Target: Big Fat Sheep

Target: Big Fat Sheep A few days later, at the main gate of Konoha Village.

"I'll miss you."

"I'll always remember you."

"I'll come back to see you."

Temari looked at her younger brother Gaara, who had stolen all her lines, speechless.

What do you want me to say? Lin Ke patted Gaara's shoulder and said, "If you can't suppress Shukaku later, come find me." He guessed that once they returned to Sand Ninja Village, they would remove the Konoha's Seal.

Sand Ninja Village's level in Sealing Jutsu was quite good. If they really wanted to seal the Tailed Beast, there were many ways, but the problem was that the Seal on the Jinchuriki had to leak the Tailed Beast's Chakra for their own use.

Currently, the only one who could convert Tailed Beast Chakra into their own Chakra was the Eight Trigrams Sealing. Others who wanted to use Tailed Beast Chakra had to take the path of reconciliation.

Even Naruto eventually took this path of reconciliation.

Konoha didn't urgently need an uncontrollable fighting force, so they directly sealed Gaara, but Sand Ninja Village was so poor. The birth of the Kazekage siblings was to create a Jinchuriki. It wasn't until the third child that Chiyo said it was suitable.

Temari was only one year and three months older than Kankuro. Karura continued to give birth immediately after finishing her confinement, which was why she gave birth to the premature Gaara and then passed away.

Many thoughts flashed through Lin Ke's mind, and his tone softened slightly as he said:

"If Shukaku bullies you, you should remember that I can cut off its Chakra, right? Then let me talk to it."

"Yeah!" Gaara slowly smiled.

Temari pretended not to hear anything and looked at Lin Ke, saying, "If I go back to the village, will you miss me?"

"Um..."

Lin Ke was silent for a moment. Why are the little kids in the Naruto World so dramatic?

"Sis, save it," Kankuro waved his hand, reluctantly saying, "Lin Ke Teacher, save some puppets for me. I'll save enough money to come and buy them..."

"What are you talking about!" Temari waved her Three-Tomoe Fan and slammed it on her brother's head with a *thud*.

Gaara stood beside them, showing a helpless expression and sighing softly.

The three of them left noisily.

Lin Ke looked at their backs, his mood also slightly complicated. Another farewell. I don't know when we'll meet again.

He had actually considered becoming a Jinchuriki himself, but he was stuck on the amount of Chakra.

Many people had a misconception that Jinchuriki had a lot of Chakra, but in reality, you needed a lot of Chakra to become a Jinchuriki.

When a Jinchuriki used Tailed Beast Chakra, they would still have their Chakra stolen by the Tailed Beast. Before reaching reconciliation, the two sides were constantly stealing Chakra from each other. Chakra could only be captured by Chakra, so the Jinchuriki's essential need was powerful Chakra.

Unless the Tailed Beast willingly offered its power, reaching the level of a perfect Jinchuriki, people with scarce Chakra naturally couldn't become Jinchuriki.

The hardware conditions just didn't match.

What Lin Ke wanted was the Naruto-brand power bank, the Kurama Naruto who had reconciled with the Nine Tails in the later stages, no longer having his Chakra extracted, but instead being able to release the Nine Tails' full power and charge the Allied Shinobi Forces.

Even Kakashi's Kamui could increase its power by three times in an instant. If it were him, he didn't know how awesome it would be.

[It's possible to try cultivating a Gaara-brand power bank. Simple reconciliation isn't enough. You can also use Sharingan to control...]

Lin Ke pondered. He had already given up on increasing his own Chakra. At his current rate of growth, there would be no qualitative change even by the end of the story. He definitely had to think of a countermeasure.

[In the manga, Sasori and Deidara were responsible for capturing Shukaku, right? Sasori defected from Akatsuki. Should I find a chance to kill Deidara?]

He gathered his thoughts and turned to leave the gate. There were still many things to do next. The plan to cultivate Gaara could be put on hold.

Home, Substitution Jutsu, activate! ——"Click!"

The camera half-deadly spat out a photo.

On it was the back of a woman wearing a dark green coat sitting at a table.

Faintly on the edge, you could see the name of the shop: [Hundred Medicines].

Lin Ke held the photo, feeling that he was a little familiar with the setting of the izakaya in the photo, as if he had seen it somewhere.

Hundred Medicines, Hundred Medicines——

Tanzaku Street?!

Tsunade is still in Tanzaku Street? He was a bit surprised. It's already February, how is that big fat sheep still wandering around Tanzaku Street? What exactly is going on?

But since there's a discovery, then he should prepare to head out.

Lin Ke left a few shadow clones to tidy up the room, activated the Eight Gates Mode himself, first created a Stand, then swallowed a handful of Soldier Pills, and lay on the bed for more than an hour. Only after his body had recovered more than half way did he rush towards the mission assignment office.

The Soldier Pills should also be upgraded, I feel like my appetite has been getting bigger lately.

He's been overexerting his body for a long time, the damage is being offset and extracted, but his weakened body needs more energy to replenish. He eats too much, which has led to his appetite growing larger and larger, and he's also become more and more fond of sweets and meat.

By the way, he doesn't know if it's because he removed the Weights, or because he stopped his crazy physical training, or perhaps it's the overexertion from the Eight Gates Mode? Anyway, his height has recently and very steadily increased by another two centimeters.

At this rate, he's likely to reach the realm of 1.5 meters in the first half of this year!

"Little Lin Ke, haven't you been working a bit too hard lately?"

The Third Hokage sat inside, flipping through the mission requests, and couldn't help but ask with concern. Recently, Lin Ke has been appearing looking weak every day, and it's impossible for others not to notice.

"I'm fine." Lin Ke waved his hand. There's no way to avoid the aftereffects of the Eight Gates Mode. At most, he just looks a little weak. In terms of combat power, he's increased more than twofold. Skipping past this topic, he quickly asked, "Third Hokage, are there any missions to Tanzaku Street?"

"Hmm..." The Third Hokage thought for a moment, then flipped open a slip of paper near the bottom and said, "There is, there is."

"But it's just a D-rank mission. A cat has gone missing from an inn in Tanzaku Street, and they hope someone can help find it."

"That's the one." Lin Ke accepted it without hesitation.

"?" The Third Hokage glanced at the younger ninja and said earnestly, "A ninja is someone who must endure everything. It's best not to indulge in too many desires."

"Especially the three prohibitions for ninja: sake, women, and money." As he said this, he handed over the mission request.

Are you serious? Lin Ke silently glanced at him, recalling the Three Ninja of gambling, drinking, and womanizing, and simply said, "Thank you for your hard work, Third Hokage."

After speaking, he set off directly.

He was afraid that Tsunade would run away if he went too late, which would be very troublesome. It's not easy to brush Hermit Purple, and if he missed it this time, he didn't know when the next time would be.

Leaving the gates of Konoha Village, Lin Ke simply had his shadow clone carry him.

The Eight Gates shadow clone's speed is much faster than his, and the most important thing is that it saves stamina.

After releasing the extreme-effect Substitution Jutsu of the Eight Gates Mode, he would be weak for half a day anyway, so it's always good if he doesn't have to move himself.

"Ugh~" Lin Ke felt a bit uncomfortable being carried. First of all, the shadow clone's hands are the size of his own, which is fine for massages, but when carrying a person, the hands are too small, making him feel quite uncomfortable. Moreover, the posture isn't very comfortable either. Perhaps he should... hmm...

He stopped at the nearest Funfun Street, took out his small wallet, bought a chair, sat down, and had the shadow clone carry the chair and run.

This feeling is quite refreshing.

The Eight Gates shadow clone's stamina is also limited. In order to ensure that it has combat power when fighting, he switched to a normal shadow clone to carry him after setting off for more than ten minutes. Anyway, there are more than a hundred normal shadow clones, and they can rotate back and forth, carrying him twenty-four hours a day.

Halfway through the journey, Lin Ke had a new realization. Simply sitting in a chair is still very uncomfortable. After sitting for a long time, he always wants to change his posture.

Moreover, the chair is too fragile, and he can hear creaking sounds at high speeds. Would it be better to switch to a metal single bed from a hospital? But it seems like it would still be windy on top, or maybe add a cover or something.

Wait, wouldn't adding a cover turn it into a coffin?

Lin Ke suddenly realized, it's better to stick with a chair after all. He'll order a sturdier chair next time.

The shadow clones after all synchronize his physical abilities, so their speed is definitely not slow. Even carrying a chair, they can still run very fast.

In the end, the chair couldn't hold out until the end. It completely broke down before arriving at Tanzaku Street. He had the shadow clone bury the means of transportation and first went to the client's inn to report.

The target is a house cat named 'Shu', which has been missing for the past two days and hasn't returned.

After briefly learning about the places the cat usually goes from the innkeeper, Lin Ke put the mission request in his pocket, ran to a secluded place, used Rashomon to summon Nawaki, and began searching the streets for the target with Nawaki—

Shu Cat (Tsunade)!—Tanzaku Street, casino, slot machine.

Beep beep beep~

7 7 7

"You've won again, Tsunade!" Shizune cheered loudly.

Tsunade, however, had a calm expression, with her arms crossed in front of her chest. She felt like something wasn't quite right.

The feeling of something being off manifested in many ways. For example, recently, she, who was known as a big fat sheep, had been constantly winning, winning, winning. No matter what method of gambling she used, she was winning everything.

At first, she even wondered if she was about to have bad luck, since winning money and then having bad luck was a common occurrence in her life.

She was fully prepared for a fight.

But unexpectedly, she had won all the way until today. If misfortune were to truly strike...

"I feel like the world might be ending," Tsunade muttered to herself.

"What?" Shizune, holding the little pig, asked cheerfully, then said, "Tsunade-sama, this is great news! We're about to pay off all our previous debts..."

If the casinos hadn't started to be so wary of them, they probably would have cleared their debts long ago.

Could it be that my luck has really turned around?

Tsunade touched her necklace, lost in thought. A man with a blank expression walked over and said, "Excuse me, ladies, you're not welcome here."

What casino could accept someone who just keeps winning and winning? This time, they had sneaked in, and they had only hit the jackpot on the slot machines three times before someone came to kick them out.

As for whether any casinos were unwilling to exchange their chips for money? The fat sheep just smiled without saying a word.

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