In Konoha, Naruto lies down

"What is that?"

"That's it..." Ino gritted her teeth, hooked her snow-white hands around Naruto's head and pulled him down, then put her hands close to his ears, covering them tightly to prevent any sound from leaking out.

"**."

"Oh~!" Naruto pulled her hand away and looked at Ino in shock, "I really should have recorded this."

"You!" Ino punched him, "I was just kidding."

At the open-air barbecue stall, Ino took off her shoes, revealing her snow-white feet, which dangled under the table. She took a bite of the juicy barbecue, then sipped her drink, her face suddenly revealing a happy expression as she squinted her eyes.

"Ha! That feels great!" she exclaimed. "Thank goodness I can get off work on time today. I've been so exhausted these past few days."

Looking at Ino, whose mood seemed to have recovered, Naruto sat there leisurely grilling. The early summer night was lively, and the sound of clinking wine glasses filled the air.

Hearing this made him feel a little itchy. Drinking in the summer was indeed a good choice. But thinking that it wouldn't make a difference in a year or two, he suppressed the thought.

"Ah~" Ino handed a piece of barbecued meat with fat and lean meat in front of him and looked at him with a smile.

Chapter 276 Summer barbecue, bright and dark, long and long, my boy only hopes that he will be happy in his life

He didn't hesitate and opened his mouth to swallow the barbecue in one gulp.

The streets were lit by flickering lights and bustling with people. Ino held one hand to her mouth, her peach-shaped eyes like crescent moons.

The smile was clean and warm, with a touch of everyday life, and she looked at him with a look of triumph.

"Is it tasty?"

"Yeah." He lowered his eyelids and a smile appeared on his face.

He is not the kind of person who cannot lower himself to please others. Even if he has done nothing wrong, he does not mind admitting his mistake. It is just a matter of moving his mouth.

For him, admitting mistakes and flirting didn't conflict. Ino was easily persuaded, and a little coaxing would cheer her up. The joys of youth were like clouds, gathering and dispersing at will.

More importantly, Ino would respond, every word would have a response. Just like throwing a stone into a deep pool, no matter how long it takes, there will be an echo, and you can't fool around.

This serious attitude makes people feel comfortable, and the occasional temper is harmless.

"Why were you transferred to the Hokage Building?" He leaned back in his chair, the firelight not far away flickered in his eyes, his forehead was pale, and his Adam's apple moved up and down.

"Because I'm being disliked." Ino saw a piece of barbecue stuffed into his mouth, with oil on the corners of his mouth, and he chewed it in big mouthfuls as if in a fit of anger.

"Who can dislike you? You're so popular that people are chasing you to the door of your store, huh?" He glanced at Ino sideways and said in a lazy voice.

"You still remember that?" Ino felt a little guilty, but then she realized she hadn't done anything wrong and immediately straightened her head and chest. "I didn't want to do it either. I've already clearly refused."

"Yeah." He responded.

Ino watched him reach for the drink, his long, fair fingers lightly hooking the drink cup in his hand. This action made her heart tremble inexplicably, as if the fingers were hooking her heart.

She looked away, but her thoughts were creeping like creepers. His hands seemed very beautiful, and it would surely be very pleasant to be touched by fingertips like that.

The fingertips traced the back closely, from the shoulder blades to the collarbone, and then down...

"What are you thinking?"

"Ah!" Ino almost fell off the chair. After realizing what she had just thought, she was too embarrassed to look at him, let alone his hands.

"No!! Nothing!! I just...was distracted, haha..."

"The work is tiring, so it's normal to get distracted occasionally," he said.

"Yes... yes." Ino smiled a little guiltily, "It must be because of the exhaustion from work. It's all my father's fault. He insisted on transferring me from the Intelligence Department."

"Aren't you working seriously?"

"No way!" she retorted, raising her chopsticks. She took a swig of her drink and slammed it down on the table. "He actually said I was too popular and that standing there was affecting my work!!"

"He transferred his own daughter away just like that! What an old-fashioned guy!"

Hearing this, Naruto's mouth twitched slightly.

I thought to myself that it was obvious that your father was helping you brush up your qualifications while Sakura was on vacation. Besides, isn't the Hokage's office a place where ordinary people can work if they want?

"So how long are you going to be staying in the Hokage's office this whole time?"

"I don't know. At least wait until Sakura comes back from vacation. But Sakura hasn't been seen lately either," Ino muttered, looking towards Naruto.

"Have you seen Sakura lately?"

"We just had lunch together at noon today." He had nothing to hide and said it directly.

"Why doesn't she eat with me?" Ino pouted and frowned, "I'm taking her shift, shouldn't she eat with me?"

"Oh, she owes me a meal."

"She pays?" Ino was stunned for a moment. "She's been so stingy lately, saying she wants to save money for something big. I always pay for meals she invites me to."

"I bought it. She had no money," Naruto said calmly.

"What kind of dinner invitation is this?"

"I didn't expect her to treat me in the first place. You two are a perfect match, one is the flower of the intelligence department, and the other is the flower of the medical team." He said casually.

"Really? Which one do you like better?" Ino asked, holding her face in her hands.

"Ok?"

"Oh, by the way, including Hinata, who do you like more?"

"you."

"So perfunctory." Ino snorted, blowing carefully on the drink in her hand. "But hearing you say that, I'm still quite happy. Do you think I'm very..."

She raised her head, but was stunned.

Naruto was looking at her and smiling, his eyes reflecting the eager light of the fireworks. The moment their eyes met, Ino felt as if she no longer cared about anything.

Promises may change, hearts may change, but the sincerity of youth will never change. At this moment, she knew that no matter what the answer was, it didn't matter.

She had seen Naruto's lazy look lurking in an old-style apartment a few years ago, and had seen his gloomy triangular eyes on the street. He looked like a scarred and hidden ferocious beast.

It wasn't until Lady Tsunade came that things started to change. The things she couldn't solve were solved one by one over time, and he finally became a normal person as he wished.

Looking at the peaceful and warm smile in his eyes, Ino really hoped that all discrimination and injustice in the world would disappear, and that all hatred would stay away from him.

I hope he can always walk on the bustling avenue, away from all diseases and misfortunes, and overcome all sorrows and separations, and she will say that she likes him in the crowd.

If the person she met was an ordinary boy, she would want to possess him. But if it was Naruto, she just wanted the world to treat him as well as she did.

And she also understood that no matter whether she would go to him or not, as long as he stood there, someone would love him. No one asked him to be brilliant, only to live a peaceful life.

"I'm so full." She leaned back in her chair, looked at the starry sky above her head, touched her slightly bulging belly and said, "You will come to pick me up from get off work tomorrow, right?"

"If you want, you can accept it every day." He said lightly, "After all, you have so many suitors, it's good to keep some in reserve."

"Oh! Then you have to come every day!" Ino's mood suddenly became very good because of this sentence. She smiled and drank her drink while kicking him lightly with her feet.

The hot evening breeze kept blowing, the leaves of the green trees rustled, the taste of the sun was covered by the smoky smell of barbecue, and the air soaked into the lungs and only a little bit of lingering sweetness could be smelled.

The atmosphere was lively and the noise of the crowd on the street could be heard from a distance. Neither of them spoke, and her snow-white feet gently rubbed against his trouser legs.

Until both of them had smiles on their faces, they stared at each other for a long time, the feelings in their eyes gradually piling up. It was like playing house and building a mountain of sand, cautiously but greedily wanting to pile more and higher.

In that eye contact that could strip clothes off, Ino was defeated and sighed, "How many girls' hearts have you deceived, you bastard? The look in his eyes is enough to make them tear!"

Chapter 277 Akamaru was injured, so Sakura came to the house in a cool outfit, probably as free labor

The next day.

Early in the morning, Naruto was about to go out to buy groceries. He was hunched over and changing his shoes at the entrance. He looked up and saw the Nine-Tailed Fox rustling around on the sofa, poking its head out and then quickly retreating.

He couldn't help but sneer, thinking to himself, I have the bait in my hand. If you don't show any interest on the first day, and you don't show any interest on the second day, you will end up taking the bait sooner or later.

"Is there anything wrong?" Naruto, who had put on his shoes, stood at the entrance and deliberately asked the Nine-Tailed Fox in the living room.

"Oh, nothing, where are you going?" Nine-Tailed Fox's dog head appeared from the sofa again, with a somewhat awkward tone.

Normally, it never cared where Naruto was going, but today, it seemed to have other intentions. Its pretentious questioning nearly made Naruto burst out laughing.

"Go buy some supplies for the ceremony and start the ceremony in two days," Naruto said seriously.

He knew it knew he was fishing, but he didn't mind letting it know. This was a naked conspiracy. The old comrade was a man of deep thoughts, and Nine-Tailed Fox couldn't grasp it.

"Sacrifice? How to sacrifice?" Jiuwei stood up and lay on the sofa with a conflicted expression.

"Pour it on the ground and soak the soil with wine."

"Wha!!! What!!! Fall to the ground!" Kyuubi stood directly on the sofa, a look of shock and heartache on his face, "Isn't this a waste?!!"

Seeing the Kyuubi's distressed expression, Naruto even suspected that it would lie on the ground and open its mouth to drink wine on the day of the festival. In fact, there was no festival at all, it was just an excuse to go fishing.

"Silly dog, what's the point of wasting time on sacrifices?" Naruto glanced at it coldly, holding the door handle and said, "I have something else to do, so I'll leave first."

With a bang, the door closed.

After walking around for a bit, he also bought some food. Since it was still early, Naruto bought some drinks and a batch of good wine.

Passing inferior goods off as good ones to lure the Nine-Tailed Fox was just a delaying tactic. After all, he couldn't be so shameless as to ask Hinata to get ten bottles of Hyuga's wine. But one bottle was obviously not enough, so he had to resort to this last resort.

But he still needed to compensate the Nine-Tailed Fox afterwards, so he was just waiting for it to bite the bait and take it with him to fight the Akatsuki organization. After all, with the skin of the evil god's lackey, the Nine-Tailed Fox would only receive a beating even if it was defeated.

Thinking of this, Naruto couldn't help but sigh. There were only a few gods in the ninja world, and the so-called pinnacle of ninja gods was only the Otsutsuki Heretic.

There are gods at the end of the Otsutsuki, but it’s just another civilization after all.

And I, a stranger, use the power of the evil god and the god of death, and master ninjutsu. Does this count as being among the NTR gods?

But after calming down and thinking carefully, he realized that he had only taken some superficial things. He could not absorb natural energy, so he could not cultivate into Sage Mode.

To put it bluntly, the funeral of the evil god's lackeys and Black Hoe Raiga are also props modified by the system. The sacrifice-free version of the Impure World Reincarnation can be regarded as a cracked version of the evil death magic opened by the system.

But he didn't care. He had no intention of becoming a god anyway. A god that could be cracked by the system was nothing.

"Heitui."

After spitting, he left with a look of disdain on his face.

"Naruto!"

To his surprise, he was stopped before he had taken a few steps. Turning around, he saw it was Inuzuka Kiba, whom he hadn't seen for a long time, calling him breathlessly.

He and Ya have always had a good relationship. Although they like to tease each other whenever they meet, they meet less and less as they get older.

Even if they want to argue, they will only say a few appropriate words. It is not like a few years ago when they could argue with each other for a whole day over a single sentence. After all, those leisurely and affluent times are long gone.

"Why are you dressed like this?" He was a little surprised.

From a distance, I couldn't tell at first, but when I got closer, I saw that Inuzuka Kiba's face and body were wrapped in bandages. His nose and eyes were swollen, which looked a bit scary, but fortunately, his face was not disfigured.

"Were you caught peeping into the bath?"

"Go to hell, how could I do that!" Inuzuka Kiba was very happy when he saw Naruto by chance, but it turned out that guy was a dog that could not spit out ivory.

Just one sentence made him lose interest and he wanted to turn around and leave.

"Then how did you get all these injuries? Could it be that humans can no longer satisfy your XP?" Naruto looked stunned. "No, where is Akamaru?"

"You are such a mean guy!" Inuzuka Kiba wanted to beat him up, but when he thought about the possibility that he would lose in his current condition, he gave up.

"Akamaru is more seriously injured than me. My sister said that Akamaru is still in danger." He said with a lonely look on his face, "Do you have any way to ask Lady Tsunade?"

Realizing the seriousness of the situation, Naruto's smile faded and he asked seriously.

"what happened?"

"It's nothing...it has nothing to do with you. It's not good for you to ask so many questions." Inuzuka Kiba said hesitantly, "Anyway, can you help me ask Lady Tsunade?"

"I'm really worried about Akamaru now, Naruto, brother, I haven't asked you for anything..."

"Ahem!" Naruto interrupted him and subconsciously took a step back. "You can ask Lady Tsunade, but you have to tell me what happened first."

Hearing this, Inuzuka Kiba hesitated for a moment, perhaps thinking that Akamaru's life or death was uncertain, and he gritted his teeth and spoke.

"They were Root ninjas. I had a conflict with them while on a mission. If I weren't a member of the Inuzuka clan, I'm afraid I would have already..."

"Alright, your life is more important. I'll do you a favor." Naruto said as he stood on the street with vegetables in one hand, "But Lady Tsunade may not have the time, so don't get your hopes up."

"Sakura is not busy recently. If Lady Tsunade doesn't have time, I can help you make an appointment with Sakura."

"I see, Naruto, thank you anyway." Inuzuka Kiba said sincerely, "Although you are usually a loser, I didn't expect you to be so reliable at the critical moment."

"............", Naruto's face was full of black lines, "If you don't know how to praise others, just shut up as soon as possible. Also, call me clan leader from now on."