The secret meeting hosted by Konoha, Satsuki and Yunyin Shangnin representatives ended in less than two hours.

After the meeting, Shikamaru quickly walked into the corridor and took a breath.

Although the meeting lasted only two hours, the negotiation process felt exhausted.

Although he basically didn't say a few words during the meeting, just staying with so many women seemed to be particularly exhausted and made him feel even more excited about this meeting.

"Hey, the one from the Nara family."

Just as he was about to lift his feet and leave the corridor, someone suddenly called Shikamaru from behind and asked him to stop.

Shikamaru, who turned his back to the visitor, tickled his tongue without the other party noticing it, and the expression on his face had a strange subtle feeling.

As if he didn't hear the person behind him calling him, Shikamaru's steps suddenly accelerated.

"Wait for me, Nara Shikamaru!"

As the loud sound approached, Shikamaru found that his body could not move forward. Someone pressed his shoulder with great force from behind, forcing him to leave.

Then he became stronger and stronger, and he further forced his body to turn behind him, from a back-to-face position to a face-to-face position.

I saw a mature female face - Temari.

You are as troublesome as my mother... Shikamaru wanted to say this, but when he saw the other person's face mixed with a hint of unanimous and powerful look, he swallowed this sentence back into his stomach.

"Did you call me?"

"Of course, otherwise who do you think I'm calling?"

Temari frowned in dissatisfaction, and looked directly at him, as if a needle was stabbing on a person's face, making Shikamaru subconsciously want to turn his eyes away.

"After all, you're talking about 'the one from the Nara family'... I thought you were calling another."

Shikamaru sold his father Shikaku without hesitation.

"If it was Mr. Lu Jiu, how could I use such an impolite tone?"

Temari was speechless.

In other words, if you ask me, you can use this condescending tone? Shikamaru was filled with depression.

However, after only a moment of depression, Shikamaru calmed down.

In terms of administrative level, Temari, as a Uchino, is indeed above him. Although the two are not ninjas in the same village, the Uchinori will eventually appear weaker when facing Uchinori.

"Looking at your expression, do you don't want to talk to me? Are you dissatisfied with me?"

Temari opened her words and didn't know how to hide them. She asked Shikamaru what she thoughts in her heart.

She has a good eye and can tell at a glance what Shikamaru is deliberately avoiding.

"No, I'm just thinking about what I was at the meeting just now."

"It's still just the negotiation stage, and it's not time to take action. It's still early to take action."

Temari shook her head.

"You can't say that. Your opponent is a dangerous ninja like Orochimaru. You have to face this matter seriously as you deal with a war. Any carelessness may lead to the failure of the mission."

Shikamaru's face turned upright.

Temari was slightly stunned, nodded, and said, "You are right. A guy like Orochimaru is indeed worth treating like this. However, I always feel that you are still avoiding me because of something else."

"How is it possible? Konoha and Saki are allies, I'm really thinking about things." Shikamaru sighed and continued, "After that, why are you the only one here? Are I Gaara and Kankuro not here?"

"No, I'm the only one here. They are still resting in the village and will not go on a mission soon."

Temari thinks this is not a secret, so she answers this question from Shikamaru.

"Then how did Gaara and Fengying become?"

Shikamaru asked about this sensitive thing again.

He learned from Naruto that Gaara had attacked his father Rasa in his previous joint operation, which led to the scorpion taking advantage of the situation, which almost caused Fengying to die.

Such a father-son relationship can no longer be described as bad. Instead, they clearly have blood relationships that are thicker than water, but reality is like enemies with blood feuds.

Temari sighed, her eyes drifted to the street scene outside the corridor, and subconsciously replied: "What else can you do? I always feel that the relationship between them is more rigid than in the past. I also learned from Anbe that Gaara took action against her father. Although it is a bit disrespectful to her father, if it weren't for the cruel method he used to cultivate Gaara, Gaara would not have become like this."

Speaking of this, Temari's tone was full of resentment.

Part of this resentment is directed at Gaara, and more on his father Luo Sa.

Even as a daughter, she feels that her father’s past behavior is too extreme and bad.

"It seems that even Fengying's family is full of difficulties and obstacles. However, it is better for people to live than anything else."

Shikamaru used these words to comfort her.

"Don't worry, my heart is not so fragile. Next, I should have to stay in Konoha for a while, so I'll be my guide. Speaking of which, I haven't visited this village well yet."

Temari patted Shikamaru on the shoulder and said to Shikamaru with a smile.

Shikamaru took away Temari's palm on her shoulder and sighed, "I understand, but there is nothing to see in this village, so don't be disappointed."

After seeing a commercial city like the Kingdom of Ghosts, Shikamaru, who originally thought Konoha was prosperous and affordable, suddenly felt that the village where he was located was no different from the countryside. It can be said that food and clothing can be said to be, but it is still a bit too far away from the level of prosperity and prosperity.

Compared with the industry of the Kingdom of Ghost, the Kingdom of Fire and Konoha are doing too badly in this regard, and it is only in its infancy at present.

If we talk about the traditional big country, which country has the fastest transformation and the most active transformation is undoubtedly a thunder country that attaches importance to the development of national strength and is a traditional big country with the fastest transformation towards an industrial country.

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"Damn it, and it didn't work!"

Looking at the huge pit created by the ninjutsu that failed in front of him, although it looked great and had amazing destructive power, Naruto felt that the ninjutsu was too unstable.

If it weren't for his own chakra being strong enough, he might have exploded in the moment he condensed in his hands.

In that case, not only will you not be able to hurt the enemy, but you will first send yourself to heaven.

"What's going on with this technique? It was obviously still..."

Recalling the scene when he was fighting with the scorpion, the wind attribute property changes were added to the Rasengan, and the extremely hard shell of the scorpion was smashed with one blow, Naruto found that he could not find the feeling he felt at that time no matter what.

Or maybe, such a scene was an accidental result born in desperation.

——Your heart is in chaos, Naruto.

Minato's voice sounded in Naruto's heart, calming him down.

——Uh, sorry, dad. But, do you have any good solutions? It is really difficult to add wind properties to the spirewan.

Naruto gasped.

——Of course, Rasengan is a highly difficult A-level ninjutsu. If the nature changes to deal with it are added, it will evolve into an extremely terrifying S-level ninjutsu. There are extremely high introductory requirements for the chakra amount and chakra control of the craftsman.

And it is a process from nothing to something. Minato never thinks that this is a ninjutsu that can be completed suddenly.

With the characteristics of the seal, it means that such powerful ninjutsu can be released anytime and anywhere as long as there is sufficient chakra to attack the enemy. If Naruto can really easily complete this move, then it may not be difficult to surpass the Five Kages.

However, the unformed wind-attributed spirulina shattered the shell made by the scorpion with Yin-Yang escape. Although it has the amplification effect of the immortal art, it also shows how terrible this art is.

This is a feat that he failed to accomplish during his lifetime.

——What should I do next?

Naruto wiped the sweat from his face.

——I’ll be here today. Your chakra is almost squandered, and there are wounds on your fingers and arms. It’s better to find someone to bandage them with a medical bandage.

Although Naruto has many chakras, a considerable number of them are used to suppress the nine-tailed chakras.

Although now with his help, even if Naruto squanders chakra to the bottom, there will be no accident, but this will undoubtedly reveal his existence.

He doesn't want to be involved with Konoha's ninja now, because this is for Konoha's goodness and to protect himself.

Nowadays, the leaves are full of holes, and no one knows where a spy will suddenly appear.

Watergate is extremely cautious about this matter.

Moreover, the reason why he survived was to investigate the truth about the Kyuuba attack on Konoha that year, and to compensate Naruto and train him to become a unique ninja.

Konoha...Minigo's heart was filled with a darkness.

Now he still loves the village that raised him since childhood, but while he loves him deeply, he also has a hint of alert.

——I understand, so let’s stop here today.

Not knowing what Minato was thinking, Naruto breathed a sigh of relief and removed the shadow clone technique around him.

A strong sense of fatigue immediately rushed into Naruto's body, causing him to sit on the ground, gasping for breath, and spitting out white gas from his mouth.

——Compared with this, you lack sufficient combat experience between you and the top ninja. If you have the opportunity, please find Mr. Jiraiya to make up for the gap in this area.

Mizuno reminded him again at this time.

——Is this necessary?

——Required. Needless to say, the child named Itachi is not necessary. When fighting with Scorpion, you should be clear that without the help of Sandami Chiyo, you would never be able to calculate his actions. And to be honest, compared to the enemies you will face in the future, Scorpion of Red Sand is actually not a very strong opponent.

——Isn’t this a strong opponent?

Naruto swallowed.
To be continued...