Kakashi Hatake, who was reading, suddenly felt a cool breeze blow by, which made him feel refreshed.
Just as he was preparing to adjust to a more comfortable position, a foul stench hit him, making him frown.
As a Jonin, this level of odor wasn’t enough to make him lose his composure, but the breeze carrying this stench was clearly abnormal.
He put away his book, turned his head, and saw a sight that made his vision go dark.
The original river had simply disappeared, revealing the foul-smelling mud at the bottom.
Several of Naruto’s Shadow Clones were standing on the bank, wind-attribute Chakra gushing from their hands, directed right at him.
Kakashi couldn’t help but rub his forehead.
This kid was just like his teacher’s wife, both fond of pranks, and he had even diverted the river.
Thinking of this, he shook his head and moved to another spot to continue lying down.
Sasuke, Sakura, and Naruto, along with a bunch of Shadow Clones, were using the iron shovels provided by Naruto to grunt and clear the mud.
Naruto had made these himself.
Apart from cooking, his other hobby was blacksmithing, for which he had specifically gone to Tenten’s shop to learn for a while.
Besides some tools, he had also forged quite a few weapons.
Although he didn’t know how to use them, they looked cool.
He even planned to forge a “Monkey King” set for himself once he came of age; it would definitely be super cool, although those two pheasant tails were hard to find.
As Sasuke was digging, he suddenly felt his shovel hit something.
He used the shovel to push aside the mud, and what he saw was an object emitting a metallic luster with characters engraved on it, which looked very familiar.
He pulled Naruto over to see if he had seen it anywhere before.
As soon as Naruto took one look, he froze.
On it was a string of characters he was all too familiar with: “Shi Ba Zi Zuo”.
He instantly understood what the “surprise” Kakashi mentioned was.
He hurriedly told his Shadow Clones to run upstream.
Before long, he received news from his Shadow Clones: the upstream area was his private territory.
So, the blockage downstream was actually caused by himself.
Thinking of this, Naruto couldn’t help but slap his forehead.
With a melancholic look, he patted Sasuke on the shoulder, said nothing, and turned back to continue working.
Seeing Naruto like this, Sasuke understood somewhat.
His mouth twitched, and he also turned his head to continue working, though he felt a bit guilty toward Sakura, who was still grunting and digging through the mud with a pained expression.
Naruto took 60% of the blame for the downstream blockage, and Sasuke took 40%.
When they fought, they often knocked all sorts of junk into the river.
This time, they had sabotaged themselves, and dragged Sakura into it too.
Both tacitly agreed not to mention it, fearing a beating.
After clearing the riverbed, the three planned to go home and take a bath.
However, Sakura felt the other two were looking at her strangely, making her wonder if she had been pickled by the stench.
Terrified, she didn’t even say goodbye and ran straight home.
In the afternoon, Kakashi brought the three to the ranch.
The task this time was to clean the ranch and milk the cows.
Sasuke was somewhat reluctant; he thought doing these tasks was a waste of time.
Sakura was fine with it; her focus was currently on medical Ninjutsu, and her head had been aching from reading books lately, so doing tasks to relax was quite nice.
Only Naruto was the most excited.
Although he lived in the mountains in his past life, he had never seen a cow before.
His curiosity about new things filled him with motivation.
Look how fun this is,” Naruto nudged Sasuke and said with a grin.
“Only you would find this interesting,” Sasuke sighed helplessly.
“I really want to do some high-difficulty missions.”
Kakashi looked at the three with some surprise.
He hadn’t expected Sasuke to be the first to lose his patience; he had originally thought it would be Naruto.
However, he didn’t intend to take on C-rank missions just yet; he wanted to polish these three little brats’ temperaments first.
Thinking of this, Kakashi continued reading with peace of mind.
Time flew by, and over a week passed.
Naruto worked conscientiously without showing any signs of impatience, while Sasuke’s expression grew uglier, and even Sakura was gradually becoming impatient.
After all, Naruto knew the plot, so he was waiting for Tazuna.
This old man was dishonest; he had described what was at least an A-rank mission as a C-rank one.
C-rank missions were usually taken by Chunin and Genin.
For a mission to a small country like the Land of Waves, given the Third Hokage’s personality, he would definitely reserve it for a Genin team as a test.
With a Jonin backing them up, doing a C-rank mission was no problem.
The problem was, there were currently only three Genin teams in the village, and Neji’s team was out on a mission.
As for the boss of Tazuna’s mission, Zabuza Momochi, an S-rank rogue ninja who could go back and forth with Kakashi—it was hard to say if Asuma could beat him, but Kurenai definitely couldn’t.
If Kurenai ended up taking the mission, he would probably only be able to drink with Asuma in front of his grave.
And Zabuza would also gain the honor of being hunted across the Ninja World by the son of the Third Hokage and the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki.
As for whether Kurenai would give up the mission at the Demon Brothers?
Naruto’s answer was impossible.
With Kiba there, it was impossible to let Kurenai give up the mission.
Hinata’s gradually growing competitive spirit, which she hadn’t even noticed herself, wouldn’t let her choose to give up either.
Although Shino was more rational, if Kiba and Hinata chose to continue, he wouldn’t refuse.
Therefore, to avoid the above situation, Naruto had to snatch this mission.
However, with Sasuke’s current state, if he wasn’t allowed to vent, he would probably blow up.
Tazuna wouldn’t come to Konoha for at least another half a month, so he couldn’t let Sasuke ruin his plan.
In the evening, Naruto and Sasuke, having finished their training, were lying on the sofa resting, while Naruto’s Shadow Clone was cooking.
It was strange; Naruto always felt his Shadow Clones were becoming less and less normal.
Like this one, every time it appeared, it was holding a kitchen knife.
It didn’t like to fight or train; it just loved to cook, calling itself “Uzumaki Little Master Chef.”
“Little Master Chef, is dinner ready?
I’m starving.” Naruto lay on the sofa listlessly, like a dried-out salted fish.
“Don’t rush me.
Good cuisine requires tempering through a thousand trials,” the voice of the Little Master Chef came from the kitchen.
Soon, he pushed out a dining cart.
There were two plates on the cart, covered by semi-circular iron lids.
Then, the Little Master Chef placed the plates in front of Naruto and Sasuke respectively and simultaneously lifted the lids.
Two dazzling rays of golden light appeared before the three of them as the lids were lifted.
Glowing cuisine!
You actually managed to research this??” Naruto looked at the Little Master Chef with an expression like he’d seen a ghost.
“Heh heh, of course.
You must know I was born for cooking!” The Little Master Chef’s expression was incredibly proud at this moment.
When the golden light shone on his face, Sasuke felt a warmth, and his originally restless heart calmed down a little.
As the golden light faded, two plates of black and white tofu, like exquisite white jade and obsidian, appeared before them.
“Panda Tofu, has the effect of calming the mind and spirit.
Please enjoy.” The Little Master Chef placed the lids on the cart, but he didn’t notice that the cloth on the cart was folded up a bit, and the lid was pressing right on it, causing a very faint light to leak out from inside.
Just as he was preparing to leave, Naruto suddenly called him to stop.
“Tell me, Little Master Chef, did you hide something in those lids?” Naruto stared at the Little Master Chef’s back with a deadpan expression.
The Little Master Chef froze on the spot, standing like a statue, completely motionless.
Seeing that the Little Master Chef didn’t move, Naruto slowly stood up from the sofa and walked toward him.
The Little Master Chef was already sweating profusely.
Seeing that the matter was exposed, he sighed heavily, turned around, made a classic head-knocking and tongue-sticking gesture at Naruto, and then burst into a cloud of smoke and vanished.
Naruto, who received the Little Master Chef’s memories, was stunned for a moment, then quickly ran to the cart and flipped the two lids over.
“You brat!
I was wondering where the glowing cuisine came from!
You’re playing this trick on me, huh!
That’s really something!!” Naruto gritted his teeth in anger.
Sasuke looked up at the two inverted lids and was instantly speechless.
The so-called “glowing cuisine” was just the Little Master Chef installing two light bulbs in the lids and using the light reflected off the smooth surface of the Panda Tofu.
“You brat, not studying cooking properly and messing around with this nonsense all day.
Just wait until you come out next time!” Naruto pushed the cart back to the kitchen angrily and opened the remaining dishes.
Sure enough, there was a light bulb in every lid.
He threw the lids aside, put the other dishes on the cart, pushed them out, and set the whole table full.
His and Sasuke’s daily training volume was terrifying, so they ate a lot every day.
It took this whole table of food plus a large barrel of rice for the two of them to be full.
Honestly, he didn’t know who ate more, him or Hinata, but it didn’t matter.
He could afford to raise her no matter how much she ate; the ingredients were endless anyway.
“Naruto, this dish, you did it on purpose, right?” After the meal, Sasuke pointed to the plate that held the Panda Tofu and said to Naruto.
“Yeah, you saw through it, huh.” Naruto made the same head-knocking and tongue-sticking gesture as the Little Master Chef, which made Sasuke’s forehead twitch with black lines.
“Stop acting cute, it’s disgusting.
Why did you suddenly think of making this dish?” Sasuke looked at Naruto with an extremely disgusted expression and said.
“It’s because I saw you were always restless lately, and your training was distracted, so I thought I’d help you calm down.” Naruto shrugged, then leaned back on the sofa, pillows his head with his hands and said.
“…Thanks, but…”
However, before Sasuke could finish his sentence, Naruto interrupted him.
“I know you want to become stronger and want revenge, but in your current restless state, your training won’t achieve the desired results.
In this state, can you really become stronger?”
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