In Konoha, Naruto lies down

The long, smooth golden hair made him want to touch it, but he reached out and quickly stopped. He had more important things to do, so he should quickly wash up and make breakfast.

Chapter 173 Crazy

Although Ino said it was okay not to attend the New Year's Festival, Naruto couldn't take it seriously.

For some things, it's enough to just have the attitude, not to actually do them. If Ino were absent, things would become more troublesome, but there's no need for it.

Washing up and making breakfast were all done in one go, while the Nine-Tailed Fox was still curled up on the sofa cushion, not even going into its own room to sleep. The tailed beasts were all like this, not interested in worldly matters.

Naruto didn't know how the Nine-Tailed Fox turned into such a bear-like shape, Sake Tail?

Breakfast was ready, Naruto opened the door, walked to Ino's side, and poked her cheek with his finger. It was a little soft, but she was not awake.

So he increased his strength, and Ino finally responded, frowning but still not opening her eyes.

Naruto frowned as well, thinking that she still hadn't responded, so he continued to poke. This time, Ino finally opened her eyes, her eyes filled with murderous intent.

"Go to hell! Stop poking!"

"Awake?" Naruto put his hands behind his back and pretended nothing happened.

"You woke up after the first poke! How could you not wake up when you poke me so hard?" Ino said angrily, "Can't you just leave and let me get up slowly by myself?"

"But breakfast will be cold," he said, spreading his hands.

"Ah!! I'm so angry! Idiot! Pervert! Foot fetish!" Ino suddenly threw back the quilt and began to put on her cotton clothes.

Without even glancing at Naruto, she stomped into the bathroom in her cotton shoes and began to wash up. Naruto didn't pay any attention and lazily returned to the kitchen.

When Ino came out of the bathroom, he had just brought breakfast to the table.

"Eat and go out early, don't miss that thing..." Naruto said vaguely.

"Are you going to kick me out?" Ino narrowed her eyes.

"What do you mean by sending you away? You said the Ino-Shika-Cho family would be there for the New Year's Festival." Naruto rolled his eyes. "Anyway, you should still have time after you finish eating."

"I understand." Ino lowered her head and said with a little dissatisfaction.

"If you really don't want to go, that's fine. I wasn't particularly keen on going anyway." Naruto explained, "It would be so boring for me to just lie at home alone. It would be better if we could go together..."

"Dame! I'll leave right after I finish eating." Ino said with a look of disgust.

"Tsk, ruthless."

........

Several days have passed since the New Year.

Naruto, who had been lying at home for a few days, suddenly remembered an important thing. Damn, he had completely forgotten what Tsunade had told him.

He hurried to the Hokage building, opened the door and happened to see a familiar face standing by Tsunade's desk, he was stunned.

Sakura looked back and smiled naturally.

"Naruto, long time no see."

"Um...long time no see." Naruto scratched his face. After training with Jiraiya for a whole winter, he had indeed not had much contact with other people for a long time.

He narrowed his eyes and looked at Xiaoying's smile, secretly wondering if Xiaoying had returned.

Just as he was stunned, Sakura, who had her back to Tsunade, suddenly licked her lips. He took a deep breath and immediately had the answer in his mind.

Well, it's still her.

Tsunade didn't even look up the entire time. That jerk was the only one who never knocked before entering the Hokage's office. Tsunade knew he was coming without even having to guess, and she had no desire to look up.

"What? You still remember to come here?" Tsunade's voice echoed in the office, and it was obvious that she was angry.

It wasn't Tsunade's fault. She had agreed to have him go to the Hokage Building to meet her after the New Year's Festival. But suddenly, he hadn't been there for four or five days, especially after someone had sent a message and still nothing happened.

Anyone would want to kill this pigeon spirit.

Naruto felt a little guilty, but he couldn't blame him completely. Uzuki Yugao had come, but she hadn't come through the door, instead calling out through the window. He was still asleep at the time, so he answered drowsily.

But when I woke up, I had no memory of such things. This dragged on for several days, and then it came to now.

"Lady Tsunade, I'm sorry!" Naruto quickly admitted his mistake and apologized sincerely, "It's all my fault. I delayed Lady Tsunade's plan."

He knew that Tsunade had a plan and was slacking off at work every day, but to sound good, he had to flatter her against his will.

"Huh? Didn't you say you wanted to learn summoning techniques?" Tsunade frowned slightly, "I gave you a chance, but you didn't use it! Do you want to die? Uzumaki Naruto!"

"Ask yourself, how many times have you been asked to come on time?" Tsunade's face darkened. "You haven't learned anything else from Kakashi, but you've learned the true art of breaking appointments sooner or later."

"Alright, Uzumaki Naruto, you're really good!"

"Um...Lady Tsunade, I didn't mean it." Naruto's face trembled slightly, and he began to feel scared.

"You didn't mean it?" Tsunade waved her hand, motioning Naruto to go over.

He was slightly startled, but still walked over honestly, and then Tsunade grabbed his face and kneaded it, like kneading plasticine, and only after kneading it casually for a while did his anger subside.

"Okay, where were we just now?" Tsunade asked.

"Hiss~!" Naruto covered his swollen face and said incoherently, "Learn summoning techniques."

Speaking of this, Tsunade held her forehead and asked as if to confirm it one last time.

"Do you really want to contract a slug?"

"Yeah!" Naruto nodded rapidly.

"Since you will learn fairy arts from Jiraiya in the future, why don't you just sign a summoning contract with the toad in Myoboku Mountain?" Tsunade asked with some confusion.

"Well... maybe it's because I don't like toads." He made up an excuse.

"That's really nonsense. When it comes to training, there's no such thing as likes or dislikes. If all ninjas were like you and let their tempers run wild, they would have died out long ago." Tsunade scolded.

"Yes, yes, Lady Tsunade is right." Naruto stood there, letting the words go in one ear and out the other.

Seeing his stubborn look, Tsunade became angry and waved her hand to send him away.

"Then it's settled. Don't regret it later! If you don't have time today, come back tomorrow at 4 pm."

"Got it!" Naruto felt relieved, turned around and slipped out.

But before he had gone far, someone called him from behind. Naruto stopped abruptly and turned around to find Sakura jogging towards him with a task clipboard in her hand.

Finally she stopped in front of him, leaned forward slightly, and began to laugh.

"Naruto, do you know anything about the incident in the Wind Country?"

"I don't know." Naruto shook his head honestly. He had already reconciled with Sakura, so there was no need to avoid her intentionally. "What could possibly happen in the Land of Wind?"

"I heard that Gaara is in a bit of a bad situation right now. Some of the ruling elders want to kill him."

"Oh, this should have nothing to do with us, right?" Naruto asked.

"It will be related soon." Sakura suddenly reached out and pinched Naruto's face, kneading it like Tsunade kneaded his face, but her movements were very gentle.

"Team 7 is about to be reorganized. Who do you think the top management will send to the Kingdom of Wind?"

"Oh no, it's over!" he thought to himself.

Chapter 174 Street Fireworks

"Team 7 won't be reorganized so soon. There's still no sign of them." Naruto muttered, pushing away Sakura's cold hand.

"It won't be long. Lady Tsunade has transferred me out of the Konoha Hospital." Sakura tried to raise her hand to pinch his face again, but Naruto dodged it.

"So...office maid?" Naruto asked.

"That's about right. Lady Shizune is also in charge of the medical department, so she doesn't have that much time to stay in the Hokage's office." Sakura reluctantly withdrew her hand and said with a smile.

"Ino will also be transferred to the Hokage's office in a few days. I've never been involved in secretarial work before, so I can't handle it all by myself."

"Well, I guess the reorganization of Team 7 won't be that fast." He stood in the corridor and sighed. "Then I'll be leaving first. Sakura, just keep working."

"Do you have anything else to do today?" Sakura asked suddenly.

"Um.....Is it okay to just go home and lie down?"

"No, come and do me a small favor."

Data room.

"The small favor you mean by helping out is moving the data? Cough cough cough!!" Naruto pushed open the door of the data room, choked by the dust, and subconsciously dodged.

Glancing over, the densely packed file cabinets and small windows resembled a prison. Even the sunlight streaming in from outside seemed covered in dust and gray.

"How long has it been since this place was cleaned? There's so much dust."

"Yeah, it's rarely cleaned. I just got the key."

Sakura walked in first and began to search the information rack. "These are the personal details of some Chunin. Lady Tsunade has instructed that they be collected and sent over as soon as possible."

"Chunin?" Naruto stood aside and couldn't help. He stroked his chin and said, "I have seen many Anbu, but I haven't seen Chunin in a long time. What a mysterious group."

"Most of the Chunins are on missions outside the village, so they're hard to come by." Sakura said without turning her head as she searched, "The sentries guarding the Konoha Forest and the Fire Country Forest are all Chunins' jobs."

He leaned against the door of the data room, watching Xiaoying diligently searching for information. Suddenly, it felt a little unreal. Heiying seemed to be really working hard, even if it was meaningless.

Naruto couldn't help but wonder, if he was the second personality and accidentally took control of the body, what would he do?

It seems unrealistic to give up the identity of a ninja and go out to play and indulge yourself?

He couldn't think of an answer, so he asked directly.

"Sakura, don't you have somewhere you want to go?"

"No." Sakura reached out and took down a file, then placed it on the cart. She turned and glanced at Naruto, "There are many things I don't understand, and there's no place I want to go."

"I had originally planned to spend all her savings, but when I saw that there wasn't much left, I decided to give up." She didn't stop what she was doing.

"I don't have anything special I want anyway, I'll buy it when I think of it."

Hearing this, Naruto folded his hands and interjected, "Not now, but maybe in the future."

Sakura pursed her lips and didn't respond, just not knowing what to say.

Later? She probably won't have a later.

After taking control of the body, everything was unfamiliar. After she finally got used to it, when the main personality woke up, she would disappear again.

A person comes into contact with the real world for a few years, and then disappears quietly.

There was no follow-up.

.......

Naruto left the Hokage Building and stood in the deep winter sunlight, watching his shadow shrink at his feet.

I was silent for a while, not knowing what to say.

Sakura didn't show any abnormal behavior, which should have been a happy thing, but... forget it, let's take it one step at a time, he thought.

Back home, Naruto plopped down on the couch.

Kyuubi came over with a bottle of wine, still with his usual Tom Cat pace, and stopped beside Naruto. He poked Naruto's slightly red and swollen face with the bottom of the bottle and asked bluntly.

"Do you want to go get takoyaki today?"

"No." Naruto said unhappily, "If you want to go, go by yourself. I just got back."

As he said this, he changed his position on the sofa and turned away, ignoring Kyuubi.

Kyuubi held up the bottle and still refused to give up. He tapped Naruto's back again and said, "If you don't go, I'm going to start making trouble for you now, and you won't be able to sleep."

"Are you serious?" Naruto turned around holding the pillow and said with a sullen look on his face.

Jiuwei thought for a while and nodded his dog head.

In desperation, Naruto had to get up and take the Nine-Tails out, but the Nine-Tails didn't want to walk on all fours, so Naruto carried it out of the apartment like a handbag.

Kyuubi didn't have any objections, as long as he didn't have to walk.

Just after the New Year, the hidden chill returned. Naruto, wearing a thick coat, stood at the door of a takoyaki restaurant with the Nine-Tails, thinking about how much to order.

Suddenly, Naruto felt like he was bumped by someone.

He turned around suddenly and found a little girl, who suddenly raised her head. Naruto couldn't help but gasp, such a familiar white pupil!

Hinata Hanabi was wearing a brown training suit and looked a bit like a boy. She was stunned for a moment, and when she came to her senses, she didn't even see who she had bumped into, so she bowed and apologized first.