Naruto: The Abstract Strategist of the Akatsuki

If Minato Namikaze and Naruto Uzumaki, father and son, wanted to escape or hide, they would be extremely difficult to catch.

Therefore, they can only be positive, or at least relatively positive, characters.

They need to have some moral bottom line, something they care about, so that they will have weaknesses.

Otherwise, there's no need to mention Flying Thunder God.

Minato Namikaze places a Flying Thunder God in each of the five great nations. As soon as you arrive, he moves to the next location, rests for a few days, and waits for you to arrive before moving on to the next one.

The only way is to strike before Minato Namikaze notices you and kill him instantly.

The problem is that the Flying Thunder God's perception is already strong, and its reaction speed is top-notch.

There's hardly any wind-up before activating Flying Thunder God.

Achieving this is extremely difficult.

The reason Neji used the rabbit-hair-like needles to seal Minato's pressure points was mainly because he didn't have the intention to escape; he only thought about avoiding it, which is why he was covered by a large-scale AOE attack.

Similarly, the same principle applies to capturing Naruto.

Naruto wanted to hide, so with his chakra reserves, he created a massive number of shadow clones and hid them all over the world.

Trying to capture Naruto's true form is like some games where you open the world map and see tons of toilet-cleaning quests that refresh endlessly every day, but the rewards are just a pittance.

Each shadow clone is like a mini-mission; you have to catch and defeat the shadow clone before you can determine whether it is indeed a shadow clone.

If you put yourself in Kaguya and Black Zetsu's shoes during the final battle in the original work, you'll understand how overwhelming it was.

This was even with Naruto unable to escape and confined to those few spaces.

Neji wanted to capture Naruto, so he naturally had to use the right methods.

We must find Naruto's weakness and force his true form to appear, instead of blindly searching for him like a fool.

As for whether it's unethical to try and find Naruto's weaknesses.

This is not something Neji needs to consider.

Since Neji pledged allegiance to the Hokage, everything he owns no longer belongs to him, including his reputation.

He has already taken that step by threatening Hiashi Hyuga with his own existence, so what is there to be afraid of now?

Just use them as dirty gloves.

His original positioning was not even as good as this.

In the library.

Naruto himself was comfortably and contentedly continuing to look at the classified documents.

"Naruto, what are you doing here? This is terrible! Where is your real body? Tell him to come back quickly!"

Tenten, Ino, and Kiba ran over, all looking anxious.

"What's wrong?"

Naruto remained completely calm.

Although he is the original body, no one knows that he is right now.

"How can you still be so calm? Neji's gone mad! He kidnapped everyone just to force you out!"

Tenten stepped forward and pulled Naruto up.

"Arrest everyone? To force me out?"

Naruto tilted his head, looking puzzled.

He didn't understand what Neji meant by "capturing everyone".

Naruto thought Neji would capture his father, beat him up, and force him to reveal his true form.

Neji doesn't know who you really like.

Seeing Naruto every day still acting like he's oblivious and doesn't understand anything, I sighed.

"He kidnapped Sakura first."

Ino chimed in, "We were strolling along the road with Sakura when Neji suddenly appeared, threw out a bunch of needles that froze Sakura in place, and then stuffed her into a pink sack."

I chased after Neji to stop him, but Neji said that if I dared to interfere with his service to the Hokage again, he would take me along with him.

I was a little scared, and I was worried that if I got arrested, no one would know about it, so I endured the humiliation and lived a life of ignominy... and then I met the two of them.

"What? Sakura? What does Neji want to do with Sakura??"

Naruto couldn't sit still any longer.

"Don't rush to ask him what he wants to do. Not only Sakura, but Hinata has also been captured."

Neji added, "I'm welcome to complain to Clan Chief Hiashi; let's see if he dares to stop me."

Kiba Inuzuka sighed, "I didn't stop Neji because I had to endure humiliation."

"..."

Naruto was speechless. These people were all supposed to be enduring humiliation and bearing heavy burdens, but was this really enduring humiliation and bearing heavy burdens?

Could it be that not only has my father become a coward in this ninja world, but even my comrades have changed?

"Yeah, Neji has been a completely different person ever since he swore allegiance to the Hokage."

He's now saying he's going to offer Sakura and Hinata to supermarket owner Bai Mo, all for the sake of the Hokage's preferences.

If you don't show up by this evening, he's going to make his move!

Tenten finished speaking and wrapped things up. The three of them then focused their attention on Naruto, wondering what he was going to do.

"Why is it dedicated to Brother Bai Mo?"

Naruto was puzzled.

"I don't know who did it, but today a lot of rumors suddenly started circulating in the village that the Hokage and the supermarket owner are together, and that Minato Namikaze is an incompetent husband who has been cheated on."

"..."

It seems that Naruto himself did this.

"Neji doesn't think he can make me submit and reveal my true form, does he?"

Don't worry, Neji wouldn't dare to do that.

I understand…

Naruto was about to say that he understood Neji and that Neji cared about his comrades, but then he thought, this is Neji from the real ninja world, what does he have to do with the Neji of this world?

So they changed their tune—

"I know my old... Hokage. Yesterday, she was still jealous at the back door of the supermarket, questioning Brother Bai Mo about why he gave the Mizukage something."

Therefore, Neji would absolutely not dare to do that.

He thought he was currying favor with Bai Mo, thereby indirectly currying favor with the Hokage, but he was completely wrong! I believe that as a close confidant of the Hokage, he wouldn't be unaware of this.

Naruto confidently raised his head.

Faced with Naruto's rare, clear and logical analysis, the other three shook their heads in unison, looking at Naruto with pitiful expressions.

"Naruto, I never expected that as the son of the Hokage, you don't even know what kind of personality she has."

"Could the rumors be true? Minato Namikaze was already ruined before the wedding, and could only passively give birth to Naruto using the Nine-Tails' chakra. Naruto, you're actually the Nine-Tails' child?"

"Uh... what do you mean?"

Naruto scratches his head.

Naruto, of course, knew nothing about Kushina.

Because this is one of the few things that cannot be found in the archives.

As the sole dictator of Konoha, Kushina could have easily deleted all information about herself.

So, after these three said that, Naruto really couldn't refute anything and could only pretend to be stupid.

After all, Naruto probably knew less about Kushina than a random villager.

"The Hokage likes to act domineeringly. She once said, 'You can only take what I give you; you can't take what I don't give you.'"

The conflict between the Hokage and the Mizukage was likely caused by the Mizukage taking things without asking.

On the contrary, the Hokage once said that what she likes must be liked by the entire ninja world, and the more people who like it, the more accomplished she feels...

"What about my dad?"

Naruto was dumbfounded. He hadn't expected this to happen. So here's the question: if that's really the case, then his father shouldn't be discriminated against either, right?

"Although the Hokage is enthusiastic about sharing and having fun with the people, what she hates most is a bond-type ninja."

Tian Tian sighed, "And did you know? Actually, Xiao Li and Teacher Kai were also arrested."