Matching wits with the village higher-ups and putting on an act in public left Naruto mentally exhausted.
But whenever he returned home and chatted with Sasuke, the entire day's exhaustion vanished in an instant.
Sitting in the bathtub, Naruto thought things over before calling silently, System Panel.
[Golden Shovel System Panel] Host: Naruto Uzumaki. Negative points: 8,711,528. Shock points: 9,963,310. Silver taels: 161,833,345. Talent: Visual Insight LV1. Wood Release, Wind Release, Fire Release, Lightning Release. All Lightning Release Ninjutsu, All Fire Release Ninjutsu. Genin taijutsu, Intermediate Throwing Techniques, Yamanaka Clan secret techniques, Telescope Technique. [Lucky Money Search Function] [Super Beeper] Functions: unsupported ultra-long-distance forced contact, forced reception, ultra-long-distance delivery; new coordinates can be obtained every three months... System inventory slots: Itachi's hair, assorted photos.
Looking at the ever-growing numbers on the System Panel, Naruto felt genuinely grateful to Aunt Orochimaru.
Without their repeated interactions over the past six months, his shock points and negative points probably would never have grown so dramatically.
Next came Juxia Tower, the business he had painstakingly run for five years. If he had not done everything he could to protect Juxia Tower, Ichiraku, and Hongle back then, he might still have been worrying about money.
"System, won't the various forbidden techniques I've obtained be included on the System Panel?"
Naruto had acquired a huge number of ninjutsu and forbidden techniques that evening, yet none of them appeared on the System Panel.
[Ding. Correct. Only items redeemed through the system will appear there.]
Naruto nodded at the system's explanation.
Then he turned his attention to the Lucky Money Search Function.
"Now that I've obtained all the ninjutsu suitable for Sasuke and me to practice, my next task is to help Sasuke master the Shadow Clone Technique."
Having read the original story, he