Chapter 128: As a Friend

"Naruto, you idiot, what the hell are you doing?"

The day after Naruto returned from the hot spring country, Shikamaru came to the door and angrily asked, he was originally an energy-saving person, but he burned his life again and again for Naruto. Pen ร— fun ร— Pavilion www. ๏ฝ‚๏ฝ‰๏ฝ‘๏ฝ•๏ฝ‡๏ฝ…ใ€‚ ๏ฝ‰๏ฝŽ๏ฝ†๏ฝ

"What's wrong with me?"

"You obviously signed up for the Zhongnin exam, why were you absent?"

Looking at Naruto's puzzled expression, Shikamaru couldn't hold his forehead, this guy didn't even know the reason why he was angry, which could simply extinguish most of his anger.

โ€œ(ยฐะดยฐ)โ€

Naruto couldn't answer anymore and froze in front of Shikamaru.

"Hinata, why did you forget about it when you were also by his side?"

Shikamaru turned to Hinata again, and her answer was that he was not angry at all, and could only sigh that things are like like and stupid couples.

"Because, because it's fun to be by Naruto-kun's side..."

Hinata's little face flushed slightly, and the index fingers of both hands touched each other and said, she only remembered now that the middle ninja exam seemed to be when they secretly followed Hanabi out to do tasks, and at that time she only thought about her sister and completely forgot about it.

"Shikamaru, is it too late to take the test?"

"The written exam has been completed, and it will be eliminated in absentia, wait for the next time, that being said, I feel that you can't pass this written test."

"You're still as heartless as ever, Naruto."

Ning Ci, who came back with Shikamaru, spoke, he was wearing plain white clothes, his hair had grown a lot, his figure had become taller, and his face was much more mature than before, which was also a matter of course, he had already taken charge of the upper forbearance.

"Are you Ningci? You've grown up. โ€

The frustration on Naruto's face gradually turned to surprise, and he hugged Ningji's body and felt the difference from before.

"Aren't you too."

Ning Ci didn't refuse Naruto's hug, and seeing that this guy was still as enthusiastic as before, the corners of Ning Ci's mouth couldn't help but show a smile.

"Let's go Naruto, it just so happened that the middle ninja exam came to an end, and you don't know what our classmates have become over the years."

The corridor of Hinata's house was not a place to catch up, and Shikamaru had already prepared a place to meet and beckoned to Naruto.

"I'm sorry, but things have happened one after another since I got back to the village."

Naruto hadn't forgotten his bond with his partners, but he hadn't had time to look for them since he came back, and after being reminded by Shikamaru, of course he wanted to see what his partners had become.

"That's why we have this party."

Shikamaru then led Naruto into Dingji's favorite yakiniku restaurant, and the hall was already packed, with familiar faces as far as the eye could see.

"Ding Ci, Jing Ye, Xiao Li, Tian Tian, Ya, you are all here, who are this classmate?"

Naruto gave their names one by one, but there was only one person who was wrapped in his coat that he couldn't recognize.

"Naruto, it's rude to forget someone's face, and I'd be sad to ask why."

Shino walked over to Naruto's side, the parasite on his body buzzing, and there was a hint of sourness in his tone.

"This troublesome way of speaking, you are definitely Shino! Anyway, who can recognize you when you're dressed like this! โ€

Naruto's brow jumped, and then pointed at Shino and complained that he was dressed more conservatively than he had been three years ago, and even his hair was covered with a hat on top of his clothes.

"Shino just leave him alone, Naruto, I've been waiting for you to come back and plan to challenge you, so that you can see my and Akamaru's new technique."

Fang enthusiastically hooked Naruto's neck, not paying any attention to Shino, whose words had become more gloomy, pulling him to his seat.

"Akamaru? Is this Akamaru? Can a dog grow so fast? โ€

Naruto looked at the giant dog lying on the tatami mat in surprise, Akamaru had grown as strong as a calf after not seeing him for so long, and stuck out his tongue when he saw Naruto.

"yes, I think Akamaru is still like that."

"No, something doesn't feel right for me!"

"Naruto, you guy, when you come back, you'll go to Hinata's house, anyway, we classmates are single, and we can't blame you, it's right to go in and out."

Ino quipped, Hinata was still as shy as ever, hiding behind Naruto.

"Hehe, let's have a big meal today, I'm in for a treat."

"Oh!"

The health of his partner made Naruto laugh, and under his guidance, everyone ate happily, the first of course was Dingji, his amount of food was proportional to his hairstyle, and he wiped out most of the food on the table alone, Naruto looked at his wallet while happy, and a trace of sadness flashed in his eyes.

"By the way, who is this person? Your friends? โ€

When everyone was almost done eating, Naruto suddenly asked, Hinata was sitting to his right, and on his left was an unknown black-haired teenager, with a little pale skin, wearing the same crop top as Ino.

"Isn't it your friend? I see he's bringing you food. โ€

Naruto reminded Ino that she had been following this handsome guy for a long time, and not only the smile on his face was also very kind.

"Hello, first meeting, I'm a new teammate in Class 7, you can call me Sakai."

Sakai put down his chopsticks and smiled at Naruto very politely and introduced himself.

"Huh?"

'Smack! โ€™

Before Naruto could figure out what Sakai meant, he was hit in the back of the head with a fist from behind him, slamming his entire face into the plate.

"Sakura-chan, it hurts me if you attack me like this."

Naruto raised his face and calmly wiped the sauce off his face and said without replying, this force will definitely not be wrong, it must be Sakura.

"Shut up and come with me, so are you, Sakai."

Sakura didn't care if Naruto was in pain or not, grabbed Naruto's collar and pulled him away without saying anything.

"Wait, I haven't paid for the meal yet..."

The rest of the people were stunned as Sakura grabbed Naruto away, and it took a long time for Shikamaru to react.

"Start this dinner."

Ino patted Shikamaru on the shoulder as a sign of comfort and walked out with his well-fed companions.

"Naruto! I'm going to use shadow mimicry to catch you and make you look good! โ€

After paying most of the month's salary, Shikamaru finally couldn't help but look up to the sky and roar.

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"Wait a minute, Sakura-chan, what are you angry about?"

"You still have the face to ask me why I'm angry? I ask you, what is the information that the scorpion has given us? โ€

Sakura was already furious, she was so nervous that she couldn't even sleep well these days, she didn't ask Naruto to be as nervous as her, at least she had to be a little conscious, but she saw Naruto smirk and party with friends, which made her completely explode.

"I'll go to Grass Ninja Village in ten days."

"Very good, do you remember, it took us 2 days to return to Konoha after the mission, and then you suddenly disappeared for 4 days, Tsunade-sama told me that you went on a confidential mission, and that's it, and after you came back, you disappeared for 1 day, and it took 2 days from Konoha to Kusanoshi Village, what do you say I'm doing now?"

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Naruto opened his mouth but didn't know what to say, he forgot one very important thing, that is, Orochimaru was a teacher-level close figure to him, and Sakura was the culprit who abducted Sasuke, and the two of them thought differently from the starting point.

"This is the last meal you'll have in Konoha."

"At least let me talk to Hinata!"

"Say it with a shadow clone!"

"Yo, Naruto."

When Sakura grabbed Naruto to the Konoha gate, Kakashi was already waiting, and when he saw that the team was all together, he put away his affection Heaven and walked out of the village first.

"Kakashi-sensei, what's the matter with this person?"

Naruto could finally ask questions, and Sakura had a murderous expression all the time on the way, making him unable to speak at all.

"Well, just like he said, instead of Sasuke, join our seventh class on a mission, Sakura and he have known each other for a few days."

Kakashi's gaze turned to Sakai, he couldn't help it in the face of this spy sent by Gen, but he believed that Naruto could definitely deal with him.

"Then do you want to come to that, grab the bell."

Naruto accepted this new partner easily, and the fake smile on Sakai's face was well disguised, making Naruto's first impression of him not bad.

"Spare me, didn't you rob it last time, and he's not an ordinary person."

Kakashi waved his hand, and his emphasis on teamwork was at odds with Sakai's dark style

, not to mention that this is not someone who can kick out of the team without grabbing the bell.

"As rumored, a handsome, handsome and wise man, Naruto."

Seeing that Naruto was looking at him, Sakai quickly smiled and looked at him and said, but this simple sentence made Sakura and Kakashi both prick up their ears, they both knew that Sakai was in trouble.

"You're talking about me?"

"Hmm."

"It's not as good as you say."

It was the first time in Naruto's life that he had been praised like this, and Sakai's voice was like a heavenly sound, making him scratch his hair in embarrassment.

"I mean, you're really smart enough to understand exactly what I mean."

It was the first time that Sakai had met someone who couldn't understand him, so he didn't understand it and repeated it a few times.

"Sakai, you're such a good person, I thought the new addition would be some kind of difficult person to get along with."

Naruto was moved to tears, the most commonly used word stupid by the people around him was to describe him, but he didn't expect Sakai, who had known him for a long time, to have such a high opinion of him, he excitedly held Sakai's hand and regarded him as a bosom friend.

"You're a person who isn't strange at all."

Feeling the temperature in his hand, and looking at Naruto's sun-like smiling face, Sakai himself didn't notice that his smile had changed a little and became less cold.

"Look, I'll just say Naruto can deal with him."

Kakashi said with satisfaction when he saw Sakai eating deflated, he and Sakura were tormented by Sakai's rhetoric.

In Sakai's words, Kakashi is a good ninja who is hardworking and punctual, Sakura is a weak and beautiful girl who can't even catch chickens, Kakashi is okay, Sakura heard Sakai say this, but chased him for three streets, and was changed to say that it was an ugly girl, which girl can bear it!

"Fools have the advantage of being fools."

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Two days later, Naruto and his party had arrived in the territory of the Grass Country, and the Tenchi Bridge was also close at hand, and Kakashi ordered to rest for a while to wait for his work.

"Sakura-chan, do you have something on your mind?"

The place to rest was a small stream, Sakura took off her shoes and soaked her feet in the stream, and just as she was in a daze, Naruto suddenly took a can of drink and stuck it to her face, and asked with a smile.

"Nope."

Sakura took the jar from Naruto's hand and opened it and took a sip, but the sweet juice didn't ease her anxiety, and the closer she got to the bridge, the more uneasy she became.

"I heard Kakashi-sensei say, Tsunade's mother-in-law suspected that this news was fake at first, it was a trap set by the Xiao organization to arrest me, and you fought with Tsunade's mother-in-law in order to let me come out on this mission, thank you."

"Don't thank me, in fact, I don't know if what I did was right, judging from your reaction, it doesn't seem to be nervous at all, I don't know why, I'm even afraid that you don't want to chase Sasuke back, you're tired of chasing his footsteps, I..."

Sakura shook her head and turned her head to look at Naruto sitting beside her, Orochimaru's news means Sasuke's news, Naruto must know this, so the reason why he is not nervous is that Sasuke is no longer needed, this is what she is most afraid of, she can't bring Sasuke back alone, and she doesn't want to see her former friend become a passerby.

"Sakura-chan, of course I really want to see Sasuke, this has not changed, but you can also see it, Sasuke left voluntarily, no one coerced him, no one interrupted his hands and feet to kidnap him, I remember every word he said to me before leaving, the shadow of everyone in the family being killed by his brother, neither you nor I can understand."

"Are you going to go with him?"

"Sakura-chan, sometimes we have to think about it from Sasuke's point of view, yes, I really want him to come back, and when he comes back, I can even tie him up to myself and not let him go, it's the best for us, but what about Sasuke?"

"Is it really happiness for Sasuke that we forced him, took him back to Konoha in defiance of his will, and locked him in a cage like a bird? We say it's good for him in our mouths, but we do such things in our hands? โ€

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"I asked a sister what I should do, and she replied that we should wait until Sasuke's revenge is complete, and then we will try to persuade him as friends, rather than interrupting him when his hatred is at its peak, which will only attract his hatred."

"But, if something happens to Sasuke..."

Sakura somewhat understood what Naruto meant, but she didn't worry that Sasuke would go to Itachi for revenge, that was the big villain who killed the whole clan, what if Sasuke couldn't beat him?

"Sakura-chan, trust Sasuke, he's a genius in our seventh class. Of course, I will persuade him to come back if I see him, and it would be best if he could be obedient. โ€

Naruto took Sakura's hand and held it tightly, hoping to comfort her in this way.

"Naruto... Who allowed you to grab the girl's hand! โ€

Sakura was very moved, and then grabbed Naruto's hand and threw him into the stream, grimacing at him and scolding him to hide his heart, Naruto really has magical powers, just chatting with him and thinking that it is not a terrible thing to see Orochimaru later.

"Ahh Sakura-chan, you're going too far, I'm obviously comforting you! โ€

"Who cares about you, stupid."

"Sasuke, what kind of person would make Naruto and Sakura so persistent?"

Behind a large tree, Sakai overhears their conversation and can't help but be curious about Konoha's rebellion.

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PS,I modified Sakai's character a little.,Sakai in the original book is a troll when he says it's ugly-.-, here it's because he has been performing secret missions in the shadows all year round.,His tongue was cursed again, causing him to only like to say the opposite.,Anyway, sooner or later, he will be attacked by Naruto.ใ€‚

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