Chapter 187 Twenty-Seven Masks

"This place" Ino, wearing a thin blue sweatshirt and a hood, looked back at the dark red torii gate, "How many years has no one been here?"

Hearing this, Naruto thought about it and realized that the last Uzumaki clan member in Konoha was probably Kushina.

"It's been more than ten years."

"Ah?" Ino shrank, "It's only been more than ten years and it's been abandoned like this?"

"Is there a possibility that it was abandoned more than ten years ago?" Naruto couldn't help but corrected, "This is the Uzumaki clan's shrine, and no one has been here for a long time."

"Huh? Uzumaki clan?" Ino looked at Naruto.

"I just found out." He smiled, "Although my name has the same surname, that's it. I don't know anything else."

A broken water tank in the yard caught Ino's attention. She raised her foot and was about to walk over, but Naruto held her back.

"Where to go?"

"There's a water tank over there." She pointed towards the corner of the rubble pile, "There seems to be something wrong."

"Don't wander around here." Naruto glanced at Ino with a complicated look, "That thing is not a water tank. Please take a closer look before talking."

"But that's obviously a water tank." Ino was a little confused and turned to look again.

There was no water tank in the overgrown corner. There was only a pile of white bones that could not be distinguished from humans or animals. Around the pile of bones, there were a few strange purple flowers blooming.

"Ah!" Ino was so frightened that she broke into a cold sweat. It turned out to be a hallucination, "I knew just now..."

"It's okay, just don't get close there." Naruto pulled her and held the girl's hand. "There's not much danger here. Just follow me and you'll be fine."

A dilapidated shrine is, to put it bluntly, an empty grave. Naruto wasn't too nervous, the ones doing this were the masks hanging in the shrine.

Gently kicking the door open with your foot, the shrine was empty, with only some fallen rubble on the ground. In the empty inner hall, it was so quiet that only the footsteps of the two people could be heard.

A gust of wind blew, causing the broken door to squeak.

"Naruto, did you hear that someone was laughing?" Ino swallowed and kept looking behind him, as if something was following them.

"No." Naruto said without changing his expression.

"It seems like she's crying again." Ino's whole body was almost pressed against him, holding his hand tightly and not letting go, "Naruto, should we leave here first."

The girl's voice was trembling, and Naruto could feel Ino's grip on his hand gradually getting stronger. She was still retreating in a low voice, and her scattered thoughts echoed faintly in the empty inner hall.

She asked whether she should bring Shikamaru and the others with her, as it might be safer if there were more people. Naruto just listened, his eyes focused on the twenty-seven masks on the wall.

To Ino's casual thoughts, he occasionally nodded and responded with a "hmm".

Some things can't be avoided, they will come as they come. Whether it's funny or not, he has decided on the Uzumaki clan's inheritance, even if the Sage of Six Paths comes, it won't be of any use.

Twenty-seven evil ghost masks hang on the wall, each mask is hideous, and the death mask is in the middle.

"Stand here and don't move." Naruto said suddenly.

"Ah? Then what are you going to do?" Ino was a little scared. Thinking of the cry, her face turned pale. "Am I standing here alone?"

"I'm not going anywhere, just here." Naruto let go of Ino's hand, looked around, and then picked up a long stick at the base of the wall.

Ino stood there honestly. An hour ago, she thought she was following Naruto to a certain shrine to pray for blessings. Who knew she was a little panicked now.

Things took a strange turn, and she stood in the middle of the shrine's inner hall, shivering.

The door panel creaked again, and this time there was obviously no wind. Ino saw footprints appearing on the ground, and the mask on the wall stared at her sadly.

There is something very wrong with this shrine!

The direction of the footprints stopped three meters away from Ino, and then went straight towards Naruto. Ino opened her mouth to remind him, but found herself speechless.

Naruto seemed completely unaware that something was wrong with the surrounding situation. He stood under the mask wall with the long stick he picked up, poking and poking in an attempt to take off the mask.

Ino clearly saw that the series of footprints had come behind Naruto. Her body was completely frozen, unable to move or speak, she could only watch helplessly.

Suddenly, with a snap, a mask fell from the wall.

Naruto bent down to pick it up, and suddenly heard the sound of wind coming from behind, and couldn't help but feel a little strange. Ino watched Naruto suddenly turn his head, but the fallen evil ghost mask was already on his face.

call!

All the sounds disappeared, and the inner hall of the shrine fell silent again.

Ino suddenly felt that he could move, and took a big breath, as if he had never breathed before.

"Naruto, behind you!"

Halfway through her words, she froze again. Because there were no footprints in front of Naruto who turned around, as if everything just now was an illusion.

"What's behind?" Naruto took off his mask and asked doubtfully.

"No, it's nothing." Ino asked uneasily, "Can I go over to your side now? I'm a little scared."

"Come here, it's okay." He waved to Ino to come over.

After standing next to him, Ino breathed a sigh of relief, turned to look at the mask in his hand, and asked.

"what is that?"

"It's just an ordinary mask." Naruto threw it into the sealed space.

Then he pointed to the remaining twenty-six masks on the wall and said, "Wait for me for a while, and then I can leave after I take off all these masks."

"good."

Naruto said to Ino while taking off the mask.

"I told you that you don't have to come with me. There's not even a living soul in this place."

Ino said nothing, knowing that now was not the time to vent her anger. It wasn't until Naruto threw all twenty-six masks into the sealed space and the two of them slowly exited the Uzumaki clan's barrier that she pinched Naruto's waist hard.

"Ah!!" Naruto screamed, "Ino, you are going to kill me!"

"You deserve it." Ino said angrily.

"Why do I deserve this?" Naruto took a breath of air and touched his waist while saying, "Wait, tomorrow will come, I won't have you in the future."

"What are you whispering there?"

"Nothing, it seems like someone is talking to me, did you see it?"

"Ah!!" Ino screamed, his face suddenly turned pale.

"I'm just kidding, you're so nervous, you're just trying to liven up the atmosphere." Naruto said in a mean tone.

Ino: "."

This man is so damned!

"So you're afraid of those things?" Naruto and Ino walked side by side, slowly heading towards the village.

"You must be scared. Who is not afraid of those things." Ino said with a clear mind, "I will definitely not come to a place like this with you next time. It's too scary."

"Haha, what you saw is just an illusion." Naruto explained, "Where do so many strange things come from in this world? Just don't take it to heart."

"Of course I know." Ino said bravely.

"It's still early, where do you plan to go?" Naruto suggested casually, "If nothing happens, just stay at my place."

"Hmm? What excuse are you making again? You foot fetishist."

"You misunderstood me too much." He said casually, his eyes wandering in the early spring woods, "Is there a possibility that I am more than just a fetishist for feet?"

"Oh, really, I'm so sorry! I misunderstood you, pervert!" Ino raised the corner of her mouth slightly and said with her hands behind her back.

"I don't want this either. It's all because Ino is too cute."

"Hmph, are you already being shameless? You can say such shameful words without blushing and without a beating heart." Ino was already immune to the saucy words he would throw out from time to time.

Ino looked a little cute when he said this. He accepts cute compliments openly and openly, but he still has to arrogantly call others a pervert.

Girls with this kind of attribute are definitely rare, and there may be fewer people who like them. Oh, he happens to be one of the audience, and he really enjoys the flirtatious insults of beautiful girls.

Ino has a very pure personality, and she happens to be the kind of opponent who will continue to grow, but she is also like a girl who will immediately blush if she speaks more forcefully.

"I'm telling the truth. I haven't seen Ino for a long time, so I miss her very much," he said.

"Oh, have you used lies to such a natural level now? I don't believe it." Ino seemed to be in a good mood, and his thinking became more active.

If it were normal times, she would be shy first and then doubt the authenticity of what Naruto said. But now she can see through it at a glance. Is it really because she has become more sensitive?

Naruto suddenly felt a little relieved, as if he had finally cultivated Ino into someone he was familiar with. It seemed that he couldn't simply say something to make her shy in the future.

But there is another way.

Taking a deep breath, Naruto ran forward and then turned to look at Ino. The distance between the two was about thirty meters, and the forest was deep and quiet.

"What's wrong with you?" Ino was a little confused and didn't know what Naruto wanted to do.

"Ino, you are so cute!!!" Naruto shouted loudly towards Ino, flapping and flapping, frightening the birds in half the forest.

"Eh? Eh!!" Ino's face turned red at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the shame was too strong, "What are you shouting about!"

"You pervert! Don't run!"

The next day, the sky was clear outside the window.

After Naruto washed up, he went out and walked alone on the road of Konoha Street, slowly joining the flow of people on the street. The air in the bustling streets is humid and hot.

At this time, the advantage of having few friends becomes apparent.

Even if he returned from the disaster at sea, there were only a few friends who had time to see him. The third and eighth teams were on missions outside the village and would not come back soon.

When they come back, they will probably be surprised to hear that they returned from the sea without any injuries. He wanted to see Inuzuka Kiba's reaction, as he would probably be very jealous of his genius leadership ability.

In short, life has returned to its normal state.

It seems that Fenghua Koyuki and Haruno Sakura have physical problems, probably due to the experience of drifting at sea. It is also possible that as soon as you relax, you will fall ill. He has heard many such cases.

He walked slowly on the road. Today he was going to the hospital to see Haruno Sakura and Fenghua Koyuki. After Hongdou, he was discharged from the hospital and had no health problems.

Routinely visit teammates and check to see when the mission target can recover and be discharged from the hospital. Although it is a bit unkind to say this, the fact is that only by restarting the mission can he get the reward of Flying Thunder God.

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