In the evening, the four disciples and Tazuna went home together after work.
Naruto's main body had exhausted himself in training. Adding the fatigue of 30 Shadow Clones returning to him after a day, Naruto swayed and fell straight forward.
Fortunately, Kakashi appeared in front in time, allowing Naruto to collapse onto his back.
Naruto smiled happily. He had seen this scene in anime many times, and every time he felt that Kakashi was very warm.
Just for your attitude, Old Kakashi, I'll help you get Jiraiya's autographed book if I have the chance in the future.
Kakashi didn't know what Naruto was thinking, and earnestly advised:
"Using Shadow Clone to cultivate can speed up the progress, but the feeling of fatigue will also be doubled. You're overdoing it, Naruto. Continuing like this will hurt your body."
Naruto didn't care, a good body means doing whatever you want: "It's okay, I'll just go back and sleep."
However, Naruto himself knew that he really couldn't continue like this, after all, this was outside, not in Konoha. Zabuza might come over to cause trouble at any time, so he would pay attention to controlling the number tomorrow.
It wasn't that Naruto wanted to work so hard, mainly because after his own Fox Spirit's reminder, he suspected that it would be difficult for him to have any insights or progress in a life-or-death crisis.
In his previous life, he was born in China, and countless strangers sheltered him from the wind and rain. He hadn't even encountered a thief in twenty years, so how could he have any sense of crisis. After all, he used to be just an ordinary student, even when playing games, he liked to develop secretly, waiting until he had a full-level divine outfit, one punch for each kid, and he would definitely use a normal attack to kill people rather than show off his skills with low health.
And in this life, he had too many ways to save his life. Unless the Akatsuki came as a group to snatch the Fox, it would be difficult to have any sense of crisis.
Kakashi turned his head and began to educate Sasuke: "Sasuke too, with your current physical strength, using Chidori four or five times a day is already the limit.
It's not that your Chakra isn't enough, but the cell activation effect of Chidori puts a lot of burden on your body."
"Yeah." Sasuke's face was pale, and now he needed Sakura to support him while walking. (Inner Sakura: Awesome!)
Sasuke didn't say much, he just saw Naruto cultivating so desperately, and didn't want to be left too far behind, so he gritted his teeth and competed with Naruto, but with that beast's physical strength, Sasuke felt that even if his Sharingan evolved, he still wouldn't be his opponent.
Sakura didn't consume much physical strength. She spent most of her time reading medical books, only doing the necessary physical training every one or two hours to maintain her condition. She was very clear that her goal now was to become a qualified medical ninja as soon as possible.
It was precisely because of this that she was now able to happily support Sasuke as they walked on the road. Naruto was carried by Kakashi, and didn't notice whether Sakura took the opportunity to flirt with Sasuke, but there must have been some whispering in each other's ears.
Back at Tazuna's house, Kakashi carried Naruto to the dining table to sit down, and Sakura also reluctantly let go of Sasuke's hand.
Inari looked at the tired Tazuna, and Naruto and Sasuke covered in dust, and couldn't help but think of his father. Tears welled up in his eyes, and he cried out, "Why do you have to work so hard? No matter how hard you try, you can't beat Gato's subordinates, why do you have to do this..."
After shouting, he ran back to his room and locked the door.
"Inari..." Tsunami, worried about her son, chased after him.
Kakashi, Sakura, and Sasuke looked at each other, not understanding why. Naruto vaguely remembered the reason, mainly because he didn't like this little brat very much before.
It's one thing for you to give up resistance, lie down and be a salted fish to be slaughtered, but why do you look down on other people who work hard, and even ridicule them? Does your miserable life give you a reason?
He originally wanted to retort a few words, but he still used the law of forgiveness, "He's still a child," to convince himself.
What's the point of arguing with an 8-year-old kid, completely forgetting that he was still a 12-year-old kid.
If you really want to be serious, there are dozens of children in the Konoha orphanage who have experienced even more miserable things than him. Looking at the entire ninja world, there are countless more. Even Kakashi lost his father at a young age. If you really want to compare misery, Inari can't even be ranked.
But what did these people do wrong? Nothing. What's wrong is this chaotic ninja world. If Uchiha Madara had violently unified the ninja world back then, and then Hashirama had ruled with a soft policy, maybe there would still be hope.
Unfortunately, the two of them were more stubborn than the other. With Black Zetsu provoking them, the ninja world became chaotic. So, is Black Zetsu to blame? Black Otsutsuki Shenxiang Zetsu is trying to split the moon to save his mother!
So this matter can only be blamed on the creator god. A good hot-blooded comic has been turned into a tragedy everywhere.
"That child wasn't like this before..." Tazuna told everyone the story of Inari's father's life. In summary, when Gato first arrived in the Land of Waves, he used a method of killing one to warn a hundred in order to subdue these ordinary people. Inari's father happened to be the most courageous person who took the lead in resisting, so he became the one who was killed, and as a result, the entire country lost its courage.
Interestingly, Inari's father had an X-shaped scar on his chin. When Naruto re-watched Naruto in his previous life, he once maliciously speculated whether this guy had something to do with Danzo.
The four members of the team had no other choice. Naruto didn't think that a bit of talk could solve the child's psychological problems. After all, they were ninjas, not psychologists. They couldn't just give him a Kotoamatsukami.
Anyway, things would naturally get better after Gato was dealt with. They, as members of a violent gang specializing in cracking skulls, should use their hands more and talk less.
Everyone finished dinner in silence and went back to rest.
The next morning, Naruto was full of energy, as if the person who was as tired as a dead dog yesterday wasn't him.
Sasuke, however, was still a little weak, clenching his fists:
'Damn it, at this rate, when will I be able to catch up with him?'
Kakashi looked at Naruto and Sasuke's condition. There was no harm without comparison. Now, looking at it this way, Sasuke was the normal one. What exactly was that kid from the teacher's family?
Today's training started as usual. Naruto decided to halve the Shadow Clones, leaving more stamina to deal with emergencies when out and about.
Sasuke didn't go as hard as yesterday because he hadn't fully recovered. Sakura maintained her own pace of reading and training as always.
Kakashi was very pleased, thinking that his students had listened to his words. As a teacher, his heart was filled with great satisfaction, so much so that the action of turning the pages became much lighter.
Thanks to yesterday's calm, a few more workers came to help Tazuna build the bridge, and the progress of the project accelerated slightly.
Three days passed like this, and a small boat slowly sailed across the sea.
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