Naruto and Hinata walked hand in hand until dusk. This small commercial street held so many joyful memories.
Hinata was extremely content. The happiness she gained today was more than the sum of all the past.
He took Hinata back to the inn. After closing the door and seeing the big bed in front of him, Naruto closed his eyes.
"Hinata... Let's... do that..."
Hinata turned her face away, and a blush spread across her cheeks.
"Let's gather chakra and train."
Naruto sat cross - legged on the big bed, gathering the chakra in his body and circulating it throughout his body.
Hinata sat cross - legged beside Naruto, closing her eyes and concentrating on gathering chakra to train.
Suddenly, a puff of white smoke appeared, and Naruto released a Shadow Clone.
The released shadow clone also sat cross - legged and meditated to train.
After a short while, Naruto released more than a dozen shadow clones. In the whole room, there were more than a dozen Narutos and one Hinata.
However, Naruto's shadow clones were in all sorts of postures. Some were sitting cross - legged upside down, some were lying on the ground, and some were hanging on the wall.
When Hinata finished training and opened her eyes, all she could see were Narutos everywhere.
"Naruto - kun, why did you release clones?"
"This isn't an ordinary clone. It's a Shadow Clone." Naruto said, "It's my habit. When I'm training, I unconsciously release shadow clones, which can improve the training speed."
"The more shadow clones I release, the faster the training speed will be."
"Wow!" Hinata's eyes sparkled with admiration.
"Let me teach you the Shadow Clone Jutsu." Naruto began to explain the Shadow Clone Jutsu to Hinata.
Hinata listened attentively.
After some time, Naruto said, "Perform these hand seals, then give it a try. Just think about releasing as many clones as you can all at once and see how many you can release."
Hinata performed the hand seals, mobilized her chakra, and shouted, "Shadow Clone Jutsu!"
Nine puffs of white smoke appeared on the scene, indicating that Hinata had released nine shadow clones.
"Nine. That's better than Sasuke. Sasuke can only release two shadow clones."
At this time, Hinata's real body realized that the situation was a bit tricky.
Because the room was really too narrow.
Naruto had already released more than a dozen shadow clones before, and then Hinata released nine more.
This small inn room was now packed with more than twenty people.
Naruto's shadow clones and Hinata's shadow clones were squeezed together.
When Naruto's real body saw this scene, he almost sprayed out a nosebleed on the spot.
And Hinata's real body felt extremely shy when seeing this.
At this time, the door was opened, and a familiar figure appeared at the door. It was Sasuke who had pushed the door open.
After Sasuke pushed the door open, he saw a bunch of Narutos and a bunch of Hinatas crowded together. The scene was too much to take in.
Soon, Sasuke came to his senses, directly ignored Hinata, and said to Naruto, "Naruto, did you leave this letter?"
Suddenly, all the shadow clones on the scene turned into white smoke and disappeared.
"Tsk, it's Sasuke. You came too early. You've ruined my fun." Naruto complained.
Naruto began to scold Sasuke for not coming a bit later.
Sasuke held up the letter and asked, "The letter says you saw someone with the Sharingan just like me. Is that true?"
"Of course it's true," Naruto said with a mischievous grin. "That guy is so handsome. Anyway, he has the Sharingan, just like you. I heard that only members of your Uchiha clan have the Sharingan, so I wondered if he was your relative."
"Where is he?" Sasuke roared at the top of his lungs.
"Why are you so worked up? Who is he to you?"
"Tell me! Where the hell is he?" Sasuke exuded a murderous aura all over, and the power of the Cursed Seal was gradually being unleashed.
"I don't know either," Naruto said. "Anyway, I ran into him nearby. By the way, who on earth is he? Who is he to you? He's even handsomer than you, Sasuke."
"Itachi!" Upon hearing Naruto's words, Sasuke dashed out of the inn and started searching aimlessly for Itachi Uchiha.
Actually, Naruto had never met Itachi Uchiha before, but he knew that Itachi was after the Nine-Tailed Fox at this moment.
So Naruto simply wrote a letter to Sasuke to lure him out.
The plan went off without a hitch. The letter left for Sasuke didn't have much in it, just a simple line about accidentally encountering someone else with the Sharingan.
With just this little bit of info, Sasuke naturally took the bait because, in his view, there weren't many people in the world who had the Sharingan currently.
Sasuke arrived at the streets of the lodging town, scanning the bustling thoroughfares and the crowds of various people in search of someone.
After reading Naruto's letter, Sasuke didn't waste a second and rushed here non-stop to find Naruto.
Now that he heard from Naruto that there was intel on Itachi Uchiha, Sasuke was even less willing to waste a second. He wanted to find Itachi right away and kill him with his own hands.
Naruto closed the door and looked at Hinata with a mischievous glint in his eyes.
Hinata asked, "Why did Sasuke come and go in such a hurry?"
"Don't worry about him," Naruto said nonchalantly. "Sasuke doesn't realize that there are still many wonderful things in this world worth going after."
"Hinata-chan," Naruto continued. "Do you remember what I once told you? When you're in danger, would you want me to be by your side anytime?"
"Yeah," Hinata nodded.
"You've also seen the Flying Thunder God I just learned. It's a spatial ninjutsu that lets me teleport to marked spots."
Naruto even blushed and was at a loss for words for a moment. "Then... then I may need to... leave a mark on your body, Hinata-chan."
"It won't hurt. As long as my finger gently touches you like this."
"Once this mark is left, it'll never fade away and will always remain. Then I can teleport to your side anytime, anywhere, with no limit on the number of uses."
"..." Hinata lowered her little head and didn't say a word. The atmosphere at the scene began to become awkward.
"Ha ha," Naruto laughed awkwardly twice and continued, "Don't worry about me. The farther the distance this jutsu teleports, the more chakra it uses. Although I lack everything, I'm never short of chakra."
Hinata still had her head down.
Naruto went on, "How about I put a mark on a Kunai and you keep it with you..."
Hinata suddenly lifted her head. Her small face was already crimson. It was difficult for her to utter, but she had to: "I... I want Naruto-kun to stay in my heart..."
Heart? Naruto was stunned for a moment, and his heart started pounding much faster.
Just then, the room door was slammed open again. Sasuke dashed in and yelled, "Naruto! Did you missee? I've searched the entire lodging town, but I couldn't find the person with the Sharingan you mentioned."
After Sasuke finished speaking, he took a closer look and saw that Hinata had unbuttoned the collar of her shirt, and Naruto had a few fingers pressed there.
"This..." Sasuke was also stunned and stared blankly at the two of them.
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