"Okay, please come with me."

The woman pushed open the half-waisted door, and a pair of jade legs were the first to be exposed.

After earning enough attention, she smiled at the front of the counter, took out two wooden cards from an old wooden box, handed them to Mianma, and touched him by the way.

The woman twisted her waist and swung her hips and took the lead in walking towards the corridor on the right, and her face turned back to the stunned Naruto and beckoned him to follow.

After passing through two cloisters, several huts, and a small garden, the three arrived at a chic wooden house.

"This is it, the rattle will do the trickle if you need it."

He smiled and nodded, and walked in with his hands in his hands, but he could feel a burning gaze behind him locking on Naruto beside him.

With a smiling face, he dragged Naruto in and pulled the wooden door shut.

There are more than a few clogs in the entrance, and up the stairs of the two floors, a square tea table is placed in the center of the room, and four legless tea chairs are arranged on all sides.

There are also two tatami mats in the room, and a stack of white bath towels neatly stacked at the foot of the bed. A screen painted with verdant pines and cypresses stands on one side, separating the outdoor space from the interior.

After bypassing the screen, the two stepped into an open-air space about 10 meters long and wide, and the wooden ground under their feet also turned into a frosted black stone floor, and there were wooden guardrails of more than two meters on three sides of the perimeter.

In the center, there is an oval-shaped hot spring pond with a diameter of about 6~7 meters, and it is steaming upwards.

The baths are made of shiny black stones of various sizes and shapes, and the edge of the pond near the wooden fence is covered with some large-leaved greenery.

"Nissan, the environment here is much better than Konoha, and the people are different!"

Mian Ma patted his head funny, but he also secretly praised the environment here in his heart, which was comparable to the remote urban areas of the fog capital, but he didn't expect the people of the snow country to be quite good at playing.

The two glanced at each other and took off their clothes heroically. As soon as the face was shaken, the clothes hung very obediently on the hanger. Naruto opened his mouth when he saw this and honestly left his clothes on the tatami mats.

At this time, the water mist in the open-air soup pool was thick, and the two of them stirred up a series of splashes when they entered the water.

Mian Ma leaned against the shore, his arms propped up on the shore edge, quietly feeling the warm embrace of the pool water.

However, this quiet and comfortable atmosphere did not allow him to enjoy it for too long, Naruto's restless limbs began to paddle around, and finally under the sharp gaze of Miaoma, Naruto stretched out his hands and uncomfortably straightened the towel that covered his head like a tofu block, and shouted at him:

"Nissan, this mission was completed so quickly!"

Naruto approached the shore from the center of the hot tub to the shore where the tofu lump was a little messy by him, but he was still lying firmly on his blonde hair.

"But Nissan is really handsome, hahaha! Seal that self-righteous wind and furious waves in ice for everyone to visit, and..."

Listening to Naruto's unbridled embarrassment, his face trembled and he asked in a deep voice:

"What do you want to ask?"

"Doesn't Nissan want to tell me something? Haven't been alone like this since Mom and Dad came back to life and you and I met like we are now! ”

Seeing Ma finally spoke, Naruto blurted out like a bean.

"yes, what do you want to communicate?"

Although he didn't know what this guy had in mind, he asked with a smile.

"Nissan... What kind of person do you think I am? ”

Naruto stared at the numb face with a nervous expression, not even noticing that the towel above his head had fallen into the water.

Mian Ma first glanced at Naruto carefully, and when he saw the other party's face gradually reddened due to the high temperature soaking, his face slowly showed a look of reminiscence, and the corners of his mouth rose slightly and said softly:

"There is some enthusiasm, some affection, some kindness, some naivety, and some hard work."

As he spoke, the upturned curvature of the corners of his mouth deepened a little.

Naruto listened quietly to the description of the face numb, but his expression was a little complicated, there was warmth, there was recognition, and there was confusion......

"But I feel like I'm just a guy who can't do anything."

Naruto thumped the water and smiled self-deprecatingly,

"You and I were born at the same time, but now my brother has become the king of a country by his own struggle, and I am still like an ignorant child."

As he spoke, Naruto's fist hidden in the water clenched even more, and continued:

"I watched my brother's handling of this mission all the way, and it was completely carried out in a way that I couldn't have imagined before.

"But looking back, every decision my brother made brought huge benefits to the Vortex Country, and I was just thinking about the grievances of the Snow Country itself."

Naruto exhaled and leaned back to lie down in the warm water, looking at the sky that had darkened and whispered:

"When my brother asked me that dilemma on the boat, I understood that human feelings are not interconnected, and all we have to do is fulfill the people close to us... Sometimes, people can figure it out, but I can't. ”

Mianma has been staying on the shore, quietly listening to Naruto's emotional changes in the past few days, looking at Naruto who was a little depressed, Mianma replied lightly:

"This time I just want you to watch, to watch, to understand. After you've been through something like this countless times, you'll naturally have your own way of handling things. Remember a word! ”

After waiting for Naruto's gaze to look at him, he said seriously:

"As an older brother, I will always support you behind your back!"

......

Naruto's Diary:

"I seem to understand why my brother asked me to keep a diary, to write down the things I experienced that are worth recording, and when I look back at it after a while, it is really memorable..."

"I seem to have the answer to the question I asked a few days ago, there may be real mutual understanding in the world, but it is no longer so important to me.

"I'm Naruto Uzumaki, a member of the Ministry of People's Livelihood under the Fire Mansion of the Vortex Country, the son of Bo Feng Shuimen and Kushina, and the younger brother of Uzumaki Ma!"

"I will fight, fight, and fight for my dream future for my country, my parents, and my brother."

Konoha and Naruto were sitting at the desk in his own small room, the corners of his mouth rising slightly, carefully closing the diary in front of him, and shouting out of the room:

"Mom! I'm hungry, let's go eat Ichiraku ramen! ”

……

The country of vortex, the imperial city of fog

“……”

His face was numb into the sofa in the study, watching the orange morning sun spill into the room through the window without reservation, he smiled slightly, and said to the beauty in front of him:

"That's the story of snow."

At this time, Terumi was sitting upright in front of the desk with a numb face, and while dealing with the daily affairs of the ninja department of the country of vortex, she replied with a chuckle:

"Congratulations, we've got a bigger piece of territory. And Naruto seems to have grown up. ”

"I don't know if it's good or bad."

Hearing Zhao Meiming mention her younger brother, a trace of confusion flashed in her numb eyes,

"I want him to appreciate the diversity and complexity of this world, but at the same time, it also destroys the original simple world in his heart."

"People always have to go through this step, just like him now, who I used to be.

"Before I was 18 years old, I didn't achieve anything, and now I am above a million people under one person. Without the changes you have brought me, I would not be where I am today. The sooner you understand the world, the more beautiful the future will be, right? ”

Zhao Meiming put down the document in her hand, looked at her face and said seriously.

"I hope so...

"Styx, what do you think of this proposal from the Ninja Council?"

Zhaomei blinked her affectionate phoenix eyes, and said with a slight envy in her tone:

"I don't know why you come up with such an idea every time, giving small countries a choice. In fact, whether we are annexed by the Vortex Country or join the Vortex Country, the benefits we can get will not change.

"However, this is a prototype for a unified parliament in the future, and I will publicize this matter through films, public opinion, newspapers and other means.

"Of course, the top priority now is the three major powers in front of us, and they are not so simple."

Mian Ma narrowed his blue eyes slightly, knocked on the armrest of the sofa and replied in a deep voice:

"The first Ninja Council will be held in 5 days, and this time the Fog Capital, Water Mansion, Fire Mansion, Oni Country, and Snow Country will participate. Hades, you will represent the entire fog capital. ”

Terumi nodded slightly, and then wondered:

"Where is this council taking place?"

"A special place."

Mian Ma looked at the morning sun outside the window and said with a light smile.

In the name of the whirlpool