Eye Contact

"Ahhh!!!"

Naruto's pig-like screams came plummeting down from midair.

His eyes were wide with terror, his face frozen in fright. Golden chains wrapped around his body, leaving him unable to move as he fell rapidly.

Just as he was about to crash from the sky into the ground, the golden chains abruptly halted his body in midair.

Naruto stared blankly with wide eyes, looking utterly terrified as he examined himself and found that he was completely unharmed.

Just as he secretly breathed a sigh of relief—

"Ahhh!!!"

"Bang!" "Bang!" "Bang!"...

The chains wrapped around him suddenly began whipping about at high speed.

Though he was only a meter above the ground, every strike slammed Naruto's butt into the earth. It looked painfully brutal.

After his screams continued for some time, the chains finally stopped their torment once Naruto was left teary-eyed.

Tap! Tap!...

Only then did a lovely figure approach from the distance. Her vivid red hair lay smoothly against the back of her head, and her face was frosty as she glared at Naruto and angrily said, "Naruto, you actually dared to pull such a prank!! Has your mother been too lax in disciplining you!!"

Naruto raised his teary eyes. The moment he saw her, his body shuddered.

He hurriedly wiped away the snot and tears on his face, then obediently knelt on the ground. Still bound by the chains, he wriggled like a caterpillar and loudly said in all seriousness, "N-No!"

"It's just that I was too willful... Once Dad gets home... I'll definitely humbly correct my mistakes!"

As he spoke, Naruto secretly glanced around, as though observing something.

As his mother, Kushina naturally noticed Naruto's little movements. A hint of softness flashed through her eyes before she released the chains around him.

At that moment, a smile