Naruto

On the outskirts of Konoha Village, Naruto was sitting alone by a stream, holding a ball of chakra in his right hand, staring at the constantly churning blue vortex, emptying his brain and blocking out all interference from the surrounding environment.

"Seeing" the tiny ripples caused by the chakra balls in the smooth flow of time.

"Because of this, I have been unable to control the flow of time around the location where chakra exists." Naruto thought.

He integrated his consciousness into the time flow that supported the world's context, adjusted the chakra he output and the waves stirred in the time flow to a resonance state, and after reaching the resonance, he stretched Chakra into

The flow of time is like a net, reducing its local flow speed. Correspondingly, in the real scene, there is also an obvious lag in the rotation of the blue vortex.

"Successful!" The flash of surprise destroyed Naruto's concentration, and the effect of time slowing also stopped.

"It seems that I need more practice to combine this ability into intense battles. How about...who is it?!" Naruto noticed the strange noise coming from the trees behind him, held a kunai in his right hand, and shouted sternly

He asked.

"It's us, Brother Naruto, we just want to see... how you practice ninjutsu." Three small figures jumped out from the bushes, looking at the murderous intent revealed in Naruto's eyebrows, and timidly

said.

They are none other than Naruto's little followers, Sarutobi Konohamaru, Kazamatsu Moehuang and Ise Udon. The leader, Sarutobi Konohamaru, is the grandson of the third Hokage, Sarutobi Hiruzen.

But the next second, their expressions froze. Not only did Naruto not relax because of their words, he actually raised his left hand and threw a shuriken in the direction of the three of them. Just when they were frightened

At the critical moment, the shuriken grazed their bodies, but the shock wave caused by breaking the sound barrier still made their bodies lose their balance and fell to the ground in embarrassment. Then they heard a metallic sound in the ear-piercing sonic boom.

The clear sound produced by the collision.

In the ninja world, the elite jounin can throw shurikens with all their strength and can exceed the speed of sound. This is why gunpowder has not appeared in this world. After all, detonating charms are much easier to use than explosives, and the speed of early musket bullets is also far faster.

It is not as valuable as the hidden weapons thrown by the ninjas.

After Konohamaru and the others calmed down, they looked back and found that the three previous shurikens had fallen to the ground, and there was a flying kunai stuck in the round hole in the center of each shuriken. At this time, Naruto also

Passing by them, he held a head-sized blue ball of light in his right hand. Accompanied by the howling wind, he galloped forward and rushed into the bushes like a meteor.

"Da Jade Rasengan!"

"Boom -" A wave of air exploded with a loud noise, sawdust and gravel flew everywhere under the influence of the shock wave, and the raised dust obscured the sight of the three people.

"It's so cunning to use robots to avoid detection of the barrier in the village!" Konohamaru, Udon and Moehuang heard Naruto's angry cry, and then saw three identical Narutos appearing.

In front of them, he quickly picked them up and jumped to the edge of the stream.

"I didn't care to talk just now, are you hurt?" Naruto gently put the three of them on the ground, and the calm expression on his face made their hanging hearts return to their stomachs.

Konohamaru saw Naruto calmly dispelling the other two shadow clones, and his eyes lit up like a little fanboy seeing his idol: "Wow! Naruto-nii, what you did just now was so cool!"

Naruto smiled and said to the three of them: "If you can successfully graduate from school and become ninjas by then, I will teach you a few tricks."

"Really?" the three asked longingly.

"Of course it's true! I always keep my word! It's time to eat now, right? Why don't we go eat takoyaki together?" Naruto pointed to himself with his thumb, and a bright smile appeared on his face.

"Okay!" Menghuang agreed excitedly.

"Brother, you have been busy practicing all day, and you haven't even seen us since we entered school!" Konohamaru shouted angrily.

"Ah ha, I'm really sorry. Let me treat you this time as an apology." Naruto touched the back of his head with his right hand and laughed innocently.

At the same time, at the center of the explosion, Tsunade, who had begun acting as part of the Hokage's affairs, was standing with her assistant Shizune and a shadow clone of Naruto, looking at the bottom of the pit where the Rasengan had crushed it into a ball of scrap metal.

of robots.

"I'm sorry, I seemed to have struck too hard just now." Naruto said apologetically.

"...Forget it, as long as you are all fine." Tsunade waved her hand, "How strong is this thing?"

"Taking into account its stealth ability and lack of chakra fluctuations, it is comparable to chunin. Ordinary genin will be killed before they have time to react." Naruto replied with a frown.

"It seems that this kind of robot can only be used to spy on intelligence." Tsunade breathed a sigh of relief.

"What if there are tens of thousands of them together? With the fire support from the air and the powerful rebel ninja organized by Akatsuki, can they flatten a ninja village or destroy a small country?" Naruto thought of the various science fiction works he had seen in his previous life.

He asked rhetorically, "There are less than 100,000 ninjas in our village, one less person will be sacrificed, and the other party's losses will soon be replenished."

As the most important military base of the Fire Country, Konoha Village has a total population of nearly half a million, of which only about one-fifth are ninjas.

"This is indeed a difficult question." Tsunade thought carefully for a while and had to agree with Naruto's statement.

"But fortunately, this robot has provided us with some clues." Naruto walked to the remains of the robot, stretched out his hand to fiddle with it for a while, picked up a green circuit board fragment, and showed it to Tsunade and Shizune, "This is

The main components of this robot's chip are not much different from our existing chips, they are still monocrystalline silicon and aluminum alloy."

"What's so special about this?" Tsunade asked puzzled.

"I remember that the consortium to which the Daimyo of the Country of Wind belongs controls more than 95% of monocrystalline silicon production, and most of the aluminum in the world is produced in the Country of Fire. If we can convince the two Daimyos to

Monitoring the output of the two materials can not only curb Akatsuki's production capacity, but also maybe find out the merchants and ninja groups who are secretly cooperating with them, and catch them all." Naruto clenched the five fingers of his right hand, raised it slightly, and said

He made a gesture to close the fishing net.

"I understand." Tsunade replied solemnly.

"In addition, long-distance radio communication without the help of chakra must rely on relay equipment, which is also a clue." Naruto thought for a moment and added.

"I will send someone to check." Tsunade nodded.

"How is Sakura and Kaoru's training going?" Naruto asked seemingly relaxed. Tsunade could feel his heartbeat suddenly speeding up.

"Xiang Rin, everything is normal, but Sakura..." Tsunade frowned slightly, with a hint of worry in her tone.

"What's wrong, Sakura? Grandma Tsunade, please don't show off!" Naruto's previous calmness was suddenly thrown into the Kingdom of Water. In his eagerness, he once again said the taboo name and asked the piggy to be held by the side.

Doudou Shizune even sweated for him.

But to her surprise, Tsunade did not bother with the issue of the title. She just glared at Naruto and said slowly: "Sakura is too impatient now. In addition to learning medical ninjutsu from me every day,

I will also add extra training to myself. Although my learning progress is very fast, my body and mind are beginning to be a bit too much."

Naruto lowered his head and said, "That's it..."

Of course he knew the reason why Sakura was training so hard. As a girl with an ordinary background and who had never had any adventures, Sakura had always felt that she was the laggard in the team and was under tremendous psychological pressure since the survival exercise.

, even Kakashi’s repeated persuasion has no effect.

She is also a strong person. As a companion, do I care too little about her? Naruto blamed himself in his heart.

"I will enlighten her before I leave. Don't worry, Granny Tsunade. If you need my help with anything else, just send someone to me." After saying that, Naruto made a sign of the cross with his hands.

With a "bang" sound, it turned into a line of white smoke and disappeared.

"This brat is really..." Tsunade shook her head with a smile and said to Shizune, "When you go back, sort out what he just said and write it into a detailed report and give it to me."

Shizune was stunned for a moment, and after Dodo made several dissatisfied noises, she answered as if she was waking up from a dream: "Yes, Tsunade-sama."

After Naruto and Konohamaru had eaten takoyaki, they rushed to the pond where Sakura practiced water escape. Not surprisingly, he saw a familiar figure.

A girl with short pink hair. She condensed the water attribute chakra into her right hand and turned it into a high-pressure water gun, accurately cutting the pre-drawn marked position on the ground. Sweat was flowing on the girl's face, her expression was extremely focused, and she even screamed

She didn't even notice that people were coming behind her.

"Sakura, are you practicing water escape again?" Naruto stepped forward and said hello, then turned back and avoided the roundhouse kick that swept across his chest.

"Huh - you really scared me to death, Naruto, why are you so elusive?" Sakura retracted her kicked leg and said angrily.

"I'm wronged! I walked behind you in the most normal way, why did you become invisible? And you kicked so hard, how could you look like you were scared?" Naruto clapped his hands in fear.

He patted his chest and shouted loudly.

"..." As if she felt that she was in the wrong, Sakura quickly changed the subject, "Why did you come to my place when you have nothing to do?"

"I will be leaving the village in a few days, and Kakashi-sensei is not here right now, so I thought... let's go for a walk together and then have dinner. What do you think?" Naruto's blue eyes were filled with laughter.

With some expectations.

"But my training mission today has not been completed yet..." Sakura was a little reluctant.

"It's only half a day, it doesn't matter! Look, I'm not practicing now either." Naruto shouted, waving his hands.

"There's really nothing I can do about you..." Sakura shook her head, and was about to walk towards the inside of the village when she suddenly felt weak in her limbs, the world was spinning, and her consciousness fell into a groggy darkness. The last thing that caught her eyes was Naru.

His face was full of blood and his pupils suddenly narrowed.

Three hours later, in the general ward of Konoha Hospital, Sakura opened her eyes, groaned, and woke up from a brief coma.

"You're finally awake, Sakura. Come on, let me help you sit up." A warm and strong hand placed on her back, gently propped up her upper body and placed her on a soft cushion.

"Thank you, Naruto. I just...what happened?" Sakura asked weakly after recognizing the person waiting beside the hospital bed.

"Autonomic nerve dysfunction is caused by excessive fatigue." Naruto picked up a porcelain bowl and handed it to Sakura, "You are still relatively weak now and are not suitable for eating other things. Drink some vegetable porridge first to make a base.

Bar."

Sakura scooped up a spoonful of porridge and put it into her mouth. The porridge was thick and warm, but it didn't burn her mouth at all. While she drank the porridge, she listened to Naruto say: "Grandma Tsunade

I've already checked it out. It's not a big problem. You can fully recover within a day of training. I created a shadow clone and told your parents that you have to perform an emergency mission for the time being and can't go home. Don't think too much about anything tonight.

Feel free to rest here."

Sakura's eyes were aroused by the heat of the vegetable porridge, and tears flowed down with a "swish" sound. Naruto sighed, stepped forward, took the porridge bowl from her hand, and hugged her into his arms

Middle: "Cry loudly. If you have any stress, worries, or depression, just cry hard and everything will be fine."

Sakura leaned on his shoulder, sobbing silently, and her tears wet the brown T-shirt he was wearing. Seeing that Sakura was almost crying, Naruto took out a napkin and wiped the tears from her face.

. He held Xiao Sakura's shoulders with both hands, looked directly into her eyes, and said softly: "Practice is a step-by-step process, and doing it too hastily will only bring counter-effects."

"I just……"

"I understand, Sakura, we all see your efforts. But destroying your body in such an extreme way will only cause pain to those who care about you, and will not have any positive impact on your practice.

role.”

"Besides, we have never regarded you as a burden. You were, are, and will always be, an indispensable part of Team 7, my companion of Uzumaki Naruto, Haruno Sakura."

"Then what should I do?" Sakura looked a little helpless.

"You should eat now and take good care of yourself." Naruto handed the porridge bowl to Sakura again and said solemnly.

After Sakura finished her porridge, Naruto removed the cushions behind her, covered her with a quilt, then turned off the lights in the ward, and said softly: "Sleep well. I will stay awake tonight.

By your side."

In the dim light, Sakura looked at Naruto's childish face, and felt a different kind of warmth in her heart.