Naruto: This Uchiha is too innocent.

Uchiha Sora put his mask back on, took out a few dango balls from his pocket, and handed them to Tsunade.

"Give."

Tsunade took the pill with suspicion. Under the light of chakra, she recognized it as a kind of supply that ninjas would carry on missions—a soldier's ration pill.

"Your injuries are so severe that you can't even gather chakra, you must not have replenished your supplies for a long time," Uchiha Sora explained.

Tsunade ate the soldier ration pills. To be honest, soldier ration pills are just a kind of compressed food, tasteless and bland, like chewing wood. Uchiha Sora didn't like eating these things.

However, Tsunade seemed to be enjoying her meal, suggesting she hadn't eaten in a long time.

"Cough, cough!"

Eating too quickly, Tsunade suddenly coughed, "Water."

Uchiha Sora quickly handed him the water bottle from his waist, but the latter didn't even look at it, opened the bottle, and started drinking.

After a while, she returned the kettle to Uchiha Sora, and her pale face finally regained some color.

"By the way, why were you being chased by Takigakure?" Uchiha Sora asked, seeing that Tsunade's condition had improved.

Tsunade leaned against the wall with her eyes closed. The surrounding noise seemed to quiet down, and the thin air made their breathing a little louder. Uchiha Sora didn't speak, waiting quietly.

After a long while, Tsunade opened her eyes, chuckled, and said, "You little brat, how dare you talk to me like that? Watch your manners."

"Alright, alright, since you came to save me, I'll be magnanimous and let it go. Next time, remember to use a respectful title when you call me."

She then briefly recounted the danger she had encountered.

"Originally, I was on a secret mission to investigate Iwagakure (Hidden Stone Village), but I was discovered and then hunted down. I fled the border of the Land of Earth and came to the Land of Waterfall."

Unexpectedly, a major event also occurred in the Land of Waterfalls at this time. Their Heroic Water was stolen, and I happened to arrive there. The Land of Waterfalls believed that I was involved. Caught between a rock and a hard place, things have come to this.

Well, you really don't have to be so concise.

Uchiha Sora thought helplessly, "This is like saying nothing at all; there's no useful information at all."

"Then why don't you just accept the investigation from Takigakure and clear your name?" he asked, puzzled.

Tsunade sneered, "If it were that simple, I would have accepted the investigation. They can't find anything on me because I didn't do it."

"Then why have you fallen to this state?" Uchiha Sora frowned.

"Kid, maybe they really did lose that Hero's Water, but ever since I stepped into this village severely injured, their target has always been me, regardless of whether they have the Hero's Water or not." Tsunade stared intently at Uchiha Sora, a hint of gloom in her eyes.

Uchiha Sora was taken aback. Regardless of whether the Hero's Water incident was true or not, the moment the heavily injured Tsunade stepped into the territory of the Land of Waterfalls, the Waterfall ninja had their eyes on her.

What does this mean?

What is the point of Takigakure doing this?

Aren't they afraid of Konoha's retaliation?

Suddenly, a glint of light flashed, and his pupils contracted slightly.

The Land of Waterfall has a very special geographical location, situated between the Land of Earth and the Land of Fire. During the Third Shinobi World War, the Land of Earth was the main enemy of the Land of Fire. Therefore, the events were basically all on the border of the Land of Waterfall or even within its territory!

In other words, the Land of Waterfall is actually at the heart of the war and is suffering from the ravages of conflict.

"You mean, Takigakure wants to use your head as a pledge of allegiance?!" Uchiha Sora blurted out.

"Heh, not bad thinking." Tsunade scoffed. "If I weren't injured, they naturally wouldn't dare, but since I'm injured, they've started having these kinds of thoughts."

Uchiha Sora seemed to be deep in thought. In other words, the crux of the matter was that Tsunade was seriously injured. If she hadn't been injured, none of this would have happened.

How did you get hurt?

Uchiha Sora was a little confused. When you are on an investigation mission and you are discovered, the first thing to do is to escape. If Tsunade is focused on escaping, few people in Iwagakure can stop her. It is impossible that it was Old Master Onoki who personally took action, right?

Tsunade pursed her lips, and after a long pause, said, "We were ambushed."

"Who?"

"I don't know, but the person wearing the mask is very strong."

Several faces flashed through Uchiha Sora's mind, but he rejected them all. There were so many people in the Naruto world, how could he possibly pinpoint which one it was right away?

His only headache now is whether Tsunade's serious injury was caused by him as a butterfly effect, but unfortunately there are too few clues and he knows nothing.

He shook his head. He thought too much and could do too little. Even if he knew something at this stage, there was nothing he could do about it. He decided to put it out of his mind for now.

Moreover, his primary task now is to protect Tsunade; he can think about anything else once he returns to Konoha.

A silence fell between them, broken only by the occasional dripping of water from the stalactites. Having not eaten for most of the day, he now felt somewhat hungry.

There was no other way; given the current conditions, the only thing he could eat was tasteless soldier's ration pills. He lifted a corner of his mask, made a bitter face, and ate the soldier's ration pills.

Uchiha Sora is a person who likes sweets, otherwise he would not have made a bet with Kurenai and Rin. So he really couldn't eat these soldier rations. He secretly vowed to study the taste of the soldier rations when he got back.

"Kid, what's your name?" Tsunade suddenly asked.

Uchiha Sora glanced at him. "Seven."

Tsunade frowned slightly. "I asked for your real name, not your code name."

Uchiha Sora replied matter-of-factly, "During the mission, no information may be revealed. I am a man of principle."

"Heh, you took off your mask not long ago," Tsunade scoffed. "Is this your principle?"

"At that time, I felt like you were really going to beat me up," Uchiha Sora muttered to himself.

At that moment, Uchiha Sora suddenly thought of something, his eyes brightening slightly, "If you want to repay me with money, I can tell you."

After buying the detonating tags, he was now truly penniless.

"Get lost. I have no money, but you can take my life." Tsunade sneered.

Uchiha Sora pondered for a moment, "It's fine if you don't give me money, or you can gamble with me."

Tsunade asked suspiciously, "You gamble too?"

"Won't."

"Tch, then what the hell are you talking about?"

"Because you always lose when you gamble."

Silence filled Cambridge tonight. Uchiha Sora seemed to hear someone grinding their teeth, "Kid, has anyone ever told you that you deserve a beating?"

To this, Uchiha Sora could only say, "He's getting anxious, this guy's getting anxious."

Suddenly, a small slug crawled out from the abyss where Tsunade had just been, and whispered something in her ear.

Tsunade's expression changed slightly, and she asked seriously, "Kid, besides you, how many other members of the Anbu have come?"

"Uh, there are four more."

"Can you come in a short time?"

"No," Uchiha Sora said instinctively. "What's wrong?"

Tsunade stood up and gazed wistfully at the path she had come from.

"Someone's here."