"Nara, bend down and bow your head."

"Huh?"

"Poof!"

Nara Langui bowed slightly, ceremoniously closing his eyes to avoid sinking into the unknowable white and tender abyss.

But in the next moment, he clearly felt two soft and soft plump lips on his forehead, with a hint of sweet charm in the warm touch, which made people unconsciously want to be intoxicated.

Nara opened his eyes and hurriedly took a few steps back, looking at Tsunade unexpectedly.

"Tsunade-san, you're ......"

"Blessings of care."

Tsunade's green onion white fingertips brushed her red lips and smiled.

"I don't want to admit it, but my luck wasn't good.

"I wanted to bless with words, but after thinking about it...... Sure enough, it's better for me to act directly! ”

Nara raised her right hand and gently stroked her forehead, which seemed to have some of Tsunade's kissing touch.

Seeing Nara's light move, Tsunade suddenly had a strange feeling in his heart.

"Tsunade-san."

Nara Langui suddenly spoke.

"The action just ended so fast that I didn't have time to feel it carefully, so ...... How about another attempt?

"It may be a bit presumptuous, but I think it's better if it's mouth-to-mouth."

After months of getting along day and night, there is no strangeness between Nara Langui and Tsunade.

Therefore, at this time, he has no psychological burden to talk about it.

What's more, this time it was the other party who struck first - the first to speak.

"Don't-don't get carried away, Nara!"

Tsunade forcibly suppressed the strange emotions in her heart, but she still stuttered a little when she spoke.

"What if something happens to you after that...... I won't spare you easily! ”

"I'm sorry, I was too rash."

Nara Langui put her hands on the seams of her pants and solemnly bent down to apologize.

Seeing that his attitude was so sincere, Tsunade scratched his cheek a little embarrassed, turned his face sideways and muttered a few words in a low voice.

"Actually, you don't have to worry so much......"

"Tsunade-san, then."

Nara straightened his waist and talked about business.

"The 'Ninja Squad' you just mentioned, who exactly are the team members in it?"

"You'll find out tomorrow!"

Tsunade deliberately sold a pass.

"I know your approximate strength, and the level of the teammates arranged will not be too far from yours."

……

Farewell Tsunade.

Nara Langui only had time to check the newly acquired A-rank technique [Strange Power].

After months of research, study and experience accumulation, he clearly knew how much his strength had grown.

Although there was no direct breakthrough, it was only the last layer of "window paper" away from promotion.

Sure enough, after successfully learning [Strange Power], a series of message prompts popped up directly on the panel.

[Acquire an A-level technique [Strange Power], and your [Wisdom] attribute will be enhanced to a certain extent!] [Ninjutsu] attribute has been enhanced! Comprehensive evaluation improvement! 】

[Ninjutsu: A-→A]

[Comprehensive evaluation: B+→A- (shadow level)]

"Got out of the upper ninja class and stepped into the shadow level!"

Nara Langui raised his right hand, clenched his fist on the ground, and the chakra that had been refined in an instant suddenly burst out, and the air vibrated slightly with his movements, diffusing a circle of white qi visible to the naked eye.

This is exactly the technique derived from the explosion of [Strange Force] - shock airflow.

The billowing air flow was wrapped around his fingers, and Nara Langui inexplicably had the illusion that he could blow up the roots of an old tree with one punch.

The phased transformation of strength made Nara Langui's mood extremely happy.

Don't look at the fourth ninja war in the future, all kinds of gods and goddesses emerge in an endless stream and wreak havoc on the world.

The shadow of the five villages is like a group of dolls, allowing the "gods" to rub and play, and there is no strength to deter at all.

But at least in the current era, "shadow level" is still very rare and rare!

Judging by Nara's personal vision, in the third ninja war, there are only so many people who can be called "shadow-level players".

His current level of strength, not to mention the ravages in the ninja world and rampant unscrupulous, can at least be called "the lonely shadow of heaven and earth is at your disposal".

However, Nara is also very clear.

The improvement of strength is endless.

Shadow level is just a new starting point!

"Since several attributes have grown to the B level, their growth rate has slowed down significantly."

Nara Langui's brain is very clear-headed.

"And after being promoted to A-level, the growth rate of attribute values can be described as 'turtle speed'.

"There are a few attributes that mainly affect melee combat strength, so I don't need to worry too much about it for the time being, after all, melee combat is just my backup.

"The key to everything is chakra!

"That is, the [precision] that symbolizes the physical energy and the [wisdom] that represents the spiritual energy!"

[Wisdom] attribute, Nara Langui can be increased by learning knowledge and posture, and its growth rate is much faster than other attributes.

However, with the [accuracy] attribute, Nara Langui has not yet found any other growth methods except for "dry rice and drugs".

"It boils down to one point - if you want to increase [precision], you need to increase the amount of energy you draw from the outside world......"

A thoughtful Nara returns to the Kikyo Orphanage.

During this time, the Kikyo Orphanage has changed a lot.

In addition to the operating funds that need to be retained, most of the huge profits brought by the opening of the fried chicken restaurant have been invested in the construction and maintenance of the Kikyo Orphanage.

The orphanage, which lives in a corner of Kikyo City, is under the careful care of Yakushi Nonoyu and others, and lives as if it is a paradise, happy and peaceful.

For the huge changes in the Kikyo Orphanage, it is clear from the top to the bottom of the orphanage who brought it in.

Therefore, as soon as Nara returned to the Kikyo Orphanage, he received welcome greetings from all directions.

He smiled and responded to the greeting children one by one, and then directly looked for Yakushi Nonoyu.

Yakushi Nonoyu was in the newly opened nursery room of the orphanage at this time, gently and meticulously teaching Chino babbling.

"Mom's ......"

"Hmmm!"

Nara Langui knocked lightly on the door, and Yakushi Nonoyu let go of Chino in his arms, letting her crawl around and play in the upholstered room.

"Lan Gui, why did you come back so early today?"

Yakushi Nonoyu's forehead was stained with sweat, and it was not easy to take care of an energetic baby.

"Because the study task assigned by Sister Tsunade before has been completed."

Nara Langui handed out the warm water prepared in advance and said softly.

"From tomorrow, I won't need to go to the Pharmaceutical Research Institute anymore."

Yakushi Ye Naiyu took the water cup, drank it all, and said with a smile: "It seems that Lan Gui, your physical skill level has finally met the requirements of Tsunade-sama." ”

"Well, but there's one more thing."

Nara continued.

"Tsunade-san said she would put me in a ninja squad, and then I would go to the front line of the battlefield with the team."

Hearing this, the faint smile on the face of the pharmacist Ye Naiyu suddenly froze.

Ever since she broke away from her roots, she has been serving as the shinobi of the medical emergency squad in peace, and her main daily job is to take care of and heal the wounded sent back from the front line in Kikyo Castle.

Yakushi Nonoyu never thought that she didn't need to go to the front line to fight, but Nara Langui became the one who went to the front line to fight......

"As a ninja in Konoha, it is an inevitable responsibility to defend the village and fight."

Yakushi Nonoyu responded dryly, her words turned sharply, and it was difficult to hide her anxiety in her tone.

"So Lan Gui, when are you going to the front? Are you leaving tomorrow? ”

"Not sure yet."

Nara Langui hugged Yakushi Nonoyu and gently patted her back to soothe her emotions.

"I need to get acquainted with the members of the squad and cooperate for a while to increase the degree of cooperation with each other, and maybe perform a few missions together before going to the battlefield."

Yakushi Ye Naiyu bit her lip gently, she had a thousand or ten thousand words in her heart that she wanted to say, but when the words came to her mouth, she didn't know how to speak.

"Winning ......"

"Don't worry, Sister Nonoyu."

Nara Langui smiled and boasted.

"I'm very strong."

Time passed, and night fell quietly.

The moon hid in the dark clouds, and the quiet and deep night shrouded Kikyo Castle, making it impossible to see the movement outside the castle.

It's under the cover of this natural dark environment.

An extremely small ninja force set out from the border of the Land of Wind, and after three days of rapid marching, quietly approached the eight mountains that nestled around Konoha .

"This is the outermost part of Konoha."

Looking at the mountains ahead, the old female ninja who was the leader of the ninja troops, wearing a sand hidden forehead, spoke in a hoarse voice.

"Next, we need to remove the guard posts hidden in the mountains...... Be fast!

"Our goal is the medical center that Konoha has placed outside the village, the small town called Kikyo!"

Without any response, the sand ninjas of this small force took out scrolls from their pockets one by one, and opened them directly through their own means.

Bang! Bang! Bang! ——

With a continuous burst of smoke explosions, one after another hideous figures of different shapes quietly emerged in the darkness, blending in with the group of sand hidden ninjas.

Almost in the blink of an eye, the size of this sparsely populated ninja team to the level of hundreds of people in an instant!

This is one of the most elite troops in Shayin Village, the puppet army.

Through chakra lines, the Sand Hidden Ninja manipulated their respective puppets to break into the mountains and forests, and broke through the defenses of the guard posts as quickly as possible.

Looking at the Kikyo Castle at the foot of the mountain not far ahead.

Ninja, the leader of the puppet force, pulls out a scroll from her ninja bag and opens it in an instant, summoning her signature puppet.

"White Secret Technique: Ten Men of Kinmatsu!"

About "Sand Hidden Raid on Kikyo Castle", this is a secondary setting based on the content of the original manga.

There has been a special hint foreshadowing in the previous article.

There are two sources of reference for the "Battle of Kikyo Castle".

First, in the setting of "The Book of Soldiers", there was a "big war" in Kikyo City;

Second, in chapter 272 of the manga, the evaluation of the "White Secret Technique" by the Red Sand Scorpion is that Chiyo once relied on it to capture a city alone.

This is a new setting that combines the two to form a "Shadow Troop of the Sand Hidden Attack on Kikyo Castle".

(End of chapter)