"Ping, that's usually the case?"

Hinata's gloomy face turned pale as a piece of paper, and she muttered a soft repetition of the lines that the young Naruto had hurriedly shouted.

Think of some bad examples: Naruto's son and Mitsuki... Naruto's master and Orochimaru...

Think about it... Sasuke also happens to be Orochimaru's apprentice...

This is still a tradition of the teacher... Friendly with the family?

Thinking about it, Hinata was already a little unstable.

At this time, the young Naruto looked at Sasuke with an indescribable look, and in Hinata's memory, her husband had never shown such affectionate eyes with a bit of iron tenderness when he looked at her before.

This is quite normal, because he and the genuine Shichiyome Hokage are two people after all;

This look of young Naruto comes from his daily workouts, and it has a lot to do with his life experience of living under Sakura's iron fist of love since he was a child, painful and happy.

And the genuine Seven Generations Hokage-sama, he wouldn't make such a superficial performance when he gets along with his friend Sasuke on weekdays...

As close friends who have known each other for life, the communication between Naruto and Sasuke can often be done through a few simple glances and body language, and the tone of conversation is very flat and will not show any difference.

But the tacit understanding brewed by time and emotion is intangible, and the friendship between the two is naturally inadmissible and inadversible.

The genuine Naruto and Sasuke don't need any special eyes, expressions, or movements to create an atmosphere of mystery that outsiders feel powerless to disturb...

This is the highest level of emotional communication between the two, where silence is better than sound.

Compared with the genuine Naruto, the young Naruto's way of expressing the emotions of the characters is extremely shallow and pale.

But vulgar tricks, occasionally tried, can also work wonders;

Sasuke was caught off guard at this time, and the embarrassing feeling of being "caught" in front of Hinata made this handsome middle-aged guy even more confused.

Once again, the Hokage's office fell into an eerie silence...

Hinata's painful and questioning eyes fell on Naruto's body, and Sasuke's slightly puzzled eyes also fell on Naruto's body.

This was not the effect that the young Naruto wanted, and he only felt like he was sitting on pins and needles as he watched heavily.

"W-That..."

Naruto, who was so weak that he couldn't hold it anymore, simply changed the topic with clumsy words:

"Sasuke, did you come to me for something?"

"Huh?"

Hearing Naruto's somewhat unusual questioning, Sasuke was puzzled in his heart:

Sasuke is basically a supernumerary ninja in the village who is only responsible for the seven generations of Hokage, and has no specific position, but at the same time, he is the only fighter of the same level in the village who can fight side by side with Naruto;

Therefore, in the special situation of the current big crisis, Sasuke has always tacitly accompanied Naruto, playing a personal assistant, a think tank, and a comrade-in-arms at critical moments.

Sasuke's arrival at the Hokage's office can only be regarded as a return to his own job, and the genuine Naruto would never open his mouth to ask him "why" so rawly.

So, Sasuke asked rhetorically with a bit of scrutiny and doubt:

"I'm coming to you, do you need anything?"

Not good...

As soon as the words came out, Sasuke regretted it.

It was meant to be a tentative phrase to observe the other party's reaction, but Sasuke didn't take into account that it had a different meaning in the current situation.

Sure enough, after hearing this, Hinata's face was completely bloodless, and there was a sickly and haggard whiteness between her delicate facial features...

"Hahaha... I'm just asking. ”

Naruto, who was only concerned about disguising his identity, didn't think about anything else, just pretended to smile lightly:

"It's Sasuke, of course you don't need it!"

Naruto's deliberately warm appearance was completely different from the indifference he had when he was with Hinata before, rejecting people from thousands of miles away.

This situation, which was already as complex as a mess, became even more inexplicable...

Hinata, who was intertwined with sorrow and worry in his heart, and Sasuke, who was so embarrassed that his scalp was numb, the eyes of the two were frozen on Naruto again.

How is this like this again...

You are talking! How can I answer words without talking?!

The other me, is your interpersonal relationship so complicated?!

Young Naruto roared inwardly, he couldn't hold on anymore.

Just at the critical moment when Naruto's dry smirk was about to freeze on his face, the office door was once again forcefully pushed open, saving Naruto's flawed collapse acting skills in time.

A familiar figure burst in:

"Naruto!"

"The medical ninjas who urgently recalled Konoha from the mission are in place, and the entire medical ninja force has been assembled!"

The person who came was Sakura, the current leader of the Konoha Medical Ninja, and at this critical moment when the war was approaching, she naturally couldn't be idle in an important position.

"Huh?"

Sakura, who pushed the door in with a stack of documents, was slightly stunned: "Sasuke, Hinata, are you also there?" ”

"Whew-"

Naruto was in no mood to listen to Sakura's debriefing, he just felt extremely relieved that he had been freed from the critical situation of suffocation.

And Sakura's scarlet cherry blossom hair that was tied at the back of her head and her blue eyes full of seriousness when she worked, were very consistent with the image of Sakura that young Naruto was close to in the depths of his mind.

Considering that the girl Sakura has often used the Hundred Heroes technique in the recent period, the image of the two in Naruto's eyes is even more consistent.

Sakura's appearance made the young Naruto feel unusually familiar and close, which made the young Naruto subconsciously show his true feelings.

“......”

Sasuke suddenly became a little annoyed:

You looked at me like that before...

I'm nothing...

And now you still look at Sakura with such eyes?

Sasuke looked at Naruto, who was out of proportion, with a hint of annoyance.

Hinata looked at Sakura, who had just pushed the door in, with a complicated expression.

At this moment, Naruto's complex and changeable emotional performance, Hinata doesn't know how to evaluate it...

At least... If the opponent is Sakura, the situation is much better than before.

"What's going on, everybody..."

Sakura was already aware of the strange atmosphere in the office, and this invisible mental oppression made her dare not speak loudly.

Naruto also sensed his momentary gaffe just now, and hurriedly drew his eyes back to Sasuke from Sakura.

The gloom in Sasuke's eyes was soothed a lot...

But the situation in the office did not improve at all, and the embarrassment and embarrassment spread all the way from two people to three people, and finally enveloped the four people present.

How is this like this again...

You are talking! How can I answer words without talking?!

The other me, is your interpersonal relationship so complicated?!

Young Naruto was once again close to breaking down in the growing silence.

Naruto looked at the office door with some grief, hoping that someone would break in again.

Big Brother Itachi! Boss Tam! You'd better come to the rescue...

..................................................................

In the midst of Naruto's prayers, the door was literally pushed open once more.

The first thing that came out of the narrow gap that had just opened was a black pineapple.

"Shikamaru?"

Naruto looked at Shikamaru, who had just returned from leaving, with a little joy. I just feel that the mustache on the chin of the middle-aged Shikamaru is a lot kinder.

For Naruto at this time, the high-IQ Shikamaru is no longer difficult to deal with, and it will not be more difficult than the complicated interpersonal relationship of the genuine Naruto.

Shikamaru's face was very solemn, so solemn that the silent aura in the office had no effect on him at all.

"There's news from Yunyin Village."

There was no trace of the usual laziness in Shikamaru's voice.

Obviously, this news is not good news, and this sentence is just a foreshadowing for a bad news.

But Naruto, who has been suffering for a long time, has come to the spirit, and finally someone is willing to say the lines seriously!

Moreover, the target of Naruto's mission this time was none other than the eight-tailed Kirabi of Cloud Hidden Village.

If he can successfully get the information out of Shikamaru's mouth, with the work efficiency of Tamu and the others descending from the sky across space, I'm afraid that it won't take an hour for Naruto to be able to get out of the sea of suffering and return to his own world.

"Naruto!"

Shikamaru frowned, faintly dissatisfied with Naruto's frivolous performance:

"We just received a summons from the Cloud Hidden side that the Cloud Hidden Squad that protected the Eight-Tailed Human Pillar Rabbi to Konoha was attacked by the Big Barrel Wood Peach Style and the Big Barrel Wood Gold Style!"

Naruto was taken aback: "What? ”

"Not only that..."

Shikamaru said with a solemn expression, "The eight-tailed cow ghost was also taken away by the peach style and the gold style!" ”

"This..."

Naruto was already a little confused: "Are you sure that it was the Otsuki Momo Style and the Otsuki Gold Type that captured the Eight Tails?" ”

Didn't you say okay, let me go undercover to get information and then do it?

Director! It's not the same script!

"Probably right!"

Shikamaru nodded seriously:

"Although the Yunyin team suffered heavy casualties, there were still several conscious survivors who provided information in time."

"Heavy casualties?"

Naruto keenly caught the extremely glaring word.

"That's right..."

Shikamaru sighed softly:

"The pattern of the enemy's behavior has changed so much that it can almost be said that he is fierce."

"The Yunyin Escort Team is composed of two wartime upper ninja squads, and only eight of the twenty-four survived."

"Three of the survivors are still on the verge of death, and only three are conscious and able to speak."

Shikamaru's tone was very solemn, but his tone was as calm as ever, which was his unfazed character as a military division.

But this calm and quiet elaboration set off turbulent waves in the hearts of Sakura and Hinata present:

In the new era of peace, this kind of horrific vicious incident that caused the death of more than a dozen shinobi in the line of duty has long disappeared; And even in the previous war-torn era, this tragic casualty figure was also unbearable for any ninja village.

Adult Sasuke didn't care about delicate emotional issues at the moment, and his attention was completely attracted by this ferocious enemy.

And the young Naruto was stunned and couldn't react for a long time;

His hands also quietly clenched the edge of the table, and unconsciously increased the force almost to crush the sturdy wooden tabletop.

Shikamaru didn't take Naruto's reaction into account, just analyzed it seriously:

"This time, Yunyin Village's operation to escort Yao was absolutely secret, but it still suffered an undisguised frontal attack from the enemy."

"This shows that the enemy is definitely the same as we feared before, and has the ability to accurately perceive the tailed beast chakra at an ultra-long range."

Shikamaru sighed again:

"And this time, as soon as the enemy struck, he ruthlessly took people's lives, and the means were extremely cruel and bloody; This is in stark contrast to the zero casualties they caused the last time they captured the Four Tails. ”

"My guess is that the logic of the enemy's behavior is most likely just as they claim to be..."

"Think of yourself as a god on high and kill us ants as you please, right?"

Shikamaru's unhurried tone finally changed slightly, and he summed it up with some prominent accents:

"All in all, this time we must not leave anything to chance with the enemy!"

"If you get the Ten Tails by such a character, the end of sixteen years ago will soon reappear!"

"Damn!"

Sakura clenched her fists angrily, and her blue eyes rose with fighting spirit:

"The people of the big barrel wood clan don't care about human life so much?"

Naruto, who has always been full of blood, didn't have any intention of echoing Sakura at the moment, nor did he stand up and exert his strength to boost morale.

At this time, the young Naruto seemed strangely silent, and his blue eyes, which had never dimmed, were also slightly distracted.

Hinata, Sakura, and Sasuke noticed Naruto's abnormality at the same time, and sent out concerned greetings in unison:

"Naruto?"

Echoing calls echoed through the office, and the three of them looked at each other awkwardly as they spoke.

The young Naruto was not affected by this sudden unserious atmosphere, and the whole person fell into a gloom.

Big barrel peach type... Big barrel wood gold type?

The two names automatically converted into Hinata and Tamu in the mind of the young Naruto...

Then these two intimate and familiar images became cold and unfamiliar in the face of the tragic truth.

Obviously, I said before that I wouldn't hurt anyone... And now...

Young Naruto can accept a certain degree of informality on Tam's part, but wanton killing and injuring people in order to achieve his goal has already touched the moral bottom line in his heart.

"Let me think about something alone!"

The young Naruto suddenly left such a sentence, and stood up and pushed the door out.

Young Naruto also didn't care what others thought of his unusual behavior, and just maintained the last restraint in the midst of extreme anger.

He walked to a random place where no one was and dialed Tam's phone number.

"What's wrong, Naruto? What's the situation? ”

Tam quickly picked up the phone, after all, it was from the top undercover agent who had infiltrated the enemy's interior.

"Tam!"

Young Naruto's voice became very tangled and painful, and the anger from his heart couldn't be concealed:

"What the hell did you do! Why break your promise?! ”

"What?"

Tamu, who was a thief, was flustered: "You, you know everything?" ”

There was silence on the phone, except for the tiny ticking of a gadfly.

After a long time, the voices on both sides sounded at the same time:

"I'm doing this all for Hinata!"

"Why are you and Hinata killing people!"

There was silence again...

"What the hell?"

Tam was stunned.