Naruto: Experience Pain, Start by Copying the Entire Shinobi World

A gust of wind, carrying waves of heat, made Qianxuan's clothes flutter loudly.

He maintained that pose, which he thought was incredibly handsome, for a full half minute.

He only lowered his arms and stretched his stiff neck when his neck started to ache and his facial expressions were about to break down.

"Tsk, the sandstorm is too strong, it's affecting my look a bit."

He muttered to himself as he turned around to look at the woman behind him who had completely turned to stone.

Yecang remained standing in the same spot, motionless.

Those brown eyes reflected the distant, towering flames, and his face was filled with bewilderment.

Her brain felt like it had been turned into a complete mess by that earth-shattering explosion.

This man...

He's definitely not mentally sound!

Yekura felt that her understanding of the "ninja" profession was completely overturned at this moment.

She had seen powerful ninjas, such as Chiyo of Sunagakure and the Legendary Sannin of Konoha...

But she had never seen anyone like the man before her, who could turn destruction into an art form and killing into a fireworks display.

"Hey, snap out of it."

Qianxuan walked up to her and waved his hand in front of her eyes.

"If you keep watching, the Hidden Mist's ANBU will be coming to collect your corpse. When that happens, I won't be responsible for digging your grave."

Yekura's pupils finally refocused.

She looked at Qian Xuan's face with a lazy smile, her lips moved, but no sound came out.

"Let's go."

Qianxuan didn't give her a chance to continue daydreaming and turned to walk into the depths of the dense forest.

"This place is not safe to stay for long."

Ye Cang followed instinctively, his steps still a little unsteady.

The two moved quickly through the forest, with the shouts of the Hidden Mist ninjas and the piercing alarms growing ever closer behind them.

After running for about ten minutes, and making sure he had temporarily shaken off his pursuers, Qian Xuan stopped in a secluded cave.

He took out water and dry rations from his ninja tool bag and tossed one to Yekura.

Yecang silently accepted it, but did not eat it.

She simply stared at the man with his back to her, stuffing soldier's rations into his mouth, her gaze incredibly complex.

Silence spread through the cave.

After a long while, Yecang finally spoke, his voice hoarse.

"Why...why did you go to such lengths?"

She doesn't understand.

If it were merely a matter of completing a task, he could have simply stood by and watched after confirming his betrayal.

I didn't have much of a relationship with him.

But he saved her, and then, right in front of her, destroyed the port of Misty Hidden.

"Just doing it on a whim."

Qian Xuan didn't turn his head, his voice muffled.

"Who told your Sunagakure to be so dishonest? It was supposed to be a political deal, but you sent a bunch of Kirigakure scum to put on a show. Their acting was so bad, I couldn't stand it."

Yekura: "..."

What is the reason for this?

She realized that she would never be able to understand this man's thought process.

"Now that the mission is complete, it's time for me to go back."

Qian Xuan patted the crumbs off his hands, turned around, and looked at her.

"So, now it's your turn."

"I?"

"Hey, I'm talking to you, pretty girl."

Qian Xuan walked up to her, looking down at her with that frivolous, slightly mocking smile on his face.

"Would you like to come back to Konoha with me?"

Yekura's body suddenly stiffened.

Go to Konoha?

She looked up at Qianxuan's half-closed eyes, trying to find even the slightest hint of a joke in them.

But she failed.

The man's eyes remained as lazy and indifferent as ever, as if he were talking about something as mundane as eating or drinking.

Why?

Ye Cang's voice was filled with vigilance.

"I am a rogue ninja from Sunagakure, and an enemy of your Konoha. What benefit will you gain by taking me back?"

"As for the benefits, of course there are."

Qian Xuan nodded solemnly.

"Handing you over to the village will at least earn me another S-rank mission credit. Maybe the Hokage will be so pleased that he'll give me a few million more ryo as a bonus."

Yekura's eyes instantly turned cold.

Sure enough, he saved me only for greater gain.

"but,"

Qian Xuan abruptly changed the subject, revealing a smile on his face that Ye Cang couldn't decipher—a smile that was both dreamy and smug.

"Compared to that benefit, bonuses and such are nothing."

He leaned closer, lowered his voice, and spoke in an extremely mysterious tone.

"You may not know about my relationship with Tsunade."

Tsunade?

Tsunade, one of the Legendary Sannin of Konoha?

Ye Cang frowned.

"Let me put it this way."

Qianxuan raised his chin slightly, as if he were showing off his most precious treasure.

"I am Tsunade's future husband."

The cave was deathly silent.

Yecang stared blankly at him, her mind going blank again.

She felt that there might be something wrong with her hearing.

What did she just hear?

Tsunade...her future husband?

She looked at the man in front of her.

He's not bad looking, but he's lazy, speaks incoherently, and acts erratically, completely lacking the composure of a strong person.

Just him?

Would Tsunade, who is famous throughout the ninja world and even the Kazekage has to show her respect, take a liking to such a guy?

For the first time, Yekura's face revealed an undisguised expression of looking at someone who was crazy.

"???"

"What indecent things are you saying?"

She finally found her voice, her tone filled with absurdity and disbelief.

"You? How could Tsunade of Konoha possibly be interested in someone like you?"

This is no longer a case of a toad wanting to eat swan meat.

This is like a tadpole by the roadside saying it wants to marry the moon in the sky someday.

"Tsk, ignorant."

Qianxuan was a little annoyed by her look, as if she were looking at an idiot, and pouted.

"My relationship with her is something you mortals can't possibly understand."

He was too lazy to explain anymore.

The more you explain something like this, the more it sounds like you're bragging.

All he needs to do is bring back Yekura, this living S-class combatant, and place her in front of Tsunade.

In time, the facts will prove everything.

Believe it or not.

Qianxuan waved his hand, turned around and walked towards the cave entrance.

"Anyway, I've delivered the message. You can either come back to Konoha with me, enjoy the good life, and see the beauty of my future wife, or stay in the Land of Water and play hide-and-seek with the Hidden Mist ninjas. The choice is yours."

"You have three minutes to think about it."

After saying that, he leaned against the rock wall at the cave entrance, closed his eyes, and struck a pose as if to count to three.

Ye Cang sat alone deep in the cave, watching the man's back, his mind a complete mess.

Go to Konoha?

Go and seek refuge with the enemy who was fighting to the death with their village not long ago?

This sounds like walking into a trap.

But now, does she have any other choice but to believe this crazy man who talks nonsense?

Sunagakure is gone forever.

Staying in the Water Kingdom would be a certain death.

As for the other ninja villages... who would dare to take in a "hero" betrayed by his own village?

Her path has been blocked.

The only hope was the man in front of her, the Konoha ninja who claimed to be "Tsunade's future husband".

Even if this vitality seems so absurd and so unreliable.

"I……"

Yekura opened her mouth and found that her throat was extremely dry.

"I'll go with you."

In the end, she made her choice.

Qianxuan, standing at the cave entrance, had a slight smile on his lips.

He didn't open his eyes, but just gave a lazy reply.

"A smart choice."

"Let's go, the road home is still long."