"Chunin selection exam? May I? Sakura Haruno was a little happy, she didn't expect Ming to be so optimistic about her, but she knew very well what the Shinobi exam meant.

As the name suggests, the Nakashinobi selection exam is an exam for the promotion of lower shinobi to middle ninja. The Chunin Exam is held twice a year by Konoha Village and the Allied Nations, allowing ninjas from various countries to come together and learn from each other. At the same time, high-level leaders of various countries will also meet to exchange ideas and enhance friendship.

But in essence, the Chunin Examination is a small war between countries to demonstrate their national prestige, compete with each other for the economy, and check and balance the strength of each ninja village. A ninja who doesn't have a certain strength can't show himself on this battlefield at all.

"If you have enough tasks, you can participate, and you can ask the teacher for the registration form." Kakashi, the banner of the Ming Dynasty, pouted and continued to say to Sakura, "This time the Shinobi exam will be held in the village, so you can go and accumulate some experience." ”

Kakashi glanced at Sakura thoughtfully, but he didn't object, but Hinata Takashi had some objections: "Ming, this is not appropriate, right?" It's still too dangerous to let a newcomer who has just left the ninja school take the middle ninja exam. ”

"I understand your concerns... After all, there have been several small countries that have joined together in the past to try to kill the ninjas of the big countries, so as to reduce the talent reserves of the big countries, that is, to use killing to balance the strength of each country. Ming's later words were for Sakura, "But that's also after the first preliminary test, Xiao, you don't think she'll be able to pass the first level, right?" ”

Don't be angry, don't be angry, although the mental age can't be simply linear superimposed, but Sakura and Sakura have lived for more than 20 years combined, how can they deal with a 14-year-old kid?

Could it be that she stomped on the table, grabbed Ming's collar again, and asked him how dare he question her theoretical achievements? Of course not, and Ming is still very forbearing, even if Sakura is not angry, she can only smile. So a very personal smile appeared on her face, the kind of very reluctant, tight smile.

Later, Akira said something again, but Sakura didn't pay attention to it at all, her mind was full of small theaters that sincerely apologized to her after passing the middle ninja exam. It wasn't until everyone was about to leave that Shizune patted her on the shoulder, and Sakura came back to her senses.

"Really, it's so hard to say that the middle ninja exam scares Sakura's stupid." Shizune noticed that Sakura was a little absent-minded, and thought she was frightened by Akira's words.

"That's when you sit next to her, and you can't see her expression," Ming raised his eyebrows, a hint of playfulness flashed in his dark eyes, and the corners of his lips hooked an arc, "People are stupid, but they laugh stupidly." Look at her, it's all drooling. ”

Sakura was really frightened this time, and quickly lowered her head and touched the corners of her mouth, her face was dry, and she didn't drool, and then she realized that she was obviously playing tricks on her, and she was fooled.

Listening to the chuckle, Sakura's lowered head trembled slightly, her face suddenly turned red to the base of her ears, and her rosy lips turned purple and blue, and her teeth clucked, and she didn't know if she was annoyed or ashamed.

Sakura just lowered her head, got up and said goodbye to everyone, and trotted away from the yakiniku Q. It was only after running through two streets that he remembered the "S-class mission" exclusive to the seventh class, and turned around and ran towards Gan Ligan.

Ganli Gan is a shop in Konoha Village that sells all kinds of tea sweets. It is located on the edge of Mingcha Street, which is much quieter than the glutinous rice balls shop, but the specialty yokan in the store still attracts a lot of popularity. If you use "charcoal-grilled delicacies to pour the city" to describe the barbecue of roast meat Q, then the lamb soup with sweet chestnuts is "the taste of crispy and overflowing between the teeth".

In addition to red beans, there can also be chestnut, hawthorn, pea and other flavors. If it is in the flowering period, you can even add flower petals, although the taste is less sweet, but the crispy fragrance is more fresh and fragrant, and it has a unique taste.

The couple of Naruto Uzumaki and Sasuke Uchiha sat on the bench at the entrance of the Ganli Gan Gate, enjoying delicious refreshments. At this time, Sakura ran from the side, and Naruto and the two put down the cups in their hands in unison, and turned to Sakura in an unusually synchronized manner.

"I'm sorry, I was found." Sakura spread her hands, saying that she couldn't see Kakashi's plain makeup, "I followed Kakashi-sensei to yakiniku Q, and as soon as I found a place to peek, I was caught by Ming-senpai." ”

"Are they taking you to eat a barbecue?" Despite the light rain falling from the sky, Sasuke still smelled the smell of barbecue on Sakura's body and frowned incredulously, "But you've all sat down to eat together, haven't you been able to see Kakashi's true face?" ”

Sakura's face flushed, she blinked her big blue eyes, and scratched her slightly hot cheeks, before she smiled at Sasuke a little shyly, "I forgot." ”

Suddenly it became quiet, except for the sound of raindrops tickling leaves. Sasuke was speechless, and suddenly he didn't want to talk to Sakura, the iron Hanhan, and got up and left Gan Ligan, all of them were unreliable, and he still had to get out of the horse.

"Naruto, you haven't been talking since just now, it's not quite like you." Sakura swallowed deeply, and then calmed down and sat down next to Naruto and started chatting.

"Sakura," Naruto stopped talking, but still made up his mind to say it, "Do you remember when I said that when Boss Ming was still in the village, he would give me a birthday every year?" ”

Sakura nodded, she remembered that Naruto had been pranked by Shizu's tempura. Naruto probably wanted to invite her to celebrate her birthday, right? It's not out of the question to celebrate the birthday of a Class 7 companion. It's just that it's only June, so it's too early, right?

"I just learned from Shikamaru a while ago," Naruto clenched the cup in his hand, but his fingers were still a little trembling, "Boss Ming would go to the cemetery with that Squint early that morning. ”

"Shikamaru must have known about it from Ino," Sakura remembered that Ino had speculated with her about whether there was that kind of relationship between Ming and Shizu, and did some research on it, only to find out later that it was a misunderstanding, "It is said that Ming's biological mother and Jing's father were both killed in an incident 12 years ago, so they went to the Yamanaka flower shop to buy flowers on the day of their death." ”

"Yes, just like Iruka-sensei's parents, they all died because of the nine-tailed demon fox." Naruto put the cup aside, his hands on his lap weakly, and his mood was a little low, "And that demon fox... In my body, I don't know how Boss Ming is in celebrating my birthday, and I don't know how I should face him now. ”

Sakura was silent, she knew very well that Naruto and Miso were different. The attitude of the villagers of Konoha towards Naruto, whether it was words or actions, or even the eyes in them, was full of malice. So for Naruto, his childhood was sensitive and more perceptible to the changes around him.

Although the first person Sakura knew after her rebirth was Akira, she didn't know Akira and couldn't guess Akira's thoughts. I didn't know how to enlighten Naruto, so I could only suggest at the moment: "Why don't you tell me how you met Ming-senpai?" ”

"It all started when I was 3 years old, and that day..."

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In the summer of Konoha 51, at five o'clock, the sky was exposed to the white of the fish's belly. With the passage of time, the rising sun slowly opened the curtain of morning light and descended on Konoha Village with freshness.

It was in this fresh and harmonious atmosphere that the villagers of Konoha Village began a new day's work. As the number of pedestrians on the street increases, the shops on both sides are opening one after another to welcome customers for the new day.

However, today's shopping street has broken the inherent harmony of Konoha Village, because most of the storefronts have been painted with various graffiti. The shopkeeper was furious, the pedestrians were talking, and the perpetrators were laughing at the success of their pranks, and the shopping street was a little noisy for a while.

Naruto saw that he had attracted the attention of the villagers, so he stood on the arch of the shopping street in Konoha Village and loudly announced "Naruto Uzumaki is here", and then quickly fled the scene of the crime.

Painting this kind of thing, doing too much, running is also a familiar road, those adults can't catch him at all. Unexpectedly, there was an accident today, just when Naruto was passing by a ninja shop.

Although Naruto only turned 4 years old in a few months, his mobility far surpassed that of ordinary people of his age. Naruto saw that there was only a boy about 5 years old in front of the ninja shop, and he had no idea of making a detour at all, he planned to run in front of the boy, leaving a dashing back.

The 5-year-old boy was about to open the door of the store, and when he saw Naruto running straight over, he silently recited in his heart, "The carving insect skill also dares to get an axe, and he didn't take me in his eyes at all", and he punched Naruto in the face, the timing and distance were just right, so that Naruto subconsciously raised his hand to defend.

If Naruto doesn't move, there is a gap, and if he moves, there is an organic, there is an opportunity to take advantage of, how could Ming miss it? When it came into contact, it was a stick, and then the two hands shook each other, looked at Naruto's joints, and then locked and pressed Naruto, and Naruto was controlled.

"Let go of me!" Naruto's right arm was twisted behind him, his clasped shoulder ached, and his right leg involuntarily fell to his knees, apparently with no chance of running away.

Seeing that Naruto was restrained, the people around him only kept their distance, whispering words such as "It's him", "Well, forbidden child", "It's really annoying", as if they saw the dirtiest thing in the world, and their eyes were full of disgust.

"You painted all over the street, right?" Although Ming didn't enter the ninja school and didn't know how to use chakra, it was still enough to deal with Naruto, "You have to bear the corresponding consequences for everything you do, don't you?" ”

"Yes! I did the paint. Naruto felt the malice of the villagers, and when he heard Ming's questioning, he was really aggrieved, and he shouted loudly in a childish childish voice, "But I did something wrong, I was always isolated, and no one took me to heart." And, why do you all have to look at me like that?! ”

"I don't know what you did, but I wouldn't think you did something wrong." Akira let go of the hand that was clasping Naruto's shoulder, "Even if you paint all over the outside of my shop, I won't blame you for anything." This is your guardian's fault, and I will only go to him to talk about education. ”

Naruto rubbed his sore arm and didn't continue to run away, but looked at Akira in surprise. Because he had never heard anything like it before. Naruto stared at Akira's eyes, a little anticipation in his heart, he wanted to hear Akira continue; I was also a little stunned, afraid to read disgust from Ming's eyes.

"It seems that the right or wrong of a thing is not determined by the number of people, right?" Ming's eyes were clear and clean, with neither disgust nor sympathy, "They will look at you that way, and some people will blame others for their misfortunes because they are angry; Some people choose to avoid the unknown because of fear; There are also some people who blindly follow the herd just because they conform to the herd and use the experience of others... Why do you think you're doing something wrong? ”

Ming's voice is naturally mellow, the timbre is bright and crisp, and he does not deliberately imitate those wise elders, and uses a calm tone to tell some big truths, which is completely the true color of children's sound. But this map cannon came down, but many shopkeepers stopped complaining, and many pedestrians chose to leave quietly, and the surrounding discussion gradually faded away.

Naruto froze in place, his young vocabulary was limited, and although he could sense the malice of the villagers, he couldn't describe it accurately, he could only call it that kind of look, and his words when he questioned the villagers were so pale and weak.

But Ming was able to point out the key point, and those people were speechless. Naruto suddenly wanted to ask a question, a question that none of the three Hokages could give a clear answer, but his stomach spoke first: "Goo." ”

"Let's go, I'll treat you to breakfast, Ichiraku Ramen Restaurant should be open at this time." Naruto stretched out his right hand and said with a smile, "But in return, you'll have to help me clean the paint on the door of the store in a while." That's why I stopped you, and that's the consequences you should bear. ”

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Sakura listened to Naruto's story, and couldn't help but feel a little touched in her heart, the middle two little ghost who also stretched out his right hand to her was really a "nosy" person.

But if he knew about Naruto, would he still treat Naruto like that? It's not right, Ming knew a lot of people in the village, and he wasn't deaf, so he must have known about Naruto, but he still did that. Just like the numb face, the sun is handsome at the same time, but he can treat others gently...

Sakura shook her head, what was she thinking? The middle two guy with a serious face but shouting something "Silver Warrior" is similar to the face of the numb.

"Let's not track it." I don't know when Sasuke has returned to Kazugi, and from the look on his face, he doesn't see Kakashi's true face. Sensing that Sakura and Naruto were in a somewhat abnormal mood, Sasuke stared at Naruto and asked, "What did you two do?" Looks a little quirky. ”

"It's nothing, it's just talking about something about the seniors." Sakura cleaned up her mood, "You two listen to me, the Chunin selection exam will start on July 1st, and there is not much time left, and now is not the time to worry about Kakashi-sensei's makeup." ”

"Chunin selection exam?" Naruto was stunned, he often skipped class, and he hadn't heard of the shinobi exam at all, "What's that?" ”

Sakura slapped her wide forehead, covering her eyes and not wanting to see Naruto's stupidity, but she still chose to explain in words that Naruto could understand: "Those who pass the exam can become a middle ninja, and in addition to Konoha, the more powerful lower ninja in the allies will also participate." ”

"Really? Then I'm going to participate too. Naruto looked at Sakura expectantly, "So, what kind of shinobi exam is this, and how do you sign up?" ”

"Kakashi-sensei has an entry form, but we don't have enough tasks, at least eight tasks need to be completed." Sakura wants to take the Shinobi exam, at least pass the first exam, and let the guy who looked down on her take a look.

"So what are you waiting for? Let's go find Kakashi. Sasuke also wanted to fight with the strong, so naturally he didn't want to let go of this opportunity to test his strength, and the three of them reached a consensus and immediately went to find Kakashi.