A Romantic Battlefield

Naruto lay on his bed in the room, boasting to Nine-Tails, "With my current strength, even if Uchiha Madara came, he would have to take a slap before leaving."

Nine-Tails ignored it, giving it a disdainful look.

Before Nikko, a noise came from the window—an ANBU member wearing an animal mask Anbu knocking. Naruto recognized Uzuki Yugao the moment he turned his head on the bed.

Outside the window were lush green trees, their branches stretching out freely and extending to the windowsill of Naruto's room. As if by magic, they twisted and turned, crisscrossing each other.

With a whoosh, Naruto, dressed in his pajamas, slammed the window open with a look of annoyance, and a blast of cold air rushed in.

What are you doing?

"Lord Tsunade is looking for you."

"I'm on vacation, I'm not going!" Naruto said irritably. "Nobody can disturb my rest at home."

"Suit yourself." Uzuki Yugao Anbu Mask, stood up. "Lord Tsunade guessed you would say that. She told me to tell you that if you don't get to the Hokage Building in half an hour, you'll be in big trouble."

After saying that, the person jumped onto the roof and disappeared in an instant, leaving Naruto hugging the blanket and staring blankly into space.

A moment later, Naruto dragged his exhausted body out of bed, dressed himself, and walked out of the living room looking ashen. He glanced at Nine-Tails, who was drinking, and sighed.

"You're out of drinks for tomorrow."

"You brat!!"

Hokage Building.

"Even the Fifth Hokage shouldn't exploit ninjas like this! I still have a day of vacation! Damn it!"

Naruto, his face full of resentment, was already complaining loudly before even entering the room. With a resentful look in his eyes, he pushed open the door to the Hokage's Office heavily.

The office was quiet, and everyone's eyes turned in surprise to a blond-haired man.

Behind everyone, Tsunade rested her interlaced fingers on the Hokage's desk, her face somewhat gloomy. Naruto instinctively sensed something was wrong, but when he looked over, he was stunned.

Team 3, Team Eight, Team 10, and everyone else were present.

Shikamaru, with his deadpan expression, twitched his brow the moment Naruto burst through the door. Choji glanced furtively at the grim-faced Fifth Hokage, Tsunade, then squinted at Naruto, cold sweat beading on his forehead.

Ino looked embarrassed, covered her face, and turned her head to look out the window, refusing to look at the shameful guy.

Kiba still had that gloating look on his face, Shino remained unmoved, Hinata whispered "Naruto" before quickly lowering her head again.

The innocent Rock Lee was dumbfounded, wondering if Naruto had lost his mind, acting so arrogantly in front of the Fifth Hokage. Neji, having heard some rumors, remained expressionless.

Tenten Tian frowned, looking at the blond-haired street urchin in front of her, and recalled the terrifying look in Naruto's eyes at the last moment of the mission in the Land of Rivers a while ago.

She felt that the person in front of her was somewhat unreal.

"Cough cough."

Realizing he had caused trouble, Naruto stood up abruptly, coughed, and said seriously.

"I heard that Lord Tsunade wanted to see me?"

"I do have something to do, but now you have something to do too." Tsunade frowned. "However, I won't hold it against you today, but if you fail to complete this mission..."

Naruto gasped as he watched Tsunade crush a water glass with a hostile look in her eyes.

Female boss's mission?

Tsunade's expression softened when she saw Naruto finally standing obediently. She propped her head up with one hand and gave the mission orders to the ten people present.

The mission Tsunade referred to was an annual outdoor exercise at the Ninja Academy, led by outstanding Genin graduates, similar in nature to a summer camp for young masters.

"The Fifth Hokage is really going too far. He canceled my vacation just so he could play house with kids." Naruto, pale-faced, leaned against the wall, standing on the outskirts of the Konoha Ninja Academy, feeling secretly heartbroken.

The Ninja Academy selected twenty-seven people, divided them into nine groups, and assigned each group a Genin instructor. To put it bluntly, it was a ninja drill, like a summer camp game.

Starting from the Ninja Academy, climbing a distant mountain counts as a successful exercise.

Naruto looked utterly unwilling, as if he were being forced into prostitution. Iruka, looking at his former mischievous student, was also exasperated, calling Naruto several times without getting a response.

Shikamaru was promoted to Chunin due to his leadership qualities during the Konoha Crush Operation and his outstanding contributions to the village's defense, thus avoiding the fate of playing house with children.

Shikamaru patted Iruka's arm with one hand, sighed with dead fish eyes, and said.

"Iruka-sensei, calling him like that won't work; he won't listen."

"What?" Iruka looked helpless and turned to Shikamaru. "Shikamaru, do you have any good ideas?"

"Me? I can't do anything about that guy either," Shikamaru said, wearing Chunin green vest. "But I do know someone who definitely has a solution."

"Ino!" Shikamaru suddenly called out in a loud voice.

Ino, standing in front of the group of young ninjas, suddenly felt a chill run down her spine. Like a cat, she reacted instinctively, turned around, glared at Shikamaru, and shouted.

Don't call me!

"No one but you can call that guy back. If he keeps causing trouble like this, we won't have enough time," Shikamaru said. "This is troublesome. Let's drag him back quickly."

"Go by yourself." Ino frowned, her cheeks slightly flushed.

"What's Naruto doing?" Kiba Inuzuka stood in front, looking at Naruto was leaning against the wall not far away. "Hinata, go and call him back."

"Me?" Hinata's face flushed instantly, and she shook her head subconsciously. "Naruto... he won't listen to me."

The group wasn't standing very close together. Kiba Inuzuka only heard Shikamaru call Ino to call Naruto, but Ino seemed to refuse. Kiba didn't want to waste time, so he directly called Hinata over.

"Hinata, don't hesitate any longer. That guy's being all long-winded and shameless; he'll fall for your tricks." Kiba Inuzuka urged, "Hurry up and bring him over here!"

"Alright." Hinata left the formation and walked in one direction amidst the puzzled gazes of the three children she was leading.

At the end of that direction stood a blond-haired man, leaning against the wall, seemingly lost in thought.

Naruto was extremely reluctant to do this kind of mission, feeling that Tsunade was exploiting his vacation time to make him do this, which was simply outrageous. He was leaning against the wall, trying to mentally prepare himself, when he suddenly noticed someone timidly walking towards him.

Hinata?

Why is she here?

However, if it were Hinata, he might be able to feign illness. Given Hinata's personality, she definitely wouldn't expose him, allowing him to conveniently escape the mission.

Naruto squinted, pondering how to feign illness and slack off, when he suddenly noticed that Ino had also walked towards them at some point.

Hinata, somewhat hesitantly, whispered, "Naruto, the training mission is about to begin. If you don't want to, I'll do my best to help you."

"You idiot! Hurry up and get over there! What are you dawdling here for! Damn it!" Ino stood still, arms crossed, her eyes sweeping over the gentle Hinata before coldly fixing on Naruto like a knife.

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