Naruto

While Naruto's true body was arguing with his buddies, one of his shadow clones was sitting on the bench, looking at each other in silence with Sakura.

"Did Sasuke really not ask about me at all?" Sakura asked calmly.

"I'm sorry, Sakura, he..."

"It doesn't matter. I have already expected this result. Wake up early so that you can focus on more important things."

"Future Sasuke said this out of concern for you. Don't take it seriously."

"I know. Don't worry, Naruto, I won't blame him."

Naruto looked at Sakura's expression, found nothing wrong, and felt a little relieved. He stretched out his right hand, handed a pendant to Sakura, and whispered: "...If you encounter any danger, just head here.

Enter chakra into it, and this pendant will project a chakra image that belongs to me to assist you in fighting. At the same time, my body in Miaomu Mountain can also sense that this seal has been triggered, and rush back to save the situation."

Sakura took the pendant, her fingers brushed the rough bandage on the blond boy's right hand, and it trembled slightly. She looked at the pair of blue eyes, and complained in a low voice: "I didn't ask you to be nice these days.

Rest?"

"Haha, I will definitely follow Dr. Haruno's instructions next time, only Sakura's orders will be followed... Oops!" Naruto was stunned for a moment, then stood up with a playful smile, and gave the girl a breast-stroking salute solemnly.

Without any suspense, he received an iron fist, turned into a ball of white smoke, and dissipated with a "bang".

"This guy..." Sakura clenched her fists loudly and shouted to the bushes behind the bench, "Have you seen enough excitement?"

"How did you find me?" A girl with a golden ponytail walked out from behind the tree. It was Sakura's best friend, Yamanaka Ino.

"You were hiding too close, and we could all hear your heartbeat. But Naruto gave me a signal at first, saying that he didn't feel any malice." Sakura stared at the crystal formed by solid chakra.

The gleaming light emitted under the sun, feeling the extremely familiar temperature in the palm of my hand, answered softly.

"...You are all monsters, right?" Ino sat next to Sakura and sighed quietly.

"Huh, I've probably been teammates with two, no, three monsters for so long that I'm used to it." Sakura was about to put the necklace into her bag, but was stopped by Ino in the middle of the action.

"Hey, don't be too busy putting it away! Let me see what the gift Naruto-kun gave you looks like!" Ino curiously put his face on Sakura's palm and carefully looked at the translucent red crystal.

, his eyes almost turned into heart shapes, "So beautiful! You are so lucky to receive such a thoughtful gift from Naruto-kun!"

"Don't you like Sasuke? Why do you care about Naruto again?" Sakura did not answer his question directly, but asked in return.

"Didn't you also see the battle three days ago? Naruto-kun easily smashed the meteorites falling from the sky with a ninjutsu. He looked calm and calm, and was not afraid of danger. He was so handsome!" Ino exclaimed in a nymphomaniacal manner!

He made a sound, and then said in an angry voice, "For such a gentle, kind and powerful man, you still want to treat him so cruelly, you really don't know how blessed you are in the midst of your blessings."

Sakura looked at Ino's envious expression, and several scenes she had seen with her own eyes suddenly flashed through her mind:

Naruto lay on the bed, clutching the quilt helplessly, making low begging sounds from his mouth;

Before Sasuke left Konoha with his brother, he looked at the deserted Uchiha clan for the last time;

Kakashi walked past the cemetery, silently wiping off the names of each one who had either passed away in the Pure Land or had turned into an enemy.

When everyone envies, praises, rejects, and hates them, how many people see these things behind them?

"He is just a big idiot, you just haven't seen him before." Sakura replied in her usual tone.

"Then do you still like Sasuke?" Ino asked cautiously.

Sakura held the pendant in her hand tightly and shook her head: "I have more important things to do now than love."

Ino didn't expect Sakura's answer. She looked at her blankly and was silent for a while before asking: "Can I watch your next actual combat drill?"

"At 1:30 this evening, at the 45th training ground, Naruto will practice with me for a while. I will tell him then." Sakura said to Ino with a faint smile, "Our training is different from other groups.

Compared to being closer to actual combat, you have to be mentally prepared."

So in the afternoon, after Naruto finished cleaning the ancestral home that had not been lived in for more than ten years, he met the four members of the third team waiting there with Sakura at the 45th training ground.

"Asuma-sensei, why are you here?" Naruto asked in surprise.

"I want to see how Kakashi's students are trained, and learn from them. Do you mind if we steal from you?" Asuma asked with a smile, holding a straw in his mouth.

"I don't mind, I don't mind." Naruto smiled and waved his hand, turning to look at Sakura, "But today's training is..."

"Just fight freely. Are you still shy?" The girl chuckled.

"Then please take a few steps back. We will start the actual combat drill immediately." Naruto said to the third class.

The 45th training ground is covered by a dense coniferous forest, and the location where everyone is located is a wide forest glade. The ground is covered with thick pine needles, and the sound of "rustling" underfoot is heard in the quiet forest.

can be heard clearly.

After the other four people retreated to a safe position, Naruto and Sakura formed the Seal of Opposition, bowed slightly to each other, and said in unison: "Please enlighten me!"

The four people watching the battle watched their actions nervously. They saw that both of them chose to form the hand gesture of the Seal of Opposition and completed the casting of the ninjutsu almost at the same time:

"Earth escape? Earth flow wall!"

"Water Escape? Water Breaking Wave!"

Naruto knew that Sakura was good at water release ninjutsu, so he chose to use the earth flow wall that restrained water release ninjutsu for defense. However, the water break wave (high-pressure water gun) gathered all the power at one point and stabbed easily.

It penetrated the thick earth flow wall and shot directly towards Naruto.

"Earth escape? Rock pillar gun!"

Naruto did not passively dodge, but directed chakra into the ground, condensed it into spikes, and thrust them out from the bottom up where Sakura was standing. Sakura noticed the abnormal movement of chakra in the ground, and turned over to avoid the attack of the rock spikes.

, but due to the change in position, the water gun spit out of his mouth fell into the air.

Naruto dispersed the chakra from the earth flow wall and touched the ninja tool bag with his right hand. Several cold stars flew out from his hand and collided with the shuriken thrown by Sakura during the dodge, sending out several crisp blasts.

The sound bounced all the latter away.

"Wind escape? Vacuum jade!"

After Naruto fired his hidden weapon, he quickly formed seals with his hands and spit out several huge air bombs from his mouth, mixed with several of Sakura's own shurikens, and flew towards her. Due to the huge range of the air bombs, in a hurry,

There was no way to avoid it, so Sakura could only

He formed a seal with his hands and summoned a wall of water for defense:

"Water escape? Water formation wall!"

"Earth escape? Rock pillar gun!" Naruto repeated his old trick and once again used earth spikes to interfere with Sakura's defense. The latter had no choice but to remove the water formation wall, cross his hands in front of his chest to block, and jump up to avoid the ground.

The last air bomb hit Sakura's body, pushing her body and breaking two or three small trees, and finally hit the thick trunk of a big tree heavily.

"Sakura!" Ino yelled in pain and found that Naruto not only did not stop, but instead gathered a ball of chaotically rotating chakra balls in his right hand. He swung his right hand and threw it forward.

"Wind Release? Rasengan!"

On the other hand, although Sakura was a little embarrassed, she had predicted the location of the attack in advance and gathered some chakra at the injured area. As soon as the wound appeared, it healed quickly. She felt a ball of energy far more concentrated than the previous air bomb.

Chakra rushed towards him at a high speed, and he did not dare to be careless. He rolled and avoided the Wind Release Rasengan. The latter easily opened a big hole in the big tree and flew deeper into the forest.

"Sure enough, he still showed mercy..." Sakura turned back to the battlefield while silently thinking about countermeasures, "I don't take advantage of long-range attacks, so I can only try close combat."

After deciding on the battle plan, she relied on her skills and reaction speed honed through hard training over the past year to avoid several shurikens fired by the opponent and quickly close the distance between the two.

"Close combat? I like it." A smile appeared on Naruto's face, he picked up a kunai from his sleeve with his right hand and rushed towards Sakura.

"Dang!" The weapons of the two people met, and there was a clear sound. The boy directed the force of Sakura's weapon to one side along the smooth edge of his kunai, and used his left fist with strong wind, mercilessly

He swung it towards Sakura's face. Although the latter's body was a little unbalanced by the opponent's unloading technique, she still used her right arm to block his fist in time. At the same time, she raised her right leg and used it against his lower body.

A knee strike. Naturally, Naruto couldn't wait for himself to be hit. Using the place where his left fist and Sakura collided as a fulcrum, Naruto rotated half a circle clockwise, avoiding this vicious attack. At the same time, his body also

He turned behind Sakura, flipped his right wrist, and stabbed the kunai forward fiercely. Sakura hurriedly bent down, letting the kunai pass over her head, cutting off a few strands of short pink hair.

Ino saw that the two people's attacks hit home every time, and felt worried for her best friend: "Naruto-kun is going too far. I thought he was a gentle and kind person."

"If he wasn't gentle and kind enough, Sakura would have died a long time ago. There is no mercy in a real mission." Shikamaru curled his lips, defended his friend, and then turned to Sarutobi Asuma, "Hey, Ah

Teacher Sima, does this kind of practice that can lead to death at any time really have any reference value?"

"Isn't the strength they are showing now the best proof of the effectiveness of this method?" Asma stared at the battle on the field and said lightly, "It seems that your usual training methods also require

Fine-tune it, I can't lose too much to that guy Kakashi."

"Ah——?" The three of them, Zhuludie, looked at the almost fist-to-flesh exchange on the field and screamed in horror.

The two people on the training ground fell into an unusual stalemate. Since they were both very familiar with each other's taijutsu moves, even though Naruto had many years of combat experience and better physical fitness, he could only have a slight upper hand.

Sakura's arms were left with several shallow wounds, and she did not gain an absolute advantage that could determine the outcome of the battle.

Sakura struggled to block Naruto's attack, feeling that there was very little chakra left in her body, and her heart was cruel. When Naruto used a roundhouse kick towards her head, she did not dodge.

Instead, he took a deep breath and gathered half of the remaining available chakra into his mouth.

"Water Escape? Heaven weeps!"

Sakura's chakra turned into tiny water needles and sprayed out from her mouth at high speed. Because the distance between the two was very close, Naruto could only rely on his instinctive reaction gained from long-term training to dodge, but there were still many water needles piercing him.

He ignored the tingling nerves all over his body and the internal organs that might have been bleeding. Instead, he removed the chakra from his legs, tried to slow down the speed of his roundhouse kick, and moved the collision point from the back of his head near the brainstem to

A stronger skull.

The four people watching the battle did not notice these details. They only saw Naruto kicking Sakura on the head, causing her to fly backwards. They rushed to Sakura's side and checked her condition.

"Naruto, are you too harsh?" Ino turned to Naruto and yelled angrily.

"Yes...I'm sorry."

The image of hundreds of fine needles piercing Naruto's body just now appeared in Sakura's mind. She quickly stood up, pushed away everyone's support, and stumbled to him.

"I'm fine, Sakura, no need..." Naruto sat on the ground, and before he could finish speaking, Sakura pulled open his coat.

Sure enough, the blood had dyed his army green T-shirt red.

"How could..." Ino said in disbelief.

Sakura ignored her shyness and lifted up the other person's T-shirt. She gathered a ball of water and wiped away the blood on Naruto's skin, revealing the clearly visible muscle lines on his abdomen due to long-term exercise. She saw all the red ones.

The bleeding points were closed under the influence of Nine-Tails Chakra, and a green light appeared on his palm, which was pressed on his wound and began to treat his internal injuries.

"I'm sorry, Naruto..." Tears fell from Sakura's eyes and dripped onto Naruto's chest, "Obviously you kept your hands, but I..."

"Injury is a common occurrence for a ninja, Sakura. Never cry over it." Naruto looked into those mist-filled eyes and said slowly in a gentle but firm tone.

"I know." Sakura wiped her tears with her free left hand, took a deep breath, and forced herself to calm down, "Where are you hurt the most?"

Naruto turned his head and spit out a large mouthful of blood, staining a large area of ​​grass red. Then he raised his right hand to stop Sakura from stepping forward to rescue.

"The internal bleeding has stopped. The intra-abdominal pressure is just a little high now. Nothing else is a big deal. The injury is not as serious as when I was sparring with Kakashi-sensei." Naruto wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and put on his clothes.

He took off his clothes, stood up, and smiled nonchalantly, "Let me treat the trauma on your arm. You probably don't have enough chakra anymore, and I've recently learned the palm magic."

"Okay." Sakura obediently stretched out her injured arms. Looking at Naruto's serious look as he treated her wounds, she suddenly felt that the vague thoughts in her heart suddenly became extremely clear.

When you warm others with such light and heat, who can see you licking your wounds alone in the dark?

"Okay!" Naruto let go of Sakura's arm and grinned.

Let me be the one who shares your joy when you are happy and wipes your tears when you are sad.

"Thank you." Sakura smiled softly and quietly, showing at that moment

Naruto was slightly stunned by his graceful appearance.

I don't want to love so selfishly or so reluctantly anymore.

"You're welcome, this is what I should do." Naruto came to his senses, waved his hands with a red face, and whispered, "Your internal injuries are not a big problem, right? Although I controlled my strength a little at the time, but if anything happens

…”

Because love is not possessive or demanding.

"I'm a medical ninja, so I can tell, so don't worry." Sakura's tone was brisk and her smile was as bright as a flower.

Love gives nothing but itself and takes nothing but itself.

"That's because I'm talking too much." Naruto touched his head in confusion, feeling that Sakura's attitude towards him seemed to have undergone some inexplicable changes.

"Your daily practice is really dangerous. Kakashi-sensei actually dares to let you do such nonsense." Shikamaru said to break the weird atmosphere between the two.

"Only through this method can we gain real combat experience and improve our strength." Sakura tangled her hair around her temples and replied calmly.

"Click, click, click..."

"You also saw the enemy attack a few days ago. Konoha is threatened by more than just one place." Naruto said with a serious face.

"Click, click, click..."

"To tell you the truth, Orochimaru wanted to stir up trouble during the second round of the Chunin Exam, but..."

"Click, click, click..."

"Chouji! We are discussing such a serious topic, can't you put down the potato chips for a while?" Naruto shouted frantically.

"Here." Choji generously handed the potato chips to Naruto.

"I'm not so naive! It's actually cucumber flavored. It's really heavy." Naruto looked at the package and grunted in disgust.

"What about this? This is your favorite barbecue flavor." Choji took out another bag of potato chips from somewhere and stuffed it into Naruto's hand.

"I said I don't want it...

Forget it, since you gave it to me, just try a small piece...

Click, click, click...

Hmm, it’s really delicious. Where did you buy it, Chouji?”

"It's in a store called FamilyMart. I'll take you to have a look when you come back!"

"Yeah!"

Do you dare to repeat what you said a minute ago? Everyone sneered silently.

Sakura sighed, walked behind him, and grabbed his right ear.

"It hurts, it hurts..." Naruto grabbed the blue potato chip bag with his right hand and waved it up and down, screaming repeatedly.

"Stop worrying about potato chips, idiot! Asuma-sensei is still watching!" Sakura yelled into his eardrums, then let go of his ears.

"Oh...I know..." Naruto rubbed his red right ear, replied to Sakura with a sad face, then turned to Asuma and asked, "Teacher, do you have anything else to say?"

"You guys go and rest first. I saw your training pattern and it was very inspiring. Now I want to prepare a special training for these three guys." Asma looked at the three of them with a strange expression.

Zhuludie turned her head and looked at Mingying and Mingying with grief and anger.

"Ah haha, so that's it. I wish you success in your practice, and we'll take the first step!" Naruto laughed dryly and backed away. After saying that, he suddenly grabbed Sakura's hand and ran away.

"How despicable!"

"I should have known better that I shouldn't have given you that bag of potato chips!"

"How dare you get me into such trouble!"

Zhuludie looked at the two retreating figures and roared through gritted teeth.

"Haha, see you next time!"

A minute later, the two ran a short distance away, looking back at the location of the 45th training ground from a distance, and burst out laughing at the same time.

"Pfft hahaha... Shikamaru and Choji, these two lazy idiots, are finally forced to fight for once. It's so satisfying!"

"Haha, yes, Ino can finally focus on things other than flower arranging and nymphomaniacs this time!"

"..." After the laughter stopped, Naruto looked at the red sunset that was almost submerged below the horizon, shook his head and said, "It's getting late now, I should go."

"Where to go?"

"I'm going to take a look at the situation at Kakashi-sensei's place. You should go back first, Sakura. Your uncle and aunt will be worried if you are too late." Naruto waved his hand relaxedly and said goodbye to the girl.

"Wait a minute, Naruto," Sakura hesitated for a while and stopped the boy who was about to leave, "I have a small gift for you."

"Hey, it seems that everyone likes to give me small gifts now. When did I become so popular, haha." Naruto laughed feeling good about himself for a while.

"Is there anyone else? Who is it?"

"Grandma Tsunade, the first-generation necklace I am hanging around my neck was given to me by her."

"Close your eyes, put the potato chips on the ground, and stretch out your right hand." Sakura was silent for a long time and said angrily.

"Aren't you going to give a gift? Why are you suddenly angry again..." Naruto mumbled a few times while obeying the instructions.

Sakura looked at his thin eyebrows, the straight tip of his nose, and the three whisker-shaped birthmarks on his face that appeared under the influence of the Kyuubi. A red cloud appeared on his cheeks, and she put her left hand on his

The palm of your right hand and your right arm wrapped around his neck, and kissed his thin lips with lightning speed.

"Well..." Sakura saw Naruto's wide eyes, the cat whiskers trembling slightly on his face, and his face that looked like a ripe red apple; she felt the bandage on his palm.

The hot temperature was coming, and the muscles in his back had become as hard as rock due to tension.

But she ignored all of this and focused her whole body on this kiss, just like a moth rushing to a flame, Kua Fu chasing each other day by day without hesitation.

I don't know how long it took before Sakura reluctantly left Naruto's lips, savoring the lingering taste of pig iron in her mouth.

No, that was the smell of blood, the blood he spit out after being injured by himself.

When Sakura saw the other person's blank expression, she leaned close to his ear, blushed and murmured:

"Fool."

Without waiting for his answer, the girl let go of her arm, disappeared into the dense forest in a flash.

On the other side, the poor (?) Uzumaki Naruto came to his senses after a long time, touched his lips, felt the remaining warmth on them, and said as if he was waking up from a dream: "I...I...I...

Was he forcibly kissed by Sakura?!"

("Hahaha! How come this stupid kid hasn't inherited any of your cleverness from back then?" Kushina laughed wildly and hit Minato's chest.

"It is a good thing for Naruto to have such a proactive girl with him." A happy smile appeared on Minato's face.)