Konoha: Intentionally losing to Hinata at the start

After all, he was just too outstanding, and yet after so long, he still hadn't accepted anyone, while quite a few women liked Yu Ming.

As far as he knew, there were many female ninjas in Konoha who often talked about Yu Ming.

Unlike before, although Yu Ming is still keeping a low profile, his name is now very well-known in the ninja world.

Many ninjas in Konoha naturally admire Yu Ming.

Many female ninjas even liked Yu Ming.

However, he had never been in contact with any of them.

In Naruto's eyes, this was like raising fish in a fishpond.

He didn't know that Yu Ming already had a woman, but he had absolutely no idea who it was.

Chapter 208 Yu Ming Arrives

When Sakura understood what Naruto was saying, she was furious. "Naruto, are you looking for death?"

Seeing Sakura's anger, Naruto felt a little scared, but he felt that he would never back down on this matter. He liked Sakura the most, so how could he let Yu Ming take her away?

So Naruto mustered up his courage and said, "Sakura, you should know very well that Yuuaki obviously doesn't like you."

Sakura clenched her fists, making a cracking sound.

Naruto actually wronged her, wronged her relationship with Yu Ming.

It's no longer a matter of accusation; it's about wrongly accusing her and Yu Ming of something they did.

Just as Naruto was about to say something, Sakura suddenly punched him.

"Go to hell".

With a single punch, the immense force sent Naruto flying.

Enraged, Sakura ignored Naruto, who had already flown out of the window, and opened her room door to go inside.

Sitting on her bed, Sakura grew angrier the more she thought about it.

"Naruto, you idiot, how could I be that kind of person? The person I like has always been Sasuke, and I'm just friends with Yu Ming. Naruto, you moron, you're just making wild guesses."

Sakura has always liked Sasuke, and has always maintained a friendly relationship with Yu Ming. The awkwardness she felt was simply because of what happened in the Land of Waves, which made her feel a little awkward when she met Yu Ming at age 28. Isn't that normal?

But Sakura was wrongly accused by Naruto, and she was really angry.

Moreover, Yu Ming had no romantic feelings for her, and Xiao Ying knew very well that the two of them were innocent.

However, Naruto clearly doesn't seem to think so.

Of course, Naruto now believes Sakura's words, because she wouldn't have hit her so hard if she hadn't wronged her.

Naruto, who had a broken rib, lay on the roof of a house in Sunagakure, looking at the moon and grinning foolishly.

However, due to his physical condition, even if he breaks a rib, he will recover quickly tomorrow.

Yu Ming was unaware of all the things that had happened that night.

Because he didn't activate his senses at all.

Yu Ming assumed that Sakura and Naruto had some kind of argument outside. Naruto often made Sakura angry, and Yu Ming was used to being beaten by her.

The next day, when Yu Ming got up, he went to the front of the Kazekage Building to gather and saw that Naruto looked a little unwell.

Yu Ming asked curiously, "What's wrong? You look so pale."

Naruto pretended to be fine and said, "It's nothing, I just didn't sleep well last night."

Although Yu Ming had his doubts, he didn't say anything, after all, it wasn't a big deal.

Sakura glared at Naruto as she watched the two talking. Kakashi didn't understand what was wrong with Naruto, but he was sure that Sakura was involved.

However, like Yu Ming, he didn't interfere in the affairs of these two.

Just as the group was about to leave, Chiyo stood in the Kazekage Building and said, "Gentlemen, I'll be leaving with you too."

This is originally a matter for Sunagakure, so how could it be left to Konoha?

This is so embarrassing.

Chiyo also wanted to see her grandson one last time.

This time, Chiyo brought the Chikamatsu Ten, and her purpose was very clear.

That is, they want to keep Sasori of the Red Sand.

Sakura was a little surprised. "Grandma Chiyo, you're going too?"

Chiyo walked over, looked at Yu Ming and said, "Our Kazekage of Sunagakure has been kidnapped. It's already unreasonable for Sunagakure not to go out and search for him ourselves, how could we not even send a single person?"

Kankuro originally wanted to come along, but he had just finished recovering from the poison and needed to rest.

Temari was also assigned to guard the border.

Maki also needed to maintain the village's defenses.

The Sand Village is currently even more short-handed than the Leaf Village.

There's no other way but to send Chiyo.

Yu Ming thought for a moment and said, "It would be reasonable for you to go, especially since one of Xiao Zhong's sons is your grandson."

Chiyo looked at Yu Ming and smiled, "You little rascal have seen right through this old woman's thoughts. It wouldn't be bad if the Slug Woman took you as her successor."

Sakura laughed and said, "Grandma Chiyo, how do you know that my master treats Yu Ming as his successor?"

Kakashi frowned and looked at Sakura. "Sakura."

Sakura paused for a moment, then realized something; it seemed she had said the wrong thing.

Yu Ming didn't seem to care and calmly said, "It's alright. The Hokage had this plan all along, so there's nothing wrong with talking about it. I won't have any safety issues."

If Chiyo were to assassinate Yu Ming in front of other ninja villages, it would be disastrous.

However, Yu Ming was clearly not worried about this issue.

Chiyo looked at Yu Ming with admiration, saying, "It seems you're very confident in your abilities."

Yu Ming didn't speak, but calmly said, "Let's go."

After saying that, he walked towards Sasori and Deidara.

Chiyo and the others followed.

Originally, Yu Ming came here only to provide support, but who knew he would become a key player now.

There was no way around it; even if Yu Ming didn't want to be a main player, Kakashi would still make him one.

Kakashi is a very rational ninja and needs to play it safe.

Now that Yu Ming has arrived, it's impossible to let him serve only as an assistant.

With his strength, he would definitely need to be a key player to better rescue Gaara.

The group remained mostly silent throughout the journey.

Naruto was extremely anxious to rescue Gaara.

Chiyo couldn't understand why Naruto insisted on saving a Kage from another village.

On the way, she kept looking at Naruto's back, very curious.

After a long while, she looked at Kakashi and asked, "Why is this child so obsessed with Gaara?"

Kakashi was taken aback, because he hadn't expected Chiyo to ask such a question.

After thinking for a moment, Kakashi said, "Because Gaara and Naruto are the same kind of people, right? Gaara is a Jinchuriki of Sunagakure. He suffered indifference and coldness from those around him since childhood. He had no friends and no feelings."

"What you don't know is that Naruto also experienced these things when he was young, because he was the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki of our Konoha."

Chiyo was completely dumbfounded upon hearing this.

I wasn't surprised that Naruto was a Jinchuriki, but rather that Kakashi just said it like that.

The existence of jinchūriki is a secret for every village.

As the Fourth Shinobi World War approached, many Kage from various ninja villages were unaware that Naruto was Konoha's Jinchuriki.

For example, Raikage.

Therefore, Chiyo found it very strange that Kakashi directly said that Naruto was the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki.

She felt that Kakashi wasn't the kind of person who was completely unguarded with others.

When she couldn't figure it out, she looked at Yu Ming, who was standing calmly beside her.

At that moment, she understood.

She recalled how the Sand Village's higher-ups had been wary of Yu Ming.

"It seems these people are very confident in this guy's strength. I wonder what his true strength is."

"However, we cannot detect the specifics of his chakra level. Judging from this, this kid's strength cannot be lower than that of a Kage."

"He's only sixteen years old and already possesses this level of strength. He looks like another Yellow Flash-level ninja."

At the age of sixteen, Minato Namikaze did not yet possess the strength of Yu Ming.

Chiyo was actually quite curious about just how strong Yu Ming really was.

Kakashi continued, "Because Naruto is a Jinchuriki, he suffered the same fate as Gaara from a young age, so he shares the same feelings as Gaara and considers him his friend."

Chiyo found it rather strange that "she would consider a Kage from another village as her good friend?"

Chiyo didn't understand this behavior at all; in the past, there was almost no communication between ninja villages.

Not to mention, like Naruto, they consider the Kage of other villages as their friends.

This is very unlikely to happen.

Sakura kept looking at Yu Ming on the way, not quite understanding why Naruto would misunderstand her and Yu Ming.

Moreover, Yu Ming is definitely not that kind of person. Even if she were willing, Yu Ming would not be willing at all.

The group spent more than a day on the road, but still couldn't reach the place where Gaara's chakra was extracted.

Yu Ming could have used his lightning teleportation ability to arrive in just over an hour, but he didn't.

He can do it, but others can't.