In Konoha, Naruto lies down

"You're overthinking this. I don't have the time to teach you." Naruto stretched his hand through the barbed wire and hit each of the three people on the head. "Hurry up and leave. Don't delay me from doing my work."

"Ouch!" Konoha failed to dodge.

"It hurts!" Meng Huang covered his head.

"It hurts!" Udon took the hit obediently.

"Ah! How can this be!" Konohamaru wailed, but it was of no use. Naruto was already chasing people away.

"Go away, you little brats!" He said, turning around and walking away, leaving the three of them with only their backs. "If I turn around and find you still here, don't blame me for being rude!"

As soon as the voice fell, the three of them stuck out their tongues and quickly ran away with their heads in their hands.

The three of them ran to a safe place. Konohamaru looked around and saw that they were already far away from the No. 5 training ground, so he breathed a sigh of relief.

"Fortunately, Naruto-sama didn't catch up."

"But what are Naruto-sama and the others doing?" Udon asked confusedly.

"Who knows? I seemed to see Brother Choji, and he seemed to be injured." Konohamaru scratched his head and recalled.

"You're still training even though you're injured?" Udon was a little shocked. "Brothers, you should be excellent jonin by now. You're in this state now, and you still have to train hard even though you're injured?"

"Of course, otherwise how can we become excellent ninjas?" Meng Huang said with certainty, his eyes flickering slightly, "I don't know when we can become so powerful!"

"This..." Udon looked at the ground.

"If only I could also perform forbidden techniques, Naruto-sama is so heartless and stingy!" Konohamaru complained casually, "I should have pestered him earlier."

Hearing this, Meng Huang looked up and his eyes lit up.

"Ah—A-choo!" Naruto stood in the No. 5 training ground and touched his nose. "Chouji, did you just scold me?"

"Who would care about you!" Shikamaru muttered, feeling a little guilty.

"Forget it, let's take a break before continuing." Naruto walked to the shade, found a clean place to sit down, and Choji also limped over.

"Do you think this doubling technique can be used to multiply anything?" he suddenly asked.

Choji looked him up and down, "What do you want to do?"

"Nothing, hehe." Naruto smiled and looked into the distance.

"Don't do anything rash, it could easily get you into trouble." A little worried, Choji turned around and warned, "The multiplication technique isn't very stable unless you master it completely."

"I know, I know." Naruto agreed.

A cloud floated across the sky. Neither of them spoke a word, and they just sat quietly in the shade, lost in thought.

.....

"Are you really going to resign?" Kakashi held the resignation letter in his hand and looked up at Haruno Sakura again.

"Ah."

"why?"

"I can't do it anymore." Sakura said nonchalantly, "The work is too hard, and the higher-ups don't trust me. I've actually wanted to quit for a long time, but I finally found a reason this time."

"Have you thought it through?" Kakashi asked slowly as he looked through Sakura's work handover record.

"I've thought it through, very clearly!" she nodded.

"What are you going to do after you quit?" Kakashi asked casually, "Do you want to work in the Hokage Building? Or any other job? Do you have any ideas?"

"Stay home for a while. I don't want to go to work." Sakura replied, "We'll talk about the future later. I'll find you when I think it through."

"Okay." Kakashi leaned the documents upright on the table and put them in order. "I've approved it. I just need to go through the formalities with the higher-ups."

"Then you should go back first and have a good rest at home for a while."

"Okay, Teacher Kakashi." Sakura's eyes turned into crescents as she turned and went downstairs.

She left the Hokage Building and turned into a small alley not far away, where Naruto was squatting on the alley wall, waiting for her boredly.

"Agreed?"

"It's all done." Sakura walked to the bottom of the wall, put her hands behind her back, and smiled ambiguously. "What do you have to do today?"

"Let me see." Naruto took out a small notebook and glanced at it. "Practice in the morning..., have breakfast, go find Choji..."

"Um... I'm fine for now. What's wrong?"

"It's okay. Do you want to come to my house and sit for a while?" She tilted her head and asked, "Eat some fruit...like peaches or something?"

"Thank you, I don't like fruit." Naruto curled his lips and was not fooled.

"Well... I have a rocking car at home, want to come?" Sakura's smile did not fade, still unwilling to give up, licking her lips, "You can rock me, or I can rock it myself."

"I'm not a child, why would I play on a rocking car? That's so childish... I like to play on the flying trapeze, right?" Naruto looked down at her.

Sakura was stunned for a moment, then seemed to come back to her senses, her smile growing even wider. She waved towards Naruto on the wall and said.

"There are also aerialists. Are you coming?"

"It's a pity, let's just make it clear first, I'll go over and take a look." Naruto jumped down from the top of the wall, "Let's go, you don't have to be distracted at work anymore."

Facts have proven that flying trapeze is particularly challenging for the body's flexibility. Without a solid foundation in acrobatics, it's impossible to perfectly present a performance.

Late at night, when Shikamaru went out to buy some wine, he saw a rocking car at the entrance of a convenience store and couldn't help but stop and look at it for a while.

"Childhood, I really miss it."

Chapter 495: Who Earned All the Money? The Dust-Locked Shuangyu Incident

"The rocking car is too shaky." Naruto commented truthfully.

"Okay." Sakura pursed her lips, stood up obediently, and asked an unrelated question, "When can we start over there?"

"It's almost there. Just wait a few days." Naruto said perfunctorily and stopped his movements. "Wait for the response from Iwagakure, Sunagakure, and Kumogakure."

"I'm... a little... curious, how... did you... convince them?" Sakura asked.

"It's nothing, just a little trick. It's hard to explain it in a short time." Naruto replied, closed his eyes, and thought in his mind that giving up the Hidden Mist Village didn't seem to have any impact.

......

Somewhere in a dark cave.

Kabuto Yakushi did not accept the transplantation of the Rinnegan, as he did not trust others. So he found a test puppet that had been transplanted with mature Hashirama cells, and prepared to use it as a container for the Rinnegan.

"The extent to which Orochimaru has developed Hashirama's cells is truly admirable." Black Zetsu couldn't help but sigh as he stood by and watched Kabuto Yakushi making preparations for the operation.

"That's true. I added a little of my own understanding to it." Pharmacist Kabuto turned his head slightly and showed a gloomy smile.

"The power of the Rinnegan is too strong, and the power of White Zetsu is too weak. Judging from the current situation, using a puppet to transplant the Rinnegan is the best option. I hope you understand."

"Yeah." Black Zetsu nodded, thinking to himself, what can he do even if he doesn't understand.

Currently, Kabuto Yakushi has already inherited the immortal legacy of Ryuchi Cave, and his talent is even higher than Orochimaru's. What can Black Zetsu say? Is there going to be internal strife?

Uchiha Obito had already brought his own death upon himself, Uchiha Madara had not yet been resurrected, and Orochimaru was nowhere to be found. He had few allies left and could only compromise temporarily.

"So... when will we begin strengthening the 100,000-strong White Zetsu army?"

"Soon, after the transplant surgery is completed." Yakushi Kabuto turned his eyes slightly and looked at Black Zetsu, "But before that, we need to obtain a more powerful Hashirama cell test subject."

"Who?"

"Yamato, the Jonin of Konoha." Kabuto Yakushi said with a smile, "We have obtained enough materials for the Impure World Reincarnation these days. We only need the last dose of medicine."

"I understand. I'll go capture the target right away." Upon hearing this, Black Zetsu was about to turn around and leave.

"Wait, I have something to give you." Kabuto Yakushi called him and handed a potion to Black Zetsu beside him with the snake tail behind him.

"What is this?" Black Zetsu lowered his head and glanced at the potion in his hand. The whole potion was green.

"Hashirama cell inhibitor can inhibit the activity of Hashirama cells in Yamato's body." Kabuto Yakushi explained while performing a transplant operation on the puppet.

"Inject this potion into Yamato and you'll be able to capture him easily. You won't have to waste chakra or risk being exposed."

"It's scary that you've even researched this kind of thing." Black Zetsu stood there and stared at him.

"This is not the result of my research, but something that belongs to Lord Orochimaru. I simply inherited Lord Orochimaru's research and created it." Kabuto Yakushi had a smile on his face.

"Just so you know, I need a living Yamato, not a corpse."

"I understand." Black Zetsu disappeared into the ground.

Konoha.

Sakura had quietly left Konoha and sneaked through the Yellow Spring Gate to the Hidden Rain Village without anyone noticing. Konan received her and arranged food and lodging for her.

At the dinner table, she looked at the heavy rain outside the window, put down her chopsticks, and frowned slightly.

"If we build a laboratory here, the weather will also be a problem."

According to Naruto's idea, he planned to set up the genetic laboratory in the Hidden Rain Village. It borders the Land of Fire, the Land of Wind, and the Land of Earth, and has a superior geographical location.

Furthermore, the Hidden Rain Village had an advantage that no other place could match: its industrial base. Even if it was poor, it could still squeeze in enough to power a genetics laboratory.

"What should we do then?" Xiaonan asked while sitting at the other end of the dining table without eating much.

The sound of raindrops could be heard. Sakura pursed her lips in thought and did not answer her question immediately. After a long while, she raised her head and looked at Xiaonan and asked.

"We can find a way to get the equipment, but the Hidden Rain Village needs to provide a sterile and dust-free environment with a constant temperature. We can find someone else to handle these things. Now we need to ask Naruto for some people."

"Yeah." Xiaonan responded. She knew that the other party would make the arrangements, and she just needed to follow the arrangements.

Even though Sakura was much younger than her, Konan did not neglect her at all. Naruto had told her about the plan to build a genetic laboratory long ago, but he only sent Sakura.

Konan knew very well that the other party must be deeply trusted by Naruto both in terms of ability and other aspects.

The next day, Naruto passed through the Yellow Springs Gate and arrived at Yugakure.

"You need people?" Naruto was slightly stunned, then turned to look at Sakura, "That's no problem. How many do you want? What are your specific requirements? If you have any other difficulties, just let me know."

Hearing this, Sakura's eyes turned into crescents.

"Okay!"

"Find four or five trustworthy people, preferably medical ninjas with a solid foundation in medical ninjutsu. But don't hire anyone from Konoha's medical team, as confidentiality is a big issue."

"Equipment purchases cost money, and there are also daily expenses. We also need to find people to do the technical work. The construction standards inside and outside the laboratory must be in place, and there's more..."

Sakura rattled off a lot of words, recounting them all in one breath, and Naruto felt a little regretful in the end. He shouldn't have taken on so much responsibility, and should have just said that he would overcome the difficulties.

There is no regret medicine in the world.

"Um... okay, I'll ask if the Sand Village can send a few people." Naruto thought for a moment and said, "I'll figure out the equipment and money. Everything will be ready in the next two days."

"Huh? After all this time, you didn't prepare any money at all?" Sakura was dumbfounded. "So you asked me to quit my job, but you didn't prepare anything. So I... take a vacation?"

"That's not the case. Generally speaking...we're short of funds. We don't have enough money and equipment." Naruto laughed. "Anyway, everything will be resolved in two days."

"I'll get the people to you in the next two days, and you can train them first."

"Okay." Sakura curled her lips. She had been used to the high-pressure work environment over the years, and she felt a little uncomfortable when she suddenly had some free time.

Xiaonan followed beside him without saying a word.

"By the way, how is the village recovering?" Naruto saw Konan out of the corner of his eye and asked casually.

"The reconstruction has been almost prepared, and the thermal power generation unit has been built, but we are just short of money." Xiaonan said a little embarrassedly.

Money, no money.

Naruto wanted to slap himself. Why are you so talkative? If you don't ask, there won't be any problems. Where can you get the money now? The grass on Cardo's grave is already five feet high.

"It's okay, I'll find a way." Naruto forced a smile.

"Really?" Xiaonan obviously didn't expect Naruto to care about such things, and couldn't help but feel overjoyed, "That's really... really great."

"Haha, yeah." Naruto continued smiling, his eyelids twitching.

Konan and Sakura left together, leaving Naruto alone on the tower. He watched their backs disappear behind the door, and his face suddenly fell.

"Where's the money? Where can I get it? I'm so handsome but I don't have any money. Who makes all the money?" He walked around the office muttering to himself like an old farmer.

Who can make the money? The nobles, or the wealthy tycoons like Cardo.

But nobles are common, but wealthy people with low intelligence like Cardo are not common. Naruto couldn't think of a solution for a while, so he turned his attention to the nobles of the Fire Country.

When they clashed with the Fire Nation nobles, these stupid nobles watched coldly, and only came out to show their courtesy after they killed the upstart.

Even if they are nice, the subtext is still very jerkish. We won't mess with you, so don't mess with us either. Don't mess with us for no reason.