The aroma of grilled fish wafts across the shore.

Naruto sat on the side, and instead of picking up the grilled fish and eating it, he secretly looked at the white-clothed boy who was enjoying the grilled fish with his eyes.

Guessing the identity of the young man in white.

No matter how you look at it, the identity of this young man in white is very suspicious, and the behavior of drowning in the center of the lake is also very strange.

Seeing that the other party was eating grilled fish with a casual face at the moment, Naruto finally couldn't help but speak:

"The ......"

"Huh?"

The young man in white was still biting the grilled fish in his mouth, and after hearing Naruto's voice, he raised his head to look at the other party and blinked, as if he was wondering why Naruto stopped him at this time.

"Why are you in a coma in the middle of the lake...... That's a very dangerous thing to do. ”

Naruto said.

The young man in white stopped eating the grilled fish and took the remaining half of the grilled fish from his mouth before slowly speaking to Naruto, "Suicide." ”

"Suicide?"

Naruto's eyes widened with an incomprehensible look.

"That's right, I want to kill myself."

The young man in white nodded affirmatively.

“……”

Now Naruto couldn't understand it even more.

Moreover, the answer of the young man in white was beyond his comprehension.

How can a person who is so good and decent, suddenly run away and commit suicide?

"Is it hard to understand?"

Seeing Naruto's incomprehensible appearance, the young man in white asked rhetorically.

"Hmm."

Naruto didn't understand the teenager's thoughts at all, and he didn't know what was going on in the other's head.

But the act of suicide is originally a negative thought to escape from the world, and it cannot solve any substantive problems.

If it really comes to the point where you have to commit suicide, how desperate must you be for your future life to have such unbearable thoughts and put them into action?

However, he didn't see any sadness or despair on the face of the young man in white, and even when he said the word 'suicide', it seemed that it was only for illustration and explanation.

Therefore, Naruto could not understand.

"After all, in my opinion, there are no hurdles in life that cannot be overcome. I used to be hated by a lot of adults, and many of my peers were also affected by me and started to stay away from me. There is a bit of despair, but running away won't solve anything, and I think only by facing it can we grasp and change the way others think of us. ”

At least, he is not without people who care for him, and he is not without friends who are willing to get along with him.

Although few, these are enough to be the light in his heart and expel those bad dark thoughts.

“？”

The young man in white looked at Naruto blankly, was he being preached?

Although the explanation given was reluctant, the other party seemed to dispel his negative thoughts of suicide.

However, the other party's remarks are obviously a misunderstanding.

He didn't commit suicide out of despair for the future.

"Noisy...... Want quiet. ”

"What?"

"No, nothing. It's like I haven't figured it out for a while, but listening to you say that, I don't have suicidal thoughts for the time being. ”

The young man in white shook his head, unwilling to dwell on this topic.

After all, his own existence is too incredible for outsiders.

"Huh?"

Naruto looked at the boy in white in astonishment.

I want to commit suicide for a while, and give up suicide for a while, this guy changes his face too quickly.

Could it be that what you say is really so useful?

"Because I want to protect my father, who is the Creator of life to whom I have given life, and I must keep fighting until I fall."

The expression of the young man in white suddenly became firm.

"Yes, yes? You see, don't you still have a family member who cares for you? ”

Naruto didn't know what was going on in the heart of the boy in white, but it was undoubtedly a good thing to give up suicide.

Moreover, it is a great dream for Naruto to regard the protection of his most important loved ones as his goal in life.

Naruto's favorability for the boy in white soared all at once.

A person who has this kind of ideological consciousness to protect others and even give up his own life is certainly not a bad person.

"Speaking of which, I've always wanted to ask, the forehead guard you're wearing...... You're a ninja, right? ”

The young man in white changed the subject, fixed his eyes on Naruto's forehead, and began to ask.

Naruto raised his eyebrows, a very proud smile appeared on his face, put his hands on his forehead, helped his forehead guard upward, and said with a smile on his face: "That's right, I'm Shinobi from Konoha Village, Naruto Uzumaki." ”

"Konoha? The markings on the forehead guard are indeed somewhat familiar. ”

"Have you seen any other Konoha ninjas?"

"Hmm."

The white-clothed young man squinted his eyes back, and his gaze fell on the long-handled object wrapped in a white cloth ribbon.

There seem to be a lot of Konoha ninjas who died under this gun.

"So, in other words, you're a ninja too?"

Naruto came interested.

The white-clothed young man nodded indifferently, and took out a forehead guard with a strap from his arms, the system is the same as the ninja forehead guard in Konoha Village, the difference is that the tattoo on the forehead guard is a blooming aster flower.

"Where do I remember seeing this pattern, strange, where is it?"

Naruto scratched his cheek as he stared at the mark on his forehead.

"This is the forehead guard worn by the ninjas of the Oni Country."

"The land of ghosts?" Naruto's mind flashed with a flash of inspiration, and it suddenly dawned on him: "Ah, I remember, no wonder it is so familiar, in the port of the country of waves, I saw the huge ship of the country of demons, and the flag was engraved with the same mark as this forehead guard. ”

"That's the convoy that belongs to the military of the Oni Country."

The young man in white nodded.

The country of waves is an island country, and if the Konoha ninja wants to come to the country of waves, they can only take a ship across the sea and land at the port location.

It is inevitable that you will find military ships belonging to the country of ghosts.

"In other words, you are indeed a ninja in the land of demons."

"That's right, my name is Akako...... Ninja level,According to the position that my father arranged for me.,It should be a ninja.。 ”

"Kamishinobi!?"

Naruto's eyes were about to pop out, and he looked at the young man in white, Akako, in surprise.

The other party's appearance looks like he is barely fifteen or sixteen years old, so young is a ninja?

In Naruto's opinion, this was a fantasy at all.

After Kakashi's tutelage, Naruto was well aware of the gap between the lower shinobi and the upper ninja.

Even if he was given three years to make amends, Naruto didn't dare to guarantee that he could become a powerful being like Kamishinobi.

"Well, may I ask, how old are you this year?"

Could it be that this bareage just looks more tender? In fact, it is older?

Akako was asked.

"What's wrong?"

"No, I'm just thinking about how old I am...... If I had counted from the year I had regained consciousness and was able to move freely, I would have been five years old now...... Or are you four years old? ”

Akako looked like he was thinking seriously.

It was the first time anyone had asked about his age.

He is an artificial man and cannot be viewed by normal human standards.

The moment he was born, he was able to walk on the ground, his body did not grow to his current position, and his intelligence was comparable to that of an adult.

This is indeed an incomprehensible thing for normal people.

According to the development of a normal human baby, it takes at least ten years of growth to reach the state in which he was born.

Five-year-old? Four-year-old? Or is it an interrogative sentence? Akako's answer put a question mark on Naruto's face.

What a quirky teenager.

He felt that the other party's common sense cognition might be worse than him.

"Since you are a shinobi, your strength must be very strong, right?"

Naruto brushed aside the topic of age and instead focused on Akako's shinobi title.

"According to my father, I should be strong. What, are you going to fight me? ”

If it's just a fight, you can't use the 'Dead Soul Gun', otherwise you'll die." Akako said in his heart.

Occasionally, he would be used as a sparring partner for the ninjas of the Oni no Kuni, and in that case, he was forbidden to use weapons.

"No, I just want to ask you to teach me how to practice. If you're a shinobi, you should know how to make me learn to tread water quickly, right? ”

Naruto folded his hands and grinned,

"Treading water? Isn't it a fight? ”

Moreover, isn't treading water the basic skill of a ninja? Skills that should be mastered in a ninja school.

But Naruto said before that he had endured it, and he still hadn't learned to tread water.

Could it be that Konoha's ninja school doesn't teach treading water practice until they graduate?

"Of course not, I'm going to learn to tread water quickly and surprise a certain little man."

Naruto said seriously.

"Although I don't know who the little man you are talking about, since you are so serious, I will reluctantly teach you how to tread water."

After all, after eating the other party's grilled fish, the young man didn't want to repay the debt.

If there is kindness, it will be repaid, and if there is revenge, it will be avenged.

Moreover, Naruto's simple and straightforward character, he doesn't hate it.

I just hope that he won't die at his own hands in the future.

Otherwise, I'll feel a little lost in my heart.

"Thank you very much!"

In Naruto's opinion, Kakashi has the ability, but he is too lazy.

Basically tell him the trick and don't pay much attention to him.

He also knew that it was not realistic to let a shinobi follow him closely, after all, considering the position of Sasuke and Sakura, it was necessary to have a bowl of water to be level.

But now that he had another shinobi to guide, Naruto believed that he would be able to learn to tread water faster, which made the dwarf of the Thunder Light Regiment show a shocked expression.

"You tread water first, I want to know how far you have exercised by treading water."

Akako said.

"Okay."

Naruto took a deep breath and walked to the shore, his hands sealed, and began to gather the chakra at his feet.

At the moment of converging the chakra, Akako sensed the chakra changes in Naruto's body.

Chakra is too poorly controlled.

But it shouldn't be caused by subjective reasons, there is another force interfering with the other party's chakra.

Although it is very hidden, the xenomorph chakra with a strong consciousness is like a firefly in the dark night in his eyes, so attractive to attention.

Naruto did as Ako had instructed him to tread water.

As before, it didn't last long and fell straight into the water.

After Naruto came ashore, Akako asked, "Have you done the training to climb the tree?" ”

"Yes, but treading water is much more difficult than climbing trees, and there is no progress at the end of the day."

Naruto wrung the water trails off his clothes and said in anguish.

"You're amazing."

The young man suddenly praised.

“？”

Naruto winked suspiciously at Akako, not knowing why Akako was praising him.

"It stands to reason that it is impossible for a talent like yours not to be valued by the village."

As long as he is not blind, it is impossible for a high-ranking ninja village not to notice Naruto's own solid foundation and talent.

With the interference of such a different chakra, he was able to learn to climb trees, and at the end of the day, the training of treading water also made good progress.

This is not only the result of their own efforts, but also the full embodiment of their own talent.

In Akako's opinion, Naruto is a natural ninja.

Strong vitality and chakra, top-notch cultivation talent.

This is an excellent foundation for becoming a powerful ninja.

Among the geniuses that Akako has seen, Naruto's talent is also among the best.

Naruto's face turned even more weird.

When Akako said this, he obviously saw him as a genius.

But his own family knows his own business.

When he became a shinobi, he was slower than Sasuke and Sakura when he practiced any skill.

This gave him the idea that he was a mediocre person.

Only through non-stop hard work can Sasuke and Sakura catch up.

"In the past, was it particularly difficult to cultivate the Three-Body Technique? But learning ninjutsu, which requires a lot of chakra, will it be fast? ”

Ako asked again.

"How do you know?"

Naruto looked at Ako in surprise.

"It's not something to be surprised about, there's another force within you that's interfering with your condensation chakra."

"Another force?"

Naruto's body stiffened.

He thought of something.

Nine-tailed demon fox.

Mizuki, the bastard teacher who cheated on him, once said about it.

He was sealed with a terrifying demonic beast - the nine-tailed demon fox.

Attacked Konoha twelve years ago and was sealed away by four generations of Hokage at the cost of their lives, ending the chaos.

What the son said should be the nine-tailed demon fox in his body.

With that, Ako walked up to Naruto, patted Naruto on the shoulder, and said, "Okay, you can go and test it again, it should be much better this time." In fact, your chakra's control has reached the passing line, and treading water is very easy for you. ”

"Is that so?"

Although he was puzzled by Achiko's statement, Naruto did as Akako said.

I went to the shore again and started treading water, and saw that my feet were standing on the water, and although they were a little unstable, they were actually standing on the surface of the water and did not fall into the water.

Naruto's face lit up with surprise and he began to dance on the water.

Watching Naruto dancing on the water, Akako sighed again in his heart: he was a dull-brained guy.

In a way, he is also a slow-brained type.

But it wasn't sluggish to the point of Naruto.

Because of his sluggishness, he is indifferent to the outside world and outsiders.

Although his Creator hopes that he will find something meaningful in human society and better integrate into the human world.

But as he said, he is indifferent to the outside world and outsiders, and how can he talk about integrating into the human world.

"Great, how the hell did you get me to do this? It's amazing! It's even better than Kakashi-sensei! ”

Kakashi, who was inexplicably stepped on by Naruto, didn't know it yet.

Naruto came up to Akako with a happy face and thanked him.

"It's nothing, even if you don't have my help, you only need to spend a few more days, you can do it."

Ako put her hand on Naruto's shoulder and withdrew the power that had just been sent into Naruto's body.

“？”

"I used my strength just now to barely stabilize another chakra in your body for you, so you can control your chakra as you want, and tread water successfully at once. But doing so is not good for your growth. Although having another chakra will cause your cultivation progress to slow down, if you can successfully tread water under the interference of such a powerful chakra, it will also benefit you a lot. ”

In Chizi's opinion, being disturbed by another chakra is not entirely a bad thing.

In the long run, this is a good thing.

Because this will help Naruto's own growth, and his ability to control chakra will be further strengthened.

As long as the control of Chakra reaches the peak realm, then, when the time comes, a lot of ninjutsu will be easy to learn and perform.

So, after giving Naruto a taste of the experience of treading water, Ako withdrew her power to prevent Naruto from relying too much on this way of using shortcuts to succeed.

With the help of her family, Ako is well aware of the importance of a solid foundation for a ninja.

Although he himself is not good at teaching, he also knows what is the most important thing for a ninja in the lower ninja period.

"Is that so?"

Naruto probably understood what Ako meant, but he still couldn't understand and think about it.

When Akako was about to say something more, he suddenly turned his head to look at a certain position.

"Someone's coming, is that your friend?"

Akako asked.

Naruto looked up in the direction where Akako's gaze swept, and Sasuke's figure appeared there, carrying a lunch box in his hand.

"Ah, it's Sasuke."

Naruto walked over to Sasuke's side.

"Naruto, this is the lunch that Kakashi asked me to bring you."

Sasuke lifted the lunch box and placed it in Naruto's hand.

Naruto accepted it with a happy face, the grilled fish just now was all eaten by Akako alone, and his stomach was still empty and not full.

"By the way, I just saw a figure here, are you talking to someone?"

Sasuke asked.

"That's a friend I just met, Akako, this is ......"

He was about to introduce Sasuke to Akako, but when Naruto turned his head, he saw that the place where Akako had been staying was empty, and a few leaves were slowly falling.

"Strange, why are people missing?"

"Maybe left."

"Is that so? It's a pity, but I wanted you to get to know you. ”

"I'm exempt, he shouldn't be from the village, and judging from his sudden disappearance, he should be a ninja. Be careful, don't be deceived. ”

Sasuke looked at Naruto's unscrupulous face and reminded him to be careful of strangers.

"I'm not a child, how can I be deceived?"

Being underestimated by Sasuke made Naruto very dissatisfied.

Sasuke didn't say anything, just looked at the direction in which Akayako disappeared, all thinking.

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After separating from Naruto, Ako returned to the location of the Oni no Kuni Military Factory in Zone D of the Land of Waves.

Just as he was about to walk out of the woods, Akako suddenly stopped.

looked at the dense grass next to him with indifferent eyes, and suddenly spoke: "Come out, you have already followed me all the way." ”

After Akako's words fell, some sounds came from the grass, and a figure stepped out of it, looking at Akako with a wary gaze.

Akako looked at the other party's familiar face, with long white hair, a forehead guard with the word 'oil' written on his forehead, and red oil paint under the corner of his eyes, and said, "It's you, if I remember correctly, you are a Konoha ninja called Jiraiya." Why, did you come to me for revenge? ”

On the battlefield of the Land of Wind a few years ago, Akako clearly remembers the battle with the Konoha ninja.

Because the battle was so tragic that he remembered it vividly.

At that time, many of Konoha's upper ninjas died at their own hands, and Jilai was also one of the few surviving ninjas in Konoha in that battle.

Later, the country of demons and Konoha made some kind of deal to release each other in exchange for Konoha's compromise and concession.

After all, a defeated general can no longer attract too much attention from the country of ghosts.

But the other party means a lot to Konoha.

Although the other party is one of the legendary three ninjas, Akako doesn't have much awe, just looks at Jiraiya indifferently.

"What is the purpose of approaching Naruto for a dangerous guy like you?"

Jiraiya has a serious expression.

He is a first-hand witness of the War in the Land of Winds, and knows very well how strange and terrifying Ako is.

The immortal body, the weapon behind it, is capable of 'killing' the chakra system in the human body.

Even the two immortals of Miaomu Mountain had suffered losses at the hands of each other, and in the end, they relied on the immortal talisman of the big toad immortal to save it.

Otherwise, the Zhima Immortals will not be able to use Chakra and condense the Immortal Technique for the rest of their lives.

And the way to cause this result is only to be lightly bruised by the opponent's weapon.

After the other party came into contact with Naruto just now, he wanted to separate the two several times, but considering that the other party was too close to Naruto, and it was inconvenient for him to appear there, he had to observe in secret, in case Akako was not good for Naruto.

"Purpose?"

"That's right, as a close confidant of Chiba Shiraishi, it's impossible for you not to know Naruto's identity."

Jiraiya said solemnly.

"Nine-tailed human pillar power? I've heard a few things from my father, but it was just an accident that I met him. ”

Akako said.

But this explanation obviously does not dispel the vigilance in Jiraiya's heart.

However, Akako has no reason to let Jiraiya, the Konoha ninja, believe him.

"If you want to avenge the Konoha ninjas who died at my hands, you can do so at any time. But I'm a little tired today, and if nothing else, I'll take my leave. ”

Without waiting for Jiraiya to react, Akako turned his head, touched the thing wrapped in a white cloth belt behind him, and walked slowly forward.

It's a bit of a pity to let go of such a delicious soul, but there is still a chance in the future, so there is no need to rush it. As she walked forward, she muttered in her heart.

His pale face began to fluctuate slightly, and there was a hint of evil that he didn't even notice.