Chapter 184: Father and Son Meet
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As Naruto's voice fell, dozens of blondes descended from the sky. A large puff of smoke exploded in the air. After the smoke slowly dissipated...
Snow-white bodies were like a sea of blooming cherry blossoms; charming young girls with disheveled clothes and eyes glistening with spring water appeared.
"Douhuan-sensei~" Sweet voices from all directions continuously assaulted Uchiha Douhuan's eardrums.
Seeing this scene, it was Sasuke and Neji who were left stunned on the spot.
Previously, Naruto had said he had a secret ninjutsu, one that even Kakashi, the legendary Sannin Jiraiya, and the leisurely retired Third Hokage had all fallen victim to.
Initially, Sasuke and Neji had high hopes for this move of Naruto's; otherwise, they wouldn't have stalled for so long on the front lines. But they never expected Naruto to pull off something like this.
Uchiha Douhuan smiled helplessly but showed not a hint of tender affection. Several consecutive bolts of lightning descended from the sky, blasting the various girls Naruto's clones had transformed into into misty fragments. Then, he brought his scabbard down on the forehead of the real Naruto, who was sneaking up trying to snatch the bell.
"Why did it turn out like this?" Naruto clutched his forehead, yelping in pain. "Kakashi-bro and Pervy Sage always show a weakness to this move! Grandpa Third even gets a nosebleed and faints!"
"This kind of trick only works on old perverts who cling to their little yellow books all day!" Tenten, supporting from a distance, couldn't help but roast him through their communication channel. "Lord Hokage has never shown any interest in that sort of thing!"
"Damn it!" Naruto, who was jumping around after being hit by Uchiha Douhuan's scabbard, heard Tenten's words. After some painful reflection, he endured another scabbard strike and once again formed the hand seals for the Transformation Jutsu.
"Idiot, this move is useless!" Sasuke and Neji, seeing this, quickly moved forward, wanting to rescue Naruto.
However, after the smoke of the transformation cleared, a well-proportioned naked man appeared before Uchiha Douhuan, striking coquettish poses. And this naked man had Kakashi's face.
Uchiha Douhuan: ???
Sasuke: ???
Neji: ???
Tenten: ???
Such a cringeworthy scene not only stunned Uchiha Douhuan on the spot, but even Sasuke and Neji froze their actions, dumbfounded.
"Good chance!" Just then, Naruto's clone, hiding nearby, fiercely rushed towards Uchiha Douhuan. And just as his hand was about to touch the bell on Uchiha Douhuan's waist, Uchiha Douhuan snapped back to his senses, shattered this clone with a single slash, then transformed into a flash of lightning, appearing behind the Kakashi-faced naked man Naruto had become. He quickly formed hand seals, and a long lightning rope materialized, binding Naruto's transformation and then beginning to electrocute him.
Naruto, zapped until he was seven parts meat and eight parts vegetable (utterly disoriented), naturally couldn't maintain the transformation and reverted to his original form.
However, the electrocution continued. Naruto's miserable screams even carried an electronic tone.
After Uchiha Douhuan hit the kid a few times with his scabbard, he looked down, then hung the scabbard back on his waist and unbuckled his belt.
Instantly, miserable screams with an electronic tinge echoed ceaselessly.
"I'm definitely going to beat you to death today, you disgraceful disciple!" A visible red glow appeared on Uchiha Douhuan's face, the Septwolves belt in his hand landing on Naruto's body again and again.
"Sometimes I really don't get what's going on in this kid's head," Tenten complained in the channel.
"Didn't I see Teacher always loves playing with Kakashi-bro? Who knew it would turn out like this! Stop hitting! Teacher! I was wrong!"
Naruto's admission of fault had no effect whatsoever. The Septwolves belt in Uchiha Douhuan's hand swung with vigorous force.
"Sexy Jutsu, huh!"
"Naked man transformation, huh!"
"I love playing with Kakashi, huh!" Uchiha Douhuan said while still hitting him.
"Boss Nine-Tails! Save me!" Naruto, seeing his screams couldn't awaken Uchiha Douhuan's compassion, began to call out to the Nine-Tails within his body.
Over these past two years, the relationship between the Nine-Tails and Naruto, after Naruto learned to proactively enter the seal space and through daily harassment, had become considerably more harmonious.
Plus, with Seven-Tails Chomei and Three-Tails Isobu occasionally chatting with him, the Nine-Tails' days weren't so boring anymore.
Of course, the real reason the Nine-Tails began to willingly chat with Naruto and let Naruto use a bit of its power was that after the Six-Tails Jinchuriki Utakata died from severe injuries, Uchiha Douhuan didn't find another Jinchuriki to seal it but instead designated a three-thousand-square-kilometer forest on the southwest border of the Land of Fire as a Tailed Beast nature reserve, letting Saiken live there, and even set up barriers around it to prevent others from entering.
With this precedent set, the Nine-Tails also realized that Uchiha Douhuan's previous promise to him – to grant him freedom after Naruto lived out his natural lifespan – was not a joke.
Therefore, the Nine-Tails also began to let down many of its defenses and communicate with Naruto.
However, at this moment, facing Naruto's plea for help, the Nine-Tails, sleeping soundly on its stomach in the seal space, merely twitched its eyelids, then changed its position, completely indifferent to Naruto's cry for help.
*What a joke! Naruto had clearly made Uchiha Douhuan completely furious. Why would it go out now? To get beaten up alongside this kid? Does it, the Nine-Tails, not have face to maintain?*
While Naruto was getting beaten, Sasuke and Neji shrank their necks, then exchanged glances.
"Hey, your teammate is getting beaten up! Aren't you going to support him?" Tenten complained in the channel.
"I feel if we go over now, Teacher will probably whip us too," Sasuke's mouth twitched. To be honest, when he saw the naked Kakashi version earlier, even he wanted to give Naruto a beating. So now, facing the enraged Uchiha Douhuan, the two chose to watch from the sidelines.
However, Neji, at this point, had been watching Uchiha Douhuan's movements with his Byakugan all along.
After a moment, Neji finally said, "Tenten, send over a set of silent grappling hooks."
As Neji's voice fell, a Flying Thunder God formula on his wrist guard flashed. A set of precise mechanisms instantly appeared on Neji's wrist. Neji raised his hand, aiming at the bell on Uchiha Douhuan's waist.
A small grappling hook attached to a rope shot out silently from the mechanism on Neji's wrist, accurately hitting the bell on Uchiha Douhuan's waist.
Uchiha Douhuan looked down, then followed the rope with his gaze towards Neji and Sasuke. He thought for a moment, then turned his head and brought the belt down on Naruto's butt again. How this test turned out didn't matter anymore. What mattered was that he absolutely had to teach this brat Naruto a major lesson. Otherwise, if this kid continued to pull such stunts in the village, his lifelong reputation would be completely ruined.
The launched grappling hook returned to Neji's hand with the bell. Both Neji and Sasuke showed expressions of disbelief. It succeeded just like that?
"Hehe, in a way, this fellow actually achieved his goal," Tenten chuckled drily in the channel.
Although the assessment was over, Neji and Sasuke stood aside watching Uchiha Douhuan continue to wield the belt, not daring to even breathe loudly.
Naruto's electro-toned miserable screams echoed over Training Ground No. 3 for an entire morning, only stopping when Uchiha Douhuan broke the expensive crocodile leather belt Kado had given him from whipping.
"Still dare to mess around recklessly?" Uchiha Douhuan asked fiercely.
"Don't dare, don't dare anymore! Teacher, I was wrong!" Naruto said weakly.
Although Uchiha Douhuan deliberately controlled his strength, Naruto, after being whipped for a whole morning, didn't even have broken skin. The faint red marks left would disappear within seconds under the effect of his super strong self-healing ability. But the pain was truly real.
Only at this moment did Sasuke and Neji dare to approach. Neji, holding the bell he had just stolen, asked, "Teacher, this test..."
"Consider yourselves passed," Uchiha Douhuan said. "Starting tomorrow, you can formally undertake missions. However, as Hokage, I naturally cannot always accompany you. Neji, you have a year of Anbu experience. Your squad will be captained by you."
"Yes," Neji nodded.
"You two go back first," Uchiha Douhuan said, grabbing the back of Naruto's collar. Then he added, "I still have some business with this kid."
"Don't, Teacher! I really know I was wrong!" Naruto immediately started struggling upon hearing this. "Sasuke! Neji! Don't go! Save me!"
Sasuke and Neji gave Naruto a look that wished him good luck fending for himself, then left the training ground without looking back.
Uchiha Douhuan, on the other hand, carried Naruto towards the office door.
On the way back with Naruto in tow, Uchiha Douhuan happened to see Kakashi, who had arranged to train with Shikamaru and the others at 8 AM but was only just heading towards Training Ground #6 at noon.
Kakashi, seeing the dejected Naruto in Uchiha Douhuan's hand, was also amused: "What did this kid do?"
"You probably wouldn't want to know," Uchiha Douhuan glanced at Kakashi. Ever since Naruto pulled that stunt, Uchiha Douhuan suddenly found he couldn't quite look Kakashi in the face anymore.
"What's the big deal, being so secretive," Kakashi was somewhat baffled, then looked at Naruto being carried by Uchiha Douhuan.
"I didn't do anything!" Naruto shook his head hastily. If Kakashi found out about this, he'd probably get another beating.
"Forget it, I'll head to the training ground first. My adorable subordinates should be waiting anxiously," Kakashi, seeing the situation, didn't think much more of it. After speaking to the two, he leisurely strolled towards Training Ground #6.
Seeing this, Uchiha Douhuan and Naruto simultaneously breathed a sigh of relief.
Then, Uchiha Douhuan suppressed the urge to whip the kid again and took him back to the Hokage office.
Subsequently, Uchiha Douhuan instructed Uchiha Inahi not to receive any visitors today. After Uchiha Inahi left, Uchiha Douhuan then set up a small sealing barrier around the office.
"I say, Teacher, it's not that serious, is it?" Naruto, seeing this setup, immediately wanted to flee. *Did Teacher not beat him enough at the training ground and now plans to beat him again behind closed doors?*
"Less nonsense!" Uchiha Douhuan said, activating his Mangekyou Sharingan and taking Naruto with him into the seal space.
Inside the seal space, the Nine-Tails, sleeping soundly on its stomach, sensed Uchiha Douhuan entering the seal space, woke up with a jolt, then arched its back, its chakra-formed fur standing on end.
"Uchiha Douhuan! What are you doing in here?" Behind the sealed gate, the Nine-Tails roared at Uchiha Douhuan.
"Shut up, this doesn't concern you." Uchiha Douhuan glanced irritably at the Spinosaurus-form 'Haki Fox', then said to Naruto, who still hadn't figured out the situation.
"Since you are already an official ninja, then it's time to tell you some things," Uchiha Douhuan said.
"Huh?" Naruto was stunned upon hearing this.
"Remember what Kakashi told you before?" Uchiha Douhuan asked.
"Kakashi-bro previously..." Naruto pondered upon hearing this. Subsequently, his expression abruptly froze. "Could it be..."
"Correct. It's also time to tell you the news about your parents," Uchiha Douhuan said. "Sasuke and Neji have long since understood their future paths, but you are still goofing off every day. I hope that after you meet your parents, you can figure out what kind of person you truly want to become in the future."
"I can still... meet my parents?" Naruto said in disbelief upon hearing this.
Not just Naruto; at this moment, even the Nine-Tails behind the sealed gate showed a look of astonishment. *Weren't this kid's parents already dead?*
"Go peel off that sealing formula paper, and then you can meet them," Uchiha Douhuan said.
Naruto, hearing this, looked in the direction Uchiha Douhuan pointed, towards the paper talisman stuck on the massive sealed gate.
"Uchiha Douhuan, you let this little brat open the seal; aren't you afraid I'll take this opportunity to escape? Once I escape the seal, this kid will undoubtedly die! With your laughably poor genjutsu skills, you absolutely can't stop me," the Nine-Tails behind the bars sneered at this point.
"You're welcome to try," Uchiha Douhuan chuckled lightly, looking at the Nine-Tails behind the gate. "Let's see if you run faster, or if my sword is faster."
The Nine-Tails looked at Uchiha Douhuan's face, its mouth twitching for a moment, then snorted coldly and lay back down. "Hmph, forget it. I'm quite comfortable staying here. It's the same if I go out after this kid dies. It's not like I'm afraid of you!"
Uchiha Douhuan impassively watched this stubborn fox. Just then, Naruto's hand had already touched that sealing paper talisman.
However, the next moment, a large hand grabbed Naruto's wrist. A gentle voice sounded beside Naruto's ear:
"Naruto, this isn't something you can open casually."
Naruto abruptly turned his head and saw a blond-haired man dressed in Hokage robes, looking at him with a smile.
This man's face was not unfamiliar to him; after all, his photograph hung in his teacher's office.
"You are... the Fourth Hokage?" Naruto said, stunned.
"Yes. And, I am also your father. You've grown so big," Minato smiled. After releasing Naruto's wrist, he instead reached out to pat Naruto's head.
However, what responded to him was Naruto's heavy punch landing squarely on his stomach.
(End of Chapter)
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