Naruto, be my son.

The first time I meet someone of my own age, I will take the initiative to talk to myself.

Xiao Li was a little at a loss.

He hurriedly responded to the loud shout: "I am a second-year student at Ninja School, and my teacher is Mizuki-sensei. You...hello!"

It looks very energetic at first glance!

"Ah! No! I was already delayed for half a minute by accident."

Xiao Li suddenly came to his senses: "I can already do more than a dozen frog jumps in half a minute. I want to continue practicing!"

After saying that, he quickly squatted down and assumed a standard posture.

"998...999...1000..."

Xiao Li continues to shed his youthful sweat.

Naruto stared thoughtfully at Xiao Li's jumping back.

He thinks this guy named "Rock Lee" is quite interesting.

Because what he practiced was actually physical skills.

"What's going on with those thick eyebrows?" Sasuke had already run over at this time. He was so tired that his mouth was dry and he looked at Xiao Li.

"He is a very hard-working person!" After Naruto replied, he looked at Sasuke faintly: "Sasuke, why did you stop? Do you want to be lazy in an honest way? Do you still have six laps left? Finished running!"

Naruto stopped playing with the kunai and held the kunai in his hand.

In the morning light, the kunai reflected a metallic luster.

Sasuke's face suddenly turned pale: "...Wait, wait a minute!"

It's a pity that Naruto didn't listen to him, and he stabbed the kunai towards Sasuke without hesitation.

Sharingan!

open!

Sasuke was so shocked that he opened his Sharingan. Under the super dynamic vision of the Sharingan, Sasuke could clearly see the trajectory of the kunai in Naruto's hand.

He actually avoided it.

"Sharingan?" Naruto noticed Sasuke's eyes: "But why is there only one magatama?"

Naruto, who was mumbling, did not stop holding the kunai in his hand.

Shocked, Sasuke had to dodge again.

"You can't fix it! Bastard Naruto! You're not done with this guy!" Sasuke was startled and broke into a cold sweat.

Without hesitation he ran away again.

"Huh?" Xiao Li on the side took this scene into his eyes.

He was stunned.

"Want to join us for special training? Rock Lee!" Naruto did not chase Sasuke for the time being, but looked down at Xiao Li.

"Ah I?"

Xiao Li was stunned.

"But..." Xiao Li said weakly: "But people like me who don't have ninja talent will only hold you back."

"Idiot!" Naruto laughed: "How could a person who works so hard hold others back? You know that your ninjutsu talent is not high, but you still insist on exercising. Doesn't this just mean that you don't want to be That crane tail?"

"Doesn't this just mean that you don't want to be the one holding you back? If that's the case, why don't you dare to train with us? Besides, if you want to become a qualified ninja, you don't have to know ninjutsu!"

"Huh? Huh?!"

Naruto's words made Xiao Li's eyes widen: "Can you become a qualified ninja without knowing ninjutsu?"

"Well--"

Naruto thought for a while and corrected himself: "I should say, he doesn't know ninjutsu, he is even more powerful than a ninja!"

"Because my dad doesn't know ninjutsu, but my dad is no worse than any ninja, or even stronger than any ninja!"

Naruto's little face was filled with pride when he mentioned Whitebeard.

In Naruto's eyes, his father is the most powerful person in the ninja world.

Even if my father does not know any ninjutsu.

But this does not hinder dad's strength.

"Really, really?" Naruto's words already made Xiao Li's eyes light up: "Naruto, didn't you lie to me?"

Naruto smiled brightly and gave a thumbs up to Xiao Li: "Speak directly...that's the ninja way of Naruto Uzumaki! Under normal circumstances, I will never lie to others!"

Xiao Li automatically ignored the words "under normal circumstances".

At this moment, he no longer hesitated.

"it is good!!!"

Xiao Li blew out two puffs of air from his nose, and his whole body was boiling with enthusiasm from Naruto's words, like a highly motivated calf: "Then I will train with you!"

"Hahaha!" Naruto stretched out his hand to Xiao Li who was squatting on the ground: "Then we will be friends! Be my friend, Xiao Li!"

"friend……"

Xiao Li was stunned as if struck by lightning.

His eyes suddenly filled with tears.

His thick eyebrows were trembling.

Xiao Li never had any friends in the two years he was in Ninja School.

He doesn't even have a very harmonious relationship with his classmates.

Because no one will interact with the crane tail.

Since a jackass is destined not to become a ninja, there is no need to build a personal network with this jackass.

Wouldn't it be better to have the time to seduce some ninja children?

This is what most civilian students think.

Although their age is generally seven or eight years old, they are only eight or nine years old at most. Children in the ninja world are already very precocious.

It is very normal to have such thoughts.

As for those ninja children...

Unless there are special circumstances, they will not interact with someone like Xiao Li, because it doesn't mean anything to them.

As a result, Xiao Li has been living alone for the past two years.

At only eight years old, he needs to take the little orphan relief money given by Konoha and support himself alone.

Go to school alone.

After school alone.

A person practices asceticism.

The three words "a person" represent Xiao Li's life rhythm.

It would be a lie to say that I am not alone.

If you say you don't want a friend, that's also a lie.

No one desires to have a friend more than Xiao Li.

Especially friends of the same age.

"Wow! Naruto!" He actually hugged Naruto's thigh, tears and snot flowing out together: "Since I came out of the orphanage, I don't have a friend anymore, and no one wants to be with me. Become friends with people like me. Wow, Naruto, you are so nice! You are a good person!"

Xiao Li is still very well-behaved in the ninja school.

He never skipped class.

Not even late.

but……

Today is an exception.

He skipped class.

……

The time soon arrived at noon.

The scorching sun hung high in the sky.

Konoha gate.

Compared to the huge Konoha gate, Tsunade and Shizune's bodies looked a bit slender and petite. Even if Tsunade has a big heart, it still depends on what kind of things it is compared to.

"That old man can really walk! He walked all the way from Konoha Village to the border of Konoha, then to the Country of Grass, then to the Country of Water, and then ran back to Konoha Village..."

He looked up at the Leaf Village that was so close in front of him.

There were several black lines on Tsunade's face.

She and Shizune followed the path that Whitebeard had walked along the way, which was equivalent to making an exaggerated circle between the Land of Fire, the Land of Water, and the Land of Grass.

"I haven't been back for a long time. Why does it feel like the door has been changed? I remember... this door was not this color before."

Tsunade muttered to herself.

Shizune, who was holding the pink dolphin in her arms, silently interjected: "Tsunade-sama, it was a long, long time ago that you last returned to Konoha... It has been almost eight years, right? And the last time you came back , I still came back to borrow money to pay off the debt."

"Ahem!" Tsunade coughed, but she didn't feel embarrassed because she was already thick-skinned enough: "Go in, I hope that old man is still in Konoha Village."

During this time, Tsunade wasn't just wandering around on the road.

She has actually been thinking about how to restore Whitebeard's special body to its healthiest state?

She made a lot of related medical conjectures.

He refutes his own conjectures again and again, and comes up with new conjectures again and again.

Eventually she settled on three treatment plans.

This is also the ultimate treatment option!

If one can choose the most suitable treatment plan and the treatment is successful... it will allow Whitebeard's body to return to its peak state.

Tsunade was a medical ninja after all.

Although she has long since stopped getting involved in ninja affairs, Tsunade is still very interested in special patients with difficult and complicated diseases.

"Patients" like Whitebeard.

Making it difficult for her to resist the temptation.

Anyway... Whitebeard is a pirate, not a ninja.

Well, that’s right!

No problem!

"Let's disguise ourselves. I don't want to meet a few other old men. Those guys are very annoying. Every time they want me to stay in Konoha Village for the rest of my life, they talk about the will of fire. It makes my ears ring. They’re all out.”

After Tsunade said something to Shizune, there was a "bang" and her whole body shrank a lot.

From the image of an intellectually mature royal sister.

She turned into a little girl in her early ten years.

From a big mind to a flat river.

Quite a girl's youthful atmosphere.

"Transformation!" Shizune had no choice but to obey, and she turned into an ordinary-looking girl. There was no memory of her appearance, and no one would take a second look on the street.

"Let's go! Go back to the village!" Tsunade, who turned into a girl, walked struttingly at the front, her two ponytails swaying behind her.

"You two!" The two elite chunin guarding the gate of Konoha immediately stopped Tsunade and Shizune: "Who are you? Where are you from? What are you going to do when you enter Konoha?"

When Shizune was about to explain.

Tsunade suddenly clapped her hands together.