I founded the "Bragging Cult" in Naruto.

Chapter 359 Step by step towards the distance, the destination will unexpectedly be met.

"What are you doing here?!"

Inside the Hyuga clan's territory, a girl with bandages wrapped around her head looked at Tatsuma, who had suddenly arrived, with displeasure. Tatsuma asked in confusion, "Isn't Sento here?"

As he spoke, he sensed his surroundings. Sento should have been at home, yet he didn't come out to see him. His attitude towards Tatsuma, which made him even more dissatisfied, led him to say, "Sento-sama is resting. Don't try to corrupt him!"

"Me? Lead him astray? He wants me to lead him astray?"

Tatsuma pointed to himself, somewhat incredulous. The girl nodded vigorously and said, "It's you! Everyone says that it's because of you that Lord Sento was sent on a dangerous mission."

"Has he been deployed on any missions since then?"

Tatsuma was speechless. Compared to the Uchiha clan's smooth sailing towards Tenka, Sento's situation was much more troublesome. It took several months to recruit him and several months to train him.

Finally, after passing the assessment, before officially joining the team, there was a lot of back and forth between the village and the Hyuga main family. It took more than a year for Sento to finally become a member of the Anbu, after many stumbles and setbacks.

Tatsuma looked at the unfamiliar girl and said, "Also, who are you? I haven't seen you at Sento's house before. Isn't his maid named Koharu?"

"Lord Tatsuma, is it possible that my name is Kofuyu?"

A somewhat shy voice came from the corner. Tatsuma looked over and saw that Sento's maid was currently facing the wall in repentance. The girl who had spoken to Tatsuma first said with dissatisfaction:

"Did I tell you to speak?!"

Xiao Dong quickly shut up and continued to reflect on her actions facing the wall. The girl looked at Tatsuma and said, "My name is Hyuga Naoko, Lady Sento's wife!"

"Um!!!"

Tatsuma raised an eyebrow and said, "Chito has entered the grave of love so early? How come I didn't know? When did you two get married?"

"Never mind that!"

Naoko glared at Tatsuma and said, "In short, Lord Sento will not leave the Hyuga clan territory until he has an heir."

"Don't talk nonsense!"

At this moment, Qian Dou, who was pulling up his pants and hopping on one leg to put on his shoes, rushed over from the next room and said, "I never wanted to marry you. You insisted on moving in yourself. And Xiao Dong, what are you doing?"

"Hmph! A mere servant dares to dine at the same table as his master! My punishment has been lenient!"

After Naoko finished speaking, she looked at Sento and said, "Lord Sento, our marriage is arranged by the clan chief..."

"Is the clan chief your father or mine? What business is it of mine of his marriage decisions? If you really want to get married, then go marry him!"

Sento's words made Naoko's face turn pale and red in turns, but she dared not refute them. She dared to reprimand Koto because she already regarded herself as the master, and she dared to be disrespectful to Tatsuma because there was a huge gap between the ninja clan and the common people.

However, Sento is from the main family.

Seeing that Chito had directly ordered Naoko to go back to her room to rest, ignoring her wishes, Naoko's face grew increasingly grim, but she dared not utter a sound. Tatsuma watched this scene with a smile.

After Qian Dou had let Xiao Dong leave, he said, "Qian Dou, you should be gentler with girls."

Upon hearing this, Naoko's expression softened somewhat. This Sakamoto Tatsuma was actually speaking up for her; thankfully...

"Xiaodong suffered such a great injustice, she should at least be compensated. Why were we just let her leave like that?"

But Tatsuma's next words made Naoko's face turn ashen again. It turned out that the girl Tatsuma was talking about who needed to be treated gently wasn't her.

"You're right, I'll go apologize to her later."

Sento nodded and continued straightening his clothes. Tatsuma said sarcastically, "Did you make a mistake? You need to know what mistake you made before you know how to apologize."

"What did I do wrong?"

Qian Dou scratched his head, somewhat confused as to what he had done wrong. But if he hadn't done anything wrong, where did the guilt come from?

Soon, he saw Naoko standing there motionless, her face pale. Realizing what he had done wrong, he said, "Naoko, don't come to my house again."

He realized that letting Naoko come to his house, and even tacitly allowing her to stay, was a mistake he had made. So he decided to correct his mistake first, and then apologize.

Upon hearing this, Naoko's face turned deathly pale. She looked at Sento in panic and said, "But...but it's the clan leader..."

Qian Dou, unusually stern, said, "Tell the clan leader that if there are any arrangements in the future, he should come to me personally for dialogue between the main branches. This is my right. You can leave now. I don't want to use my rights again today."

After saying that, Sento looked at Tatsuma and said, "Tatsuma, it's not convenient to talk here. Let's go somewhere else."

He then looked at Naoko and said, "I hope you've already left before I get back, is that alright?"

"No problem."

Naoko could only nod. Tatsuma walked over to Sento, put his hand on his shoulder, and said to Naoko, "Tell your clan leader that I'm taking your Lord Sento to 'learn bad habits.' If he's unhappy about it, he can talk to my superior."

In other words, the Third Hokage, Hiruzen Sarutobi, filed a complaint against me. I welcome all Konoha ninja and villagers to supervise and correct my behavior.

After saying that, he gave a captivating smile, and the next second, he and Qian Dou disappeared.

In the Senju clan's territory, at Tatsuma's house, Sento, who had just appeared, immediately collapsed onto Tatsuma's neglected sofa. His previously tense and stern face relaxed, and he said:

"The clan chief is going too far. He keeps interfering in my life. Just a few days ago, he even had his two sons monitor me overnight."

"Spying on you?"

"Well, it wasn't exactly surveillance, but they kept chatting with me and wouldn't let me go out to train. They even chatted with me during my sleep time. It was so annoying."

Upon hearing this, Tatsuma suddenly thought of Uchiha Taku and his son Uchiha Fugaku, who had already begun contacting the village. It seemed that the power transition in the Hyuga clan was imminent.

Although the clan head has the right to designate his successor, namely Hyuga Hiashi, as the next head of the clan, other members of the main family also have the right to impeach the clan head. Of course, this has not happened since the village was founded.

However, maintaining good relations between the clan head and the main family is still a mandatory course for each generation of successors. Although the main family also has the obligation to protect the clan head, they are free when they do not need to protect him.

To ensure that the main family doesn't cause trouble, the patriarch will definitely work with them to build a community of shared interests to prevent the main family from going out and doing reckless things, but Qian Dou, that fool, probably didn't realize it.

He just complained, "Then the clan leader sent that Naoko over. On the first night, she climbed into my bed, which scared me so much that I ran out and did extra training all night."

I don't even dare to cultivate in the clan's territory anymore. She comes running over as soon as I sweat. It's so annoying. It's the same with food. She has to test everything for poison. By the time she finishes testing, the food is cold.

"So you're sleeping in the middle of the day now?"

Tatsuma asked, and Sento nodded matter-of-factly, saying, "She hogs my bed every night, what can I do?"

"You're really great."

Tatsuma gave Sento a thumbs up and asked, "The Eight Gates Formation you learned doesn't seem to require one to be a virgin, does it?"

"No, as long as you don't overindulge, it'll be fine."

"So you have absolutely no desires?"

"I don't know her. She's not my type."

Qian Dou blushed and sat up, looking embarrassed and angry. "What do you want from me? Tell me I'm going to train."

"Go on a mission."

"real?!"

"Hmm, let's go to the Land of Water. Among the enemies, there might be Yui."

As soon as Chenma finished speaking, Qiandou's face flushed red again, not from shyness, but from excitement. He clenched his fist and asked, "Does Tianfeng know about this?"

"I've already notified them. They're probably sharpening their knives at home right now."

Compared to Sento's excitement, Tatsuma recalled Tenka's excessively calm attitude when he heard the news, and knew that the guy had truly decided to kill.

Chenma patted Qiandou on the shoulder and said, "This is your first mission, and it's a very important one for both you and Tianfeng. Do you feel ready?"

"Of course! I've been training day and night for this very day!"

From the day he learned that his enemy was Suyuu, Sento devoted more effort than ever before, learning the Eight Gates in order to defeat this bastard who had considered harming him and had also harmed his friends' family.

Looking at the spirited Sento, Tatsuma asked, "It may be presumptuous of me, but I'd like to know, to what extent have you mastered the Eight Gates?"

"I've already mastered the fifth gate, the Gate of Blockage. If necessary, opening the sixth gate, the Gate of View, is no problem. In fact, if Brother Dai hadn't disagreed with me exploring the seventh and eighth gates so early, I might have even found the knack for it. But it doesn't matter."

Qian Dou touched the calluses on his hands and his slightly deformed knuckles, and said, "So-called self-discipline is to restrain the delusion of being powerful and climb step by step."

In this process, sweat and passion will not betray youth, and strength will naturally and unexpectedly arrive—this is my way of the ninja. I will let everyone who knows me witness my youth!

After saying that, he stood up and said, "Tatsuma, when are we leaving? I can't wait! No, I have to control myself. Let's start by running five hundred handstand laps around Konoha!"

Tatsuma found it particularly easy to chat with these hot-blooded idiots. As long as they could bear the awkwardness, they would have a pleasant conversation on their own. He didn't stop Sento from running out upside down.

"This is youth!"

After his initial remark, Chenma suddenly realized they hadn't gotten to the main point of their conversation. He quickly chased after him, calling out, "You haven't asked me about the mission details, or the time and place!"

"It's okay! As long as you put in enough effort, you can reach the other side of youth! No matter what the mission is, no matter where the mission is located, no matter who the enemy is, as long as you charge forward, you will achieve victory!!"

(End of this chapter)