When the morning sun had just risen, a small team appeared in the woods outside the village of Konoha Hidden Village.

There were 9 people in the team, including an old man in his 60s, with gray hair, a wine bottle in his hand, and squinted eyes, looking like he hadn't woken up.

He is Dazna, a famous bridge builder in the country of waves, and the initiator and employer of this escort mission.

Two young men, one of whom had short silver-white hair, wore a black mask, and covered his left eye with a Konoha forehead guard.

The other wears sunglasses with the brim facing backwards and is fastened to the back of the hat with a Konoha forehead guard.

These two are Kakashi and Ebisu, the leading teachers of this escort mission.

There are also three energetic teenagers in the team.

A blonde with blond hair, wearing an orange jacket with three beard-like textures on each cheek, makes a fuss from time to time, and looks full of vitality.

The other black hair, 24-hour tsundere face, is always the appearance of others who owe him money and don't pay it back.

The third has long red hair, tied into a single ponytail, and his two eyes have been staring at the tsundere boy, looking like a on his face.

Needless to say, they are the Class 7 trio, Naruto Uzumaki, Sasuke Uchiha, and Sakura Haruno.

As for the last three, it is naturally the trio of Wind Festival Meng Huang, Ise Udon, and Lu Mang.

Under the leadership of Lu Mang, Meng Huang and Udon have made a lot of progress, not only successfully graduated and promoted to Xia Ren, but their physical and mental conditions have improved considerably.

There is a lot less proboscis hanging under the nose of udon, and it is almost impossible to see if you don't look closely.

The blush on Meng Huang's face is a little bigger, and it looks more healthy and ruddy.

……

"Yo, it's Ebisu, it's a nice day today."

"Hehe, it's really Konohamaru, I thought I heard it wrong."

"Sister Sakura, your hair color looks so good."

Don't look at the two groups of people now, they are like a family that loves each other.

In fact, when they first assembled half an hour ago, it was as hot as Mars hitting Earth.

"What, we're going on a mission with a bunch of imps like this? Who arranged this, it's too much! ”

The first one to object was Sakura, who was still talking normally.

If it's to listen to her heart, then ...... Gee......

Ebisu was equally dissatisfied.

"It's such a simple task as escorting the old man back home, it seems that you don't need Kakashi to come forward, right?"

Sasuke ignored it and walked past the Ebisu trio, taking them for air.

Udon and Moe Huang had already admired Naruto Uzumaki very much, and now although they admired Lu Mang even more, it didn't prevent them from chasing after Naruto.

The one with the best attitude was Naruto, and Mizuki rescued each other that time, and the relationship increased a lot.

Recently, the two of them have been very busy, but they haven't broken contact, and they occasionally go to Ichiraku ramen dinner together after training, and they get along very well.

But the problem is that Lu Mang can lead the Ebisu class foursome, but Naruto has no say in class 7.

Despite his efforts to dissuade Sakura and Sasuke, the relationship between the two teams slowly deteriorates.

It was Lu Mang who facilitated this cooperation mission, and he naturally didn't want to see this situation continue.

It seems that these arrogant guys need to be given a dismount.

Lu Mang pondered for a moment and decided to let the foursome of Class 7 see his "copying" ability.

Well, that's right, it's the ability to "copy".

"Naruto, let's have a tree climb, shall we?"

"Climbing trees? Yes, yes. ”

Naruto clapped in welcome.

Feelings belong to feelings, competition still has to compete, especially this kind of healthy competition that will not hurt others, of course he welcomes it.

Besides, compared to climbing trees, he has always considered himself the first among his peers in the whole village, and he is naturally not afraid of Lu Mang's challenge.

"Konohamaru is the best at climbing trees."

Meng Huang and Udon cheered Lu Mang together.

Ebisu hugged his chest with his left hand and touched his sunglasses with his right hand, with a mysterious smile on his face.

Sasuke was as arrogant as ever, and he didn't look at this side.

If it weren't for the curiosity of his employer, Mr. Dazner, he might have just thrown off this group of unreliable guys and left first.

Sakura was even more angry, muttering something like "A little ghost is a little ghost, when will you still climb a tree".

Kakashi, on the other hand, looked different from others, and couldn't stop scanning the faces of Lu Mang and Ebisu, trying to find out what was out of the ordinary.

"Konohamaru, you say, how can we compare?"

Naruto was eager to try.

Lu Mang had a mysterious smile similar to Ebisu on his face, and said generously: "The way I propose the competition, the rest is up to you to decide, this is what the game should look like." ”

"Well, okay then."

Naruto patrolled the woods for a moment, found two big trees, patted the trunks, and grinned, "Just these two, whoever climbs to the top first wins, how about it?" ”

He just happened to be able to hug these two trees, and it was very easy to climb.

And Konoha Maruto has short arms, but it is not easy to climb up, so he has the upper hand at this point, and it is much easier to win this competition.

Great wisdom can't be talked about for the time being, but he still has this little cleverness.

Contrary to his expectations, the other three members of the Ebisu class foursome didn't seem to see his little tricks, and they all crossed their arms and posed as if they were looking at a joke, and none of them gave Konohamaru a hint.

Could it be that Konohamaru has any tree climbing tricks that I don't know?

Naruto didn't continue to think deeply, and after a moment of confusion, he put the doubt behind him.

Dazna approached with great interest and acted as referee and starter for the two men.

"Now, let's go!"

When Naruto heard the command, he immediately jumped up more than a meter high, clasped his hands on the top of the trunk, and climbed under the trunk with both feet, using his hands and feet together, and climbed up with ease.

He is usually naughty, so he is naturally handy at doing this kind of thing, and it didn't take much effort to climb to the waist of the big tree.

Looking to the right, I didn't see Konohamaru's figure, but when I looked down again, I found that the guy was looking at him with his hands on his chest and grinning.

"Hey! Konohamaru, don't you want to win the game?"

As soon as Naruto finished shouting these words, he saw Konohamaru raise his foot and step on the trunk of the tree, and he came to his side in three or two steps.

"Huh? Can it still be like this?! ”

He slid off the tree and gave up the race.

No matter how fast you climb a tree, you can't be faster than this cheating-style method, so what's the point of him competing?

Before Naruto landed, Lu Mang had already "walked" to the canopy, and then jumped down, landing faster than Naruto.

"You're cheating!"

Naruto was unconvinced.

Kakashi looked at Ebisu in amazement and exclaimed, "Ebisu, did you teach Konohamaru this method?" A very clever way to exercise chakra control ability. ”

Ebisu refused to take credit, and looked at Lu Mang with the same admiration, "This is the method that Konohamaru came up with by himself, it is really easy to use, after the three of them exercised with this method, Chakra's control ability has been greatly improved." ”

Kakashi didn't say anything more.

This method is indeed his unique secret skill, but it does not mean that others can't figure it out.

It's just that it turned out to be a kid like Konohamaru, which really surprised him.

But thinking that Konohamaru's grandfather was the third Hokage, he was relieved.

After all, he was known as a ninjutsu professor, and it was not impossible for him to come up with a more clever method.

Lu Mang didn't have time to pay attention to Kakashi's misunderstanding, and he asked Moe Huang and Udon to perform a hiking tree, although it was not very successful, but he also convinced Haruno Sakura and Sasuke.

The relationship between the two teams has become harmonious since this competition.