Naruto: I made you Naruto, and you've become blond?

Chapter 132 Naruto: I'm learning Hannibal's cooking skills. The most important thing in life is knowing when to heat the fire!

With a hint of confusion and uncertainty on her rosy, oval face, Xi Ri looked at the old man at the village entrance, who was furiously raging and wearing a green Jonin vest.

Kurenai Yuhi vaguely remembered that the man was the captain of the Konoha village guard squad.

The Jonin squad leader stood at the village entrance, his face grim, his brow furrowed.

He was clearly angry because of the scarred-faced gatekeeper who had inexplicably ignored him as his superior and suddenly ran away.

Yuhi Kurenai raised her beautiful eyebrows slightly, puzzled. What was going on?

That Chunin just deliberately made things difficult for me and Naruto, and now he's getting his comeuppance?

Kurenai shook her head, realizing she shouldn't have complained about the other person, since he was just following the rules.

Naruto didn't even glance at the commotion at the doorway, nor did he turn his head; he simply said something under his breath.

"Now they won't have time to pay attention to us."

"Let's go out first."

Outside Konoha Village, there is a boundless green ocean stretching for tens of kilometers.

Lush and verdant, with ancient trees reaching for the sky.

It is rumored to be a product of the Wood Release ninjutsu of the First Hokage, Hashirama Senju.

Before Naruto and Kurenai could wait long, Shizune and Tsunade appeared.

The four of them then set off on their journey to the Fire Country's metropolis.

Along the wide, standard official road of the Land of Fire, in the dense, lush forest, four figures rose and fell, flashing continuously.

As the most prosperous and wealthy country in the ninja world, there were many merchants and carriages coming and going along the way.

Half a day passed, and flocks of birds took flight in the forest. Naruto, Tsunade, and the others landed in the middle of a clearing in the forest.

"Alright! Let's rest here for a while!"

Tsunade swung her arm with a flourish.

The movement caused the ample breasts beneath the tea-green coat to sway in a breathtaking arc.

Shizune and Kurenai landed on either side of Tsunade, letting out a slight sigh of relief.

They moved for nearly several dozen kilometers through the forest at a semi-combat speed.

For medical ninjas and genjutsu ninjas, who are not good at taijutsu and have no advantage in chakra reserves, this is a different story.

They were quite exhausted after marching this far in one go.

If this continues, I'm afraid I'll have to take the initiative to suggest that we rest and recuperate for a while.

Kurenai stretched out her arm to wipe the fine beads of sweat from her smooth forehead, then bent over and supported herself with her knees.

The buttocks, wrapped in white bandages and shorts, appeared even more pert and shapely due to the movement at that moment.

Because of the sweat making her vision a little blurry, she caught a glimpse of Naruto Uzumaki not far away, looking calm and breathing evenly, without blushing or skipping a beat, and was slightly surprised.

As Naruto's genjutsu teacher at the Ninja Academy, she naturally had some knowledge of or even witnessed Naruto's talent and strength.

Especially considering that this brat had previously defeated Uchiha Sasuke, the second son of the Uchiha clan's patriarch, a clan known for its abundance of geniuses, with a single punch.

Did I never expect that Naruto Uzumaki would be so physically strong?

After marching through the forest for so long, he's actually more adept than she was when she was still a Chunin?!

No wonder Lady Tsunade values ​​him so highly…

Kurenai thought to herself, "Although he's a lecherous brat, his ninja talent is indeed outstanding for his young age."

"Teacher, why don't we choose to ride in a horse-drawn carriage?"

After holding back for a long time, Naruto finally voiced his doubts.

The technology in the ninja world is quite strange, even though it has high-tech products like computers and televisions.

Even in the original work, when Naruto's Team 7 was looking for the cat for the Daimyo's wife, they seemed to have used something like a headset or radio.

However, there are almost no means of transportation like cars, and people still rely on the relatively old horse-drawn carriages.

Except for the Land of Snow, of course.

It seems the Land of Snow has even produced steam-age artifacts like airships and trains.

While ninjas are indeed faster on foot than in a carriage over short distances, carriages are more energy-efficient and convenient over longer distances.

Tsunade walked over, reached out and ruffled Naruto's hair, her pretty face serious as she spoke.

"A ninja is one who endures what ordinary people cannot!"

"And because this is a mission! Your first mission, kid! You can't be so lazy!"

After a pause, Tsunade looked at Naruto with her amber eyes and asked a question.

"Kid, what do you think is the most important thing for a ninja?"

Naruto tried to break free from Tsunade's clutches covering his head, but to no avail.

Upon hearing this, he paused, his expression turning strange.

What's most important for a ninja? I might not know, but I know what's most important to you...

His gaze swept over Tsunade's large, voluptuous breasts, barely concealed beneath her form-fitting, cheongsam-like lining, and continued downwards. 13

Naruto hesitated for a moment before tentatively answering.

"What's most important for a ninja? Strength? Or chakra?"

Seeing Naruto's bewildered expression, Tsunade remained silent for a long time, and in the end, she gave the wrong answer.

Her beautiful brows furrowed slightly, and she flicked Naruto's forehead with her slender, white fingers, speaking softly.

"Kid! Don't get distracted!"

Seeing this, Shizune quickly and understandingly spoke up, gently explaining to Naruto, "Naruto, the most important thing for a ninja is intelligence."

Then, after catching his breath due to severe physical exhaustion, he looked at Tsunade reproachfully.

"Lady Tsunade, Naruto is only a first-year student at the Ninja Academy, it's normal that he doesn't know! Please don't be too harsh on Naruto."

Tsunade paused, then subconsciously pursed her lips.

Naruto, that brat, usually seems too mature and serious, like a little devil.

He almost forgot that he was still a first-year student at the Ninja Academy.

Naruto's heart skipped a beat upon learning the answer. Intelligence!? Holy crap, intelligence from Jiraiya!?

That makes sense, at least in the early stages of Naruto, before the power levels collapsed after Pain's appearance.

In the ninja world, intelligence is indeed of paramount importance.

In the original work, Naruto and his Team 7 were on a mission that was ostensibly only a C-rank escort.

This is because Konoha lacks sufficient information about its employer, Tazuna.

In reality, it's a top-tier mission involving the most ruthless of the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist, Zabuza Momochi and Haku, making it close to S-rank difficulty.

If they hadn't encountered Kakashi, the Copy Ninja, one of the best Jonin, and the main characters.

If it were any other Jonin team from Konoha, even Asuma's Ino-Shika-Cho aristocratic team, caught off guard by the attack, they would most likely have suffered heavy casualties! A complete annihilation wouldn't be out of the question!

Tsunade looked at Kurenai, who was in the worst condition among them, and asked, "Kurenai, can you still hold on?"

Kurenai Yuhi pursed her lips and shook her head. "Lady Tsunade, I need to rest a little longer."

Tsunade nodded, pondered for a moment, and then decisively gave the order.

"Let's rest here, have lunch, and then head straight to the next town this afternoon! Let's try to reach the City of Fire first thing tomorrow morning!"

After saying that, he instructed Shizune Naruto to go to the riverbank in the wild to fetch water for cooking.

Normally, ninjas cannot cook with open flames when eating in the wild. They mostly eat small pills the size of a leg-stretching, eye-glaring pill to restore their chakra.

This was done to minimize the chance of enemy ninjas noticing the smoke and thus revealing their location.

However, this trip takes place within the Land of Fire.

In recent years, Konoha has not had any large-scale wars with other hidden villages, and with Tsunade, one of the legendary Sannin with unparalleled strength, leading the team, there is naturally no such concern.

The warm sun hung high in the sky, its gentle rays as comforting as warm cotton.

The clear, meandering riverside meadow resembles a small snake.

The glowing red charcoal emitted a crisp, low crackling sound.

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Naruto carefully flipped the grilled fish and pheasant on the simple wooden rack, which was being licked by the greedy tongues of fire.

In my past life, if freshwater fish were not cooked thoroughly, people could easily become infected with parasites if they ate them, especially the seemingly crystal-clear glacial streams in the southwestern highlands.

It seems like there's no need for similar worries in the ninja world, but Naruto still carefully tried to ensure the food was fully cooked to avoid burning.

Soon, the glistening, oily skin of the grilled fish looked incredibly appetizing.

Naruto controlled the direction of the grill while sprinkling on some seasoning powder he had gotten from the village, similar to chili powder and cumin.

Tsunade stared intently at the crispy-on-the-outside, tender-on-the-inside wild game and asked curiously.

"Kid, I didn't know you could even do picnics? Where did you learn to barbecue?"

This kid's home-style cooking skills are quite different in taste and style.

However, the taste is in no way inferior to the seasoned cooking skills that Jingyin has honed over a decade. I never expected that she could even cook for a picnic.

"It's so much better than Kushina's cooking!" Tsunade couldn't help but think of her old friend who was known as "Red Hot Chili Pepper."

Naruto handed Tsunade the grilled fish that had already been sprinkled with chili powder, and said with a smile.

"I learned this cooking skill from Hannibal! Being a person and cooking are the same; the most important thing is controlling the heat."

"Teacher, try it and see how it is."

Tsunade took it, tilted her head slightly, opened her rosy little mouth, revealing two rows of neat, white teeth, and bit down hard.

Naruto felt a chill run down his spine. Tsunade's teeth were too good. If he offended her in the future, wouldn't he be in great danger?

The slightly hot fish oil frys open, releasing a rich aroma of roasted meat, leaving your mouth glistening with oil.

Tsunade's beautiful, bright eyes suddenly lit up, and she ate with her mouth bulging as she exclaimed in praise.

"Delicious! I haven't had such delicious grilled fish in all these years!"

A strange thought stirred within Jingyin, and she lowered her head slightly.

Naruto's younger brother is so outstanding in every way that he completely surpasses his senior sister.

Suddenly, a grilled fish emitting a rich aroma was handed to her. "Sister Shizune, here you go."

Looking at Naruto's handsome face, a friendly smile radiated from him.

Shizune's delicate face froze for a moment, then she hurriedly accepted the gift, saying, "Thank you, Naruto."

Then a surge of joy welled up in her heart again. Naruto was her junior brother, and he was so cute and handsome.

Such an excellent boy, and he's going to live with me and Lady Tsunade in the future. Isn't it like I'm raising him myself?

Thinking about it this way, my initially low mood turned into excitement.

"Why not add some red?"

Tsunade looked up and caught sight of Kurenai Yuhi, who was eating her rations rather alone, and asked a question.

A look of embarrassment crossed Xi Rihong's round, oval face. She put down the dry rations in her hand, hesitated, and waved her hand.

"I think I'll pass. I don't really like the smell of this kind of grilled meat..."

Compared to oily, strongly flavored meat, she prefers sweet treats like tricolor dumplings and takoyaki.

"Try it! This kid's grilled fish is absolutely delicious!"

Tsunade gave a thumbs-up and advised, her already rosy and full lips now gleaming with an unusually alluring sheen.

Shizune tugged at Kurenai's right arm, which had a bright red sleeve, and chimed in.

"Yeah, Hong, you can give it a try too."

Kurenai hesitated for a moment before taking the skewer of grilled fish from Naruto's hand.

She tilted her head slightly, and her thick, beautiful black hair slid down her shoulder, swaying like a swing in the air.

As she tasted the fresh and spicy flavor she had never experienced before on her pink tongue, Xi Ri's bright red eyes narrowed slightly.

How can it be so delicious! It's completely different from the grilled fish she's had before, which always tasted fishy!

Is it because Naruto, that lecherous brat, added some unfamiliar seasoning and used a unique grilling method that it was different from?

This lecherous brat, besides liking to peek at other people's thighs, actually has many good points, such as being handsome, having good ninja talent, and surprisingly excellent barbecue cooking skills...

Suddenly, such a thought arose in Kurenai's mind, and then she quickly spat twice in her mind.

No matter how many good qualities this kid has, he's still a womanizer who flirts with both Ino and Hinata in the same class!

Or is he the lecherous brat who dared to peek at his teacher's thighs?

Naruto watched as Tsunade and the others ate with great relish.

Suddenly, it occurred to him that there was another way to go to the Grass Village himself in a short time.

That's the art of reverse spirit communication!

After a ninja signs a contract with a summoning beast, he can summon the beast through space-time using the hand seals of the Summoning Technique, and vice versa.

Summoning beasts can also be manipulated in reverse, allowing you to summon contracted ninjas to your side.

However, there must have been some limitations, otherwise, when Jiraiya was being chased by Pain in Amegakure, he should have been able to have Gamabunta and the others from Mount Myōboku use reverse summoning to escape.

At least a third of Tsunade's immense reputation as the strongest medical ninja comes from her summoning beasts, which are also from one of the three great sacred lands!

A living slug immortal whose body is so large that it can almost fill the entire sacred land of Shikkotsu Forest!

Rumor has it that the Living Slug Sage can split almost without limit, so perhaps one of her clones, the little slug, is near the Land of Grass?!

Thinking of this, Naruto immediately looked at Tsunade and asked.

"Teacher, I want to learn psychic arts. Can you teach me now?"

Tsunade paused in her wolfing down of the grilled fish upon hearing this. Summoning Jutsu? Why is this brat suddenly asking to learn this?

Although his summoning technique is very powerful, as a slug sage, he can only use his skills primarily for support, healing, and survival, and he has virtually no offensive capabilities.

Judging from this kid's usual style, he shouldn't think much of it!

She thought that the summoning beast that would suit this brat's taste would probably be the old man's supposedly strongest summoning beast, Enma, or a powerful summoning beast like Orochimaru's Manda...

Just as he was about to agree, he suddenly seemed to remember something and changed his mind again.

(End of this chapter)