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

Chapter 86 My brother-in-law's pat on the head~

"Thank you so much for your help just now."

Hinata Hanabi placed her hands at her sides and bowed gracefully, her manner very precise.

Naruto looked at the little girl in front of him, whose delicate face was full of gratitude and seriousness, and smiled.

"Is a simple verbal thank you enough? I won't accept that."

Huh? Isn't the usual formulaic reply "You're welcome"?

Hinata Hanabi blinked her pure white eyes, her little head slightly dazed.

This is the first time I've encountered this situation...

Hinata Hanabi's face froze for a moment upon hearing this, then blushed and hurriedly replied.

"Hi!"

She started rummaging through the pockets of her velvet short shawl-style jacket.

After failing to find a suitable thank-you gift for a while, her face flushed with embarrassment.

Seeing that Hinata Hanabi is about to transform into a miniature Hinata Steam Princess,

Naruto couldn't help but chuckle; teasing this little girl was just as fun as Hinata.

However, too much of a good thing can be bad. He waved his hand and casually said, "Just kidding, no need."

"You're Hinata's younger sister, right? Is your name Hyuga Hanabi?"

Naruto gently asked to confirm, while taking out a beautifully carved, lifelike wooden doll from his bag.

Similar to Asuna from her previous life, or Mai Sakurajima, these are chibi-style figurines.

It was just something he made in his spare time when he was bored, based on himself.

The rapidly growing blond hair on the figurine is particularly eye-catching, and this wooden carving bears a striking resemblance to Naruto himself.

"This is the first time I've met Hanabi, right? This is a gift for her!"

Naruto reached out and gently stroked the smooth, black hair of the little Hyuga girl, then handed her the wooden doll.

Hinata Hanabi's rosy, round face was initially embarrassed because she didn't have a suitable thank-you gift.

Suddenly hearing Naruto call his name in a gentle tone without any honorifics, he felt a tremor in his heart.

And suddenly a large hand reached out to stroke his long, glossy black hair.

The strict etiquette and upbringing of the Hyuga family from a young age made her subconsciously want to lean back and avoid him, after all, Naruto was a stranger she was meeting for the first time.

After hesitating for a moment, he realized that the other person had saved him and was very likely his sister's future husband...

The next moment, a warm and gentle touch came from my head.

Hinata Hanabi's exquisitely beautiful face instantly flushed red, like an apple, her cheeks rosy with rosy hues.

Normally, only her mother would occasionally caress her like this.

Even her father, Hiashi Hyuga, usually presented a stern and unsmiling demeanor, rarely showing such affection towards her and her sister.

Therefore, this was the first time she had been affectionately stroked on the head by a man.

Feeling the unfamiliar yet intimate attitude and the boy's hot, furnace-like aura, Hinata Hanabi felt not a trace of aversion, but rather a strange sense of shyness.

She subconsciously bit her small, cherry-like lips, murmuring to herself.

Is this what my brother-in-law's caresses feel like? It feels...

"Thank you. You...you must be Naruto-kun? May I ask...were you my sister's classmate at the Ninja Academy?"

Hinata Hanabi carefully accepted the exquisite chibi-style Naruto wooden carving and asked in a respectful, soft voice.

Naruto nodded. "Yes, your sister Hinata and I are classmates, so you don't need to use honorifics. Just call me Naruto."

"Can I call you Little Fireworks too?"

In their daily lives, the rules are quite rigid. In most cases, people address each other by their surname and title. Calling each other by their first name indicates a more intimate and ambiguous relationship.

However, since most ninja villages in Konoha are organized into clans, it is more common to address people by their given names, making it easier to distinguish them.

Otherwise, both Nara Shikamaru and Nara Shikaku are Nara...

However, the Hyuga clan is quite traditional and is a strict aristocratic family in the ninja world. Since it was their first meeting, Naruto casually mentioned it.

Hearing Naruto call her by her name so affectionately, Hyuga Hanabi blushed even more and shook her head shyly.

"That would be too impolite. I'll just call you... Naruto... Naruto-nii-san."

Her fair little hands adored the Q-version Naruto wooden carving in her palms, occasionally touching the wooden doll's head and grasping its outstretched thumb-sized wooden hand.

"Naruto... Naruto-kun..."

Hinata walked over, clutching the sleeve of her exquisitely patterned dress, her head bowed.

Her pure white eyes would occasionally glance at Naruto, and then quickly steal a look at Hanabi as she tightly hugged the small, exquisite wooden Naruto figurine in her hands, a hint of imperceptible envy flashing in her eyes.

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"Hinata, let's go to the Ninja Academy together." Naruto, unaware of what was happening, greeted Hinata and waved goodbye to Hanabi.

"Fireworks, see you next time..."

Hinata Hanabi's cheeks flushed as she hugged the wooden doll and bowed again in farewell, feeling a pang of reluctance for some reason.

……

Hiruzen Sarutobi handed over a mission report, his old face showing a hint of seriousness.

"Look, this is the result of the Anbu's investigation on the bandit-suppression mission you led Naruto on last time!"

After saying that, he picked up his pipe and prepared to smoke.

Tsunade first glanced imposingly at Hiruzen Sarutobi, who was about to unleash a cloud of smoke, with her phoenix eyes, but she didn't say anything or make any other move.

But it was incredibly intimidating; an invisible pressure seemed to envelop the old man in his divine robes in the office.

Hiruzen Sarutobi's expression changed, he coughed twice, and quickly took the pipe from his mouth.

"Ahem! Sigh, let's wait until this afternoon to draw it..."

Tsunade took the mission report with an imposing air, exuding a fierce and domineering aura, as if she were the true owner of the Hokage's office.

Her gaze casually swept across the mission scroll, her beautiful eyes narrowed, and a clear, resonant, mature female voice rang out.

"Are those bandits backed by the Hatano Trading Company, the metropolis of the Land of Fire?"

"And it also involves some nobles from the Land of Water?"

Hiruzen Sarutobi nodded solemnly and took out a top-secret scroll, sealed and encrypted in layers, from the drawer.

"Take a look at this."

"Asuma sent a message today saying that the leader of the radical faction of the Twelve Guardian Ninja, Kazuma, instigated the Daimyo to detain the visiting ambassador from the Land of Water, and even imprisoned the Kirigakure ninja who were guarding the ambassador!"

"If anything happens to the ambassador of the Land of Water, then Kirigakure and Konoha will surely be engulfed in a bloody war!"

Hiruzen Sarutobi's aged, tree-bark-like face was full of worry. He got up and paced back and forth around Tsunade's office, his tone heavy.

"Tsunade, you happen to have a close relationship with the Daimyo, so I hope you can make a trip to the capital of the Land of Fire to persuade the Daimyo..."

Tsunade raised an eyebrow, a hint of annoyance flashing in her eyes. Her full red lips parted slightly, as if she was about to speak.

A crisp, rhythmic knocking sounded from outside the office door.

(End of this chapter)