In mid-April 1963, in the evening, in the forest of Tianzhi Country.
"Sai, I have a suggestion. Don't come back to Konoha with us."
"..."
Regarding Captain Yamato's words, Sai was silent.
Captain Yamato said solemnly: "I know Gen's style and I also know Danzo's methods. As long as you go back, you will definitely die."
Zuo Jing hesitated and asked, "I know you. You were once a member of the Root. How did you break away from the Root?"
"This is a long story." Captain Yamato fell into memories.
"In order to study wood escape, Orochimaru dug up the tomb of the first Hokage, extracted the first Hokage's genes from his remains and cultivated them."
"In addition to ordinary orphans, Orochimaru also found some children with unique bloodlines, including the Ibuli clan."
"The Ibuli clan can turn into light smoke, but they cannot see the wind. It is said that the wind will make their bodies unstable and dissipate into light smoke."
"It's just that as they grow older, the bodies of the Ibuli clan become more unstable, and they will dissipate after turning into light smoke."
"The Ibuli clan will become a sapling after they dissipate, so Orochimaru conducted research on their children and found that the blood of those children has a restorative effect and can be used as an intermediate carrier for the genes of the first Hokage."
"Although the success rate of fusion is still very low, there are still successful cases, and that's me."
"It's just that my talent is not good, and the genes that can be accommodated in my body are limited. It can be foreseen that the power of the Wood Release that I can perform is far less than that of the first Hokage."
"Orochimaru thought the experiment had failed, so Danzo took in the only surviving experimental subject, who was me, and named him A."
"To be honest, Danzo is actually very good to me because of Mu Dun. He can be said to be my teacher."
"More than ten years ago, the Kyuubi suddenly appeared, and Danzo asked me to prepare."
"At the time, I thought he was asking me to use the Wood Release that could restrain the Nine-Tails to save the village. But later I found out that saving the village was not his ultimate goal. His ultimate goal was to let me control the Nine-Tails and make the Nine-Tails his root.
Combat strength."
"However, the Kyuubi was eventually sealed by the Fourth Generation, and I didn't even have a chance to take action."
"At that time, the fourth generation was also dead. Danzo was the most qualified person to become Hokage. No one could match him in terms of qualifications, strength, and achievements."
"But the Sandaime didn't give him a chance, and the Sandaime returned to power."
"Because of this, Danzo held a grudge, and his methods became darker and darker. The peripheral forces at the root expanded rapidly in order to establish a dark force that could compete with Konohagakure."
"To this, the Sandaime turned a blind eye. On the one hand, he used the power of the roots to let them fight for Konoha, and on the other hand, he weakened the roots through fighting."
"Then, Orochimaru's research on forbidden arts was discovered by the Sandaime, so I was ordered to hunt down Orochimaru who was injured by the Sandaime and seize Orochimaru's research results."
"On the way, I met Hatake Kakashi from ANBU, and we followed Orochimaru to the sea of trees of the Ibuli clan."
"There, I met Yukimi. Her younger brother is called Tenzo, who is also Orochimaru's experiment."
"Maybe I have Tenzo's genes in my body, so I look a bit like Tenzo, and I also have special feelings for Xuejian."
"I don't know if that's love or family affection."
"Xue Jian has never been out of the sea of trees, so I took her to a nearby town to play."
"During that period, Orochimaru killed all the people of the Ibuli clan in order to heal his wounds, but the blood of adults was not as good as that of children."
"When I took Yukimi back to the sea of trees, I was ambushed by Orochimaru. Kakashi saved me, but not Yukimi."
"Xuejian turned into light smoke. I tried my best and used wood attribute chakra beyond the limit. Fortunately, I used the light smoke filled with wood attribute chakra to reconstruct Yukijian's body and successfully saved her.
"
"She was no longer afraid of the wind, nor could she turn into smoke, and became an ordinary person. Finally, she left, as the eyes of the whole tribe, to show them the world."
"Back in Konoha, Danzo gave me another mission, which was to assassinate the Sandaime. I should pretend to be a child on the roadside and use wood to escape from surprise."
"I didn't understand at the time that Danzo actually wanted to kill me, because after I killed the Sandaime, Danzo would take my head back to the public and take the opportunity to ascend the throne of Hokage."
"The reason Danzo would do this is that my mission failed and I didn't kill Orochimaru to get the research information, so Danzo thought I wasn't that useful, so he ruthlessly abandoned me."
"I didn't understand this at the time. I just felt that if the mission failed, not only was there no punishment, but there was still a mission. It was a kind of reuse. I was very grateful to Danzo."
"With this gratitude, I did it and assassinated the Sandaime with Wood Release."
"Seeing Mu Dun, the Sandaime was indeed distracted, but Kakashi appeared."
"I escaped back. Danzo originally wanted to kill me, but the Sandaime appeared with an army of ANBU."
"In order to avoid a complete break with Danzo, the Sandaime did not expose Danzo for instructing me to kill him. Instead, he used my ability to use Wood Release as an excuse to ask Danzo for help."
"Duanzo compromised and let me go. He also disbanded the roots and released the curse seals on us."
"This is how I left Danzo, and I'm very worried about you, Sai, because the roots must be stronger than before, so you'd better leave and go to the Kingdom of the Sea, Water God Island."
Captain Yamato finished telling his story, but Sai didn't speak from the beginning to the end.
But in the middle of the night, Captain Yamato felt that Sai left silently...
The next day, Uzumaki Naruto and Haruno Sakura got up and found that Sai was missing. Captain Yamato told them that Sai had gone to do other tasks...
On the other side, in Konoha, the Hokage's office.
"Asma."
"Yes, Godaime-sama."
"There is a letter from Earth and Land in the Temple of Fire. Someone is stealing the remains of the twelve dead guardians. Go and have a look."
"Twelve guardians, I understand."...
After leaving the Hokage's office, Sarutobi Asuma went to inform his disciples Nara Shikamaru, Akimichi Choji, and Yamanaka Ino, and bought a bouquet of flowers at the Yamanaka Ino family's flower shop.
"Teacher, who are you planning to give this to?"
"No, no one."
"Really? Then when you see Teacher Yuhi Hong, remember to say hello to me."
"You, how did you know?"
"I just know."
Sarutobi Asuma escaped from the flower shop and met Nara Shikamaru and Akimichi Choji.
Nara Shikamaru smiled and said: "Hey, teacher, I'm going to Yuhi Kurenai's place to say goodbye before the mission."
Sarutobi Asuma was a little stupid, "You also know this."
"We all know it." Akimichi Choji smiled.
"Yes, really?" Asuma Sarutobi blushed in embarrassment and ran away...
On the other side, Yamazaki and Meidaizi received news that a caravan from Toyama Township was attacked at the border and the entire army was destroyed...