gold and silver rule

With some movement, the dark clouds began to surge, and the rumbling thunder was deafening, as if warning Naruto not to mess around.But this is bound to be futile.Seeing that Naruto had completed the last seal, his thin lips parted slightly: "Ninja method——"

"Crack——!" The huge lightning twisted the slender body, and slammed down at a speed that humans could not react to!Originally, due to the dark clouds, I couldn't see my fingers, but only Naruto's enchantment gave off a golden light on the ground, which suddenly became as bright as day, so that everyone hurriedly covered their eyes with their hands, unable to open them.Something cracked, and then, Naruto grunted in pain and vomited blood!

"Naruto!" Sakura shouted anxiously, and when the light from the corner of the lightning dissipated, she quickly opened her eyes to look.The dark clouds dispersed a bit, the barrier was broken, and Naruto could be seen kneeling on the ground pale with blood in the corner of his mouth, with a mouthful of bright red blood in front of him, extremely bleak.

Naruto gritted his teeth and thumped the ground: "Damn it! I don't believe it, I don't believe it!! Why can't it be used!? Why??" Kakashi who came to him at some point frowned and helped him However, Naruto said in a low voice: "...This is my own business, and I will bear the consequences alone!" He gently pushed Kakashi away, and raised his hand again, as if responding to his words and actions , the originally dispersed dark clouds gathered again, and the thunder and lightning flashed more and more densely. Everyone was already puzzled by Naruto's actions. Who is not anxious and worried at this time?but……

The remorseful and decisive look of that blond boy, who was always radiant, made them feel really at a loss what to do.Only Kakashi raised his right hand, intending to knock Naruto unconscious regardless.

At this time, Chiyo, who had been watching silently, said, "This is not acceptable. Let me do it."

Both Naruto and Kakashi were taken aback, Naruto struggled to get up, and fiercely objected: "Gara's death is all because of me! This matter—"

"That being said, I was the one who sealed the crane into Gaara back then, and I am also responsible!" Chiyo had already stepped forward, staring at Naruto with burning eyes.

Naruto was startled, then gritted his teeth and said, "Even so—"

"I don't know why you are guilty, but you should understand that your actions..." She looked at the sky solemnly, "No matter what, it is impossible to succeed."

Naruto clenched his fists fiercely when he heard the words, obviously, what Chiyo said was right.He understands, but he just doesn't want to give up.

His alien soul cannot interfere with the undead of this world.

Chiyo looked at Naruto, and suddenly smiled: "But, you can help me." Naruto raised his head suddenly, his eyes widened, sparks of hope burst out from them, almost trembling, he asked: "Should I help you?" How to do it?"

Chiyo walked slowly to Gaara's side, and knelt down slowly.She faltered and was clearly injured.But she still straightened her back, put her hands on Gaara's chest, and the emerald green chakra came out from her hands.

Naruto seemed to understand something, he knelt down again with a "plop", and tremblingly placed his hand on top of Chiyo's.

A miracle happened.The dark clouds disappeared without a trace in an instant, and the sky returned to azure blue, as if everything just now was just an illusion.A golden band of light floated up from the talisman array under Gaara, and slowly revolved around the three people in the array.

Chiyo looked at Gaara, and suddenly said in a low voice: "I have done a lot of wrong things in my life, and now, maybe I can finally do one right thing." She looked up at Naruto's concentrated face, Spread a smile, "Kakashi is right, you have an incredible power, you should be able to use that power to change the future. Hidden Sand Village, and Konoha Village, will definitely be able to move towards a bright future under your leadership ...Naruto, I, an old woman, beg you..."

Naruto looked up, staring at her blankly.

"Do your best to help Gaara..."

With a kind and gentle smile, this old ninja who had created countless miracles in his life slowly fell backwards.

Naruto stood up, looked at Chiyo lying in Sakura's arms, and said in a low voice, "...I promise you."

In the distance, many ninjas from Sha Yin rushed towards here with anxious faces.

The boy with the word "love" on his forehead slowly opened his eyes.

The boy with blond hair and blue eyes stood beside him, with the blue sky as the background, he reached out his hand.

Welcome back Gaara.

☆, end

Sometimes things don't end smoothly.

Supported by Kai, Kakashi couldn't help sighing as he looked at the back of Naruto and Gaara saying goodbye at the entrance of Shayin Village not far away.

For example, he just breathed a sigh of relief last second, and this time he didn't have to go to the hospital to lie down for a week or two because of excessive use of Sharingan, and the next second he saw Didara standing around my love Luo only cared about the happy people behind him, his whole body was bulging strangely.

While complaining about where the vigilance of such a large group of people went, Kakashi had a premonition that there would be an unprecedented explosion, and he straightened his forehead with lightning speed, and he showed the latest advanced Writing Sharingan, the people on the periphery already felt that something was wrong, but it was too late.

"Drink!" At the same time as the sound came, a huge fireball exploded, and strong winds and heat waves hit together. While being blinded by the strong light brought by the bomb explosion, everyone felt a sense of despair premonition.However, the expected big explosion did not affect them, and the rapidly rising scorching heat gradually subsided. When people opened their eyes cautiously, they were surprised to find that the transparent barrier surrounded by several golden chains was completely intact. It was completely covered, and outside the barrier, the fireball had disappeared, only a large crater formed by the burnt vegetation on the ground.

Seeing that the explosion stopped, the chain moved flexibly. Starting from the outermost periphery, it turned into pieces of gold and slowly disappeared. Looking at the slowest disappearing track, the blond boy half-kneeled on the ground, pressing his hands on the On the ground, when everyone looked over, the chain just disappeared along his arm.Unaware of everyone's gaze, he raised his hand to wipe the non-existent sweat on his forehead.

It's so dangerous... Everyone couldn't help but feel the joy of surviving after the catastrophe, and once again, thank you to this young man.

Regardless of other people's reactions, Naruto turned around and grabbed Kakashi's arm to prevent him from falling due to exhaustion, who was also half squatting.Facing the strange-colored eyes he was looking at, he moved his eyes away from the Sanguyu's writing sharing eyes that had returned to normal, covering the emotions in his eyes, and smiled: "As expected of Mr. Kakashi... Thank you for your hard work. .”

Itachi's words sounded in his mind.

[There are people around you who can answer, why bother to ask me? 】

The hand holding Kakashi's right arm tightened involuntarily, Kakashi's eyes flashed, and he pulled down his forehead: "No...don't you also react at the same time? Well, I thought I could finally change myself this time. The image in the eyes of the students, now it seems..."

He smiled wryly, and the side effects of the kaleidoscope Sharingan began to appear, and he sat back weakly. The next second, a blond boy appeared behind him, hugging him firmly.

For a moment, Kakashi seemed to be trapped in Naruto's arms, with the top of his head just touching Naruto's chin.He froze for a moment, not knowing how to react, so he could only stiffen his body and stare ahead.Naruto seemed to be aware of it, and stepped back a little, instead holding Kakashi's shoulder from the side, letting him lean against him.Kakashi sighed inwardly, instead of thinking deeply about the thoughts in his heart, he sat cross-legged, leaned slightly to his side, and relaxed his body.

Having said that, this kid was injured and vomited blood because the barrier was forcibly destroyed, and now he is like a normal person... Thinking of his boring life in the hospital, Kakashi was quite depressed.

Gaara stood with Temari's support, his eyes widened, and he glanced at the sand ninjas around him who cared about him. When he met the look in his eyes, Naruto was taken aback, forced a smile, and then shifted away out of sight.

"...Huh?" Not far away, Sakura hugged Chiyo and knelt on the ground, her originally sad face was suddenly stained with surprise.Hearing her chanting "Grandma Chiyo is still alive!" Everyone who looked over expressed their utmost respect and gratitude to this great ninja who was in a coma.

Kakashi turned his head to look at Naruto's side face on the left, and the other party looked away from Kozakura, the blue eyes met his gaze, and a gentle smile emerged.

Thinking of that look, Kakashi was in a trance again.I know it shouldn't be, but I still can't help it when I see such gentle treatment.

Happy.He couldn't help but have a thought in his heart: Does Naruto treat everyone like this?

Closing his eyes, Kakashi stopped thinking about it and looked at Naruto who was talking to Gaara.He turned his back to him, but because he was not far away, he could still vaguely hear what he said.

Gaara looked at Naruto, and said in his usual calm tone: "Grandma Chiyo hasn't woken up, so she can't come to see you off. Do you really need to take a break before rushing back?"

Naruto's voice was a little unnatural, a little different from usual: "...Thank you, but I'm afraid there are still tasks to go back, and it's better to ask the old lady Tsunade to take a look at the situation of the teacher."

I love nodded clearly and looked at Naruto calmly.After a long silence, he finally said, "Goodbye."

Naruto nodded at him, hesitated, and turned to leave.Gaara looked at his figure against the light, looked at his blond hair shining in the sun, froze for a moment, lowered his eyes, and something flashed in his eyes.Suddenly, Naruto, who had already turned half of his body, turned back again, frowned, and asked him very seriously: "Gara, do you hate me?" His eyes were calm, as if he didn't realize how serious his problem was. strangeness.

But he knows, Gaara understands.

The red-haired boy slowly raised his eyes, looking seriously at Naruto's clear eyes.Naruto looked back at him seriously.

No matter what the answer is, he will accept it.This is what he owes him.

In the end, little smiles flashed in the sapphire eyes.Gaara stretched out his hand slowly, looking at him with a smile.

Naruto was startled, then pulled out a bitter smile, stretched out his hand, and shook Gaara's hand.There is no need for words, everything is in words: this boy, forgive him.

His hand gradually tightened, and then slowly let go.After all, he owed him too much. I don't know when he will be able to repay this favor.

Turning around neatly, Gaara called Gaara behind him: "Naruto!"

Naruto didn't turn around, just turned to look at him.

Gaara's eyes were deep, but Naruto felt something was wrong with his unsharp eyes.He turned slowly, wondering what Gaara was going to say to him.

After looking at him for a while, Gaara said in a low voice: "Don't always try to hide it."

Naruto froze in place as if struck by lightning, his eyes widened.Kakashi, who had been listening behind him, also froze immediately.

The first thing Naruto thought of was this time.If it wasn't for his concealment, how could Gaara... Then, he thought of the promise to Kakashi before the mission.

Tell him everything about him.At this moment, Naruto asked himself, if he went back like this, would he really tell him everything, including Obito Uchiha?

The answer is absolutely, no.

The red-haired boy sighed: "I don't want to provoke you, but... through this time, you understand a little bit, right?" He looked at Naruto who bowed his head and said nothing, and took two steps forward, "Sometimes, concealing It's not necessarily right. It will be very hard. No matter how strong you are, there will always be times when you can't take care of it."

Having said that, his dignified tone slowed down, and he sighed a little: "I also came here in the same way... As a friend, I would like to advise you - is it safe for important people to be ignorant of danger? Walking side by side is sometimes the best protection." He turned around, looked at Temari and Kankuro and smiled, "Think about it, what should you do."

Where no one could see, he quietly clenched his right hand tightly.

It was the hand that shook hands.

Naruto froze in place, speechless.He turned his head suddenly and looked at Kakashi, just meeting the gaze he had been looking at him.

Whether it was Chiyo-grandmother's attack or the explosion, his first reaction was to stand in front of Kakashi and try to protect him first.However, if one day, Kakashi encounters an attack in a place he can't see and don't know... He who knows nothing about the deepest enemy, his most important Kakashi teacher, died somewhere ...

Naruto clenched his fists tightly.

He began to wonder, is his approach really correct?

Perhaps, he had already noticed such a hidden danger, so he put Thunder God on and off the necklace he gave Kakashi.But he has been subconsciously avoiding this question, avoiding the fact that he might be wrong.Because, he's always been doing this, isn't he?

However, failing to protect Gaara this time - a friend who knows him so well is tantamount to giving Naruto a blow in the head.He is not a god and cannot predict everything.It was his selfishness that hurt Gaara, but thank God for giving him a chance to make up.But what if the target is changed to Mr. Kakashi?

For a moment, Naruto panicked.

To Kakashi-sensei, he doesn't allow any "ifs" and can't make the slightest mistake.It’s okay to say it’s unfair to Gaara, but he’s so selfish—he can use Gaara’s life to give it a go, because he knows that he still has the thing of “a life span he shouldn’t have”, and he can To revive him; so even if he feels guilty in his heart, he will not regret doing that in the first place.If he starts over, I'm afraid he will still...

However, he cannot allow his Kakashi-sensei to be threatened in any way.

So, it's time to decide: What exactly should he do?

Walking in the desert, Naruto kept thinking about such issues and remained silent.Ning Ci, Tian Tian, ​​Xiao Li and Xiao Ying looked at each other, but they didn't understand what happened to him.Perhaps Sakura had some eyebrows in her heart, but she was not sure.She rolled her eyes, turned around and glanced at Kakashi and Kai who were lagging behind, and suddenly thought about it.

She deliberately said: "Teacher, you are so slow!" After finishing speaking, she sneaked a look at Naruto, and she found that he woke up from his meditation, and turned to look at Kaka who deliberately ignored because she wanted to sort out her thoughts. West.

Hearing Sakura's words, Kai was obviously stimulated.Kakashi said helplessly: "I'm sorry Kai, because once I use that new Sharingan, my body will not be able to move for a while..."

Kai gasped angrily through his nostrils, he suddenly exerted force on his hands, and Kakashi was startled: "Ah, wait..."

... But it was too late, and he was carried by Kai in despair.

——The uncle carries the uncle on his back...it's disgusting.

——This is the common voice of Neji, Tenten, and Sakura.

Kakashi didn't want to imagine what kind of effect this would be. He just hid his face in grief, and already had the urge to find a crack in the ground and sneak in.

However, there is another one who reflects differently from them... Xiao Li who ignores it and thinks it is a practice.Several people were suddenly blessed to their hearts, and heard a loud "pop".Sakura looked over at the prestige, looked at Naruto who was shaking with his head down, and thought with shame... Naruto, won't he go crazy?

Kai was unaware of everyone's reaction, so he ran away excitedly, shouting: "Can you catch me? Hahahahaha..."

The last laugh was stuck in his throat.With a flash of golden light, the watermelon-headed uncle was kicked cleanly by the gnashing blond boy, and the person on his back was also cleverly rescued by the boy at the same time as he flew out, wrapping his arms around the boy's shoulders , was not affected in the slightest.

Kai, who was lying on the ground, raised his upper body tremblingly with difficulty, and stretched out his hand tremblingly to the young man: "...why..."

The boy had already carried the snatched person on his back, and walked steadily forward.He exudes low air pressure all over his body, and his eyes are looking forward, as if he didn't see Kai. When he passed by Kai who was lying on the road and was still wriggling, he stepped on it mercilessly.

The corner of Sakura's mouth twitched, watching Naruto, with infinite malice, crush Kai's back a few times, before continuing to move forward.Ah... Teacher Kai's soul flew out... She looked up at the white substance above Kai's head with rolled eyes, and thought in her heart: So that "pop" just now was the sound of Naruto's sanity being cut off...

For a moment, the image of the devil Naruto with a grin on the corner of his mouth, two small horns growing on his head, and a sea of ​​fire in the background appeared in her mind.She shook the goose bumps on her body, and with infinite compassion, she hugged her knees and squatted beside Kai's head: "Hey, Teacher Kai, Teacher Kakashi can't stand the bumps, Naruto is doing this because he cares about him, don't you Do you mind, okay? But seriously...you'd better not get too close to Kakashi-sensei from now on!"

Kay's already degenerate soul, instead of the circle-eyed Kay, nodded with wide-band tears.

——The point is not here, is it?Tian Tian and Ning Ci were sweating wildly.Don't get close to anything... how weird does it look?

Sakura turned her head and let them look at Naruto and Kakashi.

The two looked puzzled, and unexpectedly discovered... Naruto was carefully carrying Kakashi on his back, and the way Kakashi unconsciously hugged his neck was inexplicably...warm.

——There is still something wrong.Why do you feel that it's such a good match?Two people are a little dizzy.

Kakashi looked at the interaction between Naruto, Kai, and Sakura, quite dumbfounded.Naruto felt the vibration in his chest, and turned his head to look at him helplessly. Seeing Kakashi's smiling eyes bent into crescents, he raised his eyebrows, a gentle smile appeared in his blue eyes, and boundless pampering.

Kakashi froze, his face couldn't stop the fever, only then did he realize how close the two faces were when Naruto was carrying him on his back and his head rested on his left shoulder.At this moment, Naruto tilted his head, and he could already feel Naruto's warm breath through the mask.

Glancing at Kakashi's pink-stained ears, Naruto turned his head away so that Kakashi wouldn't feel uncomfortable seeing the deeper smile in his eyes.He said in a low voice: "It's still far away from Konoha, Mr. Kakashi can sleep for a while if he's tired."

The person on the back didn't speak, obviously struggling with how to answer.After a long while, Naruto felt the head in the dimple of his neck, and nodded lightly.

The soft and fine hair brushed against the cheeks, bringing an extremely gentle touch.Naruto rolled his eyes and walked steadily.After a while, even breathing was heard.He paused, turned his head cautiously, saw Kakashi's delicate sleeping face, looked at the fatigue between his brows, looked at his slightly trembling eyelashes, a certain part of his heart seemed to melt away, Full of warmth.

I want such Kakashi-sensei to belong to me alone.

I want such Kakashi-sensei to be happy forever.

But... am I really qualified to be so selfish?Thinking of what he will face when he goes back, Naruto's blue eyes are full of sadness.

The chakra of the companion is sensed not far away, but there is a certain distance.

He slowly approached Kakashi's side face, and pressed a light kiss on the cheek under his right eye that was not covered by the mask, full of devotion.

Some things, even if you know you will lose, you must do it.Because only in this way can we keep more important things.

☆, episode

Once back in the village, Naruto was told that Hokage had summoned him.Without any hesitation, he went straight to the hospital to get Kakashi settled down, and then came to Hokage's office in a calm manner.However, something is not quite right.

Being led by Jingyin to the top of the Hokage Building, Naruto raised his eyebrows at the battle in front of him.A total of 80 Chunin and Jonin stood neatly in a square line, and Tsunade stood in front of everyone, saying something awe-inspiring.Seeing Naruto coming, she waved at him: "You just came back. I read the mission report, and you did a good job. How much do you know about the members of [Xiao]?"

Naruto glanced around, saw the monk standing behind Tsunade, and asked without answering, "What happened?"

Tsunade gestured to the monk, and he immediately began to describe what had happened.

To sum it up in one sentence, two people from [Akatsuki] broke into the famous temple [Temple of Fire], and Ji Lu from the "Twelve Guardian Ninjas" in the Land of Fire died. Now two members of [Akatsuki] and The whereabouts of Lu Lu's body are unknown.

Naruto narrowed his eyes: "Describe the looks and weapons of those two people."

A group of ninjas including Tsunade watched them quietly.

"One is holding a huge scythe with a long handle and a rope, gray hair; the other has a tightly wrapped face, green eyes, very gloomy and terrifying..."

Naruto nodded to show understanding, Tsunade frowned and asked, "How? How much do you know?"

Naruto thought for a while, and said seriously: "It's the 'north' in [Xiao] - Kakuto and the 'three' - Hidan. They are the rebels of Long Yin Village and Tang Yin Village respectively. The specific abilities... ..."

Naruto introduced the information that very few people know at present, in an extremely detailed manner, including their ninjutsu characteristics, dangerous places, precautions, and even coping methods.All the ninjas listened in shock and earnestly, and carefully wrote down the information. At the same time, they had a new understanding of this Nine-Tails Jinchuriki who was once—maybe still is—everyone feared.

"By the way, Jiaodu is responsible for collecting money in the organization. He is also a money fanatic, and Lu Lu has a bounty of 3000 million taels in the underground world..." Hearing this, all the ninjas suddenly realized expression.

The reason why they invaded the Temple of Fire and took away the corpse is very clear, and the direction of the search can be determined.Seeing what Tsunade was going to say to everyone, Naruto said again: "Those two people are quite strong, and ordinary ninjas can't handle it at all. Otherwise, I would-"

Before the words fell, Tsunade interrupted him with a wave: "You just came back from the country of the wind, this time forget it. The information has already helped a lot." Even so, she still carefully considered Naruto's words with a frown, and then After making up his mind, he faced the crowd and ordered forcefully: "Revise the plan just now. Merge every two teams and set off immediately after establishing a new captain! Move quickly, and we must not let them escape from the Land of Fire." .Scatter!!"

She waved her hand imposingly, and everyone divided into teams in an instant, and rushed out of the village quickly.

Tsunade turned around and patted Naruto on the shoulder: "Okay, you boy, you can help me a lot!" Before Naruto could speak, her face darkened, "Go to my office and tell me about the situation of other people. Just right Jiraiya just came back, and he seems to know some terrible news."

Facing Tsunade who completely trusted him, Naruto's eyes warmed slightly, and then he gave a nasty smile: "Hey hey...the old woman is still as good at calling people..."

boom!

"Do you want to die, brat!" Tsunade lowered his iron fist as the veins on his forehead throbbed.

10 minute later.

Shizune put away the documents that recorded important information, Naruto said goodbye to Tsunade, jumped out of the window and came to the street, and caught up with Jiraiya who was about to leave: "Hey lecherous fairy, are you really going?"

Jilai also curled his lips dissatisfied with Naruto's address as always: "Smelly brat...Of course, since you mentioned the eyes of reincarnation, it is necessary to visit Yuyin Village." His face became serious. , "Maybe, this time I can touch [Xiao]'s base camp in one fell swoop..."

Thinking of the three former disciples, especially the red-haired boy among them, Zilai's expression was full of reminiscence.But after only a few seconds of contemplation, he returned to his usual carefree and bold look: "Hahahaha... don't think about me when I leave, Naruto!"

Naruto raised his eyebrows: "Since you have said that, of course I won't miss you, a perverted old man." One sentence successfully made Jiraiya's shoulders slump: "Your boy is still uncute as always... Forget it ,this is for you."

Naruto looked at the book that Jiraiya took out, the cover is different from the previous romantic novels, it is a simple brown.After receiving it, the vigorous and powerful calligraphy came into view: ""Strong Perseverance Endurance"? I haven't seen it before."

Zilai also proudly raised his nostrils to the sky: "Hmph, of course, this is my first book. Take a good look, it will help you."

Naruto looked at it for a long time, put the book away with a smile, and missed the flash of deep meaning in Jiraiya's eyes when he said this sentence. "Then, I'll give you something too." Under Jiraiya's doubtful gaze, he stretched out his fist, held it up to Jiraiya's eyes, and stretched out under his doubtful gaze.

The palm is clean, nothing.Knowing that he was being tricked, Jiraiya exhaled through his nostrils, rolled his eyes, Naruto patted him on the shoulder with a smile, put down his hand, but the smile disappeared all of a sudden.He was silent for a while, then looked at Zilaiye, his blue eyes darkened slightly: "...Don't die, lustful fairy."

Jiraiya smiled and gave him a thumbs up.

Many years later, this scene is still vivid and clear in Naruto's mind and cannot be forgotten.However, at this moment, he just looked at the back of Jiraiya leaving, and said again because of the anxiety in his heart: "Don't be timid after you come back, hurry up and confess to the old lady Tsunade!"

Zilai also almost jumped up: "...Noisy, noisy! Don't talk too much about adults' affairs, children!" After saying this sentence with tongue tied, Zilai didn't even dare to turn his head, and ran away in a hurry .Naruto smiled, watched him go away quietly, and squinted his eyes.

"Woo!" Suddenly there was an immature cry of pain from beside him, Naruto followed the sound and looked over, a little girl about three or four years old fell down and lay on the road.Her big watery eyes fluttered, her mouth shrunk, she was about to cry, and the next second she saw Naruto, strangely, she froze there with two tears in her eyes, staring straight at Naruto.

I looked around with some headaches, but I didn't see anyone who appeared to be a parent, but a passing villager stopped and looked at this side.Naruto looked back, the little girl was still lying on the ground looking at him.Reluctantly walking over, Naruto lifted the child up as carefully as possible, helped her pat the dust off her body, knelt down and looked at her, and asked softly, "... Where is your mother?"

The child has short, soft brown hair with a small braid on each side of the head, and brown eyes that seem to be able to speak.She looked at Naruto timidly, Naruto was startled, hesitantly raised the corners of his mouth, showing a kind smile.This trick was very effective, the girl became happy, turned around and pointed to a shop: "... over there!"

Naruto followed the child's little fingers to look over, and was stunned for a moment.He hadn't noticed before that behind him, in front of the store the girl was pointing at, there was a long queue of customers, most of whom were women.At this moment, they were looking at Naruto in unison.

Naruto touched his nose uncomfortably, looked at the name of the store, and was immediately happy.He stood up and held the girl's little hand carefully: "Let's go find mom, shall we?"

The girl looked up at him and nodded excitedly: "Yeah!"

Naruto narrowed his eyes with a smile, and was about to take a step when a beautiful young woman ran out of the shop in a panic with a backpack on her shoulders, yelling, "Xiaoling?! Xiaoling?! Where are you?"

The child shouted excitedly: "Mom!" She dragged Naruto and walked towards the young woman with small steps.The woman turned her head quickly, and when she saw Naruto holding the girl, she froze for a moment.Seeing this, Naruto bent down and patted the child on the shoulder: "Okay, go find your mother quickly. Don't run around again next time."

The child tilted his head to look at him, then looked at the anxious woman, and flattened his mouth: "Big brother, the cake made by the big sister in this shop is delicious, mom has finished buying, I'll give you some! "She bounced to her mother's side, the woman immediately took her hand and looked her up and down nervously.The little girl didn't know why, so she poked her mother's satchel and looked at it. Seeing that there was no cake in it, she immediately became unhappy: "Mom, where is the cake?"

The woman's face was a little pale, she glanced at Naruto who was a few steps away, and said in a discussing tone: "Today's cakes are sold out, shall we buy them tomorrow?"

Seeing this, Naruto and the onlookers understood a little bit.I'm afraid there are too many people queuing up. The mother didn't pay attention and the child disappeared.When I found out that it was too late to buy something, I ran out to look for it in a hurry.

Hearing what the mother said, the child immediately looked like he was about to cry.Seeing this, Naruto took a step forward, but the mother immediately grabbed the child nervously, as if he was about to pick up the child and run away as soon as he made a move.The blue eyes of the handsome blond-haired boy were dim, and he smiled helplessly when he met the child's pure gaze: "... Well, big brother has a good relationship with the owner of this shop, Xiaoling—is that his name? If If you want to eat cake, Big Brother will ask that Big Sister for you to see if I can make an exception and sell it to your mother, okay?"

The girl looked up at him, thought for a while, and smiled happily: "Hi~~~~~! Because, mom has already been in line!"

The boy tilted his head and smiled: "That's right. He's really a smart kid." Under the sunlight, the boy's short hair was shining like gold, his eyes were full of smiles like the vast sea and clear sky, and the smile at the corner of his mouth was warm and charming. Unknowingly blushing, some even whispered in shock.Naruto turned a blind eye to everyone's reaction and walked towards the shop door.

This is a shop decorated in a traditional style.Wooden stairs, paper sliding doors, and a plaque hanging on the door with the inscription "Vortex Sweet".Entering the door is a large glass counter, inside which are placed layers of exquisite snacks.There is a certain space inside the counter, and there is a locker in the corner, and there is a door next to the cabinet, which should lead to the inside; on the left side of the counter is a huge transparent floor-to-ceiling thick glass separated by a cooking room, and the workbench is placed against the glass , the countertop is clean and tidy, various molds, flour and other materials are placed in an orderly manner, a large oven can be seen in the corner, and a large strange material cabinet is placed against the wall. The door of the cabinet is also transparent glass. All kinds of ingredients, fruits, and ice cubes are stacked on the bottom of the cabinet, which should play a role in keeping fresh and cooling down.

All in all, this is a novelty dessert shop.Judging from the decoration, it should be that it has just opened for a short time, but judging from the number of people in the queue, it is obvious that the business is good.At this time, Naruto walked steadily towards the store door against the eyes of all the people in line.Before he could enter the store, a red-haired girl with a ponytail rushed out and threw herself into the boy's arms: "Brother!!!!!! Welcome back!!!!"

"..." This is the peas-eyed crowd.

The blond boy smiled and patted the girl's head: "How many times have I told you, Naeko! Be careful where you step. Where's Bai? By the way, congratulations, business is good?"

The eyes are still wrapped in white cloth, and Naeko is wearing an orange cotton sweater and tan slimming cropped pants, looking very lively and lovely.Wearing a pink floral apron in front of her, she raised her head and said with a smile: "Hey, hey... Baijiang is busy entertaining guests. As for business... Hehe, of course! My brother taught me my skills personally, How could it be bad?"

Naruto raised his eyebrows and pinched her fair face: "Okay, I will flatter your brother. Just now there was..." Before he finished speaking, the girl smiled and brought out a convenience bag from behind: "Yes This one? The strawberry cake that aunt didn't have time to take away just now?"

Naruto took it: "That's right. It was a great help, Naeko!" He turned and walked towards the mother and daughter just now, but still stopped a few steps away. Xiaoling ran over excitedly and hugged his leg: "Thank you ,Big brother!"

Naruto handed her the bag, looking at the child with his head up and smiling brightly at him, his blue eyes were slightly warm.Suddenly, the child's mother came over and touched the child's