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The match ended. Rock Lee was sent to the hospital, and Naruto, supported by Sasuke, came to the small grove through the teleportation gate.
Sasuke trained alone, while Naruto pulled out a sofa, sat down, and rehydrated with a straw.
His legs were immobile, so he couldn't train. Naruto, with nothing to do, began to space out, trying to sense natural energy. After so many years of meditating, he had made some progress. Occasionally, for a brief moment, if he emptied his mind, he could also feel the presence of natural energy.
Sasuke felt like he was sitting on pins and needles. That feeling from his classroom days now enveloped him completely. Losing control of his strength for a moment, he punched clean through a tree trunk. He decided to find another spot.
He ran to Naruto's left, and the feeling disappeared. Sasuke began to punch trees again. Then, to Sasuke's astonishment, Naruto's head slowly turned.
What kind of ability is this? It comes with automatic targeting? Does that mean no matter where I run, you can automatically lock onto my direction just by spacing out?
What if I'm behind Naruto? How will he turn? Will he twist himself to death?
With a mindset of 'let's try it out,' Sasuke stood behind the sofa and activated his Sharingan to observe Naruto's movements. Naruto, spacing out, straightened his neck.
Just as Sasuke was about to breathe a sigh of relief, Naruto's neck snapped around, looking behind him: "Sasuke, what are you doing?"
"Nothing."
"Oh."
Naruto, vaguely guessing the reason, abandoned his spacing-out training method. His consciousness plunged into the Seal Space, preparing for the next wave of infrastructure development there.
Lying on the Nine-Tails' belly, Naruto pulled out wheels, wooden planks, nails, and other items from his storage and improvised an extremely simple wheelchair on the spot. He lowered the wheelchair to the ground with a rope, then grabbed the fox fur and climbed down, finally sitting steadily in the wheelchair. The Nine-Tails watched him the entire time with a look of 'caring for the mentally challenged.' If you wanted to get down, why didn't you say so earlier? I could have just given you a bounce from my belly.
Rolling in the wheelchair through several giant pools surrounding the Nine-Tails, Naruto arrived at the furnace and threw Mithril into it. He planned to build a water tower for the Nine-Tails. No, a soda tower.
The Nine-Tails now preferred to drink soda from a cup, but every time it scooped from the soda pool with a cup, some would spill. It wasn't about wasting it, but he didn't want the area around the Nine-Tails to be muddy like a pigsty.
To make things easier and more convenient, the Nine-Tails had pulled all the pools closer to itself, forming a circle. The layout was as follows:
Wall——————Wall
——Pool-Fox-Pool——
——Pool-Pool-Pool——
If the Nine-Tails kept spilling like this, it really could create a pigsty.
"Big fox, hand me that Mithril rod," Naruto yelled.
He had misthrown it due to his injury, and a piece of the Mithril ingot was stuck, needing to be poked down.
"Where?"
"Down there, by the sake pool."
"The old man doesn't see it."
"Don't lean back, you'll see it if you sit up."
The fox, who had been leaning against the wall for a long time in a 'lying cat' state, tried to sit up like a cat.
However, it failed.
Leaning back against the wall, the Nine-Tails ignored Naruto's heartbroken gaze and didn't move.
I see, you're just making it difficult for me, the fat fox.
Naruto felt a sense of myocardial infarction. The fox, which was originally imposing, agile, majestic, and aloof, had turned into this carefree, 'live pig unafraid of boiling water' state.
Give me back the move I felt when we first met!
Sage of Six Paths, you too. Why did you choose orange as the color? Why not white?
The Nine-Tails ignored him, continuing to eat, as if determined to make up for all the food it hadn't eaten for a thousand years. Since the fox was unreliable and he couldn't get to it himself, Naruto could only pull out another Mithril ingot, throw it, hoping to knock down the first one.
Then... the second one got stuck on the first one. If his legs weren't bad, Naruto would have kicked the furnace to see if he could shake them down.
An afternoon passed, and by evening, Naruto returned to normal. The Secret Technique: Nine-Second Death became stronger the longer it lasted, but its after-effects also became more severe. Six seconds meant two hours to recover, seven seconds meant half a day, eight seconds meant two days. Nine seconds he hadn't tried, but he probably wouldn't even last nine and a half seconds before it was 'game over' for him.
With his meridians recovered, Naruto had a Shadow Clone climb a tree, holding a colorful Rasengan as a strobe light.
Under disco-like lighting and battle-reversing background music, Naruto and Sasuke experimented with the insights gained from today's two battles. Because it was an experiment, their movements weren't fast. Combined with the lighting and music, they fought like they were performing an awkward dance.
After the fight, the two, drenched in sweat, jumped into a pond for a bath. Then, Naruto sent Sasuke home.
The next morning, neither of them received a mission notification, so they continued their daily training.
Around ten o'clock, Sakura arrived at the small grove, panting. She had received a summons from Tsunade that morning, saying Tsunade wanted to test her talent before deciding whether to teach her. Sakura, who had been incredibly excited to meet her idol, was bewildered by Tsunade's method of deciding what to teach based on a dice roll.
Tsunade wasn't ready to take on a personal disciple yet. Sakura could currently only be considered a nominal disciple, a status only slightly higher than an unofficial disciple. And how many unofficial disciples did Tsunade have? One by one, count them at Konoha Hospital: 9.5 out of 10 people were Tsunade's unofficial disciples. So, Tsunade's teaching methods were rather casual, and she even took the opportunity to place a small bet.
The devastating blow of her idol's image shattering nearly broke Sakura's worldview. She only regained her spirits after Tsunade told her to find her that evening. Then, she went to visit Jiraiya again. Sakura wasn't stupid. Tsunade wouldn't look for her without reason; someone must have recommended her. And the only person she had seen these past two days who could deal with Tsunade was Jiraiya. When she visited Jiraiya, she noticed he had two more slap marks on his face.
Sakura was already despairing over these legendary figures. Each of them was just too bizarre. Now, if someone told her the legendary First Hokage was a goofball, she'd believe it.
After visiting Jiraiya and preparing to go home, Sakura saw something else that shattered her worldview. Kakashi-sensei was on a date! And the other person was actually a girl!
Sakura, whose worldview was beyond hope of reconstruction, quickly went to find her two teammates. Naruto shot Sasuke a reproachful look.
Even Hinata doesn't know the location of this small grove, and you told Sakura? How can we have any secrets after this?
The first time Hinata came, she was young and got lost. The rest of the time, Naruto teleported her, so Hinata never knew that she was taken to the same small grove where she first got lost.
"Kakashi," Sasuke replied curtly.
Sakura was completely bewildered. What were these two talking about? Why couldn't she understand?
"Sakura-nee, what's up?" Naruto's face was smiling, but his heart was full of gentle greetings for Kakashi.
Kakashi, don't you dare fall into my hands, or else...
Sakura briefly explained.
Sasuke was shocked.
Naruto had the same expression.
If following the normal timeline, this woman should be Harena from the original work, also translated as Ari. But she came when the Third Hokage was still alive, so why is she only here now? Is there another woman who likes Kakashi? This was even harder for him to believe than the Nine-Tails trying to lose weight.
Harena indeed arrived late, because her team had encountered some problems on the way. The entire team was beaten by someone who clearly seemed to be in an extremely bad mood. Everyone was seriously injured. If it weren't for the woman next to that person intervening, Harena's team would have died.
Harena came from Hōzuki Castle, known for its intelligence, so she recognized the person opposite her. And this was what puzzled her the most.
You're a demon of the Hidden Mist, one of the Seven Ninja Swordsmen. Why must you use your leg to kick and not a blade? Are you just wearing it as decoration?