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Evening, Konohagakure Street
After washing up, Sasuke wandered around with wet hair.
You won't trigger any tasks staying at home!
'Tree-climbing training complete, next is Water Surface Walking Practice. However, whether climbing a tree or treading water is just a controlled application of chakra. For now, enough with tree-climbing.'
'Instead of wasting time treading water, I should first learn that B-rank Fire Release: Great Dragon Fire. After all, the Ice Release Haku who will appear soon will be a tough guy.'
Sasuke's eyes flashed, thinking silently.
With his current chakra, the essence of the technique is more important than the quantity.
With Fireball and Thunderbolt, and a B-rank Fire Release as a trump card, it is enough for now!
Besides, Kakashi will teach an unknown ninjutsu tomorrow.
"Sasuke!"
A charming yet innocent voice called from the nearby street.
Sasuke paused and turned around to look.
"Sasuke-kun, it really is you. Do you want to go on a date, just the two of us?"
Ino Yamanaka, a slim girl with blond hair and purple clothes, hugged Sasuke's arm, inviting warmly and generously.
Her light yellow ponytail swayed in the wind, and a faint girlish fragrance filled Sasuke's nostrils.
"Your passion is still as unrestrained as ever, Ino," Sasuke said, feeling the touch on his arm, responding with a faint smile.
His heart skipped a beat.
It seems a simple invitation isn't the same as a suggestion.
Sakura's advice that time discussed countermeasures, with actual kernels of suggestions!
Sasuke's gaze shifted to the two young men beside her.
"I didn't expect to meet you here, Shikamaru, Choji."
Sasuke greeted with a smile in his eyes.
If he can't induce rewards with subjective consciousness, making friends should pose no problem!
"Sasuke, you actually took the initiative to greet us," Shikamaru Nara said, surprised, while Choji Akimichi nodded repeatedly, chewing his food.
Sasuke, during his time at the Ninja Academy, always kept to himselfâa very cool existence!
"Sasuke, leave them alone. Let's go eat together, I'm hungry!"
Ino shouted in a tender voice, seizing Sasuke's good attitude.
"In that case, Shikamaru, Choji, you two come too," Sasuke said, moved, to Shikamaru and Choji.
It never hurts to connect with more friends, and it doesn't cost him any money anyway.
"Have a meal? OK, where should we eat?" Choji shouted, eyes burning, before Ino and Shikamaru could respond.
Not refusing any invitation is a principle ingrained in the Akimichi clan.
"What a hassle, it whets his appetite! Well, I'll trouble you, Ino," Shikamaru said, knowing Choji's personality, scratching his head helplessly, giving Ino a look to fend for herself.
Shikamaru's appetite is no mere talk!
"Ah? Really, how could it become like this?"
Ino held her head in frustration, overwhelmed.
She couldn't scold Sasuke, nor miss the chance to dine with him for the first time!
SoâŠ
"Let's go, Sasuke-kun, and you, Shikamaru, Choji," Ino said, suppressing her inner unhappiness, putting on a smile, hugging Sasuke's arm, forcing a laugh.
But when mentioning Shikamaru and Choji's names, she gnashed her teeth.
Soon, the group of four walked into a restaurant next door.
"Sasuke, I acknowledge your existence now!"
Choji said sincerely, sitting opposite Sasuke, hurriedly handing the menu to the shop owner.
"A full menu, please, boss," Choji said.
Sasuke? Ino?
"Sasuke, I don't know why you've changed. Maybe it's your growth as a ninja! However, you make me feel more like a partner. I hope you can keep doing this and not be as aloof and indifferent as before," Shikamaru said deeply, seriously, then lowered his head to order food.
"Shikamaru, why are you pretending to be preachy? Sasuke-kun, please don't be angry!" Ino said nervously, fearing Sasuke would leave in anger.
This way, she'd lose both her wife and her army.
After Sasuke left, she'd have to treat Choji to appease him.
So miserable!
"Not really, Ino. On the contrary, I think Shikamaru is right! If you can contact Shino, Hinata, and Kiba to form a group, it would be nice for us to organize a class reunion dinner," Sasuke said, smiling, talking freely, making Ino and Shikamaru look at him sideways again.
They didn't expect Sasuke to have such an idea.
"Are you serious, Sasuke?"
Ino asked, seeing Sasuke wasn't faking, confirming.
"Certainly," Sasuke smiled, nodding in confirmation, not joking.
The moment Shikamaru spoke, a system prompt rang in his ears:
[Shikamaru's suggestion detected, triggering a D-rank reward. Mission: Change your partner's impression. Reward: 10,000 ryĆ of cashâŠ]
Sasuke didn't care about the 10,000 ryĆ!
What he cared about was making more friends to increase reward triggers.
No matter the reward, he'd accept it!
"Then it's decided! I'll talk to Hinata and the others and see if it's possible tomorrow night. After all, we are classmates who graduated and passed the examination at the same time, so we should hold a class reunion," Ino said, patting her chest, very interested.
"There are only nine people in our Class 3 who graduated successfully at the same time. I agree with this proposal!"
Shikamaru nodded, though afraid of trouble, not finding it troublesome.
"Great, we'll have another big dinner tomorrow," Choji shouted excitedly, slamming the table, leaving the three speechless.
Especially Sasuke, preparing to treat everyone, secretly worried if the 10,000 ryĆ reward would cover it.
The next day, yesterday in the woods
"Sasuke, you've mastered Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique. I won't consider Fire Release for now. Now, I'll teach you a Lightning Release: Snake Lightning.
Although this ninjutsu is a C-rank lightning technique, it has two attack methods. You can condense lightning chakra in your hands for close-range attacks, or transform the lightning attribute into a lightning snake for short-range attacks."
The hand seals are Snake, Monkey, Dog," Kakashi said, standing before Sasuke, explaining his training experience in detail.
This C-rank Lightning Release was carefully selected.
After learning it, it'll be easy to learn the advanced Chidori.
It also lets Sasuke adapt to this attack method in advance.
It took great pains.
"Open your Sharingan. I'll demonstrate. Although a single magatama Sharingan cannot copy ninjutsu, it can enhance insight and assist training," Kakashi said, forming seals.
'Teacher Kakashi is quite reliable. He's worthy of being second only to Orochimaru in devotion to Sasuke. With this, it'll be much easier to develop Chidori Flow in the future.
It perfectly complements the long-range attack Lightning Release: Thunderbolt, covering all distances.' Sasuke muttered internally as his eyes turning scarlet.
"Sharingan!"
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