A few days later.
The early morning sunlight poured into the room through the curtains. Menma woke up from his sleep and rubbed his sleepy eyes.
Birds were singing outside the window and the flowers were fragrant. The cherry blossom trees in the courtyard were in bloom. A few pink cherry blossom petals floated into the room from the window and landed on Menma's pillow.
Menma, wearing pajamas, yawned and got up and came to the balcony.
"Master Menma, breakfast is ready." In the yard, Kinana was cleaning fallen leaves. He looked up and saw Menma at the window on the second floor and greeted him kindly.
"Okay, Auntie Kinana." Menma replied simply, with a hint of laziness in her voice that she had just woken up from.
After washing up, he put on casual clothes and walked downstairs from the bedroom on the second floor.
In the kitchen, Aunt Yuka has already laid out breakfast, and the hot meals exude an alluring aroma.
Menma Sit down and enjoy your breakfast.
After the meal, he told the two servants, "There is no need to prepare my meal at noon."
After saying that, he went out for a walk.
Menma's house is on the same street as Hyuga Compound. When he first went out, he saw two Branch House guards standing at the gate of Hyuga Compound.
Since the attacks a few days ago, Hyuga Compound has strengthened its security force. Originally, Hyuga Clan did not have the habit of setting up guards at the gate of the clan.
Although several days have passed, Konoha was not even affected. After all, the battle that day basically took place in Hyuga Compound and had basically no impact on other places in Weiye.
Only Special Jonin, who participated in that night, knows some of the situation.
Ordinary villagers and civilian ninjas knew nothing about this and only thought that Hyuga Clan had become more strict.
Compared with the arrogant Uchiha, Hyuga Clan still has a very friendly reputation and evaluation in the village.
"Oh haha, Mr. Menma!" A familiar voice came from the front.
Menma put his hands in his pockets and looked up, only to see Little Hinata standing at the intersection, his hands and fingers nervously twisted together, with a faint blush on his cheeks.
Seeing Hinata's shy look, Menma knew it was the introverted and gentle Little Hinata, not the hot-tempered big sister.
"Good morning, Little Hinata." Menma walked over, rubbed Hinata's head affectionately, and gestured to her height. "Little Hinata has grown a little taller."
"Hmm~" Hinata's face turned redder, and steam almost came out of his head.
Menma, who was walking towards the park with Little Hinata, could even sense two Hyuga ninjas following in the shadows not far away.
And it is much stronger than the previous Ko Hyuga, one of them is at the level of Special Jonin.
It seems that after experiencing the lesson of Main House Fourth Elder having his eyes gouged out, Hyuga Clan has also strengthened its protection of the heirs of Main House.
Without Byakugan, most of the four elders are useless. We can only place our hopes on the next generation.
In the park, Naruto was sitting alone on the swing, looking boredly at the children playing in the sandpit in the distance.
Due to the rejection of the surrounding parents, even if the swings and slides around him were empty, no children were willing to approach him.
"Oi, kid, what are you doing?" Menma put his hands in his pockets and stepped on the swing where Naruto was sitting, pushing him to sway.
"Brother Menma! Hinata!" Naruto knelt down and grabbed the rope, shouting in surprise.
Naruto is not old enough to go to school yet. Every day he either wanders around the village or goes to the secret base in the forest outside the village to play by himself.
Menma basically practices ninjutsu at home from Monday to Friday, or handles government affairs and scientific research at Land of Stars, or does things outside. Only on Saturdays and Sundays will the main body come back to play with Naruto.
The same goes for Hinata, who is trapped by the heavy family curriculum and rarely has any free time.
It should be better after I go to school for another two years.
"Hey, what do you want to play today?" Naruto was full of expectations.
Although the three of them are all children, Menma is an old soul and Hinata is a girl, so the activities they can play together are relatively limited.
In spring, there are mostly fishing and picnics, in summer you can catch cicadas, in autumn you can catch lobsters, and in winter you can build snowmen.
So after some discussion, the three of them decided to go to the secret base by the Naka River river.
The three of them walked together and rushed out of the village.
There was talking and laughing along the way, mainly Naruto chatting about various topics, Menma would answer another sentence from time to time, and Little Hinata followed quietly, his eyes always following Menma's back.
"Ouch!"
Naruto was dancing and talking about a dragging Uchiha Clan child he met by the Naka River river a few days ago when he accidentally bumped into someone.
The two kneeled back and fell to the ground at the same time.
Menma looked along and saw a head of red hair falling, and a child who looked about the same age as them bumped into Naruto.
A middle-aged man quickly stepped forward and helped Naruto and the red-haired child up.
"Little guy, are you okay?" His voice was gentle and vicissitudes of life.
Naruto scratched his butt, looked up at the middle-aged man in front of him, and then at the child who was hit by him just now, thinking of Menma's teachings,
He quickly said, "Yes, I'm sorry!"
"It's okay, Amaru didn't pay attention to the front either." The middle-aged man said, putting his hand on the red-haired child's head, and said, "Amaru, apologize to them quickly."
"Yes, teacher." The child named Amaru tied a piece of black cloth on his head to make a headscarf, and then said to Naruto reluctantly, "I'm sorry, I didn't pay attention to the road either."
Naruto grinned and patted Amaru's shoulder familiarly. "Wrong? I don't think I've seen you in the village. Uncle, are you businessmen from outside?"
Menma walked up to Naruto and punched Naruto on the head.
"! It hurts!" Naruto covered his head and looked at Menma: "Brother Menma, what are you doing!"
"Idiot, Amaru is a girl!" Menma looked at his stupid brother and sighed.
"Girl! Girl?!" Naruto was shocked, opened his mouth and looked at Amaru quickly.
Only then did I realize that although the other person's skin was a little darker and he was dressed in neutral clothes, he did have long red hair just now, and the delicate features between his eyebrows and eyes were not like those of a boy.
"Hahahaha, you are indeed Konoha's child." Shennong laughed and introduced himself, "Hello, my name is Shennong.
He is a wandering doctor, and he came to Konoha this time to purchase some pharmaceutical resources."
Then Shennong introduced Amaru, who was bulging his cheeks and staring at Naruto: "This is my apprentice Amaru."
Naruto stood up straight at a loss. "Hello, uncle! My name is Uzumaki Naruto!"
"Hello, my name is Menma, and I am this guy's friend." Menma made a fist with his right hand and pointed his thumb at Naruto.
"My, my name is Hinata Hyuga." Little Hinata hid behind Menma and whispered timidly.