Escort Mission

In the afternoon, after completing the mission and distributing the rewards, Kakashi dismissed the team immediately.

Kakashi was a rather laid-back person, and the three of them—Naruto Uzumaki, Sasuke, and Hinata—were not particularly enthusiastic about missions either.

Therefore, for the next period, they only took one mission a day, spending the rest of their time training on their own after finishing.

The difference now compared to the original story was that they all had their own guardians to teach them, so they didn't need Kakashi.

Naruto Uzumaki spent his days researching all sorts of strange and peculiar things.

Hinata had already mastered what Naruto Uzumaki had taught her; now she only needed to practice on her own, with Naruto Uzumaki occasionally sparring with her.

Inside the laboratory.

Naruto Uzumaki arrived here once again.

Several shadow clones were busy with their respective research projects.

Naruto Uzumaki walked over to a culture tank.

Inside sat a pair of Mangekyo Sharingan.

With my chakra nourishing them, if they cannot evolve into the Rinnegan, what is missing? Is it truly necessary to place them inside my own eyes?

Naruto Uzumaki felt a bit puzzled.

At this moment, Naruto Uzumaki's Three-Tomoe Sharingan observed them carefully.

In theory, with his own chakra nourishing them, the Mangekyo Sharingan should be able to evolve into the Rinnegan.

Moreover, his current bloodline was comparable to that of his ancestors.

Could there be some other restriction?

Feeling confused, he carefully sensed the Mangekyo before him.

Naruto Uzumaki didn't know exactly how powerful the Eternal Mangekyo was, but this pair of Eternal Mangekyo possessed astonishing ocular power.

At the same time, he didn't know when his own Three-Tomoe Sharingan would evolve into a Mangekyo.

Currently, Naruto Uzumaki's Three-Tomoe Sharingan was already very powerful, containing immense ocular energy.

Essentially, his Three-Tomoe was already comparable to a Mangekyo, just lacking the unique ocular techniques.

Yet, such a vast amount of ocular power still couldn't trigger an evolution into the Eternal Mangekyo.

Does it really require stimulation?

Nonsense.

Just then, one of the shadow clones behind Naruto Uzumaki spoke up.

"What do you mean?"

"Emotional stimulation doesn't necessarily require hatred; what's missing is simply the right timing. You could try stimulating it with other emotions."

The shadow clone explained. Since the Mangekyo was kept here, all the shadow clones had naturally studied it.

Naruto Uzumaki rubbed his chin.

Emotional stimulation.

To be honest, his emotions were very stable right now, and it wasn't easy to provoke him.

Unless someone killed Hinata right in front of him.

He would naturally never let such a thing happen.

If killing Hinata were the price for gaining powerful strength, then he would rather do without these eyes. Furthermore, Naruto Uzumaki firmly believed that constant dripping wears away the stone.

As long as his ocular power reached its limit in three months, he would naturally awaken the Mangekyo.

If his own wasn't enough, he could always absorb the ocular power of others.

Thinking of ocular power, the one with the most should be that guy on the moon.

That Tenseigan was created by gathering the eyes of so many people.

He didn't know how many people were in that clan on the moon at its peak, but they had all been gouged of their eyes to create that single, massive Tenseigan.

"I can save that for Hinata. When we can go up there, we can give it a try."

Naruto Uzumaki stroked his chin. With Twin Palms and Sealing Jutsu, he should be able to craft a Tenseigan even more powerful than the one in the original story.

There was no rush.

After some thought, he continued to study Sealing Jutsu. In this world, Naruto Uzumaki looked down on ninjutsu and taijutsu; only Sealing Jutsu was truly formidable.

The next day, the three of them gathered as usual.

"Kakashi, can't we take on a more challenging mission?"

As soon as they met, Sasuke couldn't help but speak up. Although his current life was quite good, he wanted to achieve some results to show off to his older brother.

Hinata, on the other hand, had no such ambitions; being able to train with Naruto Uzumaki was already enough to make her happy.

Naruto Uzumaki didn't really care.

"I'll take a look in a bit."

Kakashi said it casually.

As the three of them just walked into the mission hall, a ninja approached Kakashi.

"Kakashi, Lord Hokage is looking for you."

Kakashi acknowledged the request and followed the messenger toward the second floor.

The three of them exchanged glances and followed along.

Inside the Hokage office on the second floor.

Tsunade sat behind a massive desk working, the room filled with bright light.

As soon as Naruto Uzumaki walked in, he felt his eyes brighten; during the Third's era, this room had been dim and always felt somewhat gloomy.

"Lord Hokage."

"Big Sister Tsunade."

They greeted her.

"Mm, Kakashi, you're here."

"There is a mission here where the client specifically requested you."

Tsunade looked up; although her eyes held a trace of fatigue, her face remained exquisite and beautiful, her aura domineering and cool.

In particular, the cleavage at her chest was as eye-catching as ever, no matter the time.

Naruto Uzumaki looked up, drawn by her words.

Specifically requesting Kakashi? Could it be that mission?

The first thing that came to Naruto Uzumaki's mind was the Land of Waves mission; that had been the starting point of his transformation, the mission that solidified his convictions.

He just hadn't expected that even with such massive changes, he would still encounter this mission.

Kakashi wasn't surprised and simply agreed. As a renowned ninja, many people would subconsciously specify Kakashi when coming to assign missions.

The only thing was that these types of specified missions required extra payment.

Therefore, Kakashi was also quite curious: just who was this wealthy?

Tsunade handed over a mission sheet.

Kakashi took it, glanced at it, and looked somewhat surprised.

"Teacher Kakashi, what kind of mission is it?" Sasuke asked, curiously craning his neck to look.

"It's an escort mission."

Upon hearing it was an escort mission, the first thing Naruto Uzumaki thought of was that old geezer, and he looked around again, not seeing the old man who drank.

While he was still feeling puzzled, Kakashi continued.

"Escorting a celebrity back to the Land of Snow."

This world had celebrities; or rather, it had things like movies.

The technology in this world was quite skewed; it had refrigerators and gas stoves, yet lacked many other things.

Hearing it was a celebrity, Naruto Uzumaki was stunned for a moment.

It's not the Land of Waves? What the hell is this?

Naruto Uzumaki almost didn't react in time.

But the Land of Snow—he felt like he had heard of it somewhere before?

Kazahana Koyuki.

In an instant, Naruto Uzumaki realized; wasn't that from the movie version?

What the hell, how could it appear at this time?

In the moment Naruto Uzumaki was stunned.

Kakashi had already accepted the mission.

"Naruto Uzumaki, do you have any other questions?"

Seeing Naruto Uzumaki's expression, Tsunade asked with confusion.

"It's nothing. Big Sister Tsunade, when can we become Chunin? Being a Genin is so boring."

Naruto Uzumaki thought for a moment and asked tentatively.

He mainly wanted to know if the Chunin Exams would still happen.

"As for that, next month we will hold the Chunin Exams jointly with the Land of Wind. If you have the confidence, you can sign up then."

Tsunade thought for a moment and answered directly.

Naruto Uzumaki breathed a sigh of relief internally.

What he was worried about was the main plot veering off course entirely.

If Kaguya or someone like that showed up early, it would be real trouble.

Now it seemed that some things destined to happen hadn't gone off track yet.