UGB Chapter 152 Karin doesn't seem to be awake yet! Let's go check on Sasuke first!
Chapter 152 Karin doesn't seem to be awake yet! Let's go check on Sasuke first!
Chapter 152 Karin doesn't seem to be awake yet! Let's go check on Sasuke first!
The door opened, and Naruto peeked out. Seeing two figures standing outside, he immediately exclaimed joyfully, "Perverted Sage! You're back!"
His gaze then fell on the blonde woman beside Jiraiya, and he couldn't help but show a hint of curiosity. "Who is this?"
Jiraiya laughed heartily and waved his hand enthusiastically, introducing, "Naruto, this is Tsunade, one of the legendary Sannin!"
At this point, he lowered his voice and added, "She is also a master of medical ninjutsu who can heal any injury."
"W-What?!" Naruto's eyes widened in shock as he looked the beautiful woman in front of him up and down. "Is this the female ninja who can heal any injury?!"
Tsunade nearly rolled her eyes at Naruto's use of the term "big sister," her pretty face hardening as she crossed her arms in an annoyed tone: "Hey, kid, who are you calling 'big sister'?!"
"Ah, sorry!" Naruto belatedly scratched his head and chuckled, "I just got excited and couldn't help it—"
Looking at the blond-haired, blue-eyed boy in front of her, Tsunade was slightly startled: Is this cheerful and sunny brat the son of Minato and Kushina?
She really looked like Minato. A complex look flashed in her eyes, but she quickly regained her previous arrogance.
Seeing Naruto's sheepish smile and apologetic expression, Tsunade's face darkened slightly, and she gave a "humph" in response.
Jiraiya nodded in satisfaction, about to bring up the matter of Xiang becoming his apprentice: "By the way, Naruto, quickly call Xiang..." However, before he could finish speaking, Naruto suddenly slapped his forehead, interrupting Jiraiya and excitedly shouting, "That's right! Sasuke's leg can be saved!! With Tsunade-sama here, Sasuke's injury will definitely be healed soon!"
He looked at Tsunade with an urgent expression, "Lady Tsunade, please come to the hospital with me right away! Sasuke's leg injury can't be delayed any longer!"
Caught off guard, Tsunade was pulled back a step by Naruto, her big eyes widening in surprise: "Hey! What hospital? I never said I had to work when I got back!"
She is Tsunade, the dignified Senju, not some lowly doctor who can be ordered around by anyone!
Seeing this, Jiraiya quickly stepped forward, grabbed Tsunade's shoulder, pulled her aside, and whispered, "Please, Tsunade! If you want to enter that dream, you need to build a good relationship with Naruto first! Saving someone is just a piece of cake for you, isn't it?"
Tsunade's eyebrows furrowed, and she was about to retort, but then she thought about it again and realized that Jiraiya's words also made sense.
Her main purpose in coming back was to experience the so-called magical dream of "seeing old friends".
If we don't make a good impression on this kid, it probably won't be so easy for him to get involved.
Moreover, treating her injuries was really nothing to her.
Thinking this, Tsunade grunted and reluctantly nodded: "Hmph—Fine!"
Overjoyed to receive Tsunade's permission, Naruto immediately grabbed her and rushed towards the hospital. Jiraiya had no choice but to follow behind. The three of them hurried towards Konoha Hospital.
Naruto was filled with anticipation.
When Naruto visited Sasuke in the hospital over the past few days, although Sasuke seemed indifferent on the surface, Naruto could still sense that Sasuke was actually very concerned about whether he could make it to the Chunin Exams soon.
With the exam date fast approaching, he didn't want Sasuke to miss the opportunity because of his injury!
On the way, Jiraiya stroked his chin in confusion and couldn't help but ask, "Where's Kaori? Why haven't I seen her with us?"
Naruto, who was hurrying along, scratched his head upon hearing this and replied dismissively, "Kaori doesn't seem to be up yet! Never mind her, healing Sasuke is the priority!"
Upon hearing this, Jiraiya couldn't help but roll his eyes a hundred times.
"Hey, Naruto,"
He stood with his hands on his hips, glaring at his impatient disciple, and said, half-teasingly and half-reproachfully, "Aren't you a little too concerned about Sasuke? You've completely forgotten about some important matters, haven't you?"
"Huh?" Naruto was taken aback, his steps slowing slightly as he turned to Jiraiya with a blank expression. "What important matter is it?"
Jiraiya sighed, feigning helplessness, and scoffed, "I thought someone had brought back a remarkable medical ninja, all of a sudden."
"I was planning to introduce him to someone as a master—but now I only have eyes for Sasuke, and I've completely forgotten about that."
Naruto opened his mouth, then retorted confidently, "Sasuke was injured after all! Even though he's a bit clumsy and likes to pretend, he's still a comrade!"
Naruto looked completely at ease at that moment.
Jiraiya was speechless for a moment when he saw Naruto's appearance.
He looked his apprentice up and down, his expression a mixture of amusement and exasperation.
Tsunade, who was walking ahead, had long been impatient with the two's dawdling and ignored their bickering. She simply turned around and urged, "What are you two dawdling for? Hurry up and catch up, I don't have time to walk with you!"
"Coming, coming!" Naruto quickly responded and quickened his pace to catch up.
Jiraiya shook his head, glanced at Naruto who still had nothing but Sasuke on his mind, and decided not to say anything more. He quickly followed after him, and soon the group arrived at Konoha Hospital.
Naruto ran up to the second floor of the inpatient ward, pushed open the ward door, and shouted, "Sasuke! Great news! Your leg can be saved!"
Naruto's loud voice echoed through the hospital corridor, causing patients and their families in other wards to frown and look at him sideways.
The nurse on duty in the room ran over upon hearing the noise and scolded Naruto angrily, "Hey! This is a hospital, no loud noises allowed!"
Naruto shrank back, quickly waving his hands with a forced smile, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry—"
Sasuke Uchiha, who was resting on the bed, was also woken up by Naruto.
Seeing Naruto standing panting at the door and the unfamiliar blonde woman beside him, Sasuke was slightly taken aback: "Naruto?"
"I don't need your introduction, I'll speak for myself." Tsunade strode into the ward and looked Sasuke up and down.
Although Sasuke's face was somewhat pale, he was in good spirits. His left leg was wrapped in a thick plaster cast and lay flat on the bed.
Tsunade frowned and stepped forward, gently pressing on the area of her leg outside the cast to assess the injury.
Upon examining the wound, she was speechless: "Just this minor injury? Was it really necessary to make such a fuss and call me all the way here?"
Hearing her say that, Sasuke looked away somewhat embarrassed.
Naruto, disregarding all that, pleaded with a grimace, "Lady Tsunade, please don't underestimate his injury! Even a minor injury is serious for Sasuke! The Chunin Exams are starting in a few days, and if he recovers slowly, he definitely won't make it to the exams. So please, you must help him! Please!"
Tsunade was getting impatient and was about to explode when she suddenly remembered Jiraiya's earlier advice that if she wanted to participate in the dream, she had to get along well with this brat.
Suppressing her displeasure, she walked to the bedside and said in a low voice, "Fine, let's get treatment done, so you don't keep making a fuss!"
After saying that, she bent down and placed her palm on Sasuke's left leg, which was in a cast. A soft, emerald-green chakra quickly gathered in her palm.
Sasuke felt a warm energy seep through the plaster into his flesh and bones, and a strange tingling sensation came from the broken bone that had been aching slightly, and the pain quickly subsided.
Before long, Tsunade withdrew her hand, not even a drop of sweat on her forehead, clearly indicating that this treatment was effortless for her.
She turned to Sasuke and said calmly, "Alright. You can walk tomorrow, and in two or three days at most, your leg injury will be completely healed."
Sasuke was overjoyed upon hearing this.
Although the cast has not been removed and he cannot confirm it with his own eyes, he truly felt the tingling and warm sensation during the treatment.
He bowed deeply to Tsunade, his voice trembling with emotion, and said solemnly, "Thank you so much, Lady Tsunade!"
Tsunade waved her hand dismissively, "Hmph, nothing to worry about."
"Great!! Sasuke, did you hear that?!" Naruto jumped up, excitedly waving his arms and punching Sasuke's headboard. "You can get out of bed and move around tomorrow! We can participate in the Chunin Exams together!"
Soon, a day had passed.
There weren't any particularly interesting dreams to dream about that night, and the system collected very few emotion points.
However, tomorrow night will be different.
Shi Yu glanced at her system panel.
The dashboard displayed: "Dream Experience Ticket" cooldown time has ended, and "Secondary Dungeon" cooldown time has also been reset.
Shi Yu's lips curled into a slight, meaningful smile: "Heh, finally I can start playing something interesting again..."
The following night, the stars twinkled and the bright moon hung high in the sky.
In a secluded mansion in Konoha Village, Hiruzen Sarutobi lay fast asleep on his bed.
Half-asleep, the bed suddenly creaked softly, and then one side of the bed seemed to collapse, as if someone was carefully lying down on it.
Hiruzen Sarutobi groggily opened his eyes and vaguely sensed a warm body beside him!
Who is it?!
Hiruzen Sarutobi instantly regained his senses, a chill running down his spine and straight to his head.
He sat up abruptly in bed, scanning his surroundings warily as he reached for his ninja tool pouch beside his pillow.
However, in the dim light, he found nothing.
The ninja tool pouch is gone?
[Ding! An emotional fluctuation from Hiruzen Sarutobi has been detected! Emotional value +800!]
Hiruzen Sarutobi's heart pounded wildly, and he broke out in a cold sweat.
Yesterday afternoon, Kakashi reported information about "Uchiha Obito"—that guy is said to possess a strange eye technique that allows him to freely travel through space and time, and can appear anywhere without warning.
Could it be that, without my knowledge, that guy has already sneaked into my house?!
Thinking of this, Hiruzen Sarutobi felt his hands and feet turn ice-cold.
He suppressed his fear, abruptly threw back the covers, and shouted, "Who is it?!"
As a ray of morning light shone through the window, a figure could be seen lying flat on the bed!
Hiruzen Sarutobi's pupils constricted sharply as he demanded in a stern voice, "You are a—"
Hiruzen Sarutobi, using the dim moonlight to focus his gaze, saw that the figure on the bed was a middle-aged woman with short, graying hair, wearing a plain-colored nightgown.
Her face was kind, with a few shallow wrinkles at the corners of her eyes, and she was gazing contentedly at Hiruzen Sarutobi, who had suddenly stood up.
Hiruzen Sarutobi's mind went blank, and he blurted out the other person's name: "Biwako?!"
His voice trembled slightly with disbelief—the person lying on the bed was none other than his wife, Sarutobi Biwako, who had passed away many years ago!
[Ding! An emotional fluctuation from Hiruzen Sarutobi has been detected! Emotional value +1000!]
auditorium.
Today's audience includes Jiraiya, Kakashi, Naruto Uzumaki, and Danzo Shimura.
At that moment, everyone stared intently at the figure that suddenly appeared on the screen, their hearts skipping a beat.
Jiraiya murmured in disbelief, "Th-that is?! The old man—he actually dreamed of Biwako-senpai?!"
Danzo Shimura snorted coldly, his face full of disdain, and said, "Hmph, Hiruzen has really gotten old! When he went into that dream, instead of thinking about anything else, he dreamed about this kind of thing!"
He was secretly furious: Is that all? What makes Koharu and the others think I'm inferior to Hiruzen Sarutobi!
Every time I enter that dream, it's either about retirement or a warm bed!
What makes Hiruzen Sarutobi compare to him?
Even in his dreams, he's still striving for the title of Hokage!
[Ding! Emotional fluctuations from Shimura Danzo have been detected! Emotional value +500!]
"Kakashi-sensei," Naruto asked in a confused tone, tugging at Kakashi's sleeve, "who's that old lady?"
Kakashi gazed at Biwako Sarutobi on the screen with a complex expression, and explained softly, "She is the wife of the Third Hokage."
Jiraiya nodded in agreement and added, "She helped many people in her life. When you were born, she was the one who delivered you."
"What?!" Naruto exclaimed in surprise, his eyes widening in shock. "Then how come I've never seen her before?"
Kakashi sighed, his heart heavy with sorrow as he thought of the tragedy orchestrated by Obito: "Because in reality, she, like your parents, also sacrificed herself on the night you were born."
Upon hearing this, Naruto's previously blank expression darkened instantly. His fists clenched, and he muttered, "It's that—that night, that damn masked man!"
Kakashi lowered his gaze, his right hand unconsciously clenching, a deep sense of self-reproach and pain welling up inside him.
[Ding! Naruto's emotional fluctuations have been detected! Emotional value +500!]
[Ding! Kakashi Hatake's emotional fluctuations have been detected! Emotional value +1000!]
on the screen.
Sarutobi Biwako also sat up in bed, looking at her husband, who was covered in cold sweat, with concern.
She took out a handkerchief and gently wiped the sweat from Hiruzen Sarutobi's forehead: "Hiruzen, what's wrong? What happened? Why are you sweating so much?"
The familiar touch on his forehead jolted Hiruzen Sarutobi awake.
He gazed at his wife, who remained gentle and virtuous, and then realized that he had once again entered that magical dream!
The previous dream experience was still vivid in his mind, so Hiruzen Sarutobi quickly calmed down and realized that what he was seeing was not reality.
His throat tightened, and he suppressed his surging emotions, staring intently at his wife's face, which he had longed for day and night. He felt a lump in his throat and his eyes welled up with tears.
The trauma caused by the Nine-Tailed Fox's rampage was also heart-wrenching for him.
Not only Minato and his wife, but also his wife Biwako died that night!
When he arrived at the scene that year, he saw Biwako's body lying quietly in a pool of blood. This scene is still etched in his memory, and Hiruzen Sarutobi still feels heartbroken when he recalls it.
[Ding! An emotional fluctuation from Hiruzen Sarutobi has been detected! Emotional Attitude +1000!]
Hiruzen Sarutobi took a deep breath, trying to calm himself down. He reached out and covered Biwako with the blanket he had just pulled off, and chuckled somewhat awkwardly, "Hehe, I'm getting old, I can't sleep well anymore. I just had a nightmare."
Sarutobi Biwako smiled upon hearing this, her eyes full of relief: "What else could possibly frighten you like this? You haven't been Hokage for years, yet you still worry about these things all the time."
Looking at his wife's considerate and gentle appearance, Hiruzen Sarutobi felt both gratified and relieved.
He was just about to take this opportunity to catch up with his wife when a series of urgent knocks on the door broke the quiet of the early morning, interrupting the cozy atmosphere inside.
Hiruzen Sarutobi frowned deeply: "Why now of all times!"
Biwako, being considerate, patted the back of his hand and said softly, "Coming to see you so early in the morning, I'm afraid something important has happened to Zhu. You should go and check on him."
Hiruzen Sarutobi nodded helplessly, quickly picked up the shirt hanging by the bedside and put it on. He turned back and looked at his wife deeply, his eyes filled with both great ambition and a trace of reluctance.
Biwako Go smiled gently, his eyes full of understanding and support.
Hiruzen Sarutobi shook his head, trying to calm himself down from the excitement of reuniting with his wife.
He gently stroked Biwako's hand and whispered, "I'll be right back."
She immediately got up, grabbed the light brown kimono hanging by the bedside, and quickly put it on.
"Knock! Knock! Knock---" The knocking on the door became more urgent than before.
Hiruzen Sarutobi pushed open the door and saw an Anbu member standing under the porch—a white cat mask with a white sash representing the Hokage's direct forces wrapped around his right arm.
"What is it?" Hiruzen Sarutobi frowned.
Why would the ANBU member, who is now the Hokage Minato Namikaze, come looking for someone who has already retired, so early in the morning?
The ANBU member knelt on one knee, urgently reporting, "Lord Hyuga, something terrible has happened! Hyuga Hiashi, the head of the Hyuga clan, has killed the leader of the Kumogakure delegation! The Kumogakure delegation is causing trouble, and the Fourth Hokage summons you to the Hyuga clan immediately to discuss and resolve the situation!"
Hiruzen Sarutobi was utterly stunned: "It's at this time?!"
[Ding! An emotional fluctuation from Hiruzen Sarutobi has been detected! Emotional Attitude +500!]