Escape From Konoha

Chapter 674 Identity

The secret meeting chaired by the representatives of Konoha, Sand Yin, and Yunyin Jonnin lasted less than two hours and ended.

After the meeting, Shikamaru quickly walked to the corridor to catch his breath.

Although the meeting lasted only two hours, the negotiation process was exhausting.

Although he, as an observer, basically didn't say a few words during the meeting, just staying with so many women seemed to wear down his energy and made him even less excited about this meeting.

"Hey, the one from Nara's house."

Just as he was about to lift his foot to leave the corridor, someone suddenly called Shikamaru from behind, telling him to stop.

Shikamaru, who turned his back on the visitor, clicked his tongue without the other party noticing, and there was a strange subtlety in the expression on his face.

As if he didn't hear the people behind him calling him, Shikamaru's pace of leaving suddenly accelerated.

"Wait for me, Nara Shikamaru!"

As the loud voice approached, Shikamaru found that his body couldn't move forward, and someone pressed his shoulder with great force from behind, making him unable to leave compulsively.

Then the strength increased, further forcing his body to turn behind him, from a back-to-back position to a front-on position.

Saw a mature female face - Temari.

You are as troublesome as my mother... Shikamaru really wanted to say that, but seeing the look of calm and prestige on the other party's face, he swallowed the words abruptly.

"Did you call me?"

"Of course, otherwise, who do you think I am calling?"

Temari frowned in dissatisfaction, and looked straight at him, as if needles were piercing someone's skin, making Shikamaru subconsciously want to look away.

"After all, you said 'the one from the Nara family'... I thought you were referring to the other one."

Shikamaru sells his father Shikahisa without hesitation.

"If it's Mr. Lu Jiu, how could I use such an impolite tone?"

Temari was speechless.

In other words, you can use this condescending tone just by calling me? Shikamaru was filled with depression.

However, after being depressed for a while, Shikamaru calmed down.

From the perspective of administrative level, Temari, as a Jnin, is indeed above him. Although the two are not ninjas from the same village, the Chunin will eventually appear weaker in the face of Jnin.

"Look at your expression, don't you want to talk to me? Do you have any dissatisfaction with me?"

Temari opened up his words, as if he didn't know how to hide it, and asked Shikamaru what was in his heart.

Her eyesight is very good, and she can see what Shikamaru is deliberately avoiding at a glance.

"No, I'm just thinking about the content of the meeting just now."

"It's still only in the negotiation stage, and it's not time for action. It's still early for real action."

Temari shook his head.

"You can't say that. The opponent is a dangerous ninja like Orochimaru. You have to face this matter as seriously as you would a war. Any carelessness may lead to the failure of the mission."

Shikamaru straightened his face.

Temari was slightly taken aback, nodded, and said, "You're right, a guy like Orochimaru really deserves such treatment. However, I always feel that you are still avoiding me because of other things."

"How is it possible? Konoha and Sagakure are allies, I was really thinking about something." Shikamaru sighed, and continued: "Speaking of which, why are you the only one here, Gaara and Kankuro aren't here? "

"No, I'm the only one here, and the two of them are still resting in the village, and won't be on missions recently."

Temari felt that this was no secret, and answered Shikamaru's question.

"Then how has Gaara and Kazekage's relationship changed?"

Shikamaru asked this more sensitive matter again.

He learned from Naruto that Gaara had attacked his father, Luo Sha, in the previous joint operation, which resulted in Scorpion taking advantage of it and almost causing Kazekage to die.

This kind of father-son relationship can no longer be described as bad, but they clearly have a blood relationship where blood is thicker than water, but in reality they are like enemies with blood feuds.

Temari sighed, his eyes drifted to the street view outside the corridor window, and he replied subconsciously: "What else can I do, I always feel that the relationship between the two of them is more rigid than before. Anbu learned about it. Although it is disrespectful to my father to say so, Gaara would not have become like this if he hadn’t used such a cruel method to train Gaara back then.”

Speaking of this, Temari's tone was full of resentment.

Part of this resentment is aimed at Gaara, and more is directed at his father Luo Sha.

Even as a daughter, she felt that her father's past behaviors were too extreme and bad.

"It seems that even Fengying's family is full of difficulties and obstacles. But the fact that people are still alive is better than anything else."

Shikamaru comforted him with these words.

"Don't worry, my heart is not so fragile. I should stay in Konoha for a while, so I'll trouble you to be my guide. Speaking of which, I haven't visited this village well yet."

Temari patted Shikamaru on the shoulder and said to Shikamaru with a smile.

Shikamaru took away the palm that was put on the shoulder, and sighed: "I know, but there is nothing to see in this village, just don't be disappointed."

After seeing a commercial city like Oni Land, Shikamaru, who originally thought that Konoha was prosperous, suddenly felt that the village he was in was no different from the countryside. Food and clothing can be barely said to be yes, but it is still a bit too far away from the level of prosperity and wealth.

Compared with the industry of the country of ghosts, the country of fire and Konoha have done really poorly in this regard, and they are only in their infancy at present.

And if you want to talk about which country is the fastest and most active among the traditional big countries, it is undoubtedly the country of Thunder that attaches great importance to the development of national power, and it is the traditional big country that is transforming into an industrial country most quickly.

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"Damn it, it didn't work again!"

Looking at the huge potholes created by the failed ninjutsu in front of him, although the effect and destructive power were amazing, Naruto felt that this ninjutsu was too unstable.

If it weren't for his own chakra being strong enough, maybe the moment he condensed in his hand, he would explode directly.

In that way, not only will there be no way to hurt the enemy, but it will send yourself to heaven first.

"What the **** is going on with this technique? It was obviously still..."

Recalling the scene when he was fighting the scorpion, adding a powerful wind attribute to the helix pill, and smashing the extremely hard shell of the scorpion with one blow, Naruto found that he could not find it at that time no matter what. feeling.

Or maybe, such a scene was originally an accidental result born out of desperation.

—Your mind is disturbed, Naruto.

Minato's voice rang in Naruto's heart, calming him down.

—Uh, sorry, Dad. However, do you have any good ideas? It is too difficult to add changes in the nature of the wind attribute to the spiral pill.

Naruto took a breath.

—Of course, Spiral Maru is originally a highly difficult A-level ninjutsu. If you add the nature changes to deal with it, it will evolve into an extremely terrifying Muji S-level ninjutsu. There are extremely high entry requirements for the amount of chakra and chakra control of the operator.

Moreover, it was a process from scratch. Minato never thought that this was a ninjutsu that could be accomplished suddenly.

In addition to the characteristics of Muji, it means that such a powerful ninjutsu can be released anytime and anywhere as long as there is enough chakra to attack the enemy. If Naruto can really complete this move easily, then maybe it can surpass Five Kages It is not difficult.

It's just that the unformed wind attribute spiral pill shattered the scorpion's shell made by Yin-Yang Dun. Although it has the enhancement effect of fairy art, it also shows that this art is terrible.

This was a feat that he had never been able to accomplish during his lifetime.

- What to do next?

Naruto wiped the sweat off his face.

——Come here first today, your chakra is almost squandered, and there are wounds on your fingers and arms, it is better to find someone to wrap them with medical bandages.

Although Naruto has a lot of chakra, a considerable part is used to suppress the chakra of Kyuubi.

Even with his help now, even if Naruto squanders Chakra to the bottom, there will be no accidents, but in this way, his existence will undoubtedly be exposed.

He doesn't want to have anything to do with Konoha's ninja now, it's for Konoha's good and to protect himself.

Today's Konoha is riddled with holes, and no one knows where a spy will suddenly appear.

For this matter, Watergate is extremely cautious.

And the reason why he survived was to investigate the truth about the nine-tailed attack on Konoha that year, and to compensate Naruto and train him to be an independent ninja.

Konoha...Minato felt sad for a while.

Now he still loves the village where he was raised since he was a child, but at the same time he loves deeply, he also has a trace of vigilance.

— I see, let’s stop here for today.

Not knowing what Minato was thinking, Naruto let out a breath and removed the shadow clone technique around him.

A strong sense of exhaustion immediately poured into Naruto's body, causing him to sit down on the ground, panting heavily, exhaling white gas from one side of his mouth.

—Compared to this, you and top ninjas lack sufficient combat experience. If you have a chance, find Teacher Jiraiya to make up for the vacancy in this area.

Water Gate reminded again at this time.

— Do you need to do this?

-need. Needless to say, that child named Itachi, when fighting Scorpion, you should know that without the assistance of Sagakushi Chiyo, you would never be able to calculate his actions. And to be honest, compared to the enemies you will face in the future, the Scarlet Sand Scorpion is actually not a very strong opponent.

—This is not a very strong opponent?

Naruto swallowed.

He fought that battle with great care, and in the end he succeeded in sneak attacking the opponent relying on Scorpio's fear of Chiyo.

If it was changed to a one-on-one situation, he would probably suffer a lot.

—As far as I know, the Uchiha Ruri twenty-one years ago was stronger than the current Red Sand Scorpion. Targeting a ninja of this level is what you have to do right now.

Watergate revealed a startling truth.

Twenty-one years ago, he witnessed Uchiha Ruri's posture of manipulating Nine Tails to attack thousands of Konoha ninjas, while fighting fiercely with the third generation of Naruto, without losing the wind, that kind of momentum is undoubtedly stronger than that of Scorpion.

Naruto was slightly silent.

After Shikamaru's guidance, he is not ignorant of the things in the ghost country.

Uchiha Ruri is the strongest of the Uchiha clan at the moment. On the battlefield, he easily defeated Kazekage, one of the Five Kages, and thousands of ninjas. A ninja of this strength is undoubtedly standing at the pinnacle of the ninja world at this time.

At the same time, it was also one of the culprits who destroyed Mount Miaomu.

The chakra giant summoned by Sharingan, with one sword, beheaded the four Ming kings Toad who could use powerful enchantment in Mount Miaomu.

A single blow at will can cause a world-shattering scene.

Just recalling the scene at that time, Naruto's body couldn't help shaking.

—Don't be discouraged, if you can complete this S-level wind escape technique, and then master the power of Nine Tails, you will definitely have the power to surpass her. Of this, I can be sure.

Minato's decisive voice let Naruto's tense heart relax a little.

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"Hinata, you're being lazy again!"

"Whoa!"

Hinata, who was dozing off in the dojo, heard her father's serious criticism, suddenly screamed in panic, and woke up from her sweet sleep.

"Hold, I'm sorry, Father, I accidentally fell asleep!"

Hinata hurriedly stood up from the dojo floor, bowed to the sudden appearance of Hizuru, her face was full of tension and fear.

Because I have been exercising Rouquan in the built-in dojo at home for a while, and occasionally fell asleep in the dojo.

Now being caught on the spot, it can only be said that it is bad luck.

Hearing Hinata's apology, Nizuru just stared at her with a cold face and didn't say another word.

Hinata took a sneak peek, her head lowered even lower, her neck tightened, her whole body was like an ostrich, she didn't dare to raise her head to meet Rizu's gaze.

He thought to himself that he would be punished and scolded again next time, and then his father would compare him with his genius sister, Huahuo, to point out her various faults.

However, I didn't hear Nizuzu's scolding for a long time, and just when I was about to raise my head, I heard a burst of teasing laughter.

I saw Rizu in front of me, seeing her shrinking her neck like a frightened ostrich, bending down without any image, while covering her stomach with her hands, she burst out laughing.

"…Father?"

Hinata was stunned for a moment, not responding to what was going on.

"untie!"

boom!

A burst of white smoke enveloped Hizuru's body, and an eleven or twelve-year-old girl stood in front of Hinata.

He has long black hair like ink, and is wearing a light blue printed kimono with a tie, and there is still a teasing smile on his clean face.

"It's me, sister."

"Flower Fire!"

Hinata, who always claimed to be a nice person, couldn't help but feel the anger of wanting to hit someone at this moment, and gritted her teeth and called out the girl's name.

It is Hanabi who is the pride of the current Xiangzong family - the patriarch's second daughter, and her sister who is a few years younger than her.

"Uh...sorry, I just wanted to tease you when I saw you sleeping bored, sister, and I didn't mean anything malicious."

Hanabi rubbed the tears from the corners of his eyes, probably thinking of Hinata's trembling ostrich appearance, like a student scolded by a teacher in a ninja school, too scared to breathe.

Such a sister is really interesting.

It's really fun.

"Can you stop coming here to tease me every time, even I will be angry."

Hinata pouted, expressing her dissatisfaction with Hanabi.

"Hey, why, do you want to compete with me? To be honest, sister, you are not my opponent."

"..."

The corner of Hinata's mouth twitched, it's okay for a younger sister who likes to tease her older sister.

"After all, my sister has grown amazingly only in terms of breasts. She really deserves to be the eldest lady of the Hinata family. Her figure is as obscene as ever."

Hanabi spoke in an exaggerated tone, and then swept towards Hinata's chest.

"It's not dirty!"

Hinata subconsciously took a step back, her face was flushed, her hands were protecting her chest, and a part of it was soft and rough squeezed out from between her palms.

"..."

Hanabi continued to stare, a fleeting envy flashed through her white eyes.

"Okay, stop teasing you. I'm here to tell you something."

Huahuo said.

"I don't want you to tease me, I'm not your pet." Hinata muttered dissatisfiedly, and then asked: "What's the matter?"

"I heard that Class Seven joined a new team member not long ago."

"Seventh class? Naruto-kun's team? Isn't this a normal thing?"

Hinata pondered for a while. The seventh class where Naruto was in was originally less crowded, and it was normal to add people later.

"Not only that, I heard that the one who joined was a very cute and lively girl, always shouting 'Naruto-senpai', 'Naruto-senpai' at the back, almost like a crazy fan."

Huahuo said with a giggle.

"This...what does this have to do with me? And fans...Naruto-kun can't have that kind of thing, right?"

Hinata said so, but she cared very much in her heart, and began to think wildly.

"Would you like to go and witness it for yourself?"

Hanabi coughed and said so.

"Witness it with your own eyes?"

Hinata didn't understand what Hanabi meant.

"follow me."

Hanabi took Hinata's arm and dragged her to the outside of the dojo.

"Wait, what are you doing, Hanabi? My training is not finished yet!"

"It's okay, anyway, I have already told my father that you are being lazy, and you will be punished sooner or later. It is better to have fun now!"

Listening to Hanabi's righteous voice, Hinata felt the urge to cry.

Isn't this even worse?

…

"here it is…"

Looking at the familiar forest, Hinata secretly came here a few times, and it was a training ground approved by the higher authorities for Naruto to experiment with new techniques.

Hinata looked at Hanabi with a strange expression.

"Huahuo, what did you bring me here for? Let's not disturb Naruto-kun's cultivation."

As he said that, he was about to leave here with Huahuo.

"Wait, sister, look there."

Hanabi ignored Hinata, but stood beside the tree, pointing to the open space ahead.

"Um?"

Looking in the direction Hanabi was pointing at, Hinata's body froze immediately.

On the open space, a boy with yellow hair was lowering his head, and in front of him stood a girl with light brown hair, her body was slightly petite, and she was on her toes. From this angle, it can be vaguely seen that the palms of the two seem to be tightly entangled.

"This... this is... Naruto-kun... what are they doing?"

Hinata felt a buzzing in her head, and her face turned pale.

Huahuo responded casually: "I don't know, but, they are so close, there is a high probability that they are kissing."

"Pick...kiss!?"

Hinata's already pale face became even paler, and her legs became unsteady, and she might fall at any time.

"Who is there?"

Perhaps Hinata's voice became louder. Hinoko, who was bandaging Naruto's finger wound, immediately stopped bandaging the wound. Two chakra needles appeared in her hand, filled with orange lightning, and her eyes He looked coldly at the trees not far away.

"Come out, or I'll be rude!"

Hinoko's tone was full of unkindness. As a candidate for Anbu, she would feel very sensitive and uncomfortable to people's abnormal gaze.

The two chakra needles filled with orange electric light were ready to go. Although the hidden person hid behind the trees, they were locked by her chakra. Such dodge was meaningless.

"Wait, we're just passing by occasionally."

Hanabi pulled Hinata out from behind the tree, came to Naruto and Honoko generously, and patted the wrinkled part of the kimono.

"You are…"

Hinoko narrowed her eyes.

Information about Hanabi and Hinata immediately appeared in my mind.

The eldest lady and the second lady of the wealthy Hyuga clan were born noble, and they were born to be rich and powerful with a golden key in their mouth.

Although she was not interested in the so-called dignitaries, Hinoko honestly put down the chakra needle in her hand.

"Peeping at others is not the education that a wealthy daughter should have."

Hinoko said something coldly.

In her eyes, there is no such thing as noble or not. Ninjas speak based on strength and ability, not status.

"I am so sorry."

With a faint smile on Huahuo's face, he calmly bowed slightly to Honoko, expressing his apology.

Hinata quickly followed suit and bowed down to apologize. They were peeping in the dark, and their behavior was really unjustifiable.

And at this time, she also saw clearly that Naruto and Hinoko were not kissing like Hanabi said at all, the other party was just bandaging the wound on Naruto's fingers.

Therefore, Hinata looked at her younger sister Hanabi with eyes full of resentment, and she was being teased by the other party again.

"Hinata... and Hanabi, why are you here?"

Naruto looked at Hinata and Hanabi strangely, not understanding what they were doing here.

Hinata's words are easy to say, maybe he came to him for something, but he and Hanabi are only acquainted, and Naruto only knows that the other party is a cute and cute girl, who is Hinata's younger sister.

"Oh, it's like this, brother-in-law, the purpose of our coming here is..."

As soon as Hanabi said the words, Hinata next to her blushed immediately, whimpered, and fell back straight, fainting.

"Oh, it seems that I have played tricks too much."

Seeing Hinata who was so ashamed and angry that he passed out directly, Hanabi scratched his head in embarrassment, never expecting that the other party would be so vulnerable.

Naruto watched this scene in bewilderment, at a loss.

— Naruto, this is your youth.

In my mind, my father Minato's gratified laughter sounded.

It made Naruto feel even more confused.

Hinoko just sneered, stared at Hanahuo, and subconsciously distanced herself from her, with a trace of vigilance in her eyes.

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"Bagua Empty Palm!"

In the open woods, the moment the cannonball made of compressed air was released from the palm, the iron target placed in front of it immediately buzzed and trembled, making whining sounds continuously.

These iron targets are arranged in a row, there are five in total, but the air shells only penetrate the first and second targets, and when they reach the third iron target, they only let it slightly Shake a bit.

"Still unable to penetrate the strength of the Soft Fist to the third floor..."

Ning Ci withdrew his striking palm, took a light breath, and adjusted the somewhat chaotic chakra in his body.

Looking at the row of iron targets in front of him, he pondered for a while, and began to think about whether there was something wrong with the palm he hit before, which caused the strength to penetrate through it. When he knew the third target, he lost it immediately. power.

The distance between the target and the target is not far, but it is definitely not an easy thing to let the strength of the soft fist penetrate through it, and also enclose the targets in the back row.

After practicing for so long, he could only barely reach the third target.

"If it's that guy, to what extent can he do it?"

Neji thought of four years ago, in the final of the Chunin Exam, Chiba Aya, the white-eyed ninja from the ghost country who crushed him with absolute posture.

Thinking back to this day, I am still not shocked by the soft fist used by the opponent at that time.

His white eyes do have flaws, but if the opponent doesn't have the strength to crush him head-on, they won't be able to find an opportunity to magnify his flaws. That is something that can only be done with absolute confidence in one's own strength.

Clenching his fists, Neji's eyes sparkled.

The current self is probably comparable to the opponent's level in the finals of the Chunin Exam four years ago, or even slightly worse.

The other party is a monster who can polish even a slender strand of hair into a murderous weapon. Now he is still unable to control his chakra to that level of meticulousness.

Now that four years have passed, the opponent's strength must have become stronger.

Thinking about it this way, the gap is a bit discouraging.

Although there is also the reason why he, as a branch of Konoha Hyuga, did not have the opportunity to touch the family's core soft boxing secret method when he polished his foundation in the early days.

The Hyuga Clan, whose main family has monopolized the core Soft Fist Secret Art, has a natural disadvantage compared to the main family in this respect.

The Zong family... The coldness in Ning Ci's eyes flashed away.

Footsteps approached from behind, followed by a burst of applause.

A man in his thirties appeared behind Neji, looked at the iron target that was still trembling in the air, and said with a smile: "Congratulations, Neji, I didn't expect you to be able to do so in such a short time. Being able to raise soft boxing to this level, it seems that you have the ability to learn a higher level of soft boxing."

"Didn't you always follow Master Huahuo?"

Ning Ci turned to look at the person coming.

The man who came to find him was Hyuga Tokuma.

As the Jonin of the branch family, and the confidant of Hinata Hanabi who has the most appeal for the successor of the next clan, even with the clan, he can barely speak.

Compared to the patriarch's eldest daughter Hinata, the second daughter Hanabi is not only more talented in ninjas, but also has extremely high cohesion even among the branch families that are hostile to the clan, gathering a group of branch ninjas as a basis for supporting her.

It can be said that the determination of the next patriarch of the clan to be Huahuo is almost an established fact.

"Master Hanabi took Hinata-sama out and said that we don't need to follow. Although it is a bit exaggerated to say so, maybe Master Hanabi's strength is stronger than you now, Neji."

Tokuma smiled calmly.

Ning Ci's heart froze slightly, and he looked directly at Tokuma's white eyes, not telling the truth, thinking about the authenticity of the other party's words.

"Don't look at me like that, you should have noticed that Hanabi-sama is different from us. She inherited the most powerful bloodline of the Hyuga clan, and she was born with a ninja talent that surpassed ordinary people. Coupled with the limit of blood inheritance, she might You can take the soft fist of the Hyuga Clan to another level. Of course, there is such a possibility for you who are catching up now."

Tokuma looked at Neji with admiration.

"I'm not interested in these things for the time being."

Now he has not even fully grasped the basics of the Hyuga clan, and he wants to open up his own path, which is too far away from his current self.

Neji has never been a person who is ambitious, so he doesn't take Tokuma's praise seriously.

"I'm interested in another thing than this."

"What's up?"

"Who exactly is Master Huahuo? I don't think a person from the main family will receive the support of so many branch family jonin. There must be another secret about her, which makes you willingly follow her behind."

It was unbelievable to say so, but Neji was firm in his guess.

Maybe those arrogant family members can't see this clearly, but Neji, who is a branch of the family, can empathize with the people of the branch family.

Their following attitude towards Huahuo does not seem to be flattering or deliberate approaching, but it is very natural to think that the other party ~www.wuxiamtl.com~ is worth following.

This is simply impossible for a person from a clan.

However, Hanabi did exactly that.

This is exactly what Ning Ci couldn't understand.

"This kind of thing, you should solve the mystery yourself. However, as a senior, I still advise you."

Dejian smiled slightly.

"What?"

"Become stronger as soon as possible. Only in this way can we increase our survival rate on the battlefield. We don't have much time left."

Tokuma left this meaningful sentence and left here, disappearing into the forest.

"You don't need to say, I will continue to become stronger."

Neji looked at his palm, and began to condense chakra in his palm for compression control.