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"Speaking of easily forgotten people, I remember there's one in your team, what was his name again?" Naruto wondered aloud.
He clearly remembered seeing three people during the last exam, but he just couldn't recall the third one.
"Even Naruto-kun can't remember?" Hinata asked with a smile.
"Huh, you can remember?"
Hinata leaned her head towards Naruto, whispering, "Actually, I can't remember either." Her voice was so small, as if she'd done something wrong; it was very cute.
"But I wrote it down on a note," Hinata reached into the small bag she carried.
"Hmm?"
Naruto was eagerly awaiting Hinata's revelation, but she suddenly froze. He couldn't help but ask, "What's wrong?"
Hinata took out a note with blurry handwriting: "Hanabi got it wet..."
"Never mind, let's forget about him. How's Kiba doing lately?"
"Kiba? He's been educating Akamaru lately."
"What's wrong with Akamaru again?" Naruto asked, "He didn't get fat, did he?" It shouldn't be. When he fed Akamaru, it was still young and growing, needing more nutrition, so it wouldn't easily get fat. Could it be that his 'orange-ification' has a delayed rebound effect?
"Akamaru, he's been growing very fast lately, and his emotional fluctuations are significant. He keeps thinking he's a female dog and wants to nurse," Hinata said, staring at Naruto with a smile at the corner of her lips. Every little thing becomes so interesting when it involves Naruto-kun.
Naruto: "..." Shunfeng, what a mess you've caused!
The two chatted until dark. Naruto did nothing but hold her hand and kiss her cheek a few times. Although Hinata looked older, she was only fourteen this year, still a legal loli. Naruto always felt that if he did anything more, he'd end up rotting in jail, and the Land of Grass was most famous for its prisons.
Standing up and stretching, Naruto said, "It's getting late. Let's go grab something to eat first." It was quite hard on his wife to endure for so long, just to avoid spoiling the atmosphere.
"Alright," Hinata extended her small hand, clad in a white sleeve, towards him.
Pulling his wife up, Naruto asked, "What do you want to eat?"
Hinata smoothed out her wrinkled clothes and said, "Snow Country's bonito-fried tofu." She was very direct, without the usual fussiness of girls. She understood him; if she said "anything," Naruto would definitely be stumped.
"Let's go, my taitei," Naruto said in English as he opened a teleportation gate. He didn't use Japanese, because in Japanese, taita (Mrs) usually refers to someone else's wife.
Hinata immediately became flustered, her voice somewhat stuttering, "Wh-why... call me that..."
"It's nothing," Naruto found it hard to explain, pulling her into the teleportation gate. Only when Hinata reached out did he notice her outfit's design; without a hat, it was exactly like Kaga (Radiant Form), his "wife" from a game he used to play.
At exactly eight in the evening, Naruto punctually sent Hinata home. This was already the latest time his old father-in-law would accept. Big families have this drawback: too many rules.
A little after nine, he received a message via oil lamp from Jiraiya, asking him to pick him up. As soon as his clone pulled Jiraiya back, Naruto was shocked: "Perverted Hermit, what happened to you?!"
At this moment, Jiraiya's steps were unsteady, his face pale, and his eyes bruised. He had been beaten. Not only that, but there was also half a red, swollen handprint on his face, and his body was covered in messy cosmetic creams, emitting a strong odor.
Jiraiya grabbed the clone tightly, his hand trembling as he pointed at Naruto: "You... you ungrateful disciple... what kind of hangover cure did you give me!?" My lifelong reputation, all ruined by you.
Having swindled a barrel of sake, Jiraiya was very happy and drank a bit too much. Just as he was getting muddled, he remembered the hangover cure Naruto had given him. Pulling out the medicine and tossing it into his mouth, Jiraiya leered and buried his face in the ample bosom of the courtesan he had hired, then... waah, he threw up everywhere.
The courtesan froze for two seconds before erupting in rage, punching and kicking Jiraiya furiously. Is my bosom poisoned or something, for you to throw up like this?! If this gets out, how will I ever do business again?!
Naruto was practically bursting with laughter internally, saying smugly, "How is it? Is the effect good?" He had personally experienced the effects of Sakura's potent medicine.
"Effect?" Jiraiya, enraged, laughed instead. He formed hand signs: "This is the effect."
Ninja Art: Lion's Mane Hair Style!
Jiraiya's hair puffed out like an enraged lion's mane, then rapidly grew, shooting towards Naruto.
"Fire Release: Twin Flame Swords!" Naruto placed his hands to his mouth, exhaling fire-natured Chakra, which materialized into two short flame swords. No hand signs were used; this was simply a product of the fusion of pure Chakra's nature transformation and form transformation,
somewhat similar to Chidori Senbon. However, for now, it could only be exhaled from the mouth, and its length was less than half a meter, as his skill proficiency wasn't high enough.
Waving his twin flame swords to fend off the hair, Naruto retreated, shouting, "But aren't you sober now?!"
"Don't run!" Jiraiya chased him. "This counts as getting sober?! Why didn't you just poison me to death then, that would also count as getting sober!"
"Earth Release: Swamp of the Underworld!"
Naruto used Ladder Cloud Step to evade the swamp beneath his feet: "Old man, you're serious!"
"Your master is going to clean house today!!"
An hour later, inside the temporary hut, Naruto placed a hot, damp towel on Jiraiya's forehead: "Old man, you've vomited until you're weak, so don't do such strenuous exercise. Look, now you're out of commission."
Jiraiya rolled his eyes in return. Don't get cocky; just wait until I recover.
Naruto ignored him and opened the Legend of the Ninja World: Snake Eye's Advent. After a while, seeing Jiraiya recover slightly, he pointed to the page describing the Box of Ultimate Bliss and asked, "Old man, do you think this is real?" The book only had a simple sketch of a box and a few short sentences.
The Box of Ultimate Bliss: Legend says that as long as it receives enough sacrifices, it can grant your wishes. Rumor has it that someone once saw it in the Land of Grass.
This formidable figure, who had roamed even Ryuuchi Cave, wrote the Legend of the Ninja World, which helped Naruto immensely. At the very least, for many things, he didn't have to appear to have foresight; he could just follow the legends to bring up topics.
In Naruto's opinion, most of the things in the book were real. Unfortunately, no one believed it except Naruto. For example, the line he wrote: "Legend has it that the First Hokage's strongest ability wasn't Wood Release, but skipping stones." Even Tsunade didn't believe that.
"I don't know," Jiraiya retorted sulkily.
"There are even things you don't know," Naruto muttered to himself. He was quite interested in this Box of Ultimate Bliss. Because this brick, no, this box, it's exceptionally hard. Menma attacked it in Sage Mode, and even blasting it with a Rasengan left it completely unscathed. The box isn't small either; it's half the size of Gamabunta. If he were to tie chains to it and attach a battering ram, it would be perfect for cracking Shukaku's skull.
Furthermore, Naruto wasn't just interested in the box; he was even more interested in Hoozuki Castle, the prison where the box was located. The warden there, Mui, knew a person named Byakuren whose Transformation Jutsu was very powerful.
Even when hit or having their Chakra restrained, they wouldn't revert, which was particularly suitable for his Seven Warlords of the Sea Plan. Otherwise, with the property of ordinary Transformation Jutsu reverting upon being hit, he would have to remain unscathed throughout battles against enemies, which was too difficult to achieve.
And there's Ryuuzetsu, the girl who was stabbed through the stomach while being embraced by Menma. She knows a technique similar to Chiyo's Reincarnation Ninjutsu, called Dragon Life Reincarnation. This is a technique that can grant rebirth by transferring one's life force to another. Life force is an invisible power. The Yang Kurama Chakra comes with some life force, but it's merely supplemental and cannot be actively manipulated.
What Naruto wanted was to actively control life force, not because he was tired of living and wanted to reincarnate someone, but because he wanted to try something with Rasengan. As everyone knows, the Rasengan is a fusion machine;
it can be used with any power added to it. What if life force were infused into it? Could a Rasengan overflowing with life force transform into a Medical Ninjutsu? If feasible, wouldn't a Tailed Beast Ball infused with life force become the strongest Medical Ninjutsu?
Seeing Naruto lost in thought, Jiraiya said, "I warn you, don't assume that just because it can grant wishes, it's a good thing. Wishes fulfilled through evil acts like sacrifice will surely be repaid in kind, with evil."
"Old man, you really do know about it! Come on, tell me more," Naruto said happily.
"I'll be damned..." Jiraiya was so angry he slapped the ground. The sound of him slapping the ground startled Shunfeng, who was trying to steal manuscripts. It jumped back a few steps and landed on Shengjiang, who was sound asleep. Shengjiang instinctively leaped up, choosing what it deemed the safest landing spot: Jiraiya's chest.
"Pfft." The weakened Jiraiya almost spat blood from being hit by the orange cat.
The next day, Naruto sent a clone with the book to Orochimaru's base. If he wanted to sneak into the prison, he would need to start with Karin.
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