Ninja Pot Shadow

Even if you do something that is outrageous and heinous, Sasuke will take the blame for you, right?

The thought of taking the blame immediately perked her up.

The pervasive Yin-attribute chakra within her body excited her somewhat.

Sasuke sensed a restless energy in her mind and quickly tried to dissuade her: "What are you doing? Didn't you want to give my body back? You win this round, but I'll definitely win next time. Quickly release this jutsu."

Ino glanced at him and said, "Don't rush me. You also find these girls annoying, right? I'll help you get rid of them once and for all. You're welcome."

"Huh?...This..."

Both Sasuke and Naruto are straight men, the difference being that Naruto is oblivious. Although he often peeks into women's bathhouses and knows the importance of a curvy figure, and is very alluring when he transforms into a woman, Naruto doesn't understand why men like these things.

Sasuke, on the other hand, is in a different state. He is roughly at the level of "women only affect my speed of drawing my sword." It's not that he doesn't like them, but that he feels he doesn't need them.

Ino guessed that he was also annoyed by these women, so she decided to do a good deed today and solve all their problems for him!

Without saying a word, she pulled Sakura in front of her.

Sakura, who was holding her arm, was stunned for a moment, wondering why "Sasuke" had suddenly become so proactive.

Ino's eyes flashed, and she said in a domineering CEO tone, "Woman, you've successfully caught my attention. Look up at me."

"Huh? Ah! Ah, this...that...I, I just...just..." Sakura's eyes darted around, she was at a loss, and her face was flushed.

Sasuke in his mental world was going crazy. What was this bastard woman doing?!

"What exactly are you trying to do?! Are you trying to help me?"

"Ugh! You're going to drive me crazy!"

"Don't worry, don't worry, didn't you hear those idiots cursing at me? I'm just trying to help you."

With her high level of Yin Release, Ino suppressed Sasuke's resistance in the mental realm.

The voice of "Sasuke" from the outside world was extremely alluring. With his eyes sparkling, he said to Sakura, "The Uchiha clan only marries the smartest girl. Let's play a riddle. If you guess it right, I'll allow you to take the Uchiha surname."

"Huh?!" Steam billowed from Sakura's head. Her usually sharp brain was now completely blank. She was going to change her surname? Would her parents object? And... wasn't this a bit too fast?

The thought of becoming Uchiha Sakura made her heart pound in her chest.

Chapter Twenty-Two: The Riddle Contest

Sasuke waved to Sakura, gesturing for her to come closer.

Sakura took two steps forward with a shy expression, and then Sasuke put his index and middle fingers together and gently tapped her forehead with a doting gesture.

"Sasuke-nii-san" laughed domineeringly: "I noticed your broad forehead a long time ago, hehe..."

After her initial shyness subsided, Sakura still felt a slight unease. The nickname "broad forehead" sounded rather awkward...

Ino also realized that she had gotten a little carried away. Sasuke's body, which had been marinated in spiritual energy, had indirectly boosted her spiritual energy, making her appear particularly "spirited." She felt that her action was inappropriate and immediately shifted the blame.

In the mental world, she looked at Sasuke with surprise and doubt: "How strange, why would I do this? Is this an instinctive reaction of your body, or did you secretly regain some control of your body?"

Sasuke certainly wouldn't explain his intimate past with "Onii-chan." A hesitant feeling settled in his heart. Did his body still retain some instincts? His thoughts raced, finally settling into a cold snort: "You don't need to know!"

Ino nodded. "Very good, young man. You've handled this situation very well."

The "Sasuke-nii" from the outside world looked kind and reached out to touch Sakura's long pink hair.

This "pampering fans" gesture angered many female fans, who made a lot of noise, like three hundred ducks chattering.

A bunch of girls were fighting, while the Jonin watched from the shadows. Ino was laughing so hard she almost choked.

She laughs in her inner world, and she doesn't hide her smile in the outside world either.

She didn't care whether her smile made her look like a domineering CEO or a crooked-mouthed war god; she wasn't the one who would be embarrassed.

The girls fought for a while, pulling hair and scratching faces, creating a lively scene. Just when Sakura was about to gain the upper hand against the four of them, Ino suddenly raised her voice: "Stop it, all of you! With your skills, you think you can marry into the Uchiha clan?"

The girls immediately quieted down, looking at her like quails.

Her gaze swept across the faces of the group.

"Good! You're all very spirited and excellent girls! You are all fully qualified to marry into the Uchiha clan. However, for the sake of the Uchiha's descendants, I need to test you. It's what I mentioned before: a riddle! Everyone gets a chance, but I only want the best one. Listen carefully! This riddle is directly related to whether you can marry into the Uchiha clan..."

Sasuke coughed, and seeing that everyone's attention was on him, he said, "The riddle is this: White as snow, hard as iron, washed three times a day, hidden in the closet at night. Guess what it is?"

Sakura stared in disbelief, then suddenly remembered something and her face turned bright red. The other girls had similar expressions.

Shikamaru's eyes flickered. This was the first time he had encountered such a riddle. He had an answer in his mind, but he wasn't sure.

Upon noticing that "Sasuke-nii" was looking at her, Sakura covered her face, trying to muster her courage, but the words caught in her throat. She hesitated and replied, "Yes... I guess so... Oh, Sasuke-kun, you're so mean!"

"Sasuke-nii" didn't understand her expression, and had no idea what these guys were thinking, so he could only reveal the answer: "It's a bowl!"

The girls, including Sakura, looked at Sasuke with resentment, as if they felt they had been tricked. Ino glanced at the panel and saw the energy in the black pot slowly increasing. She was excited. The Jonin knew she was using Mind Transfer, but these girls and students from the Ninja Academy didn't know. Mind Transfer was definitely a divine technique that made people take the blame!

Sasuke closed his eyes and pondered: "None of you can answer this... The Uchiha clan needs to continue, but I can't have children myself. What should I do? Sigh... Don't say I didn't give you a chance. Here's another riddle for you."

"Yeah."

"Sasuke, I will definitely become your wife!"

"Sasuke, I promise I'll answer it!"

Sasuke thought about it seriously for a moment: "The riddle is as follows: It wears green clothes, has a watery belly, gives birth to many children, each with a black face. What is it?"

The girls exchanged glances, their eyes conveying a message: This time it's not *that* thing, is it? Probably not! But it seems they were talking about girls, something about "watery eyes"...

"I know! She's... she's Sasuke's bride." Sakura blushed.

"How cunning! I guessed it too. You were talking about me!"

"It's clearly me they're talking about. Only I can give Sasuke-kun lots and lots of children!"

The girls were arguing. Ino waited for half a minute, then noticed out of the corner of her eye that Shikamaru was muttering a word. She glared at him, and Shikamaru quickly covered his head with his hands, whistling and looking into the distance... After realizing that this guy wouldn't embarrass her, she finally looked away.

"Wrong! Completely wrong! What are you thinking? A bunch of idiots, the answer is watermelon!"

Some of the Jonin suddenly understood, while others nodded in agreement. Might Guy took out his notebook, his expression devout, and wrote down the riddle and its answer with lightning speed, intending to take it back to teach his students. Even the Third Hokage nodded slightly, finding the riddle quite interesting and engaging for children Sakura's age. He thought he could modify a few words and include it in his Will of Fire series later—it was borrowing, not plagiarism…

"Here's another riddle for you. Ears like palm-leaf fans, body like a small mountain, nose long and long, helping people with their work. What is it?"

The girls answered uncertainly, "...A shovel?"

Ino shook her head: "Wrong, it's an elephant."

The martial arts competition turned into a guessing game.

Ino and the others are sixth-grade students, and below them are fifth-grade, fourth-grade, and so on down to first-grade.

The flow of people on this side of the river gradually converged.

It's human nature to watch a spectacle, and eventually even many villagers came over.

Ino needs more people to solve riddles with her, and then she'll make Sasuke take the blame; she's open to anyone who comes along.

The Third Hokage thought this educational method was good, and the school teachers dared not stop it, so the number of onlookers naturally increased.

"It has a face but no mouth, it has feet but no hands, it has four legs but it can't walk on its own, what is it?"

Mitchell, hiding in the woods, shouted back, "Nunchucks! Two of them!"

Kakashi: "..."

Ino: "..."

Double my ass!

"The answer is the table..."

Chapter Twenty-Three: Ninja Technique - The Blame-Taking Technique

"Girls, you have so little knowledge in your heads. Don't waste your time. Learn more... I'll give you another riddle."

Despite knowing it wouldn't be very effective, Ino would still offer a few words of advice during the riddle-solving process. As long as one girl gave up on Erzhuzi and returned to a normal life, her advice would not have been in vain.

The riddle-guessing contest lasted for about half an hour. Ino still had riddles to answer, but she had used up most of the chakra she had brought with her mind to retreat.

Just as she was about to dispel the Mind Transfer Technique, a very faint yet distinct spiritual energy fluctuation emanated from the depths of Sasuke's soul. Was it Indra's chakra? Was it because she had occupied this body for too long, triggering some kind of resistance mechanism from this part of the chakra? Filled with curiosity, she couldn't help but "look" over.

The two spiritual energies collided, and she felt a deafening thunderclap in her consciousness, as if a huge purple tengu giant, wielding a greatsword, was forcefully slashing down at her!

The clash of spiritual energies gave Ino the feeling of riding a bicycle into a train.

Sasuke didn't know what had happened. He only heard Ino groan, and her control over the Mind Transfer Technique had clearly decreased.

Without a second thought, he immediately seized partial control of his body. This manifested outwardly as him gripping a kunai in reverse and stabbing his own shoulder, attempting to use methods for dealing with illusions to resist the Mind Transfer Technique.

"Release!" Ino's consciousness was injured by the purple giant, and her mental energy was damaged. Not wanting to worsen her injury, she immediately abandoned a portion of her chakra, released the secret technique, and returned to her own body.

"Damn it... what the hell is this? What kind of trick did you use?" Ino slowly stood up, leaning against a large tree.

She wiped her mouth, and bright red blood flowed down her delicate chin.

The moment she regained control of her body, she used her "blame-shifting" technique: "It was you, Sasuke, who injured me!"

She estimated that the purple giant was the chakra carrying Indra's will. This thing could be described as a peculiar spiritual energy, with a negligible total amount but an incredibly high quality.

If Ino's spiritual energy intensity is 1 at this moment, and Inoichi's is 1.5, then the intensity of this spiritual energy is 7 or 8. Considering that Indra has reincarnated countless times and expended a great deal of energy, his original spiritual energy must have been even higher.

At the Sage of Six Paths's bedside, Indra said that he would destroy the Ninja Sect and that even if he died, he would return in reincarnation to cause trouble. He wanted to prove that he was stronger than Ashura, the successor chosen by the Sage of Six Paths.

Ashura said that he would stop his brother Indra, and that even if his body died, his soul would be reincarnated to stop his brother.

The two brothers made reincarnation sound as easy as going downstairs to buy cigarettes, but in reality? Even though they had the bloodline of the Sage of Six Paths and were born with spiritual energy stronger than many gods, such repeated reincarnations were still extremely costly.

Naruto and Sasuke formed the "Seal of Reconciliation" at the Valley of the End, which marked the end of the fateful battle between Indra and Ashura, and their last remaining consciousness returned to the world.

Ino's understanding of the soul is very limited. Could the Sage of Six Paths possibly lift his two sons up from the other side of the underworld? She doesn't know. In any case, Ino didn't see any of Indra's personality traits in the previous clashes. If she had to say something, all that's left now is a small program.

Find Ashura's reincarnation, then deal with him! Based on that brief moment of collision, she roughly grasped this idea.

This mini-program was extremely tenacious and its attack power was incredibly high. Ino was almost caught by this energy and hastily cut off her tail to survive, which caused some of her mental energy to be depleted.

Ino's face turned deathly pale and her forehead was covered in cold sweat due to the damage to her mental energy. This scene made Inoichi's heart ache. Before he knew it, the intelligence chief had even taken out a kunai. Shikaku quickly grabbed him, "Old friend, it's not that bad, it's not that bad!"

"You tricked me? You took advantage of my carelessness, made me lower my guard, and then launched some kind of counter-judgment when my chakra was almost depleted? I admire you, Sasuke Uchiha, I underestimated you!" Ino pointed at Sasuke, shifting the blame with great professionalism.

Sasuke was suffering inside, but he couldn't express it.

He was still confused. Who had just kicked Ino out of his body? Had he done it? Nonsense! If he had that kind of ability, why would Ino have stabbed him with a kunai? He wasn't stupid.