Chapter 49: The Damn Uchiha Obito

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In a modestly sized room, a large tatami mat was placed at the center. This room was specially prepared by the Dazuna family for Team Seven, offering them a place to rest during missions. The window was open, revealing the vast ocean outside. With a breeze blowing in, the salty, moist scent of the sea filled the air. That was the unmistakable smell of the ocean.

Naruto absentmindedly craved some seaweed snacks.

At that moment, Sakura interrupted his daydreams, speaking up, “Kakashi-sensei, if Kado, the client, is taken out by Zabuza, does that mean our mission is complete?”

“It should be,” Kakashi replied, stroking his chin thoughtfully. “But to prevent any unexpected situations, we must remain on guard until the very last day.”

“You three… well, only two of you need to continue training!” Kakashi glanced at the group and changed his demand accordingly.

“Yes, sensei!” ×2

“Mm.”

Kakashi then turned his attention to Naruto with concern. “Ruto, what have you been training recently?”

Me?

Naruto snapped back to reality.

What had he been training lately?

Thinking carefully, ever since discovering the unique ability of the SSSSSS talent, not only had his clones been learning various skills, but his original body had also been exploiting this bug—or rather, this special trait—to acquire more skills.

For example:

Every day he played six rounds of Dou Di Zhu (a card game) against Kurama to hone his gambling skills. In a few days, he would master gambling to the fullest level—becoming a God of Gamblers.

In the ninja world, casinos were like ATM machines.

Also, just yesterday, he had become obsessed with wood carving.

His experience points were rising rapidly, and it seemed he would hit max level within a month.

But none of this could be revealed.

“Well, Kakashi-sensei,” Naruto said carefully, “I’ve been training Wood Release lately. Um… yes, I’ve been trying to combine Earth Release and Water Release to see if I can awaken Wood Release.”

At these words, the three of them turned their gazes toward him in unison.

Wood Release—that was the bloodline limit of the First Hokage.

Sakura thought: Is Naruto going to learn the First Hokage’s Wood Release too? I was right to focus on medical ninjutsu.

Sasuke thought: Damn it, is Ruto getting stronger again? How do you learn Wood Release? I must master it within three years!

These two trusted Naruto too much.

They did not understand the immense difficulty in synthesizing bloodline limits, nor the rarity and complexity of Wood Release.

But Kakashi understood.

Upon hearing this, he merely sighed.

He had a friend named Yamato, who was a Wood Release user.

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Later, Kakashi learned just how many sacrifices had been made to produce a Wood Release ninja like Yamato.

The village itself had conducted experiments, sacrificing many people, but all failed to synthesize Wood Release.

Orochimaru had privately conducted similar experiments, sacrificing nearly a hundred children before finally producing one successful subject—Yamato.

Since the village’s founding, countless gifted ninjas had been born in Konoha, yet no one else had ever successfully synthesized Wood Release or become a Wood Release user.

Could Naruto succeed?

Kakashi did not want to reject the possibility outright, but reason told him the odds were close to zero.

“Keep it up, Naruto. I believe you can succeed,” Kakashi encouraged him with a smile.

Naruto gave a thumbs-up and flashed his trademark radiant smile, his white teeth gleaming.

“Don’t worry, Kakashi-sensei! I will definitely succeed!”

However—

Suddenly, Naruto lowered his head with a troubled expression, as if facing a difficult problem.

“What’s wrong?”

Looking up, Naruto spoke earnestly, “There’s something very important. If it can’t be done, I will definitely fail! So please, I beg you to help me with it!”

“Oh?”

Kakashi was thoroughly puzzled.

What could this matter be that required his assistance?

“Heh!”

At that moment, Sasuke sighed silently.

He seemed to understand Naruto’s intent.

Sakura glanced at him, confused.

Then, Naruto laid his cards on the table. “Sensei, after you return, please be sure to meet with Sister Hana. She’s truly a wonderful person. I hope she can become our teacher’s wife.”

Kakashi and Sakura: -_-||

Sasuke: Hah, so that’s it.

Seeing their expressions, Naruto was bewildered.

I’ve been wracking my brains for Kakashi-sensei’s sake.

Could it be… you all want Kakashi-sensei to grow old alone?

“Please, Kakashi-sensei, this is a once-in-a-lifetime request.”

Sasuke and Sakura, now catching on, looked at Kakashi expectantly.

Under their gaze, Kakashi found it hard to refuse and reluctantly replied, “Alright, since you say so, I’ll agree.”

Just a meeting—Kakashi wasn’t one to shy away from the light.

Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura: Great! This is going to be interesting!

…

Sasuke went off to train ninjutsu with Kakashi, while Sakura practiced medical ninjutsu alone in the room.

The training space could generate trees and flowers, but not animals.

So Sakura could only practice medical ninjutsu in reality.

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This had an advantage.

At night, Sakura’s training in superhuman strength and taijutsu would not be affected. She could focus on one discipline during the day and another at night—both medical ninjutsu and superhuman strength taijutsu were her main focuses. This wouldn’t hinder her from becoming the “Violent Girl.”

And Naruto?

He sat atop the roof, enjoying the sea breeze, but his mind was absorbed in finding someone in the dueling arena.

“Uchiha… Uchiha… Uchiha… what’s the full name?” Naruto muttered stubbornly as he scanned for opponents.

A few days ago, when he confronted Uchiha Madara to vent, he found a ‘Uchiha Madara’ in quotation marks, so he chose him.

Upon entering, Naruto realized this guy’s dōjutsu was strange—it was space-time based, and he could also use Wood Release.

After removing the fake Uchiha Madara’s mask, a face Naruto had never seen or recognized was revealed.

He knew who the culprit was, but he didn’t recognize this culprit.

This troubled Naruto deeply.

Trying to gather information by chatting with NPCs in the dueling arena was almost impossible.

The dueling arena’s NPCs were not real people but genuine AI.

For example, the masked fake Uchiha constantly shouted about “Rin” and “I want to create a world with you!”—utterly baffling.

So now, Naruto had no choice but to enter the dueling arena again and begin a needle-in-a-haystack search.

On the selection screen, he typed “Uchiha” into the search box.

The results showed over a thousand entries.

Too many to sift through at once, but he had time—he could look at them one by one.

“Next… next… next… hmm?”

Naruto’s eyes sharpened. “Finally found you. Damn it! Uchiha! Obito!”

The number one lifelong grudge on his list—the target of his revenge—was finally found.

Good!

“Is the Water Country special report ‘The Fourth Mizukage Controlled by Genjutsu’ coming out soon?” Suddenly recalling this, Naruto hurriedly asked “Media Tycoon Naruto” in the channel.

The response came back: it was in the final stages of layout.

He immediately made changes!

He had planned to have Uchiha Rokuto take responsibility for this incident.

But now, it seemed the blame could be pinned entirely on Uchiha Obito!

“Let the whole world see your true face, Uchiha Obito!”

＿|￣|●: To be continued!!!