Chapter 198 I Like It Very Much...

"What's going on?" Naruto asked Ino.

"I don't know, I'll go up and have a look."

Ino stood up and walked away from the counter. Halfway up the stairs, he turned and looked back at Naruto, pointed at the cocoa on the table and said angrily.

"Drink it all."

Naruto didn't know what offended her. He glanced at the steaming sweet drink on the table and remained indifferent.

"What do you do when you are loneliest?"

"The whole point of explosive art, of course."

On the outskirts of the forest of the Kingdom of Sichuan, the green trees were like jade, and Deidara showed a slightly crazy smile to Scorpion.

Xie said no more and controlled the Fei Liu Hu puppet to move forward.

"Don't go, did I say something wrong?" Deidara chased after him, "No matter it's loneliness or any other emotion, it will all be sublimated at the moment of the explosion."

He said excitedly while waving his hands while walking sideways beside Scorpion.

"Senior, art is the eternity of a moment, and so is explosion."

Xie was still controlling the Feiliuhu puppet to move forward slowly. The puppet was ugly, with a hunched back, and its body was completely covered by the red cloud and black cloak.

"Let's go." Scorpion's voice came from inside the puppet, "Since we have decided to capture the tailed beast, why not take advantage of the turmoil in Sand Hidden Village to take action early, what are we waiting for after procrastinating?"

Scorpion was a little irritable, he was originally just a pure avenger. Konoha White Fang killed his parents, and Chiyo kept it secret from him. But lies cannot stand in the sun, they will eventually melt in the sun.

He sought revenge and killed everyone responsible, but got the news that Konoha White Fang had committed suicide.

I originally joined the Akatsuki organization with the purpose of venting hatred, but found that the level of this organization seemed to be a bit mixed, and its work was also grinding.

Akatsuki was no longer the Akatsuki who was purely vengeful, which made him feel even more bored.

"Although I say that, I also feel that the people in the organization have no brains." Deidara knocked his head and said, "Although they keep talking about great goals, I always feel that they are just talking. "

"Those two disgusting immortal guys have been making money here and there in the past few years. They occasionally kill some people, but they don't seem to have done anything else. They are wandering around like headless flies. They are getting worse and worse by staying here. It’s boring.”

"If it wasn't for the purpose of surpassing Uchiha Itachi, I would have left a long time ago. What kind of people are they recruiting? There are a lot of weird guys. They either like money or are heretics."

"A group of people who don't understand art at all and have no pursuit at all."

Deidara complained a lot, like a junior complaining about the company in front of his elder brother. He glanced at Scorpion with a slightly respectful look and suggested.

"This mission is boring anyway, why not drop by Sunagakure Village to have a look?"

"You can't act without authorization even after it has passed. It's meaningless." Xie said.

"Okay." Deidara looked indifferent.

He could have played with black clay in the office, but instead chose exploding clay. I don't want a junior sister with beautiful legs, but she was recruited after being fooled by Uchiha Itachi.

To him, everyone in the Akatsuki organization is a talented person, but their words are hard to hear.

Explosions are art, but it feels so uncomfortable to not be recognized.

Fortunately, the senior is also an artist. Although his skills are a bit abnormal, he still has some sense of topic. Although I always feel that the seniors don't really approve of the organization, and they look like they are going to defect if they don't agree with each other.

However, as long as you can hang out for a day, you can bomb people everywhere.

Cool~!

In the mountain flower shop.

Naruto sat in front of the counter, his whole body enveloped in warm light. The thunderstorm outside showed no sign of letting up. Ino hadn't come down from upstairs yet, and he was the only one left in the store on the first floor.

Looking at the white foggy street at the door, my thoughts gradually drifted away.

I don’t know what the Akatsuki organization is doing, but it’s really difficult to deal with it. Just the immortal duo is extremely difficult to solve.

He is not the original Naruto, and there is no other version of Naruto. His gift of words is tantamount to silent critical strikes, but these only serve to enrage and psychologically damage his opponents.

Encourage people to improve? It seems a little difficult.

I don’t know when the system will issue a reward for 100% mouth escape, but I guess it’s not something so outrageous, otherwise it might be possible to issue a halo reward for the protagonist next time.

But then again, since there is no mouth escape and the halo of the protagonist, the villain's wisdom will naturally no longer exist.

After thinking over and over again, Naruto came to a conclusion.

Hang!

For now, the development of the plot is quite normal, but it has also changed the direction of many things.

Jiraiya had already gone to investigate the Akatsuki organization in advance. Before he returned to the village, no one knew the movements of the Akatsuki organization. Perhaps the plan to capture the tailed beast has been advanced, or perhaps it has been delayed.

Everything is unknown.

Judging from the information currently obtained, the four major countries are all focusing on Sunagakure Village. After all, it is the inheritance of the position of Kazekage, which directly affects the future status of the Kingdom of Wind.

What everyone likes to see is the disintegration of the Kingdom of Wind, the so-called whale falling, and the birth of all things.

As for the country of wind's placer gold, chakra mines, and purple gilt, all countries are watching. Once there is a real problem with the Wind Shadow inheritance, it will only be a matter of time before the Kingdom of Wind is cannibalized and annexed.

He didn't know how many days he would be able to take off. Looking at the heavy rain outside, he secretly thought to himself that it would be great if he could notify the gathering on the last day of the holiday.

There was movement from upstairs. Ino stopped at the corner of the stairs, but had no intention of coming down.

Naruto looked up at her and realized that she had put on a blue apron. She waved to him with a hint of helplessness on her face, gesturing for him to come up.

"Me?" Naruto pointed at himself.

Ino nodded, didn't say anything, just sighed. With her hands on her hips, her golden hair hung down by her ears, covering her fair neck.

He held on to the wooden stair railing and went upstairs, only to hear the girl's voice.

"My mother said I would keep you for dinner."

Boom!

There was a heavy rain outside the store, and lightning illuminated the dimly lit first floor of the flower shop, leaving the dimly lit counter empty.

The two of them were standing on the stairs, one high and one low.

"Is it just because of my aunt's wishes?" He looked up at her, as if he would not go upstairs if he could not wait for a reply.

Ino was a little helpless, with an expression on his face that said "I don't know why you have so many troubles", and he exhaled and said.

"That's what I meant."

"That's good." He smiled and walked past Ino.

But when he went up to the second floor, he walked back. Ino thought he was going to say something again, but in the end, Naruto just hurried downstairs and brought up the hot sweet drink.

"Are you drinking?"

"Don't drink."

"But I won't drink it either. It's almost cold. It would be a waste to leave it alone."

"Just waste it." Ino frowned. She didn't know what Naruto was up to, but she still had the patience to argue with him.

"Take a sip," he said.

"I don't."

The two people made a lot of noise on the stairs. Yamanaka Reino changed into a set of home clothes and looked down from the living room on the second floor.

"Come up and talk, it's quite tiring just standing there."

"Okay." Ino sighed and took the cup from someone's hand. She wanted to go upstairs like this, but she saw Naruto looking at her indifferently.

She took a perfunctory sip from the cup, turned around and went upstairs.

"You kid, can't you come up here and drink? You have to have someone bring you a hot drink." Yamanaka Reino said a few words and got out of the way.

"Oh." Ino entered the kitchen angrily.

Naruto sat upright on the sofa in the living room on the second floor, looking towards the kitchen from the corner of his eye. Yamanaka Reno went to the balcony and seemed to be collecting clothes. The balcony seems to be connected to the room without having to pass through the living room.

The heavy rain crackled against the windows, and the outside of the balcony was completely white. The flowers placed on the stone platform trembled in the cold rain and wind.

After a while, Yamanaka Reino walked out of the room.

Even after taking off her makeup and putting on home clothes, she still couldn't conceal her graceful and luxurious temperament. Like a royal concubine in a TV series, every move she makes exudes elegance.

"It's raining too hard." She walked through the living room to the kitchen, as if talking to Naruto and Ino, "The ninja school is surrounded by parents."

"Parents were everywhere picking up their children. The iron gate of the school collapsed and the entrance was in a mess. The children couldn't find their parents and were wandering around there."

"In the past, our Ino could handle this kind of weather without even having to pick up the weather. After all, he is a ninja, and he should be responsible for it at a young age."

"If it rains too much, it's safer to pick it up." Naruto put forward his opinion in a low voice.

Of course, this was just a casual remark. After all, it was just casual conversation. It was impossible for Yamanaka Reno to turn around and find a time machine to go back to Ino's childhood to pick her up from school just because of a word.

Perhaps Ino herself had long forgotten that one afternoon when she got wet and everyone was taken away. She could only look at the heavy rain curtain alone and think about when to run home.

Fortunately, there is no shortage of orphans in the ninja school, and there are many children running around in the rain.

That's probably it.

Ino in the kitchen lowered his head, chopping vegetables in silence. Being too good in people's memories is sometimes not a good thing, and many not-so-good memories can never be forgotten.

So much so that an unintentional remark would make her feel sick in her heart again. But he can't show anything on his face. He is too considerate and will find it troublesome when he wants to be willful.

Even expressing grievances can be troublesome.

There was no point in discussing the issue of whether to accept it or not. Yamanaka Reino didn't take it to heart. He paused for a moment in the middle of the living room and gave Naruto a polite smile.

"That's right." She said lightly.

She became a ninja at the age of twelve, found someone she liked at the age of fourteen, married Yamanaka Haiichi at the age of eighteen, and did not fall in love with that silent man until she was twenty-one.

Her youth was not bright, but she was very lucky.

There is no need to say a word to the person you like, so there is no beginning or end. She maintained her decency, as was her wont.

Yamanaka Haiichi allowed her to continue her dignity and gave her all the dignity of a noble lady. She has a happy family, a flower shop, and even the birth of a daughter is so reliable that she doesn’t have to worry about it at all.

Naruto looked at that decent smile and also smiled.

"yes."

He answered appropriately and did not say unnecessary inappropriate words. Watching Reino Yamanaka enter the kitchen, she then heard two people talking quietly from the kitchen.

He leaned on the sofa, not so restrained, and took a pillow and pressed it on his chest as a fulcrum. The sofa faced the balcony, and a slender bolt of lightning flashed beneath the clouds.

There was a bang and thunder shook.

Naruto was completely in a daze, staring at the heavy rain outside the balcony, thinking about what happened some time ago. Thinking about whether Orochimaru would be very angry if he couldn't find the Death Mask, and suffer the burning feeling in his soul forever.

Not long after, Ino walked out of the kitchen with warm cocoa, without an apron on her body, and she probably handed it over to Reino Yamanaka.

She didn't say anything and sat directly next to Naruto, with some distance between them.

After a long time, Ino whispered.

"Thanks."

He turned his head and stared at Ino. The girl suddenly looked away, looking a little embarrassed in her hurry.

"no need thank me?"

Hearing this, she hesitantly shook the cup that was no longer hot, and tightly circled the outer wall of the cup with her ten fingers. He used so much force that his finger joints turned slightly white.

"What you just said." She whispered, her voice so weak that it could only be heard within the range of the sofa, "You said you should pick me up."

"I just said it casually. After all, it can't be realized." He said frankly.

"I know." She said, holding the cup tighter with her fingers, as if she wanted to absorb the remaining heat inside, "I know everything."

"I got caught in the rain and came home soaked. There was no one at home, my father was still busy at work, and my mother didn't know where she was."

"But at dinner, my mother praised me, and I seemed to feel a little better at that time. In fact, it was no big deal, they all loved me."

Naruto handed the pillow over, and Ino was stunned for a moment, then put the cup down and took the pillow.

She will curl up, as if trying to squeeze the pillow into her little body. His voice was a little erratic at this time, and his mood seemed a little unstable.

But soon everything became normal again.

"But thank you anyway."

"I actually don't care that much about getting caught in the rain. I just want to retort sometimes, but I always find it too troublesome and I don't want them to mention it again."

"They think it's something worth showing off, but every time I mention it, I feel a little uncomfortable for some reason. I just have no reason to tell them not to mention it again, and I don't know how to say it."

The thunder was deafening, and the frame of the floor-to-ceiling window on the balcony shook twice.

Taking advantage of the silence for a moment, she turned her head and looked at Naruto. He pursed his lips and spoke softly, but his tone was different from usual.

"I'm very happy now that someone can speak for me."

A smile appeared on her face, a smile from within.

"I like this feeling very much, and I like it very much"

Boom!

The violent thunder sounded, more deafening than before, and lightning flashed across the white light on the balcony. He saw Ino's lips moving, but the sound was completely covered by thunder.

I went to get my rabies vaccination today. I will update more tomorrow.