In Konoha, Naruto lies down

Chapter 35: Predicting the Death of the Sandaime (Skip if you don't like it)

Walking out of the Hokage Building, Naruto felt no warmth from the sunlight. He simply glanced around and walked away in one direction.

The streets of Konoha were bustling with people, as lively as usual.

Naruto walked along the road, having already put what had just happened behind him. Since the Sandaime wanted him to give up the Chunin Exam, he would have to continue to mess with Konoha.

After arriving at the meeting point, Naruto saw the little girl and a smile immediately appeared on his face.

Everyone was busy preparing for the Chunin Exams. Naruto had D-rank missions to fill his time, but Kakashi later exempted him from them.

However, the Sandaime's words asking him to give up taking the Chunin Exams instantly brought Naruto back to the days before liberation.

Kakashi was busy tutoring Sasuke, Sakura was busy learning medical ninjutsu, and the rest of the class was preparing for the Chunin Exams, even Hinata was working very hard.

Everyone was busy, but Naruto was the only one doing nothing. He was like the white clouds in the sky, free but extremely bored.

So in the morning, Naruto took the little girl to the woods to catch wild animals, in the afternoon he took her to the shallow stream to fish, and at sunset they went to the Hokage Rock to overlook the Konoha Ninja Village.

Although Naruto also asked about the whereabouts of the other three, the girl just vaguely said that they went out to play on their own. He didn't care about it and continued to have fun leisurely.

If you are alone, even the most delicious food will lose some of its flavor. Having a dining companion greatly satisfies Naruto's desire to show off.

He wasn't short of money anyway, so he had barbecue for lunch and Ichiraku Ramen in the afternoon. The next day he switched to seafood, and then some wild seafood.

As the days passed, the time for the Chunin Exam drew closer.

"Isn't this very expensive?" The girl looked at Naruto, somewhat puzzled. Even though she was ignorant, she felt that this extremely expensive lifestyle was a bit exaggerated.

Naruto didn't feel anything about it and replied to her.

"Have it?"

"Ah."

The night breeze blew by as the two stood on Hokage Rock, gazing at the myriad lights of Konoha. Naruto jumped onto the guardrail, squatted on it, and began to speak.

"As long as you are happy, money is not important."

Naruto waited a long time for a response. When he turned to look at the girl, she had an expression on her face that seemed to want to say something but hesitated.

"What's wrong?" Naruto asked, and then said, "Let's go to the Valley of the End tomorrow. There seems to be a big red fish over there."

"I can't go tomorrow." The girl suddenly said.

"Okay then, I can go alone." Naruto said, "What about you the day after tomorrow? It seems like we've been to all the places we need to go. There's nothing fun left."

"I'm busy, so I may not have time to play with you anymore." The girl said hesitantly, "I really want to, but I have something important to do."

Naruto was stunned for a moment, jumped off the railing, and suddenly smiled and said.

"What? Just go if you have something to do. We are all from Konoha, right? We will definitely have time to play together in the future."

"Yes." The girl's eyes dimmed a little when she said this.

"Then go ahead, we'll get together when you're free." Naruto waved at her and said, without any sadness on his face.

"Okay." The girl nodded, stood there for a while, and then slowly turned around until she completely disappeared into the darkness.

Under the cover of night, Naruto let out a long breath, a melancholy look appeared on his face, and then he became happy again.

"The only people who have infiltrated Konoha Village at this time are probably Orochimaru's men, Tayuya."

......

At this time, Tayuya had already returned to the residence of the four-member team. Although it was called a residence, it was actually just an abandoned house with a leak.

"Hey, Tayuya, why are you back so late again?" Kidomaru asked from a distance.

"It has nothing to do with you." Tayuya said coldly, without even looking at Kidomaru.

"You..." Kidomaru was a little indignant, but he still held back.

He knew that Tayuya always spoke in the Zuan style, but almost at the same time, Kidomaru thought of a question.

Tayuya shouldn't have this attitude in front of that person, right?

Thinking of this, Kidomaru spoke again with some indignation.

"Tayuya, the Chunin Exams are coming up soon, and Orochimaru-sama has ordered us to prepare. You won't be involved with that guy again, will you?"

"It has nothing to do with you." Tayuya's red hair covered her eyes, her gaze was still cold, and she looked in a bad mood.

"Tayuya, you bastard!" Dokimaru couldn't bear it anymore, rushed forward to block Tayuya's way, and shouted at her.

"Are you in love with that guy? I just cheated him out of a few meals. Speaking of which, the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki was also a big sucker..."

With a bang, Kidomaru's pupils dilated slightly, and the next second he suddenly spat out a mouthful of sour water, and his whole body instantly bent into a shrimp shape.

Tayuya kicked Kidomaru in the abdomen and watched indifferently as he fell to the ground in pain, holding his abdomen.

"Kidomaru, how are you?" Jirobo, who looked like a sumo wrestler, trotted to help Kidomaru up and asked with a worried look on his face.

"Go away!" Kidomaru pushed Jirobo away, with an angry look on his face, and left with gritted teeth.

......

The next day.

Naruto went out for a stroll as usual, fishing in the river and diving under the waterfall. After playing alone for a while, he suddenly felt a little bored.

He guessed Tayuya's identity but did not reveal it.

The reason was simple: Duoyou was probably the only one with nothing to do at the time. So, we just wanted to kill time and played together for a few days.

Now that he's awake from his dream, he's going to start messing with Konoha.

Naruto called up the system panel and typed the following into the puppet character's speech box: "August 29th, with nothing else to do, I'm going to make a prediction: the Third Hokage Sarutobi Hiruzen will die in the Chunin Exams."

Clicking OK, Naruto let a smile appear on his face.

At this moment, almost everyone in Konoha Village put down what they were doing and showed a look of horror on their faces.

Will the Sandaime die?

In a hot spring in Konoha, a men's bath.

Jiraiya, who was soaking in the hot spring, suddenly became serious and stared straight ahead. His inner peace was instantly broken by this news.

Even though Jiraiya and the old man disagreed on certain things, it was precisely because of this that he chose to travel while Tsunade chose to indulge in gambling.

But in any case, Jiraiya had never thought that the old man would die. But this method was obviously not a prank, and the message entered his mind without a trace of chakra fluctuation.

It was like a thought entering my mind, yet it was so clear.

Jiraiya stood up from the hot spring with a whoosh, wrapped the white scarf on his head around his body, and slowly walked out of the hot spring.

He had to meet the old man from the Third Hokage to see if he was dead or not.

Chapter 36 One tail

In Konoha Forest, on a training ground with three wooden stakes.

The fallen leaves swirled down in the wind and were torn apart by the sharp object in an instant.

Tap, tap, tap, three kunai hit the bull's eye accurately, and the girl with two buns on her hair couldn't help but exclaim in admiration.

"All right, Neji is amazing."

"If it's just this level, it can't be called powerful." Hyuga Neji said with a cold face.

"Three thousand one hundred and twenty-one! Three thousand one hundred and twenty-two!..." Xiao Li was gritting his teeth and doing handstand push-ups with one hand.

"It's already good. After all, Neji is a genius." Tenten comforted.

"A genius?" Neji tightened his knee pads and looked at Lee beside him. "Uchiha Sasuke is the genius. Only by fighting can we know the difference."

"Ningji, what on earth is going on with that God of Ninja?" Tenten seemed to suddenly remember something and spoke in panic.

"Suddenly, they said something like Hokage-sama would die in the Chunin Exams... and now, Mr. Gai has also been suddenly summoned by Hokage-sama."

"I don't know." Neji said expressionlessly, "The higher-ups will find a solution. This isn't something we should be concerned about."

"That being said, the Chunin Exam will definitely be affected," Tenten said worriedly. "After all, it concerns Hokage-sama. If things go wrong, the Chunin Exam might even be cancelled."

"Cancelled?" Xiao Li, sweating profusely, stood upside down and looked at the two of them. "Didn't Teacher Kai tell us that it most likely wouldn't be cancelled, and told us to train well?"

"It's really hard to say in this situation. After all, the words of the Ninja God might be..." Tiantian hesitated to speak.

The God of Ninja mentioned the secrets of the Uchiha clan and the Hyuga clan respectively twice, and Neji standing next to her was the victim of the caged bird of the Hyuga clan.

"It's fake," Neji said calmly, "The village has already come out to refute the rumor and told us not to pay attention to the words of the Shinobi God."

"Yeah, they're enemies after all." Tiantian sighed and said, "I wonder who the Ninja God is?"

"It should be someone from the village. Didn't Teacher Kai say that people outside the village can't receive the information that suddenly appears in their minds." Xiao Li continued with sweat.

Neji didn't say anything and continued with his own training, but his eyes became increasingly calm.

Hinata's genius?

Being born with original sin, as a caged bird, there is no need for any genius.

All Hinata needed was to protect the main family's slaves. As long as they could survive, it didn't matter if they continued to behave like ugly beasts.

......

"What on earth is that news about?" Shikamaru said with dead eyes, lying bored on the grass on the slope.

Asuma had something urgent to do and had probably returned to the Hokage Building. After all, he was the Hokage's son, so he was probably worried about the Sandaime's condition.

The Ino, Shika, and Chou trio suddenly became idle. Shikamaru took a break if he could, Ino was still training, and Choji sat on the side eating potato chips.

Hearing this, Shikamaru stuffed some potato chips into his mouth and said with his eyes narrowed into slits.

"Didn't the village say that? That's fake news."

"Who would believe that?" Shikamaru muttered. "That incident with the Hyuga clan was a fact. The top rookie last year should have been from the branch family, right?"

"Who told you that?" Ino, who had stopped training, heard their conversation and walked over to ask.

"I heard it from my father." Shikamaru put a grass stem into his mouth and looked at the marshmallow clouds floating in the sky with his dead fish eyes.

"That genius from the Hyuga family probably has a caged bird curse seal on his head."

Hearing this, Ino sighed.

"We can't do anything about the big family."

"Yeah." Shikamaru agreed, staring at the blue sky for a while, and suddenly blurted out, "Ino, do you have any conflicts with that Naruto guy?"

Ino was stunned for a moment, then answered in a panic.

"No... no, why do you ask?"

"You deliberately avoided Naruto last time, didn't you?" Shikamaru continued, "I'm just a little confused. Why did Team 7 seem to only have Sakura and Sasuke when we submitted the Chunin Exam registration form today?"

"I don't know what's wrong with Naruto. He used to want to be recognized, but now he seems to have lost all his fighting spirit."

"I don't know about that either." Ino said with a smile, "Besides, he and I have had quite a few conflicts, so there's nothing strange about that."

"Yeah, who knows what that guy Naruto is doing." Shikamaru complained.

"Naruto?" Choji, who was eating potato chips, turned to look at the two of them and suddenly said, "I saw him last time. He seemed to be with a little girl."

"Little girl?" Ino was a little surprised.

"They must be orphans from the village." Choji shoveled potato chips into his mouth. "I saw them at the barbecue restaurant."

"That guy Naruto, I feel like he's almost not a ninja anymore."

"Who knows about that guy? I haven't seen him training in a while." Shikamaru sighed and said, "The last time I saw him on the street, he didn't even wear a forehead protector."

"How is this possible?" Ino was shocked. "Naruto wanted a ninja forehead protector so much before, how could he..."

"It's hard to say." Shikamaru climbed up, stood on the hillside and looked into the distance.

His sight lifted from the plain grass, passed through the swaying grass, passed by a fleeting white bird, and finally landed on a few small black dots that appeared in the distance.

"Those people are ninjas from Sunagakure, right?"

Hearing this, Ino and Choji also looked in that direction, and immediately a trace of cold sweat seeped out of their foreheads.

On the grass some distance away from them, a ninja carrying a gourd had a gloomy expression on his face, and the other two ninjas, a man and a woman, also looked at the three of them with unfriendly expressions.