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Even though Tonton was intelligent, could understand human speech, and even write a few words, this didn't change its essence: it was a pig.
So, this pig-teammate, held in Naruto's arms, was being fed while gesturing for a long time before Sasuke finally managed to decipher a few pieces of information: Lock-Front Village, Kagura, spy, and then nothing else.
One must say, the Sharingan was truly amazing. It could deduce what Kakashi was saying by observing the rise and fall of his mask and the tremor of his throat, and it could even understand a pig's scribbles.
But what use was all that information? I also knew there was an old man and a bridge.
However, Tonton did provide one piece of information: Lock-Front Village hadn't yet started contacting Konoha.
Naruto was having a headache, while Sakura was conflicted.
She was debating whether to report the spy Naruto had discovered to Konoha.
She had always believed that her two teammates were aliens from two different planets, both with the goal of gathering information about Earth.
Furthermore, Sakura felt that Naruto had already discovered Sasuke's alien identity and was just debating whether to transmit information about Sasuke to their home planet. Sasuke, having been clued in by her last time, should have also noticed that Naruto was an alien but was also hesitating whether to transmit information to their home planet.
And now, these two teammates had gained the most formidable source of intelligence: a writing pig, perpetually lurking beside the Hokage!
On one hand, there was the village she grew up in, and on the other, teammates who had taken great care of her, leaving her in an agonizing dilemma.
So, in Sakura's imagination, her team of three had become individuals who, because they cared about each other, were all hesitating whether to betray one another.
What troubled Sakura the most was whether this pig could even be classified as a spy. She had never heard of a pig being a spy.
"See, I told you no woman would like Kakashi." Naruto said, feeding the pig.
"But I feel like she really likes Kakashi-sensei." Sakura gave up on trying to sort out her team's relationships; it was giving her too much of a headache.
"How do you know?"
"Woman's intuition!"
Naruto's hand paused as he fed the pig. Sakura-san, does your conscience not hurt when you say that?
"So, Sasuke, what do you think?" Naruto asked.
"She's an actress." The cool young man said without changing his expression.
Talking to you is truly exhausting, and can you please stop mimicking how I speak?
"So you think she might genuinely like Kakashi, or she might just be acting with superb skill?" Although Naruto understood what Sasuke meant, he still asked again, otherwise Sakura wouldn't understand.
"Mm." Sasuke nodded. He had observed Kagura's demeanor earlier; it didn't seem fake, but after witnessing Kazahana Koyuki's acting, he couldn't be sure anymore.
Naruto gave Sasuke a look of approval. It seemed he had grasped the truth that the prettier a woman is, the more likely she is to deceive.
Pinching the pig's ear, Naruto added: "So the three of us are now at a disagreement. I think she doesn't like Kakashi, Sakura thinks she does, and Sasuke remains neutral."
"Mm."
"Mm."
"Since everyone has their own opinion, let's bet on who's right. How about this: we split up. We already know three pieces of information: Lock-Front Village, Kagura, and spy. Since you, Sakura, think Kagura likes Kakashi, you go track and observe her. Sasuke, you go investigate this Lock-Front Village."
"But I have to go see Lady Tsunade tonight…"
"It's fine, I'll take you."
"Alright."
"Uh… okay." Sasuke frowned. He wasn't interested in such things, but seeing Naruto's enthusiastic expression, he still agreed. He didn't want to dampen his spirits.
"What about you?" Sakura asked.
Casually opening a portal, Naruto grabbed the pig and walked in: "I'll deal with this remaining spy."
In the small forest, a clone sat on a sofa, writing and drawing while feeding the pig.
This was what Naruto created for those who were monitoring him. The combination of a Shadow Clone and a teleportation gate allowed the entire world to not know where his main body was.
Except for Sasuke, who could spot the differences between a clone and the original through subtle details, such as expression and gaze.
This was also Naruto's reason for sending him away.
If Sasuke didn't leave, then he would cultivate. Cultivating would replenish his chakra. But if Sasuke discovered it wasn't the original body, he wouldn't replenish chakra.
In that case, the observers would sense something abnormal.
Naruto's main body, meanwhile, sat in the Land of Snow, pondering how to silently make a person disappear, someone whose exact whereabouts he still didn't know, while avoiding detection from everyone.
In the original story, only the transaction location was mentioned, on a bridge, but who knew where they were hiding before the transaction?
He couldn't say he didn't know where at all. At the very least, Naruto could guess they were roughly within a two-day journey from Konoha.
But what good was that? I can't just summon the Ten-Tails and tell it to nuke everyone within that range.
"Hahaha… Brat, you lost again, hiccup…" The fat fox was very happy. They had played eight games, and he had been winning consistently, shaking his belly with laughter.
Naruto had considered over forty methods, enough to write over ten thousand words, but still couldn't come up with a perfect solution for silently getting rid of those people from Lock-Front Village.
And he didn't even know where that bridge was.
Naruto, bouncing on the fox spirit's belly, rubbed his temples, worriedly saying: "Big Fox, can you please not move your belly when you're happy?"
This fox's belly was too elastic; once it started bouncing, it wouldn't stop for a while.
"Hiccup…"
Can you stop hiccuping? I've forgotten what a fox sounds like.
Then Naruto froze. What was a fox supposed to sound like?
"Hiccup, mind your own business." The fox spirit said disdainfully.
"Come, again."
Before Naruto could even consider a barely feasible method, the fox passed out from drinking too much due to its chess victory…
Lifting the furnace in front of the sleeping fox's head, Naruto stood on the scaffolding, smiling as he stroked the fox's head.
He had always wanted to pet the fox's head, and now he finally found an opportunity.
Casually opening a teleportation gate, Naruto arrived in the Land of Waves. He wanted to find Tazuna and ask him if he knew the locations of bridges around Konoha.
Tazuna was a bridge-building expert, an insider, and should have some knowledge of these things.
As soon as he arrived at Tazuna's doorstep, Naruto smelled a strong fishy odor.
In front of the door, the grandfather, grandson, and daughter-in-law were busy with their respective tasks.
"Old man, what are you doing?"
"A rare guest, why are you here?" Tazuna held a grinding stone, grinding herbs.
"Came to ask you something."
Tazuna put down his tools and chuckled: "Two days ago, I saw large patches of dead fish under the Great Bridge and thought someone had poisoned them. At first, everyone panicked for a while, but then we tried it on a dog and found it was fine. I had a sudden inspiration to use herbs to poison fish. Everyone has been searching the mountains for a long time these past two days, and we finally found a herb that's harmless to people but can kill fish. We're currently making it into a potion."
"What about him?" Naruto pointed at Inari, who was busy with a large earthenware pot.
"That's earth thunder, for fishing with explosives." Tazuna washed his hands and invited Naruto into the house: "By the way, what did you come for?"
Old man, you're amazing, letting a brat play with landmines.
Who taught you to fish with explosives and poison? Don't you know it's illegal?
"I came to ask you something." The laws of the two worlds were different, and Naruto didn't want to get involved: "Old man, do you know which bridges are around Konoha?"
"I know some. What do you want to do?"
"I opened a small pond in Konoha and plan to build a small island in the middle with a small bridge for fun, but I need to observe what kind of design to make first."
"If you want to build a bridge, come find me. I'm a professional! And you've helped our Land of Waves so much, this time I'll help you for free!"
"Forget it, you build bridges too slowly!"
Tazuna's beard stood on end in anger: "I build bridges slowly!? Go ask around about my name, Tazuna!" "The famous Great Naruto Bridge, I completed it in a year and a half. The Rainbow Bridge, I completed it in less than a year."
"And Kannabi Bridge, I built that in three months back then! And you dare say I'm slow!"
Holy crap, you built Kannabi Bridge?! So you're the ultimate source of all evil in Naruto!
And it was completed in just three months!? Doesn't that mean Obito's accident was due to your shoddy construction?!