It is said that mastering the sciences, you can confidently traverse the world. Ultimately, Naruto, with his excellent ranking as third in the entire village in physics, obtained this ferret, and Hinata's mission was also deemed complete.
First was Might Guy, second was Tsunade. There was nothing to be done; Timus's identity was simply too important in the eyes of that mission client. In this world of Hokage, where bloodlines reigned supreme, a royal descendant was truly noble.
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Inside the small house by the sea, the group sat chatting. Beside them lay Akamaru, subdued by the ferret after a fight and now happily eating meat. This time, he didn't get a smooth ride; this husky was sent all the way to the Land of Snow in Siberia. Akamaru didn't lose the fight to the ferret;
the reason he didn't fight back was that the ferret's spirit of "facing death with equanimity, fighting if provoked" had completely won him over. Different species, different ways of understanding. Akamaru thought he was playing with the other party, while the ferret thought it was a fight. So Akamaru's evaluation of the ferret was: "Gets mad even when just fooling around."
Naruto was currently engraving holes into a Mithril ingot with a Mithril kunai. These were for placing the Grale Stone.
Kiba looked at the ferret clinging to Naruto's shoulder and asked, "Naruto, are you sure you want to keep it?"
Naruto's hands didn't stop moving. "What's wrong?"
"These creatures have a strong odor, which isn't conducive to your ninja career," Kiba said, sniffing Naruto. "You smell like ferret now."
Naruto, usually as reckless as Zhang Fei, waved the intricately carved kunai. "Don't worry, it's fine."
"I'll go back and ask my sister to prepare some odor-masking medicine for you."
"Thanks!" Naruto expressed his gratitude.
He carefully pressed the Grale Stone into the carved mold. After examining it and feeling satisfied, he threaded a string through it.
"Hinata."
"Hm?"
"Come, lower your head."
Hinata put down her teacup and obediently lowered her head. She hadn't eaten this time because Naruto's master, Jiraiya, was present, and she didn't want to leave a bad impression on him.
The pendant was quite large, about the size of a quail egg, and looked rather prominent on thirteen-year-old Hinata's chest. However, Naruto believed Hinata would hide it well in the future.
Hinata picked up the pendant. "It's beautiful."
Hinata didn't know what it was, and Naruto couldn't explain it clearly, because he had killed the boss before the plot was even fully revealed.
"Naruto-kun, where are you heading next?" Hinata asked with a smile. This encounter, like a fated meeting from their childhood, and the pendant Naruto gave her, made her very happy.
"Pervy Sage, where are we going next?" Naruto didn't know where he was going either.
"Ask your dog."
"…"
Before dinner, Hinata was the first to suggest returning to the village. Eating too much would ruin her image; eating too little would make her uncomfortable. So, best not to eat at all. Naruto understood and sent them back near Konoha using a portal.
He also conveniently retrieved the dog from the Land of Snow, put it on the ground, and asked, "Old man, that day you…"
"And me…" a resentful voice echoed in Naruto's ear.
Naruto was so startled he almost spoke Chinese. "Wha— you're still here?"
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Naruto, having forgotten who his clone had just sent away, decided not to dwell on it. He stood up, walked out of the house, and released the Uzumaki Construction Team. That explosion and the previous shelling had destroyed the few remaining ships at the Sand Village's nearby outpost. Naruto couldn't build ships, so the Moye Treasure Brick couldn't be transported away and had to be reinforced on-site.
Regardless of when or where, the Uzumaki Construction Team was always enthusiastic about their work. The booming reinforcement site was almost too enthusiastic.
In the evening, Gaara found Naruto again to consult him. An oil lamp hung on the wall, and the two sat beneath it.
Naruto couldn't quite figure out what Gaara was thinking. Are you playing 'three earnest visits to the thatched cottage' with me, or what? First, we sat and discussed love, then we talked late into the night by candlelight. If this continues, I'm afraid you'll suggest sleeping foot-to-foot next.
"Naruto, the topic we discussed earlier actually relates to my future ideals," Gaara said after a moment of silence. Gaara truly enjoyed conversing with Naruto. No matter how strange his own statements were, Naruto always understood. He had never met anyone like this, only Naruto, so he considered him a true confidant.
The serious atmosphere was completely shattered by the ferret, which, sensing danger, darted towards Gaara.
"Hey, It— this ferret, uh…" Naruto almost blurted out its real name, quickly corrected himself, and pulled the ferret back. "Please state your dream."
"I want to become the Kazekage…"
After hearing that, Naruto's mind was in utter chaos. Did I patch the system incorrectly? Although he didn't understand why Gaara had changed like this, it didn't stop Naruto from chatting with him with the same spirit he used to debate with his online friends in his past life.
"So, you're here this time for…?"
"Although I have an idea, I have no clue how to govern the village in the future, so I wanted to ask for your opinion."
Gaara, of course, didn't believe everything Naruto said was necessarily right, but Naruto's unique insights and way of thinking about things were what he wanted to learn from. Besides, Naruto was the only one he could talk to at the moment; if he didn't talk to him, there was no one else.
Jiraiya was truly going mad. Are these two kids insane? Yesterday, two motherless children discussed maternal love. Today, two jinchuriki discuss how to govern a village. Do you two seriously not know your own identities and personas?
"You wait for me—"
"You're not going to make him farm again, are you?!" Jiraiya interjected. This child had a strange obsession with farming. No matter where he went, after building a house, he would scatter wheat seeds around and plant them.
And the Daimyo of the Land of Snow! He was a perfectly respectable national leader, but Naruto convinced him to personally farm the fields and lead his people to prosperity through agriculture.
Jiraiya got angry every time this topic came up. At first, Koyuki Kazahana had planned to debut in the entertainment industry and star in Jiraiya's Icha Icha Paradise to save the Land of Snow. Letters of intent had even been sent to the publishing house, but the very next day, after Naruto's words, she went off to farm.
Upon learning that his film rights had gone up in smoke, Jiraiya was furious, cursing his delinquent disciple. If not for Naruto's special status, he would have already expelled him.
So, Naruto's trip to the Land of Snow also managed to indirectly screw over Jiraiya and save a young woman who was almost led astray. It just meant that the human enlightenment education in the ninja world would have to wait for the next teacher to appear.
Naruto waved his hand. "How could I?" The Sand Village's agriculture wasn't developed; I couldn't help them with that anyway.
Honestly, Naruto couldn't think of a complete governance policy to elaborate on for Gaara. I'm here to travel, not to start a 'One Belt, One Road' initiative. How would I know anything about politics?
Naruto began to recall everything he had learned in his past life and all the discussions he had with his online friends, trying to figure out which piece of knowledge could impress Gaara. After thinking for a while, a flash of inspiration hit him.
"How about you plant cacti? Cactus balls would work too."
Tsunade, the group owner of the Konoha Group chat, gives out benefits by not wearing a bra every day. If you, the future group owner of the Sand Village Group chat, don't have any benefits to offer, then just raise some cactus balls.
"Pfft…" Jiraiya couldn't hold back a mouthful of tea. "You're still talking about farming, aren't you? And planting something completely useless!"
"Cacti are very useful, you know…" Naruto said, dodging the tea. At the very least, cacti have excellent beauty benefits. If Kankuro researched them and turned them into medicinal ointments or face masks,
that would bring in money so quickly. Women's money is the easiest to earn. Besides, Gaara wants to improve the lives of the mothers of the Sand Village; isn't his goal also thinking about women? What's wrong with earning money from women for the sake of women?
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