Witty Naruto Life

Chapter 144 Yes, I’m Still Your Dad
Sasuke was extremely conflicted. After much thought, he decided to put the matter aside for the time being.

This wasn't the first time he encountered something he couldn't figure out, but dwelling on it would only lead to internal drain.

Soon, he arrived at the Ninja Cat Clan's base before sunset.

Sasuke stood at the barrier, but before he could enter it, he saw a large shinobi cat walking towards him and licking its paw.

"Sasuke-kun, I didn't expect you to come, meow."

"Tanhu, right?" Sasuke looked at it and some childhood memories began to emerge.

"I thought you would come later, but it seems you have been fighting all this time, meow?" The ninja cat Tanaka narrowed his eyes and guessed Sasuke's movements.

Sasuke glanced at the black tiger stripes on Tianhu's back and said, "Well, lead the way."

"It seems Konoha hasn't been peaceful lately, meow."

A man and a cat passed through the slightly narrow tunnel and came to the territory of the cat lady.

The hunchbacked old man had a wrinkled face and a long pipe dangling from the corner of his mouth.

He wore a dark purple kimono with a short grey jacket, which combined the shrewdness of a street businessman and the dignity of an elder.

"Cat Granny, I'm here to buy some ninja tools. Here's the list."

Sasuke took out a piece of paper, and a pure white petite ninja cat beside the cat lady walked over gracefully, took the note and handed it to the cat lady.

Granny Cat narrowed her eyes and exhaled a puff of smoke. "Chakra blades, protective scrolls, special shurikens, portable sealing devices... What are you going to do, Sasuke? Are you going to seek revenge on Uchiha Itachi now?"

Sasuke shook his head: "Just some necessary preparations."

The battles during this period made Sasuke pay more attention to the use of ninja tools, which also enriched his fighting methods.

"I've watched you two grow up... Hey, your Uchiha clan was almost wiped out, but now you two brothers are turning against each other. If you keep fighting like this, only one Uchiha will survive..."

Granny Cat couldn't help but start nagging, but when she saw Sasuke's gloomy face, she tactfully changed the subject and said to the Ninja Cat beside her: "Well, go and prepare according to the list..."

"Sasuke, I've been giving you discounts for so many years. When can I get a discount on the mission commission fee?"

As expected of a businessman, he would mention money every now and then... Sasuke pondered, "Sorry, I don't set the commission fee... Are there any tasks that need commissioning recently?"

"...It's nothing serious. I'm just missing one more claw mark from the Meatball Encyclopedia. When are you going to collect it?"

These words seemed to activate a certain memory of Sasuke. His eyes became sharp for a moment, but quickly returned to normal.

The cat grandmother asked the little sister next to her to get a booklet. When she opened it, she saw a collection of cat paws of various kinds, from small to large. The most exaggerated paw was even bigger than Sasuke's body.

The animation explains that this is a 'collecting cat paw prints' game that Itachi created for the active Sasuke in his early years. The rule is that all cats must print their paw prints on this 'Paw Print Encyclopedia'.

The difficulty of this matter is that cats in the ninja world are very averse to being "stamped" with paws, which is tantamount to being stripped naked and paraded through the streets for them.

Small cats are okay, but big cats are a bit difficult to deal with.

The two largest cats in the ninja world are the two-tailed Yumoto, which Granny Cat has asked someone to help print, and the other is a two-tailed cat named Nekomata.

Granny Cat hopes that Sasuke can complete this commission, which is considered to be the last memory of the Uchiha clan.

Sasuke in the animation cares a lot about this task. He believes that if he fails to complete this task, it means that he is no match for Itachi, so he takes this matter very seriously.

But, this is Sasuke in the anime.

"Sasuke, what's wrong with you?" The cat lady saw the concern in Sasuke's eyes and looked a little confused.

Sasuke said nothing, took the "Encyclopedia of Meatballs" and looked at it, then closed it again: "There's no need to entrust this task to Konoha, I can do it for you for free."

"Are you sure? Dealing with Nekomata is not easy. Intelligence shows that he has become..."

"it does not matter."

Sasuke calmly handed the manual back, but his expression clearly showed that he wasn't particularly interested.

Unconsciously, his concern for Naruto had surpassed that for Uchiha Itachi, and catching the cat was no longer important to him.

Even if it has to be completed, it is for Granny Cat, to maintain the relationship between himself and the Ninja Cat Clan.

Frankly speaking, what's the point of dwelling on a childhood game? Doesn't the more you care about it, the more you can't let it go?

Granny Cat was experienced and she could tell that Sasuke didn't care much about this matter. She sighed and said, "Sasuke...you have really changed a lot."

"Grandma Cat."

"how?"

"If, I mean if, your best friend is hiding something from you, would you still think this friend is worth keeping close to?"

What Sasuke wanted to ask was whether he could still trust Naruto unconditionally as before.

Granny Cat took a puff of her cigarette and said slowly, "It depends on the situation."

"In one case, I kept it from you so that I could take all the benefits for myself."

Hearing this, Sasuke's heart suddenly hung in the air. The cat lady almost expressed his true thoughts, that Naruto just had some good things that he was unwilling to share with him.

But Naruto had helped him too much, and he didn't want to admit that fact.

"In another case, I kept it from you to protect you."

Sasuke's eyelids twitched violently, and he completely accepted this idea almost instantly, and subconsciously began to deny the first possibility.

But reason quickly returned and told him that both were possible.

"Which one do you think it is?" The cat lady stared at Sasuke.

Sasuke was silent for a long time, and finally shook his head:

“I don’t know,” “Maybe I should talk to him myself.”

……

the other side.

The four Sound Ninjas rushed to Konoha in a hurry. Among them, Sakon was the fastest. He couldn't wait for Naruto to appear in front of him.

Of course, as long as Naruto shows any sign of being possessed by Snake, he wouldn't mind sliding on his knees on the spot.

The four of them moved around in the woods and returned to the border of Konoha.

"Sakon, are you sure you want to touch that Uzumaki Naruto?" Jirobo glanced at Sakon, who made a 'tsk' sound with an impatient look on his face.

"I just want to teach him a lesson. Are you tired of asking me all the time, fat pig?"

"Don't call me a fat pig..."

"That's enough. Let's get started sooner and finish sooner." Tayuya interrupted the two and signaled them to hurry up.

The four of them changed direction and sneaked in again.

Naruto here.

Thinking about Sasuke's future affected his appetite. He finished two large bowls of chashu at Ichiraku Ramen and then walked towards the training ground.

As Naruto walked, he was thinking about how to get Sasuke to become Jiraiya's apprentice with him. Suddenly, he felt a vague sense of being spied on and frowned slightly.

"Interesting... There are still people who dare to monitor my whereabouts in Konoha's territory."

Naruto had told Bai Yi not to follow him all the time a long time ago. After he gained more real power, no one would look for trouble like that anymore.

So, it was someone outside Konoha who was targeting him.

Naruto came to the training ground calmly, and did not practice any new techniques. He just sat cross-legged on the ground. Those who didn't know would think he was resting with his eyes closed.

Lurking in the distance, Sakon thought, "Is this all Uzumaki Naruto can do? Even Sasuke could spot us in time."

In his heart, he looked down upon this man even more.

"Four of them... the Four Sound Ninjas, right? I just don't know what they want from me. They can't be trying to get me to become Orochimaru's apprentice, right?"

Naruto murmured softly, then suddenly paused: "It seems possible."

After pondering for a while, Naruto decided to go fishing and see if he could catch all four of them in one fell swoop.

They were an important factor in Sasuke's defection. If he didn't want Sasuke to defect, then there would be no need for them to exist.

Thinking of this, he stood up generously and shouted into the distant air: "Go back and tell your master that even if you pack up the entire Sound Village and give it to me, I won't go!"

After thinking for a moment, Naruto added, "It's not that I look down on you, it's mainly because Konoha has a strong foundation. Your small sect and temple can't accommodate a great god like me!"

This is a bit contrary to Tian Gang's opinion. Orochimaru is at least a Kage-level warrior, so it wouldn't be unfair to him to take Naruto as his apprentice.

Naruto smiled and looked at the movement in a certain direction, thinking to himself: "The boss in the early part of this original work is not very kind."

Suddenly, there was a sound of breaking wind behind him. Naruto stood still without looking back. A wisp of red chakra emerged from his tail vertebrae and directly shattered the sticky spider silk rushing towards him.

Naruto now has very precise control over the Nine-Tails' chakra, and can almost release it instantly.

But it's not over yet. At the same time that Kidomaru spits out spider silk, Sakon and Jirobo attack from both sides, and the state is activated in an instant!
Especially Zuo Jin, one can clearly see that the back of his hands are covered with bulging blue veins.

Before he even had a fight with Naruto, he was already AOEed by Naruto's mouth cannon.

Naruto sneered, he first dodged Jirobo's headbutt by turning sideways, then Naruto's shadow clone appeared in the air with a "bang", and threw the real body towards Sakon. At the same time, the shadow clone inserted several Flying Thunder God kunai into the ground around Sakon.

"Oh!"

The next moment, the shadow clone was eliminated by Tayuya, while the original body hit Sakon with a heavy punch, but the latter blocked it by raising his arm.

"I've activated state one. I'm full of energy and can withstand more beatings." Naruto smiled at Sakon in front of him, causing the latter's eyelids to jump.

"Are you really Lord Orochimaru's subordinate?" Sakon blurted out a few words.

Naruto was stunned for a moment, then said with some amusement: "Yes, I am still your father."

Before Zuo Kun could get angry, he found that his eyes were blurred and Naruto disappeared, and a cold wind came from behind.

"boom!!"

He was kicked away by Naruto, and felt a muffled sound in his chest, and spat out a mouthful of blood.

This kick was wrapped in the Nine-Tails' chakra, and coupled with Sakon's mentality being affected by Naruto, his blood and energy kept surging.

"Puff puff!"

Kidomaru in the distance kept spitting out spider silk in the intervals between the fights between the few people. Most of the silk was dodged by the latter, and the rest was all cut.

At the same time, he had a rough idea of ​​Naruto's strength in his mind.

He didn't use any trump cards, basically all he did was use a combination of ninjutsu and taijutsu, and faced the pressure of four people with ease.

The overall strength is completely not on the same level.

More importantly, Kidomaru believed that Naruto was not suppressing them with absolute strength, but with fighting skills.

This is very difficult to deal with, because it shows that the young man in front of him has solid basic skills. He is not an ordinary person, nor is he a spoiled young master.

Only through countless life-and-death tests and fierce fights can a ninja with such sophisticated skills be produced.

Kidomaru couldn't help but glance into the distance, thinking that if they didn't retreat now, they would probably be caught by Konoha's Anbu.

(End of this chapter)