Naruto: Nawaki was already dead, how could you bring him back to life?

Lost in thought, Chiba returned to the lounge. When he came to his senses, Nono's smiling face was already right in front of him.

Damn it? !

Chiba was so startled that she jumped up from the sofa, her voice trembling, "Isn't today a day off? Why are you here too?"

"Because I guessed you would be hiding from me in the shadows, I took the initiative to come find you."

Nonou blinked and smiled mischievously: "Don't forget, I'm a shrine maiden from the intelligence department."

As she spoke, Nono walked towards Chiba. Chiba took a step back, and she took two steps forward. He fled, she chased, and he had no way to escape!

"You, what are you going to do?"

As Nono approached her step by step, Chiba's mind conjured up 64GB of scenarios: the female ninja in the lounge, the female spy's special interrogation, the witch's seduction...

"Pfft, hahaha, did I scare you just now, Chiba?"

Seeing Chiba's terrified expression, Nono burst out laughing, tears streaming down her face.

Because of Danzo Shimura, she had felt the vibrancy of life for a long time, and hadn't laughed so freely in a long time.

"Hehe, a little."

For some reason, seeing Nono laughing so hard, Chiba felt much calmer and started laughing too.

"You probably haven't had breakfast yet, have you?"

Nono wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes, waved to Chiba, and took out two bento boxes from her bag.

"When I was preparing breakfast for the kids, I also packed a bento for you. Come and try my cooking, let's eat and chat?"

"Okay, thank you, Dean."

Chiba took a deep breath, sat down next to Nono as naturally as possible, took the bento and the chopsticks Nono handed her, and began to eat voraciously.

"I'm so sorry, it was really rude of me to put you through such an embarrassing situation yesterday."

Nonou ate her bento in small bites, gently nudged Chiba with her elbow, and whispered something.

"It's okay. Although it sounds a bit strange, I'm actually quite happy."

Chiba scratched his head and said, "By the way, after I left, Lady Tsunade... didn't do anything, did she?"

"Pfft, is this how you see Lady Tsunade?"

Nono's lips curled up again; she felt that she now had a better chance of winning!

"Lady Tsunade is actually a very good person. Yesterday, she offered to adopt many children, which greatly reduced the burden on the orphanage."

Although she was an "enemy," Nono still gave her objective evaluation, saying that she wanted to win Chiba's heart openly and fairly.

"Yes, that's right. Lady Tsunade is indeed a very good person." Chiba nodded in agreement.

Upon hearing this, Nonou looked at Chiba and asked with a smile, "So, do you like her more, or me more?"

"me……!"

Chiba was so anxious he wanted to slap himself. "Damn it, we're just eating! Why did you have to slap me like that?!"

"Okay, I was just kidding."

Seeing that Chiba couldn't give her the answer she wanted, Nonou felt a little disappointed, but she quickly smiled and said...

"Let's continue being friends for now. We can get to know each other better before talking about other things. So you don't need to avoid me anymore."

Nonou's understanding nature relieved Chiba of his burden, and he breathed a sigh of relief, revealing a relaxed smile.

"Okay, let's get to know each other again. My name is Chiba, and my hobbies are... well, never mind. My dream is to live to the very end."

As she spoke, Chiba extended a hand to Nono. Nono was taken aback at first, but then grasped Chiba's hand with a radiant smile.

"I am Nonoyu. My hobby is watching children grow up, and my dream is to have you by my side as I watch them grow up."

……

"What?! Hiruko has defected?! He's been listed as an S-rank rogue ninja by the village?!"

Two weeks later, when Chiba learned of this news, he was stunned.

No, Hiruzen Sarutobi, are you (TM) a piece of trash?

I warned you, Hiruko's strength is extraordinary. It would take at least ten elite Jonin working together, or ninjas of similar strength, to defeat him. And you still managed to let him get away?!

"You inherently dull-witted old devil Sarutobi, I will personally...!"

"Lord Thunder, the Hokage requests that you immediately gather your squad and go to see him!"

Just as Chiba was cursing in the lounge, an ANBU ninja rushed in, startling Chiba, who thought he was about to be arrested on the spot.

But then Chiba thought again, "Damn it, I'm cursing in Chinese, how can those little Sakuras understand such a profound national art?!"

Hokage's office.

Chiba led his squad in, knocking on the door. He had assumed that Hiruzen Sarutobi had summoned them to hunt down Hiruko, but it turned out that wasn't the case.

"...The ANBU squad dispatched to the Land of Grass was actually ambushed and killed within the Land of Fire. This is tantamount to treating Konoha as nothing!"

In front of Chiba and the other three, Hiruzen Sarutobi flew into a rage.

It's no wonder Hiruzen Sarutobi was so angry. As the largest violent group in the Land of Fire, his special forces were wiped out right on his own doorstep.

If word gets out, how will Konoha maintain its standing in the ninja world? Who will dare to ask Konoha to do anything for them in the future?!

"Your mission is to find these audacious bastards, eliminate them, and bring back the men of Konoha!"

Hiruzen Sarutobi slammed his fist on the desk and gave an angry command.

Clearly, in Hiruzen Sarutobi's mind, quickly dealing with these audacious thugs and proving Konoha's strength was more important than capturing Hiruko.

"Yes, Hokage-sama."

The four responded, received the information related to the mission, and then left the Hokage's office, heading straight for the outskirts of Konoha Village.

……

In a dense forest.

Following the scroll's guidance, Chiba and his three companions continued along the route taken by the previous ANBU squad.

"Chiba, what exactly did the Hokage mean by what he just said? I didn't understand." Nawaki asked curiously on the way.

Chiba glanced at Nawaki and said irritably, "Everyone else can understand something after hearing it once, but you have to hear it twice."

Upon hearing Chiba's words, Nawaki immediately flew into a rage: "Chiba, what did you say? Say it again?!"

"Alright, we're on an A-level mission now, so you two stop arguing."

Using her position as the director of the orphanage, Nono successfully stopped the childish behavior of two lonely children.

"Humph!"

After giving a cold snort, Nawaki looked at the scroll in his hand and decided that he would never talk to Chiba again unless the other party apologized to him!

"It seems the enemy is quite strong."

After a while, seeing that Chiba still ignored him, Nawaki took the initiative to speak in order to ease the tension between them.

"The captain of this secret service squad, 'Rainstorm,' has a bounty of thirty million taels on the black market, almost as much as you, Chiba."

"WTF?"

Chiba's head was buzzing: "My bounty is only thirty million taels, what do you mean it's almost as much as mine?"

"You don't know, Chiba?"

Nawaki looked at Chiba with some surprise and said, "Your bounty has now risen to thirty-five million taels."

"Who the hell did this?!"

Chiba's breath hitched, his face filled with grief and indignation. How could it have risen again? Still rising? Please, don't let it rise any further! This is going to kill him!

"It must have been those damned Cloud Village barbarians who did it. Damn it, when he gets back he'll definitely take down two female Cloud Village ninjas, otherwise I won't be able to get rid of this grudge!"

"It seems the enemy is very confident in their strength. They haven't bothered to conceal their actions or their departure, as if they're not afraid of being tracked down."

At this moment, Kosuke, who had been silently observing from the ground for a long time, suddenly spoke.

"No, the enemy might only be one person, and he gives me the feeling that someone is expecting to track him down," Kosuke changed his tune.

"What? Only one person? Then his combat power must be off the charts?!" Rope Tree exclaimed in shock.

"Does he want us to follow him? Is he setting up an ambush ahead, trying to wipe us out in one fell swoop?" Nono asked with some worry.

Chiba's expression was also quite solemn.

He suddenly had a bad feeling; he felt like an old general on a stage, his back covered in flags.

"This is just my personal guess, and it may not be true, but we should still be careful later."

After observing for a while, Kosuke pointed to a tree-lined side road ahead and said in a serious tone, "The enemy is heading this way. The tracks are still very fresh. We'll probably see them soon."

With Kosuke's reminder, Chiba and the others proceeded cautiously.

Before they could even see the enemy, a tall figure appeared before them as if by teleportation, his eerie green eyes scrutinizing the four of them as if examining merchandise.

Meanwhile, the "torrential rain" that Chiba and the others had just been discussing was being carried on the other party's shoulder, motionless, its fate unknown.

Chapter 82 Chiba VS Kakuzu, Shikigami Limited

"Where did this guy come from? Such terrifying chakra fluctuations!"

"Be careful! This person's strength is probably no less than that of the Hokage!"

The way the figure appeared was too terrifying. The four of them retreated rapidly, and only after they had created some distance between themselves and the other party did they take a closer look at him.

This was a man wearing a headband from the Takigakure rogue ninja, with a black mask covering his face, revealing only a pair of emerald green eyes.

Add to that his muscular physique and the corpse of the Dark Guard captain he was carrying on his shoulder, and you can tell he's a ruthless guy!

"Sigh, why am I not surprised at all..."

Compared to the solemnity and apprehension of the three, Chiba simply sighed heavily. He had a lot to say, but as a cultured man, he couldn't bring himself to swear.

An elderly man worked odd jobs across borders alone, and the money he earned was squandered by the young woman in his family...

Needless to say, the 69-year-old man in front of us is none other than Kakuzu, the immortal samurai who once assassinated the First Hokage!