Konoha a better place, he did not expect that he could be whitewashed now.

Under such prerequisites, Naruto's situation is easy to understand.

When Sasuke and Naruto were 12 years old, they both possessed the strength of elite jonin. Although the ninja world seemed peaceful on the surface, there were actually undercurrents. So Uchiha Fugaku hoped to let his trained son and Konoha's jinchūriki return.

Of course Sasuke was willing to do this. After all, he did not experience much misery in his childhood this time. He missed his parents and brother very much and wanted to return to Konoha to reunite with his family.

Orochimaru did not object to Konoha's request, but only said that it depended on the children's opinions and that Naruto and Sasuke could be allowed to go back and try.

The reason why Orochimaru cooperated so well was because he had also benefited from Uchiha Fugaku's whitewashing work over the years. All of his dirty deeds, such as human experiments, had now been overturned by the new Hokage, and the blame was put on the late Danzo.

According to new investigation results, the former Three Ninjas were slandered and squeezed out of the center of power and labeled as traitors because they failed in the competition for Hokage and lost in the political struggle. All of this was caused by the dirty tricks of the old Hokage lineage headed by the Third Hokage.

Although this statement is a bit biased and radical, some of its content is indeed true, so a small number of people in Konoha believed it.

In addition, Orochimaru has shared some of his biotechnology achievements with Konoha in recent years and contributed to the vigorous development of Konoha. Now he is gradually moving towards returning to Konoha.

(End of this chapter)