Chapter 49: Damn Uchiha Obito

In a modest room, a large tatami mat lay in the center.

This was the room the Tazuna family had specially prepared for Team 7, for them to rest during their mission.

The room's window was open, looking out onto the sea.

A breeze carried the salty, damp air of the ocean.

It was the scent of the sea.

Naruto idly thought about eating seaweed.

Just then, Sakura's voice broke Naruto's reverie: "Kakashi-sensei, since Gato, our client, was taken out by Zabuza, does that mean our mission is complete?"

"It should be."

Kakashi stroked his chin thoughtfully. "But to prevent any mishaps, we still need to remain vigilant until the last day."

"Your three... two of you must not stop training!" Kakashi looked at the trio, then changed his requirement to two.

"Yes, Sensei!" both Sasuke and Sakura replied.

"Mm."

Kakashi then looked at Naruto, asking with concern, "Naruto, what have you been training recently?"

Me?

Naruto snapped back to attention.

What had he been training recently?

Thinking about it carefully, ever since he discovered the special ability of his SSSSSS talent, not only were his clones learning various skills,

he, the main body, was also using this bug—no, this feature—to learn more skills.

For example:

Every day, he'd play six rounds of "Landlord" with the Nine-Tails to train his gambling skills. In a few days, he'd be able to max out the gambling skill to "Gambling God."

The ninja world was vast, and casinos were just ATMs.

Also, yesterday he'd become obsessed with wood carving.

His experience points were soaring, and it looked like he'd max it out again in about a month at most.

However, none of this could be said.

"Uh, Kakashi-sensei,"

Naruto deliberated before speaking, "I've been training Wood Style recently. Yeah, that's right, I've been trying to fuse Earth Style and Water Style to see if I can awaken Wood Style."

At these words, all three pairs of eyes immediately turned to him.

Wood Style, that was the First Hokage's bloodline limit.

Sakura: Is Naruto going to learn the First Hokage's Wood Style too? My decision to learn medical ninjutsu was definitely the right one.

Sasuke: Damn it, is Naruto getting even stronger? How do you learn Wood Style? I'll definitely learn it within three years!

These two were overly trusting of Naruto.

They didn't understand the difficulty of synthesizing a bloodline limit, much less the rarity of Wood Style and the complexity of its fusion.

But Kakashi understood.

Hearing this, he merely sighed.

He had a friend, Yamato, who was a Wood Style ninja.

He later learned how many sacrifices had been made to produce a single Wood Style user like Yamato.

The village had conducted its own experiments, sacrificing many lives, but all attempts to synthesize Wood Style failed.

Orochimaru had also conducted related experiments in secret, sacrificing nearly a hundred more children, and in the end, only one succeeded and survived: Yamato.

Since the village's founding, how many astonishingly talented ninjas had been born in Konoha, yet not a single one had been able to synthesize Wood Style and become a Wood Style ninja.

Could Naruto do it?

Kakashi didn't want to directly deny him, but logic told him the probability was close to zero.

"Go for it, Naruto. Sensei believes you can succeed," Kakashi said with an encouraging smile.

Naruto gave a thumbs-up, flashing his standard brilliant smile, his white teeth gleaming.

"Don't worry, Kakashi-sensei, I will definitely succeed!"

"However,"

Suddenly, Naruto lowered his head, looking troubled, as if something was bothering him greatly.

"What's wrong?"

Looking up, Naruto pleaded earnestly, "There's something extremely important. If I can't do it, I'm sure to fail! So please, you absolutely must help me with it!"

"Oh?"

Kakashi was utterly confused.

What could possibly be so important that he absolutely had to help with it?

"Heh!"

At this moment, Sasuke suddenly sighed in exasperation.

He seemed to understand what Naruto was about to do.

Sakura, meanwhile, looked at him, bewildered.

Just then, Naruto revealed his true intentions, "Please, Sensei, when you go back, you must meet with Hana-san. She's a truly wonderful older sister, and I hope she can become our sensei's wife."

Kakashi, Sakura: -_-||

Sasuke: Heh, just as I thought.

Naruto was puzzled by their expressions.

I'm worrying myself sick for Kakashi-sensei!

Do you guys want Kakashi-sensei to die alone?

"Please, Kakashi-sensei, this is my once-in-a-lifetime request."

Sasuke and Sakura caught on and looked at Kakashi with great anticipation.

Stared at by the expectant gazes of the three, Kakashi found it a bit hard to handle and replied helplessly, "Alright, since you put it that way, I promise you."

It was just meeting someone, he wasn't going to die just from being seen.

Naruto, Sasuke, Sakura: Great! This is going to be a show!

Sasuke went off to train ninjutsu with Kakashi, while Sakura stayed in the room, training medical ninjutsu alone.

The training space could generate plants like trees and flowers, but not animals like birds and beasts.

So Sakura could only train medical ninjutsu in reality.

This also had an advantage:

Sakura's monstrous strength taijutsu training at night wouldn't be affected. She could focus on one in the daytime and one at night, making both medical ninjutsu and monstrous strength taijutsu primary focuses, completely uninterrupted in her path to becoming a 'violent woman.'

As for Naruto?

He was sitting on the rooftop, enjoying the sea breeze, his mind immersed in the battle arena, searching for someone!

"Uchiha Uchiha... Uchiha... What was his Uchiha name again?" Naruto muttered fiercely, selecting an opponent in the training arena.

A few days ago, when he went to vent on Uchiha Madara, he found a "'Uchiha Madara'" with quotation marks, so he chose him.

Upon entering, Naruto discovered that this guy, in terms of resemblance to the 'Uchiha Madara' described by the Nine-Tails from the 'Nine-Tails' Attack', was not just similar, but at least identical.

So, Naruto went in and beat that person up.

This "'Uchiha Madara'" had a strange dojutsu (eye technique); it was space-time-based, and he could also use Wood Style.

After knocking off the mask of the fake Uchiha Madara, a face appeared that Naruto didn't recognize at all and had never seen before.

He knew who the culprit was, but Naruto didn't recognize this culprit.

This greatly frustrated Naruto.

And trying to get information by chatting with NPCs in the battle arena was incredibly difficult.

The NPCs in the battle arena weren't real people; they were genuine AIs.

For example, this masked fake Uchiha would constantly yell about 'Rin,' and 'I'll create a world where you exist!'

It was completely baffling.

So, at this moment, Naruto could only enter the battle arena again and start searching for a needle in a haystack.

On the character selection screen, he clicked the search bar and typed 'Uchiha.'

The search results showed thousands.

It was simply too many; Naruto couldn't possibly look through them all.

But he had plenty of time, so looking through them one by one didn't bother him.

"Next... next... next... huh?"

Naruto's gaze sharpened. "Finally found you, damn U-CHI-HA OBI-TO!"

The first major grudge on his little notebook finally had a target for revenge.

Excellent!

"The 'Fourth Mizukage Controlled by Genjutsu' special feature on the Land of Water, is it coming out soon?" Suddenly remembering this, Naruto quickly asked 'Media Mogul Naruto' in the channel.

He got the result: it was in final layout.

He'd change it right away!

He had originally planned to have Uchiha Roku-tsutsu (Six Paths) claim responsibility for the incident.

But now, it seemed this blame could be completely placed on Uchiha Obito's head!

"Let the whole world see your true face, Uchiha Obito!"