Naruto took three steps and two steps up the stairs, climbed to the top floor of the Hokage Building, and slowed down. Cautiously moved to the door of the Hokage's office and peeked inside.

Tsunade is at work, and he is not in a good mood when he looks at his face.

At the door here, Naruto was still struggling with whether to go in, and Shizune looked at Naruto who was pouting and peeping in the corridor suspiciously, and couldn't help asking.

"Naruto, you."

Well, now I have to go in.

In the Hokage's office, Shizun came in and delivered some documents and left. Tsunade raised his head and frowned at Naruto in front of him, and asked angrily.

"What's the matter?"

"Put a stamp." Naruto nervously took out the application.

Tsunade glanced at it, thought for a while, and reached out to cover it. didn't show him a face, and let him go after a few words.

Back in the mission center, pat the stamped application form directly on the table.

"Hurry up, don't grind." Naruto said angrily, completely different from the appearance of bowing down and making small in the Hokage's office just now.

"Right now. Right away. ”

The little old man was gone, leaving a girl in her early twenties here to deal with Naruto, scrambling like a threatened hostage.

Things are not complicated, and I don't know what the little old man said, but the little girl was very frightened.

Naruto pursed his lips and didn't say anything. Waiting for the formalities to be completed, I took the task list and went to Asma to report.

In these years, the top management also has to do tasks. Who made him lonely and widowed, and idle is idle.

Asma smoked a cigarette and stared through the list of tasks stamped with formalities in her hand. Well, procedural justice, there's nothing wrong with that.

It's just that he can't figure out if this person has any other purpose?

The sparks flickered, and the smoke was already smoked.

He looked up at Naruto, "Can Naruto go out first?" I'm not very convenient now, after all, this is a men's bathroom, although you are also a man, but."

"Ahem." Naruto stepped back.

When Asma walked out, the first thing she said was, "Let's go, Naruto Uzumaki, let's go meet them." ”

Obviously, Asma had heard the news of the high-level meeting in the morning, and the call was mostly a joke, and she patted him on the shoulder. He's a Hokage, and he's happy to see this.

"See whom?" Naruto was stunned for a moment.

Afternoon.

Ding Ji gulped down the roast meat, and his mung bean-sized eyes swept around, freezing on Naruto and Ino on the opposite side.

"I say, Naruto, you're too uninteresting."

"What's not interesting enough?"

Naruto spread his hands, and the table was full of friends who knew the roots. His body also grew, and he leaned comfortably on the long sofa with long hands and feet, and Ino sat beside him.

"Don't tell us about such a big thing?" Shikamaru was also lying on the sofa, holding a glass of watermelon juice in his hand.

"I don't know what to say." Naruto pouted, "Besides, it happened suddenly, isn't there nothing wrong now?" ”

"However, it may not be a good thing now, at least there is no need to worry about it." Shikamaru said ambiguously, deliberately avoiding the topic of human pillar power.

Ino was unusually quiet, mixing the sauce on the side.

Obviously, not long after the incident, several people did not talk much about the topic in the morning, and quickly moved on to the task.

"Something is wrong, why did you suddenly remember to join us on this mission?" Shikamaru asked with a suspicious glance at Naruto and then at Ino.

"What's the situation?"

"Huh?" Ino blushed for a moment, a little weak.

She knew why Naruto had to intervene, but the more she understood, the more her face burned. At that moment, she tried her best to divert her attention and dispel the thought.

"This mission of yours is too dangerous, I'm worried about I" Naruto was just about to say Ino when suddenly a sharp pain came from his waist blocked by the table, which immediately made his tongue knot.

"I'm worried about the safety of Master Dilu, and I have a good relationship with him, so I want to join."

Shikamaru and Dingji didn't see Ino's small movements, but Asma, who was sitting on the outermost, noticed it. He just smiled, then got up and said with a slight wistfulness.

"I'm going outside for a cigarette."

"Huh?" Ino turned his head, as if realizing something.

Shikamaru frowned, "Teacher Asma, didn't you smoke less?" Why is it smoked again? ”

"This." Asma had already put the cigarette in her mouth, "The last one today." ”

Naruto also saw that Shikamaru and Asma had a deeper relationship. Ino likes flowers, Dingji cares more about eating, and people with excess intelligence like Shikamaru are more in love with Asma.

Just looking at Asma's back as he left the store, why did Naruto feel a little depressed? Could it be that he backstabbed the old single dog? But isn't he quite close to Sunset Red?

Forget it, I am still a herbivorous teenager, and there is no reason to pay attention to the secret love history of these old men.

"Naruto, do you know the Jiri Master of the Fire Temple?" Ding Ci stopped his chopsticks and suddenly asked.

"Pretty familiar, right?" Naruto hesitated for a moment before saying, "Master Jilu and Teacher Asma have both worked in the Guardian Ninja Twelve, and they have a deeper friendship. ”

After eating and drinking, Asma paid the bill, and he was really not short of money. The complete second-generation children, except for the two points of not having a wife and looking old, are almost complete in life.

Born in the family of the three generations of Hokage, who is young, he has what he wants. Because the three generations of Hokage are not the most important person in Konoha, Asma, a bad boy, instantly feels that the Hokage's grade is too low.

Resolutely took off his powder and stepped back.,Very rebelliously left Konoha and went to be a personal bodyguard for the Daimyo of the Fire Country.。 A good boy ran away, and he returned as a dragon king after ten years.

Dragon King Bah, the bad boy Asma Lang is enough, and he returned to Konoha in the clothes of all the wicked people.

The third generation of Hokage's father forgave him with a smile, inherited the family business of the Sarufei family, and there was a childhood sweetheart sunset red waiting for him, a proper second-generation life winner template.

It's just that this timeline has moved forward a bit, and the land has also narrowly escaped the catastrophe. So this mission is mainly to investigate and search, not to pursue the undead duo.

The main content of the mission is to go to the Temple of Fire to investigate, and then follow the clues for a period of time, and take it until the end of the mission, and protect the land for a while.

If there is still no eyebrow after a period of investigation, the mission will most likely be canceled.

So apart from Naruto and Ino, no one actually took this mission too seriously. After all, it's just a simple investigation and search centered on the Temple of Fire, and it's generally safe.

Asma left for something, Shikamaru and Dingji also went back together, and in an instant, only Ino and Naruto were left in the seat. Naruto was about to say something when the outsider glanced at them and left.

It was a rather jealous look, and he glanced at it, stopped and turned away directly.

Naruto was a little speechless, he was really unlucky, he could meet the group of people in the Hokage Building after a meal.

"Let's go, send you back?" Naruto turned his head to look at Ino.

Ino thought for a moment and said, "Go to you." ”

Naruto was flattered for a moment, Ino hadn't been to him for a while, and he almost thought that he had made a shadow out of him by pushing too hard.

"Okay!" He answered first.

"Don't think about it." Ino glanced at him and skillfully tied the golden ponytail, "I just have something to ask you, it's inconvenient in the store." ”

"What's the matter?"

"Well, it's nothing, let's talk about it when we get there." Ino said.

When he heard this, Naruto was a little uneasy. There is Tsunade in front and Ino in the back, and they all react differently, did they stab the hornet's nest?

However, it is true that the Nine-Tails is a little more dangerous than stabbing a hornet's nest, at least the latter is a tailed beast that eats people without blinking or even nauseating, but Naruto doesn't feel it.

No matter how brutal the tailed beast is, it has to hold its head and pretend to be a chicken in the face of strength, but a woman is obviously a few cubes more complicated.

A section of the road is not too long, and it will soon come to an end. Ino walked in front, Naruto followed slowly behind, occasionally walking a few quick steps in front of her.

However, Ino didn't seem to react, and chose to ignore it as if he didn't see it.

Ino went upstairs in silence, took out the key directly, skillfully poked into the keyhole, and opened the door with a creak. Naruto followed, and the door was unlocked.

Pushing open the door, Ino squatted in the entrance and didn't speak.

The body was huddled together, his hands were clasped around his knees, and his dazzling blonde hair seemed to have lost its luster, and he bowed his head over, and his whole face was buried in his knees.

The afternoon sun shone obliquely through the crack in the door and hit his feet.

The smiling face that was about to gag disappeared, and Naruto was a little overwhelmed, and the hot summer wind blew in from outside the door, carrying the fishy smell of Aoba being dried.

"Ino?" Naruto suddenly became clumsy, and after calling out his name, he didn't know what to say, and he couldn't say anything when he stood there with his mouth open.

Ino is very good at reading the atmosphere, and naturally it is easier for others to detect clues from all kinds of true and false gossip and get the answers she wants.

In fact, she could see the embarrassing situation that Naruto was facing, and staying with him for so long was naturally clear about his character, and it was impossible for him to want to enter the top level inexplicably.

It's just that things have come to this point, and we have to make a move for it. What others thought Naruto was very imposing was not like that in her opinion.

The so-called majesty is just a last resort because of the identity of the human pillar force. But now that Naruto is suddenly no longer a human pillar force, it would have been a good thing, but Ino always felt uncomfortable.

Maybe she felt that the whole thing had nothing to do with her, and even if Naruto was no longer a human pillar and didn't seem to have changed anything, she could only watch weakly.

He pulled Ino's arm away and tried to pull her up, but was startled by her raised face. His little face was wet with tears, and his eyes were red and swollen as if they were inflamed.

Why can someone cry silently, strange thing.

He thought to himself, but his heart skipped a beat.

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(End of chapter)