When they parted, Hinata invited Naruto to watch the Chunin Exam Finals in half a month.
Although Hinata didn't participate in the Chunin Exam, her brother-in-law Neji made it to the finals.
Moreover, several Genin from the Sand Ninja Village, whose strength far exceeded the standard, withdrew from the competition due to the death of their village's Kazekage. Neji had a good chance of winning the championship in this Chunin Exam Finals.
If Neji won the championship, it could greatly increase the reputation of the Hyuga Clan, and Hiashi also attached great importance to this.
Naruto accepted Hinata's invitation.
Recently, he only had one thing on his schedule, which was to go to the Hidden Mist Village to help Terumi Mei with the coup. The timing was after the Chunin Exam, so it wouldn't delay him from watching Neji's match.
The two parted ways, and Naruto returned home. His body went to sleep, but his mind entered the Sealing Space, where he and Kurama, who was looking at chemical formulas, started studying together.
After Hinata returned home, she was blocked at the door by an angry Hanabi before she could even enter.
"Sister, you clearly promised to practice Gentle Fist with Hanabi this afternoon!" Hanabi questioned Hinata.
"I went to see Naruto-kun."
Hinata touched her younger sister's hair and spoke frankly and generously, without the shyness she showed in front of Naruto.
If Hinata in the manga was shy and introverted, then Hinata in reality was more cheerful, generous, and strong-willed. She only became gentle in front of Naruto.
Hearing this, Hanabi's eyes lit up, and then she complained, "Did Naruto-nii treat you to something delicious? Bad sister, you didn't even call me. Tell me quickly, what did you do before..."
"Okay," Hinata agreed with a smile.
After the two sisters took a bath, they began a night of talking about Naruto until they felt sleepy and went to sleep together.
The next day, the two sisters, as usual, washed up and started eating breakfast.
Hinata ate ten bowls of Ramen without changing her expression, as well as Sushi, Beef, Shrimp, and Crab...
Although Hanabi had learned from Hinata the secret that the more you eat, the faster your Chakra and Pupil Power grow, and she was working hard to eat, she was still far behind Hinata.
In the end, after eating half of Hinata's portion, she despondently gave up the idea of catching up with Hinata, who was still eating.
After resting with her sister for a while, she began her training for the day.
While Hinata began her training, Naruto also began his daily training.
However, this time he placed his training location outside Yanbo Town. The body strengthening training program changed from the previous weighted running to using a sword to split the sea, preventing the seawater from approaching him.
This kind of training was very exhausting and tested the practitioner's insight. Naruto could only start training after opening his Sharingan. He was working hard to try to develop a powerful Sword Intent that could split the sea with a single sword.
While training, Naruto also created an extra Shadow Clone to do some things.
So, just as it was time for lunch, Sasuke, who had finished his hard morning training, hadn't had time to think about what to eat.
He saw Yamanaka Ino, a blonde beauty with a single ponytail, approaching with a lunch box and a warm smile on her face.
Before she got close, he heard Ino greeting him enthusiastically, "Sasuke-kun, long time no see."
"Why is she here?" Sasuke muttered to himself in confusion.
Since graduating from the Ninja Academy, this was the first time Sasuke had seen Ino, and even before that, Ino had never come to this forest to look for Sasuke.
Because she didn't know Sasuke was training here.
The reason she was here today was naturally because Naruto told her.
Naruto had only said a simple sentence: "Ino, have you seen Sasuke recently? Sakura is gone, and without any girls around, Sasuke-kun must be lonely."
To be honest, Ino was very envious of Sakura, who was assigned to the same group as Sasuke, and could spend time with Sasuke day and night. But now that she learned Sakura was gone, Ino felt her chance had come!
So, Ino spent a long time carefully dressing up and preparing exquisite food to find Sasuke.
"Forehead girl is indeed not here. It seems my chance has come. Go for it, Ino!" Ino scanned the surroundings and found the entire forest extremely quiet, with only Sasuke alone.
Overjoyed, she cheered herself on.
Sasuke had learned the three secrets of Cheng Ge without a teacher: don't take the initiative, don't refuse, and don't take responsibility.
Of course, compared to Cheng Ge, Sasuke had a resurrection armor and wasn't too afraid of being chopped with a wood axe.
Although he was a little puzzled as to why Ino would come here, he didn't bother to get to the bottom of it. He ate the exquisite bento made by Ino while chatting casually with Ino for a while.
Then, he watched Ino leave with a happy face.
This matter was like opening a valve. In the following days, girls began to come to see Sasuke one after another with various small gifts such as flowers, food, and fruit.
These girls who came were basically the same age as Sasuke.
Some were students in the same grade as Naruto and the others when they were in the Ninja Academy, and some were one grade higher or lower than Naruto and the others.
They had one thing in common: they were all quite cute and had a good impression of Sasuke.
In addition to that, they had another thing in common, which was that they were very easy to fool.
With a few words from Naruto, they excitedly came to find Sasuke. And to ensure their success rate, Naruto had specially taught them some ways to please Sasuke and get along with him.
Although Sasuke instinctively felt that these girls who suddenly came were a little strange.
But these girls were cute, spoke nicely, gave him gifts, and knew enough to not disturb his training, only coming during his breaks.
Sasuke couldn't say he liked their presence, but he didn't hate it either, and he acquiesced to their existence.
Time passed day by day, and the frequency of these girls coming wasn't high.
But eventually, one day, they all came to find Sasuke at the same time, in the same place.
So, Sasuke experienced for the first time what is called a shura field between girls.
Looking at the five cute girls looking at him with pitiful eyes, asking him to uphold justice, Sasuke, caught in the middle, felt very uncomfortable. He racked his brains but didn't know how to resolve the situation before him.
And he didn't have the decisiveness to learn Naruto's way of handling things.
In the end, Sasuke chose to run away.
It was also at this time, after calming down, that Sasuke realized that Naruto hadn't come to train by the waterfall for several days.
And he encountered him every day when eating at the Hot Spring Hotel, which made him ignore this matter.
"I seem to have been tricked by Naruto!" Sasuke muttered uncertainly.
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