62: Chapter 62 A life for a life? No need, Granny Chiyo.The wind in the valley stopped.
The air was stagnant, so heavy that it was hard to breathe.
The elite ninjas from Sunagakure who had followed them knelt down one after another.
They didn't cry out, but buried their heads deep in their arms, their shoulders trembling violently, emitting suppressed whimpers like wounded wild animals.
Their shadow, the boy who brought about the village's rebirth through his own transformation, is dead.
Just as a glimmer of hope pierced through the clouds, the sky collapsed again.
Sakura covered her mouth, tears streaming down her face uncontrollably.
As a medical ninja, she knew better than anyone what losing her heartbeat and breath meant for a Jinchuriki whose Tailed Beast had been extracted.
That was an absolutely irreversible death.
Kakashi stood silently to the side, his dead fish eye, which was exposed, had lost its former luster.
The mission failed.They couldn't save their ally's leader.
In this suffocating ocean of sorrow, only Naruto Uzumaki remained standing calmly.
He held Gaara's rapidly cooling body, his handsome face expressionless.
He simply looked down at the boy in his arms, his azure eyes remaining calm, as if admiring a newly completed work of art.
An elderly figure, supported by two ninjas, staggered out of the crowd.
It's Granny Chiyo.
Her face was bloodless, and her cloudy old eyes were fixed on Gaara in Naruto's arms.Her body trembled violently from the immense grief.
"Put him down."
Chiyo's voice was hoarse and dry, almost as if it were being squeezed out of her throat.
Naruto did not move.
He simply raised his head and looked at the old woman, who could barely stand, with his calm eyes.
The Sand Village ninja around him looked up, their eyes filled with a mixture of pleading and despair as they gazed at Naruto.
They hoped that their hero could have a dignified final resting place.
Under everyone's gaze, Chiyo broke free from her support and straightened her already bent spine with all her might.
She walked shakily toward Naruto, each step feeling like she was stepping on a knife's edge.
The previous despair and hopelessness were gone from her eyes; only a resolute determination burning with the last light of life remained.
A death wish.
She stopped in front of Naruto, no longer looking at Gaara, but staring directly into Naruto's unfathomable eyes.
"This old woman.possesses a forbidden technique."
Chiyo spoke slowly and deliberately, each word requiring immense effort.
"It is a top-secret technique of Sunagakure, a reincarnation ninjutsu that I developed independently."
"Rebirth of the self".
Kakashi and Sakura's expressions changed simultaneously.
Reincarnation Ninjutsu?
"This technique.allows one to completely share their life force with another person."
Chiyo's voice was soft, yet it reached the ears of everyone present clearly.
"Its only effect is.to bring the dead back to life."
resurrection?
These two words were like a thunderclap, exploding in the deathly silent valley.
"However, the price is the life of the caster."
Chiyo added, a utterly bleak smile on her face.
"To exchange one's life for another."
Kakashi and Sakura were completely shocked.
They never imagined that such unconventional ninjutsu truly existed in this world.
This is no longer within the realm of medicine; it belongs to the realm of God.
"Grandma, you…" a Sand Village Jonin cried out, unable to believe what he had just heard.
Chiyo ignored him.
Her gaze remained fixed on Naruto, her cloudy old eyes filled with an almost pleading earnestness.
"Naruto Uzumaki".
For the first time, she addressed this boy from Konoha with such solemnity.
"Please allow me to use this technique on Gaara."
"My life is already nearing its end.To use it to save the future of the village is the only and most valuable thing I can do in my life."
Her words rekindled the embers that had been extinguished in the hearts of all the Sand Village ninja present.
hope.
A glimmer of hope.
Please!
Please agree!
Please!
All the Sand Village ninjas raised their heads.They no longer knelt, but bowed to Naruto in the most humble posture, their foreheads touching the cold ground.
They were pleading and begging, hoping that the boy who had performed the miracle would grant them one last chance.
[Ding!You have received 32,000 Group Hope from the people of Sunagakure!]
[Ding!You have received 28,000 of Chiyo's ultimate [Determination]!]
Naruto stared at the numbers flashing on the system panel, his heart completely unmoved.
He held Gaara's body, calmly looking at the old man before him who was preparing to die a heroic death, and at the Sand Village ninjas around him who placed all their hopes on his decision.
Then.
Under the expectant gaze of everyone.
He slowly shook his head.
The air froze completely in that instant.
Chiyo's body stiffened abruptly, and the resolute look on her face instantly turned into incomprehensible astonishment.
Those Sand Village ninjas who had just begun to have hope were all stunned.
They looked up, staring incredulously at the boy who had rejected their last hope.
Why?
Why do you disagree?
"Naruto!" Sakura exclaimed anxiously, unable to comprehend Naruto's actions."Grandma Chiyo."
Naruto ignored everyone.
He simply looked down at Chiyo, and amidst everyone's bewildered, astonished, and gradually despairing gazes, he calmly spoke.
His voice wasn't loud, but it was like a heavy hammer, shattering everyone's preconceived notions.
"Mother-in-law."
"Your reincarnation technique involves exchanging life for life."
"The cost is too high."
boom!
This sentence made everyoneMy mind went completely blank.
The cost.is too high?
Chiyo's wrinkled face was contorted with extreme shock.
In her seventy-plus years of life, she had never heard such an absurd and arrogant assessment.
That's a forbidden technique that can bring the dead back to life!
It's a miracle that defies the laws of life and death!
In this brat's mouth, all he got was the evaluation of "high cost"?
What arrogance!
Even Kakashi felt that his brain was not quite up to par.
He simply couldn't understand Naruto's thought process.
Under everyone's stunned gaze, Naruto moved.
He bent down and gently laid Gaara's body flat on the ground, even carefully tidying up his messy red hair.
After doing all this, he slowly stood up.
He didn't look at the corpse on the ground anymore.Instead, he squatted down and looked around at the faces around him, which were filled with shock, confusion, anger and despair.
His gaze swept across everyone's face, from Chiyo to Kakashi to Sakura, and then to the Sand Village ninjas crawling on the ground.
Finally, he spoke slowly.
The voice remained calm, yet it carried an undeniable authority, as if proclaiming the truth.
"Now, watch carefully."
"What does 'resurrection of the dead' mean?"
The camera freezes on this moment.
Golden sunlight streamed down, illuminating the boy's serene profile like that of a god.
In those azure eyes, there was no pity, no sorrow, only an absolute confidence that was about to overturn the entire world.
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