I founded the "Bragging Cult" in Naruto.

Chapter 614 The goals of greedy people are always those that cannot be quantified.

Tatsuma had never felt so deadly. In front of him were Minato and his son, and behind him, on the other side of the broken bridge, were the people of Loulan, as well as Choza, Kakashi, and Yamato, who had just woken up and been brought there by Kakashi.

At this moment, Tatsuma, who was in the spotlight, was not wearing any clothes.

Chenma quickly clapped his hands, and wisps of vines intertwined around his body, transforming into clothes. He tried to cover up his confusion, saying, "What clothes? What's wrong with my clothes?"

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Even with the dragon vein in danger, everyone stared at Chenma speechlessly. Chenma's face was so red it was almost black, and he wished he could immediately cast a spell to make everyone forget this scene.

"Tatsuma? You're the Fourth Hokage that older brother was talking about?"

Naruto realized what was happening and said with a look of resistance, "Impossible! How could the Fourth Hokage be this curly-haired pervert?!"

"Bang!"

Tatsuma teleported in mid-air to Naruto's side and delivered a sharp rap on the head, causing Naruto to see stars. Tatsuma then raised his hand again and looked at Minato.

Minato lowered his head knowingly and inserted the Flying Thunder God Kunai into the center of the dragon vein. A complex sealing technique unfolded, and the power of the sealing technique, along with the power of space and time, quickly covered the dragon vein.

The dragon vein, which was originally out of control, gradually subsided under the effect of the sealing technique.

Minato then looked at Tatsuma with a complicated expression and asked, "Did you take a bath in the dragon vein's torrent?"

"snort!"

Tatsuma didn't respond. He looked at Naruto, whose body suddenly glowed, and the white snake coiled in the corner. Without saying a word, he began to form hand seals.

"Ninja Art! Drunken World Sealing Technique!"

A massive sealing technique unfolded, covering the entire area of ​​Loulan. Minato said, "This concerns spacetime, so sealing memories is indeed necessary, but are you... settling a personal score?"

"I'll give you one minute to say goodbye."

Tatsuma didn't immediately activate the sealing technique. Instead, he said something. Minato was taken aback, then nodded and looked at Naruto, who had just woken up and was shouting and yelling, not knowing what had happened to him.

"Naruto! You should go back now, and leave your memories here. This sealing technique will seal away all related memories."

"But you said you had something to tell me. If my memories are sealed, I..."

Naruto looked at Minato with some excitement. The child was simple-minded, but he had guessed something. Minato, seeing Naruto's excited expression and even the slight glint of tears in his eyes, gave him a gentle, sunny smile and said:

"One day you will hear it, from someone who knows you better."

"Big brother, could it be that..."

"If I had a child, I would raise him to be a ninja like you, like Naruto."

Minato patted Naruto's head, glanced at the people on the other side of the bridge, and said, "Go and say goodbye properly."

"I"

Naruto wanted to say something, but seeing Minato's gentle, even loving gaze, he wiped his eyes and jumped over there.

Minato stood up, gazing at Naruto's figure, and said to Tatsuma, "You knew about him earlier, didn't you? Mine..."

Chenma patted him on the shoulder and said, "Everything that goes by leaves a trace. Even if you don't remember it later, you can't erase the experience."

"yes."

Nodding, Minato pointed to a corner and said, "Is that... Lord Orochimaru from another world? He seems to be planning to resist your sealing technique."

"He can't do it."

Tatsuma turned his head, looked in that direction, and said softly, "I succeeded."

The white snake stopped what it was doing, stared at Chenma with both eyes, then flicked its tongue and coiled up into a ball.

Looking at the joyful scene in the distance, and Naruto's figure fading into the distance, Minato gently rubbed his slightly sore eyes and said in a nasal tone, "That's enough."

"Um."

Tatsuma nodded, activating the sealing technique. A surge of chakra instantly engulfed everyone. Just then, Minato said softly, "And you?"

"I am a variable."

As soon as he finished speaking, a flash of white light appeared, and a massive chakra shock knocked everyone unconscious. Tatsuma gently waved his hand, and Minato, Choza, and Kakashi were lifted up by invisible fine sand and left with Tatsuma.

Reaching a tall building, Chenma found the various scrolls he had left behind beforehand. He had hidden them when he entered the dragon vein, but he had overlooked something: his clothes.

Fortunately, no one will remember anymore.

Damn it, I still remember. Maybe I should seal away my memories too? There's no better memory than this.

"Is the mission complete?"

But Minato's voice interrupted Tatsuma's hesitation. Tatsuma nodded and said, "Yes, it's over."

"Very good."

Minato jumped off the shifting sand, retrieved a scroll, unrolled it, examined it, and then said with a puzzled look, "The mission log seems quite incomplete."

"There are too many things that are inconvenient to record, but Loulan is indeed no longer a threat."

Upon hearing this, Minato nodded, looked at Choza and Kakashi who were still unconscious, then looked at Tatsuma, sized him up, and said, "You must have experienced a lot on this trip. You look... different."

"Why is it different?"

"I can't explain it. I feel much more at ease. However, with my memories sealed away, this kind of change in my state of mind shouldn't have happened."

Minato frowned, while Tatsuma shrugged without explaining. Minato hesitated for a moment, then stopped pressing the matter and said, "Isn't it about time we went back?"

"After I went back, I didn't have many opportunities to come out."

Tatsuma walked to the window, looked at the darkening sky and the stars, and said with some melancholy.

"That's the Hokage's office, not a prison. Your tone is really irritating."

Minato walked up to Tatsuma and said with a smile, "Where a person is, there is a cage." Tatsuma turned around, propped himself up on the windowsill, and said, "Where a person is, there is a cage."

The so-called bonds are just chains that gradually turn people into puppets. Even the Sage of Six Paths, let alone the "Hokage," was actually being manipulated.

It seems that people are all like this: when they are young, they fantasize that they will be free when they grow up, but after they start working, they find that the cage is becoming more and more cramped. They think that they can be free when they climb to a high position, but it is just entering another cage.

Tatsuma's wish was simple: to live with passion for the world. He thought that someone at the level of the Sage of Six Paths could achieve it, but after this experience, he realized that wasn't the case.

Chenma even began to reflect on whether he had been too greedy.

Greedy people's goals are never quantifiable; they are not a million or ten million, nor are they one or two children. Instead, they aim to earn enough money to raise outstanding children.

These goals are endless, never-ending, like maintaining enthusiasm for the world—is it ten years' worth of enthusiasm, or twenty years' worth? There will surely come a day when it runs out, won't there? So be it.

How much will I do to avoid exhausting my passion? And will I regret doing all of these things?

"Perhaps there is something that makes people willingly act as puppets, and even feel happy or proud of it. Don't you like to measure things by benefits? There must be some price that you feel is worth it."

Minato looked at Tatsuma and said seriously. Tatsuma smiled, nodded, and said, "Alright, let's continue living each day while it's still worthwhile. We'll talk about it again when it's no longer worthwhile."

Minato knew that he hadn't really convinced Tatsuma, since Tatsuma wasn't the kind of person who could be swayed by a few words. But... let's leave it at that for now.

"Let's go back after Choza and Kakashi wake up. I'm going to go find some food. What about you?"

"I want to go for a walk and remember more of the scenery outside."

Tatsuma slid down from the windowsill, and Minato nodded, saying, "Then let's gather again later."

"it is good."

The two of them transformed into two streaks of light and vanished.

In a camp in the desert, only a few people were keeping watch, most of them had already fallen asleep. Chenma suddenly appeared in a small tent.

He gently placed a scroll on the bedside table. There was a person lying on the bed, but Tatsuma's arrival did not cause any commotion, not even the draft that leaked in.

"I forgot to make room when I was planning. Take care."

Tatsuma murmured, gently touching the forehead of Yoko, who was about to wake up upon hearing the sound. Watching her fall back asleep, Tatsuma turned and left the tent.

As soon as Tatsuma stepped outside, he saw a pair of glowing green bean eyes staring at him. It was Shukaku, who had always lived here. Tatsuma waved to it.

Shukaku, unusually "docile," approached and asked, "Have you seen that person?"

"Um."

Tatsuma patted Shukaku's head, getting his hand covered in sand. He shook it off in disgust and said, "Don't get so close to me next time."

"whispering sound!"

Shukaku peeked into the tent and asked, "How much longer am I going to have to stay here?"

"Whatever you want to do, just stay put if you don't have anywhere to go."

Tatsuma glanced at the patrolling men in the distance and said, "We probably won't have many chances to meet again. Take care."

"It's best if we never see each other again."

Before Shukaku could finish speaking, Tatsuma disappeared from the camp. A gaze fell on the spot where Tatsuma had been standing. Seeing that it was Shukaku, the Sand Ninja on guard quickly looked away.

I dared not comment on Shukaku's wandering around the camp at night, after all, he is a night owl.

In the early morning, Yekura woke up and saw something that had suddenly appeared on her bedside table. She immediately became alert, a kunai appeared in her hand, and her spiritual and physical energy was continuously refined and fused into chakra.

After remaining vigilant for a while and confirming that there were no enemies, she carefully opened the scroll. After hesitating several times, she broke the seal. It wasn't anything dangerous or valuable.

Half a bottle of wine, and a pair of non-prescription gold-rimmed glasses.

Ye Cang lowered his hands, sat back on the bed, and after a long while, he snorted and muttered to himself, "Damn coward."

In the Hokage's office in Konoha, Hiruzen Sarutobi paused his speech, looked at the somewhat absent-minded Tatsuma, and asked, "You don't seem too happy about this succession?"

Chenma snapped out of his reverie, shook his head, and said, "No, it's just that the feeling of having a heavy responsibility on my shoulders makes me a little timid."

Hiruzen Sarutobi nodded with deep understanding and said, "Actually, I had similar feelings back then, feeling that I was not capable enough and could not do the job. But after I actually succeeded to the position, no one ever said that I was unworthy of the position."

That's how many things are; you can't truly feel them by actually participating and experiencing them, whether they're wonderful or painful. Goals and paths based solely on imagination and planning are always daunting.

"I've learned a lot, Third Hokage."

(End of this chapter)