In March of the 35th year of Konoha, Shiroha and Kushina were promoted to the sixth year.
Both are already 11 years old.
After nearly three years of tug-of-war, Iwagakure and Kumogakure finally stopped fighting and made peace.
Sunagakure Village, which has always had border disputes with Konoha, has frequently violated the border recently.
A heavy atmosphere of 'a storm is about to come' enveloped the entire Konoha.
The embers of the Second Ninja War may be rekindled.
But no matter what, Bai Yu will definitely have to wait until next year to graduate.
As an excellent medical ninja in the reserve force, it was impossible for the village to let him "send death".
Let’s get through the dangerous period first.
With Konoha's current strength and foundation, he should be able to defeat Sunagakure.
...
August 9
The central area of Konoha Village.
There is a tall building facing Hokage Rock.
After Tsunade and Naoki moved away from the Senju clan, the village arranged to move into a high-end apartment here.
At this time, Tsunade mysteriously called the rope tree to the top of the building.
"Nao Shu, I wish you a happy 12th birthday!" Tsunade took out a gift box from behind and handed it to Nao Shu.
"I'm not a child anymore, I don't want any birthday gifts!"
Shengshu took the gift, raised his head slightly, turned his face away, and pushed the gift box back insincerely.
He said no, but his happy tone could not hide it.
Tsunade said with a smile: "Aren't you acting like a child? Open the gift quickly and take a look. You will definitely like it!"
After saying that, Tsunade leaned back against the railing with a calm expression.
Naoshu's curiosity was fully aroused. He opened the gift box and saw that the palm-sized box contained a blue-green gemstone necklace.
He picked up the necklace with a surprised look on his face:
"Sister, is this...?"
Tsunade nodded with a smile: "Yes, this is the Hokage necklace left by grandpa."
"I like my sister the most!" Naoki threw himself into Tsunade's arms excitedly.
"You've always wanted this, Rope Tree, right? I think you are more suitable to own it than me, so you should cherish it."
Tsunade sounded like she was coaxing a child.
"What I want is not just this, but also the village! This village is the treasure left by grandpa, and I want to protect this village!" Shengshu put on the necklace, his eyes full of hope. He looked down, half All Konoha can be seen.
"That's so well said! If you are a man, you must keep your word!" Tsunade looked at the rope tree fondly.
Naoki nodded heavily and said determinedly: "Yes! I am the grandson of the first Hokage who founded Konoha. One day I will inherit the name of Hokage like my grandfather... Hokage is my dream!"
"Rose Tree, take off the forehead protector."
"What?"
"Okay, take it off quickly. I have another gift! This is a technique that can make your dreams come true!"
Tsunade stepped forward and untied the rope tree's forehead protector.
Then, she gently kissed Naoshu's forehead.
Naoshu's face turned red.
The two siblings looked at each other and smiled.
"whee!"
"hey-hey."
"Um...it seems I came at the wrong time." At the entrance to the rooftop, Bai Yu's figure appeared there. Seeing the two siblings giggling, he felt that maybe I came at the wrong time.
"Bai Yu! You can't run away this time." Sheng Shu quickly ran to Bai Yu.
Naoki was away on a mission on his birthday last year, and Tsunade was not in the village either.
He will definitely accept Bai Yu's gift this time.
Bai Yu said: "I just knew that today is your birthday, so I came to see you. I have already prepared the gift.
Kushina first went to the restaurant to book a room, and also checked whether the precious ingredients were complete.
There is a big meal waiting for you later! "
Although the high-end restaurant is under Kushina's name, its business is usually very good, and the two of them don't go there to eat all the time, so they don't reserve a room.
If Kushina didn't reserve a seat early, she might have to wait if she arrived late.
In the past two years or so, Bai Yuguang has been practicing making magical items, spending at least hundreds of thousands of taels on raw materials.
However, Bai Yu is also familiar with the production process of demonized items, and the [Barrier] spell has become the spell with which he is most proficient.
Although he didn't know the specific time of Naoki's death, Bai Yu remembered that he died after receiving the Hokage necklace on a certain birthday.
Now that Bai Yu saw the necklace around Shengshu's neck, he had a rough idea.
He turned the magical item with the [Barrier] spell sealed into it to look like a birthday gift.
The main reason is that he is afraid that the rope tree will not be carried with him, so when preparing for his birthday, he reminds him and uses the threat of breaking up the relationship to make the rope tree wear it all the time.
What he made was a bracelet with two [Barrier] spells sealed inside.
Shengshu smiled and said, "I wish you could remember my birthday."
Since he was accepted as a disciple by Orochimaru who was on the frontline battlefield, he did not enter the class system.
Before Orochimaru returned to the village, Naoki basically performed low-level tasks alone, or with other classes, but he always felt that something was missing.
It was Bai Yu's appearance that made him feel like a companion!
"The food there tastes really good, but the wine is a bit weak. It would be great if grandma gave me the izakaya next door." Tsunade said with a smile, with a sense of sigh in it, and she missed Mito a little. .
"Hmph! Sister, grandma just knows that you are a bad drinker and like to gamble. She is probably afraid that you will lose all the property she left behind, so she gave it all to sister Kushina!" Naoki said. Do not care.
"What nonsense are you talking about?!" Tsunade's face fell.
"Why else would grandma ask you to hand over all your savings to me for safekeeping?!" Shengshu continued to hit.
Bai Yu's face froze and he suppressed his smile.
"Damn little devil! Give me back the gift! I won't give it to you!" Tsunade shouted angrily.
In front of Bai Yu, does she not want to lose face?
"That's right! He doesn't look like an adult at all." After saying this, Shengshu ran directly downstairs.
"Don't run!"
Tsunade gave chase.
The scene of deep brother-sister love just now disappeared immediately.
...
In early September, when the ninja school had just started.
News came from the Kingdom of Rain that there were Konoha ninjas burning, killing and looting in the Kingdom of Rain.
Although it was false information at first glance, out of Hanzo's mercy, the Third Hokage ordered Tsunade and Orochimaru to lead the team into the Kingdom of Rain and quickly eradicate the people pretending to be Konoha ninjas.
At the same time, what is more important is to recall Jiraiya who has been in the Land of Rain for three years.
Rope Tree also went to the Kingdom of Rain with the team.
Of course, Konoha's side also prevents Sunagakure Village from sending a small group of elite troops to detour from the Country of Rain into the Country of Fire.
After all, Sunagakure's puppet master army is very famous.
As for Konoha's large forces, they were stationed at the western border of the Country of Fire and were ready.
I originally thought that with Bai Yu's demonized items at hand and the usual reminders, Shengshu could escape the disaster, but unexpectedly, bad news came from the front line.
"How could this happen?! Can't the double [barrier] block the detonating talisman?"
Bai Yu just arrived at Konoha Hospital at noon and learned a bad news.
Naoki followed Orochimaru to encircle and suppress wandering ninjas. When the frontal battlefield battle was over, when chasing the enemy's small group of fleeing ninjas, he accidentally hit the detonating charm trap because of his rash advance.
Although he did not die on the spot, he was seriously injured and unconscious.
I was just sent back to the village.
If Orochimaru hadn't brought the rope tree to Tsunade immediately and took care of him all the way, the rope tree might have died on the way.
No one thought that with Orochimaru's protection, Naoki would be seriously injured and dying.
Orochimaru himself probably didn't expect that the rope tree would fall into such a low-level trap after his careful training.
