Chapter 673 Identity

The secret meeting chaired by the representatives of Konoha, Sand Yin, and Yunyin Jonin 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 was an observer during the meeting, he basically didn't say a few words, but 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 feet to leave the corridor, someone suddenly called Shikamaru from behind, telling him to stop.

Shikamaru, who turned his back to 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 could not move forward. Someone pressed his shoulder with great force from behind, forcing him to leave.

Then with increasing strength, he further forced his body to turn back, from a back-to-back position to a front-facing position.

I saw a mature female faceTemari.

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 Nara's house'... I thought you were referring to the other one."

Shikamaru sold his father Shikakuto without hesitation.

"If it's Mr. Lujiu, 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.

In terms 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.

"Looking at your expression, do you not want to talk to me? Are you dissatisfied 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 was just thinking about what was in the meeting just now."

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

Temari shook his head.

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

Shikamaru's face straightened.

Temari was slightly taken aback, nodded, and said: "You are 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 Sand Gakure are allies, I'm 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. The two of them are still resting in the village. They won't be on missions recently."

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

"Then how has the relationship between Gaara and Kazekage changed?"

Shikamaru asked this more sensitive matter again.

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

Such a 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 subconsciously replied: "What else can I do? I always feel that the relationship between the two of them is more rigid than before. I also learned about Gaara's attack on his father. I also learned from Anbe. Although it is disrespectful to my father to say this, but if he hadn't used such a cruel method to train Gaara, Gaara would not have become like this."

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

Part of this resentment is directed 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 used these words to comfort her.

"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 understand, but there is nothing to see in this village, just don't be disappointed."

After seeing a commercial city like Oni Land, Shikamaru, who thought 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 to the industry of the ghost country, the fire country and Konoha are really bad at this aspect, and they are only in their infancy.

As for the traditional big country, which country is the fastest and most active in transformation, it is undoubtedly the country of Thunder that attaches great importance to the development of national strength, and is the traditional big country that has the fastest transformation into an industrial country.

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

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

If it wasn'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 injure 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 spiral pill, and smashing the extremely hard shell of the scorpion with one blow, Naruto found that he could not find the feeling at that time no matter what.

Or maybe, such a scene was born out of desperation by chance.

Your mind is disturbed, Naruto.

Minato's voice resounded 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 difficult 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 is a process from scratch, Minato never thinks that this is a ninjutsu that can be completed suddenly.

Combined with 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 it might not be difficult to surpass Five Kages.

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

This is a feat that he failed 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 Nine Tails.

Although 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.

Regarding this matter, Minato was 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.

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, that's all for today.

Not knowing what Minato was thinking, Naruto let out a sigh of relief 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, and spit out 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.

Minato reminded again at this time.

Do I 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.

In that battle, he fought cautiously, and in the end he succeeded in sneak attacking the opponent relying on Scorpio's fear of Chiyo.

If it were 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 an amazing truth.

Twenty-one years ago, he witnessed Uchiha Ruri's posture of manipulating Kyuubi to attack thousands of Konoha ninjas, while fighting the third generation of Naruto head-on, and he did not lose the wind. Such momentum is undoubtedly stronger than Scorpion.

Naruto was slightly silent.

After Shikamaru's guidance, he is not ignorant of the things in the kingdom of ghosts.

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 Mt. 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 random blow 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 resolute voice made Naruto's tense heart relax a little.

"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, I can only say 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 was also tightened, her whole body was like an ostrich, she didn't dare to raise her head to meet Hizuru's eyes.

I thought to myself, then I will definitely be punished and scolded again, and then my father will compare her with the genius sister Huahuo to point out her various faults.

However, Nizuzu hadn't heard scolding for a long time, and just when he was about to raise his head, he heard a burst of teasing laughter.

I only saw Hizuru in front of me, and when I saw her shrinking her neck like a frightened ostrich, she bent down without any image, and while covering her stomach with her hand, she burst out laughing.

"Father?"

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

"untie!"

boom!

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

Long black hair like ink, wearing a light blue printed kimono with a tie, and a teasing smile on his clean face.

"It's me, sister."

"Flower Fire!"

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

It is Hanabi who is the pride of the Hyuga clanthe 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, no malicious intentions."

Hanabi rubbed the tears from the corners of his eyes, probably because he thought of Hinata's trembling ostrich appearance, like a student in a ninja school who was reprimanded by the teacher, so scared that he didn't dare to breathe.

Such a big 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, what, do you want to compete with me? To be honest, sister, you are not my opponent."

The corner of Hinata's mouth twitched, so it's okay for a sister who likes to tease her 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 indecent as ever."

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

"It's not dirty!"

Hinata took a step back subconsciously, her face was flushed, and she protected her chest with both hands, a part of which was soft and rough squeezed out from the palms.

Huahuo continued to stare, envy flitted through her white eyes for a moment.

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

Hanabi 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 the seventh class 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, Naruto's seventh class was originally with few people, and it was normal to add people later.

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

Huahuo giggled.

"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.

"Then do you want to witness it with your own eyes?"

Hanabi coughed and said so.

"Will you 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 has been here a few times secretly, and it is the training ground approved by the superiors for Naruto to experiment with new techniques.

Hinata looked at Hanabi with a strange expression on her face.

"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 was pale.

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

"Kiss...kiss!?"

Hinata's pale face turned even paler, 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 dressing the wound. Two chakra needles appeared in her hand, filled with orange lightning, and looked coldly at the trees not far away.

"Come out for me, or I will be impolite!"

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

Two chakra needles filled with orange electric light are ready to go. Although the hidden person is hiding behind a tree, they are locked by her chakra. Such dodging is meaningless.

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

Hanabi pulled Hinata out from behind the tree, came to Naruto and Hinoko 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 with a golden key in their mouths.

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

"Peeping at others cannot be called the upbringing that a wealthy daughter should have."

Hinoko said something coldly.

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

"I am so sorry."

Hanoko smiled faintly, bowed slightly to Honoko calmly, and apologized.

Hinata quickly followed suit and bowed down to apologize. The behavior of them who were peeping in the dark was really unjustifiable.

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 Naruto's finger wound.

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 and passed out.

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

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

Naruto watched this scene with a dazed expression, 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 Huahuo, and subconsciously distanced herself from her, with a trace of vigilance in her eyes.

"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 shake slightly.

"Still unable to penetrate the strength of Rouquan to the third floor..."

Ningci withdrew his palm, took a light breath, and adjusted the chakra that was a little chaotic 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 the past. Knowing the third target, he lost his power directly.

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 barely reach the third target.

"If it's that guy, how far can he do it?"

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

In retrospect, I am still not shocked by the soft fist used by the opponent at that time.

His white eyes do have defects, but if the opponent does not have the strength to crush him head-on, it is impossible to find an opportunity to magnify his defects. 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 level of the opponent in the Chunin exam finals 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 this is also due to the fact that he, as a branch of Konoha Hyuga, did not have the opportunity to get in touch with 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.

Zongjia... 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 Ning Ci, looked at the iron target that was still trembling in the air, and said with a smile: "Congratulations, Ning Ci, I didn't expect to be able to raise the Soft Fist to this level in such a short period of time. It seems that you have the ability to learn a higher level of Soft Fist."

"Didn't you always follow Mr. Huahuo?"

Ning Ci turned to look at the person coming.

The man who came to find him was Hinata Tokuma.

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

Compared to the eldest daughter of the patriarch Hinata, the second daughter Hanabi is not only more talented in ninjas, but also has a very 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 it is almost an established fact that the next patriarch of the clan is determined to be Huahuo.

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

Tokuma said with a calm smile.

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 ninja talent beyond ordinary people. Coupled with the blood succession limit limit, she might be able to bring the Hyuga Clan's soft fist to another level. Of course, there is such a possibility for you who are now catching up."

Tokuma looked at Neji with admiration.

"I'm not interested in these things just yet."

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.

Ning Ci has never been a high-minded person, 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 that, but Neji was firm in his guess.

Perhaps those arrogant family members cannot see this clearly, but Neji, as a branch family member, can empathize with the branch family members even more.

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 is worth following.

This is simply impossible for a person from a clan.

However, Hanabi did.

This is exactly what Ning Ci couldn't understand.

"For 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 the survival rate on the battlefield. There is not much time left for us."

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

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

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

(end of this chapter)