In Konoha, Naruto lies down

"Do you know that you look very conspicuous? You were almost chased by crazy fans just now."

"That doesn't matter. They can't catch up with us. Just go up to the roof and circle around a few times, and those idiots will completely lose their way." Naruto said nonchalantly.

"I am your team leader now! You'd better figure it out!" Hongdou was a little depressed.

"Will the leading jonin come to the tavern during the day to look for someone?"

"This is the experience of adults. Alcohol is the best friend to escape reality." Hongdou said with a stern face.

"Yeah, I need to go to the bathroom."

"You! Damn it!" Hongdou suddenly felt like she was punching cotton. Looking at Naruto walking towards the tavern bathroom, she clenched her fists.

Sakura remained silent the entire time, watching the two bickering and playing around, not knowing what she was thinking.

Outside the restroom, Naruto hesitated in front of the men's and women's restrooms before turning and entering the men's restroom. A drunk man was peeing when he turned around and suddenly saw a woman walk in, and he shuddered.

Naruto remained calm and hissed calmly. When he noticed the gaze from the next door, he even whistled at it.

The magical encounter began at the door of the bar bathroom. Fenghua Xiaoxue, who had just come out of the bathroom, was stunned staring at the person in front of her who looked exactly like her.

Fenghua Xiaoxue realized that something was wrong and wanted to run away, but she heard Naruto speak slowly.

"If you run away, I'm going to walk down the street and start taking off my clothes. I'm going to take off my clothes with your face!"

"You!" Fenghua Xiaoxue, who was experiencing the ninja world's AL face-changing technology for the first time, stood there gritting her teeth.

She was wearing a khaki trench coat with a pink long-sleeved lining, had long black hair, and looked like a mature woman. She had a long face and a slightly lazy and heroic air.

The most eye-catching thing is Fengxue Xiaoxue's eyes, as if staring at it, as if watching a flowing story.

"Naruto! You are..." Hongdou walked over and was about to complain about this shameless Genin, but suddenly saw two Fuuka Koyuki.

"Hey! Princess Fengyun! Found it!" Hongdou shouted excitedly. Hearing this, Sakura also walked out from the darkness with her hands behind her back, and silently stared at Fenghua Xiaoxue.

"Tsk!" Fenghua Xiaoxue's eyes revealed disgust as she glanced at the three of them. "I don't know who you are, but I'm leaving now! I advise you not to follow me."

Naruto said nothing as he took off a piece of clothing.

"This is so annoying! I hate being threatened the most!" Fenghua Xiaoxue suddenly snorted and said nonchalantly, "Do whatever you want. I've had enough of this awful job!"

"Um..." Hongdou quickly tried to smooth things over, "We are ninjas from Konoha. We have been commissioned by your agent, Princess Fengyun, to protect you as you journey to the Land of Snow..."

"I won't go to that kind of place!" Fenghua Xiaoxue suddenly roared, "Why did he entrust you to protect me? This is coercion!"

"You can't say that, Princess Fengyun, actually..." Hongdou smiled awkwardly.

"Hehe, Princess Fengyun is tired of this. Whoever wants to act can act out this fake life." Fenghua Xiaoxue said with a sneer.

"How does this work?"

"Shut up, all of you, can you please just disappear right away!"

Hearing this, Naruto thought for a moment, then released his transformation technique with a bang. In a flash, he pulled out a wet cloth and covered Fenghua Xiaoxue's mouth with it.

"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!!"

Two seconds later, Fenghua Xiaoxue lost consciousness and fell to the ground.

"You..." Hongdou witnessed everything that just happened and was a little stunned, while Sakura had an expression as if she was used to it. She blinked her eyes but still didn't say anything.

"Ah, I accidentally overused the medicine given by Tsunade-sama." Naruto scratched his face, looking like he had a headache. "I'll probably have to sleep for a whole day before I wake up."

Naruto asked confusedly as he turned around and saw Anko looking at him.

"What's wrong? We've found the person, take him away quickly, the client is still waiting."

"You..." Hongdou seemed to be hesitant to speak, but finally took a deep breath and gave up. "Forget it, I'll take Princess Fengyun to report first."

As she spoke, Hongdou took the unconscious Princess Fengyun on the ground and put one hand on her shoulder, and said to Naruto and Sakura.

"You two go get ready and meet in the mission room in the Hokage building in two hours."

"Okay." The two of them responded.

The fugitive princess of the Snow Country was finally caught. Hongdou breathed a sigh of relief and quickly left the tavern with her target.

In a deserted pub.

After completing the task, Naruto sighed a little tiredly. These tasks should have been done by Kazi. But he was dealt an unreliable and poor jonin, so now he had to do it.

If you can't make decisions when facing a mission, how can you be called a Jill Ninja?

Just as he was about to leave, he noticed Sakura was staring at him. Naruto couldn't help but narrow his eyes and asked.

"what happened to you?"

"It's okay." Sakura smiled, looked around, and pulled Naruto into a dark corner.

It happened to be noon and there were not many people in the pub.

The boss was asleep on the table, the single overhead light looking as if it were about to die. The few remaining customers had also left after the farce, leaving only three people.

The boss's light snoring continued, and it looked like he wouldn't wake up for a while.

"Sakura, you..." Naruto felt a chill on his back.

"Don't be afraid, there's no one here." Sakura leaned close to his ear and said, "No one will know. It will only take a moment."

The cold little hand climbed up his cheek and slid down to the back of his neck. Naruto didn't know what Sakura was going to do, he could feel the coolness on the back of his neck.

Sakura's fingertips rubbed the spot right in the middle of the back of his neck. The feeling was slightly strange, like having a popsicle pressed against his chest.

"Okay." Sakura slowly left Naruto, withdrew her hand, and a satisfied smile appeared on her face.

Naruto asked, somewhat confused.

"What are you doing?"

"I should be the first one to make you remember this feeling, right?" She smiled, but felt a creepy feeling.

The more she restrained herself, the more difficult it became for Naruto.

"Where did you learn that?"

“…in the book.”

Chapter 180 Sea

Naruto held his breath and was silent for three seconds before saying, "Don't read useless books."

"......oh."

As he said that, Naruto had already left muttering.

"Where's this clip? Why haven't I seen it before? Has the lecherous immortal released a new book?"

Sakura pursed her lips, said nothing, and slowly followed behind.

Two hours flew by.

Mitarashi Anko also brought a cotton coat and a few strings of hot red bean dumplings. The crew's boat had already docked at the pier, and Fenghua Xiaoxue was also picked up.

I heard she slept peacefully, like a sleeping Rose Princess. Unfortunately, it wasn't the prince who knocked her unconscious, but a heartless yellow-haired guy.

"Damn it! You're the one I'm most worried about!" Red Bean said, pulling Naruto's clothes, "Be polite to the target of the commission. We are ninjas, not bandits."

"Okay~!" Naruto said in a long tone, nonchalantly.

The three of them walked unsteadily, and Hongdou felt a little tired. She just felt that she and this guy were destined to clash. This mission was destined to be no easy task.

Sakura was walking beside Naruto, and suddenly, without telling Anko, she secretly grabbed Naruto's hand from behind, squeezed it tightly, and then let go immediately.

Naruto's face was filled with questions. His movements were so short that Anko didn't even notice. Sakura didn't say anything, but just smiled at him.

He felt a little baffled, but after thinking it over, he didn't bother asking. As long as the mission was completed, nothing else mattered. So, Naruto casually called up the system panel.

The last option popped up but I hadn't made a selection yet. There was a countdown in the upper right corner of the panel, showing that there were only three hours left to make the selection.

The crew's fleet has not set out yet and may still be floating on the sea in three hours.

The choice couldn't be delayed for too long, and a choice had to be made now. The first option was to protect Fenghua Xiaoxue and go to the Snow Country to overthrow the tyranny, or the second option was to threaten Fenghua Xiaoxue to hand over the geothermal generator and force the people of the Snow Country to pay taxes.

The two are not actually in conflict and can even be carried out one after the other.

If you have to choose between the two, there's no need to choose the first option. The key to the geothermal generator is on Fenghua Xiaoxue. If you get it, you'll also need to eliminate the current king of the Snow Kingdom.

In addition, the mission this time is to protect Fenghua Xiaoxue as she goes to the Snow Country to shoot a movie. In other words, no matter what, she needs to protect Fenghua Xiaoxue's safety.

Choose two.

With a thought, option two flashed and then disappeared, and the panel slowly faded away.

Even if it was a system option, he didn't want to do something too troublesome. He chose the second option simply because the reward was to upgrade Flying Thunder God.

If it were any other reward, Naruto might have chosen one to save trouble. After making his choice, he didn't think about the system anymore, and decided to see how things went.

Coast, port.

The late winter has faded away, and the mountains are located by the sea. Most of the trees have dead branches, and the world is filled with silence.

Occasionally, you can see small clusters of green buds scattered around. Someone ran down the mountain and fell heavily into the sea on a bicycle, attracting everyone's attention.

Sakura had already boarded the boat. Instead of looking at the person who fell into the water, she cast her gaze towards a place on the dock.

A yellow-haired man squatted on the shore, watching the excitement with a smile on his face, dancing with joy. He soon caught the eye of the unfortunate man who fell into the water, and the two of them started cursing at each other.

The man who fell into the water was red-faced and cursing, then he climbed ashore with the help of the sailors. Without a pause, he ran angrily to find the yellow-haired man to argue.

With a bang, a graceful parabola was drawn, and the man was thrown into the sea by the yellow-haired man with bare hands.

"Hahaha! Is that brat a ninja?"

"Where's this ninja? Throwing someone into the sea, aren't you afraid of being punished?"

"He's not even wearing a forehead protector, he must be a wandering ninja! Who knows, maybe he's not a ninja at all. If it were me, I could do it too..."

The ship's sailing was not smooth, it was shaking.

The sea in the distance met the sky, forming a thin line bordered with silver. Hongdou was handing over paperwork with the client, seemingly arguing about something.

Naruto and Sakura had nothing to do, so they stood on the deck and looked down.

The sea was as clear and azure as the sky above, and the turbulent whitecaps tossed around like swimming fish. The salty, damp sea breeze felt greasy on my face, more bitter than soda water.

"So this is what the sea looks like." Sakura stood about three meters to Naruto's left, with half of her body leaning out from the railing.

"This is the first time I've seen it," she said.

"Me too," Naruto said, "If you go west from the Valley of the End, you can see the sea. The last time Sasuke left, I almost chased him to the Valley of the End."

Hearing the word Sasuke, Sakura was silent for a moment and tightened her clothes, "Do you still want to win Sasuke back?"

"Hmm?" Naruto shook his head subconsciously, "I don't want to at all."

"Yeah." Sakura didn't ask any more questions.

"You're all here? That saves me from searching for everyone." Hongdou's voice suddenly came from behind, "This mission is a bit long..."

Naruto and Sakura turned around and saw Anko walking towards them wrapped in a cotton coat and scarf.

She was wearing warm clothes, except for the large area of ​​her fishnet training clothes showing in front of her and the dumplings separated on her left and right. It was still a rich and generous day.

"Won't your chest feel cold if you don't button up your clothes?" Naruto asked bluntly.

Hongdou stopped, looked down at her wide-open collar, then looked up at Naruto, her face slightly embarrassed.

"Your focus is a little weird, damn it!"

"I'm just curious," Naruto asked, "So is it cold?"

red beans:"........"

The next day.

Naruto, who had never been to the sea, didn't sleep well that night. Hongdou said the journey was long, and after drifting on the sea for a whole day, he didn't feel like he was making any progress.

Even if someone told him that the ship was just going in circles at sea, he would still believe it. The complete lack of sight of the destination made life boring and monotonous.

At daybreak, Sakura came over and brought him some food.

"You can't sleep well either?" he asked while eating.

"Yeah, the boat was shaking too much." Sakura didn't look too good, with bloodshot eyes. "The crew said we'll get used to it in a few days, and it'll be much better on the return trip."

"What about the woman?"