People are in Konoha, this Naruto lies flat

Chapter 188 Twenty-seven masks

"This place" Ino, wearing a thin blue sweater and a hood, looked back at the dark red torii gate, "How many years has no one been here?"

Hearing this, Naruto thought about it and realized that the only Uzumaki clan member in Konoha was probably Kushina.

"It's been more than ten years."

"Ah?" Ino shrank, "It's only been more than ten years since it was abandoned like this?"

"Is there a possibility that it was abandoned more than ten years ago?" Naruto couldn't help but corrected, "This is the Uzumaki clan's shrine, and no one has been here for a long time."

"Hmm? Uzumaki clan?" Ino looked at Naruto.

"I just found out." He smiled, "Although my name has the same surname, that's all. I don't know anything else."

A broken water tank in the yard caught Ino's attention. She raised her foot and was about to walk over, but Naruto held her back.

"Where to go?"

"There's a water tank over there." She pointed towards the corner of the rubble pile, "There seems to be something wrong."

"Don't wander around here." Naruto glanced at Ino with a complicated look, "That thing is not a water tank. Please take a closer look before talking."

"But that's obviously a water tank." Ino was a little confused and turned around to look again.

There was no water tank in the corner overgrown with weeds. There was only a pile of white bones that could not be distinguished from humans or animals. Around the pile of bones were a few strange purple flowers.

"Ah!" Ino was so frightened that she broke into a cold sweat. It turned out to be a hallucination, "I knew it just now"

"It's okay, just don't get close there." Naruto pulled her and held the girl's hand, "There's not much danger here. Just follow me and you'll be fine."

A dilapidated shrine, to put it bluntly, it was just an empty grave. Naruto wasn't too nervous. The ones who did this were the masks hanging in the shrine.

Gently kicking the door open with your foot, there was nothing in the shrine except some fallen rubble on the ground. In the empty inner hall, it was so quiet that only the footsteps of the two people could be heard.

A gust of wind blew, causing the broken door to squeak.

"Naruto, did you hear that someone was laughing?" Ino swallowed and kept looking behind him, as if something was following them.

"No." Naruto's expression remained unchanged.

"It seems like she's crying again." Ino's whole body was pressed against him, holding his hand tightly and not letting go, "Naruto, should we leave here first."

The girl's voice was trembling a little, and Naruto could feel Ino's grip on his hand gradually getting stronger. She was still retreating in a low voice, and her broken words echoed faintly in the empty inner hall.

She asked whether she should bring Shikamaru and the others back together. It might be safer if there were more people. Naruto just listened and focused on the twenty-seven masks on the wall.

In response to Ino's casual thoughts, he occasionally nodded and responded with a "hmm".

There are some things that cannot be avoided. It doesn't matter if it comes. It doesn't matter whether it's funny or crying, he has decided the inheritance of the Uzumaki clan, even if the Sage of Six Paths comes, it won't matter.

Twenty-seven evil ghost masks hang on the wall, each mask is hideous, and the death mask is located in the middle.

"Stand here and don't move." Naruto said suddenly.

"Ah? Then what are you going to do?" Ino was a little scared. Thinking of the cry, her face suddenly turned pale. "Am I standing here alone?"

"I'm not going anywhere, just here." Naruto let go of Ino's hand, looked around, and then picked up a long stick at the base of the wall.

Ino stood there honestly. An hour ago, she thought she was following Naruto to a shrine to pray for blessings. Who knew she was a little panicked now.

Things took a strange turn, and she stood in the middle of the shrine's inner hall, shivering.

The door panel creaked again, and this time there was obviously no wind. Ino saw footprints appearing on the ground, and the mask on the wall stared at her sadly.

There is something very wrong with this shrine!

The direction of the footprints stopped three meters away from Ino, and then went straight towards Naruto. Ino opened her mouth to remind him, but found herself speechless.

Naruto seemed completely unaware that anything was wrong with the situation around him. He stood under the mask wall with the long stick he picked up, poking and poking in an attempt to take off the mask.

Ino clearly saw that the series of footprints had come behind Naruto. Her body was completely frozen, unable to move or speak, she could only watch helplessly.

Suddenly, with a snap, a mask fell from the wall.

Naruto bent down to pick it up, and suddenly heard the sound of wind coming from behind, and couldn't help but feel a little strange. Ino watched Naruto turn his head suddenly, but he had already put on the fallen evil ghost mask on his face.

call!

All the sounds disappeared, and the inner hall of the shrine became silent again.

Ino suddenly felt that she could move, and took a big breath, as if she had never breathed before.

"Naruto, behind you!"

Halfway through her words, she was stunned again. Because there were no footprints in front of Naruto when he turned around, as if everything just now was an illusion.

"What's behind?" Naruto took off his mask and asked in confusion.

"No, it's nothing." Ino asked uneasily, "Can I go over to your place now? I'm a little scared."

"Come here, it's okay." He waved to Ino to come over.

After standing next to him, Ino breathed a sigh of relief, turned to look at the mask in his hand, and asked.

"What is that?"

"It's just an ordinary mask." Naruto threw it into the sealed space.

Then he pointed to the twenty-six remaining masks on the wall and said, "Wait for me for a while, and then I can leave after I take off all these masks."

"good."

Naruto said to Ino while taking off the mask.

"I told you that you don't have to come with me. There's not even a living soul in this place."

Ino said nothing, knowing that now was not the time to vent her anger. It was only when Naruto threw all twenty-six masks into the sealed space and the two of them slowly exited the Uzumaki clan's barrier that she screamed heavily.

A pinch was given to the person's waist.

"Ah!!" Naruto screamed, "Ino, you are going to kill me!"

"You deserve it." Ino said angrily.

"How come I deserve this?" Naruto took a breath of cold air and murmured while touching his waist, "Wait, tomorrow will come, I won't be able to suffer the consequences of you in the future."

"What are you mumbling under your breath?"

"Nothing, it seems like someone is talking to me, did you see it?"

"Ah!!" Ino screamed, his face suddenly turned pale.

"I'm just kidding, you're so nervous, you're just trying to liven up the atmosphere." Naruto said in a mean tone.

Ino: "."

This man is so damned!

"So you're afraid of those things?" Naruto and Ino walked side by side, slowly heading towards the village.

"You must be scared. Who is not afraid of those things?" Inoji said with lingering fear, "I will definitely not come to a place like this with you next time. It's too scary."

"Haha, what you saw is just an illusion." Naruto explained, "Where do so many strange things come from in this world? Just don't take it to heart."

"Of course I know." Ino said bravely.

"It's still early, where do you plan to go?" Naruto suggested casually, "If you have nothing to do, just go and stay at my place."

"Hmm? What excuse are you making again? You're a foot fetishist."

"You misunderstood me too deeply." He said casually, his eyes wandering in the early spring woods, "Is there a possibility that I am more than just a fetishist for feet?"

"Oh, really, I'm so sorry! I misunderstood you, pervert!" Ino raised the corner of her mouth slightly and said with her hands behind her back.

"I don't want this either. It's all because Ino is too cute."

"Humph, are you already being shameless? You can say such shameful words without blushing and without a beating heart." Ino was already immune to the saucy words he would say from time to time.

When Ino said this, her expression was a little cute. She accepted the cute compliment openly, but she still had to arrogantly call others a pervert.

Girls with this kind of attribute are definitely rare, and there may be fewer people who like them. Oh, he happens to be one of the audience, and he really enjoys the flirtatious insults of beautiful girls.

Ino has a very pure character, and she is the kind of opponent who will continue to grow, but she also seems to be a girl who will immediately blush as long as her words are more forceful.

"I'm telling the truth. I haven't seen Ino for a long time, so I miss her very much," he said.

"Oh, have you used lies to such a natural level now? I don't believe it." Ino seemed to be in a good mood, and his thinking became more active.

If it were normal times, she would be shy first, and then doubt the authenticity of what Naruto said. But now she can see through it at a glance. Is it because she has become more sensitive?

Naruto suddenly felt a little relieved, as if he had finally cultivated Ino into someone he was familiar with. It seemed that he couldn't simply say something to make her shy in the future.

But there is another way.

Taking a deep breath, Naruto ran forward and then turned to look at Ino. The distance between the two was about thirty meters, and the forest was deep and quiet.

"What's wrong with you?" Ino was a little confused and didn't know what Naruto wanted to do.

"Ino, you are so cute!!!" Naruto shouted loudly towards Ino, flapping and flapping, frightening the birds in half the forest.

"Eh? Eh!!" Ino's face turned red at a speed that was visible to the naked eye. The sense of shame was too strong, "What are you shouting at?"

"You pervert! Don't run!"

The next day, the sky was clear outside the window.

Naruto washed up and went out. He walked alone on the road of Konoha Street and slowly merged into the flow of people on the street. The air in the bustling street was humid and sultry.

At this time, the advantage of having few friends becomes apparent.

Even if he returned from the disaster at sea, there were only a few friends who had time to see him. The third and eighth teams were on missions outside the village and would not be back soon.

When they come back, they will probably be surprised when they hear about his return from the sea without any injuries. He would like to see Inuzuka Kiba's reaction, as he would probably be very jealous of his genius leadership ability.

In short, life has returned to normality.

Fenghua Koyuki and Haruno Sakura seemed to have health problems, probably due to the experience of drifting at sea. It was also possible that they fell ill as soon as they relaxed. He had heard of many such cases.

He walked slowly on the road. Today he was going to the hospital to see Haruno Sakura and Fenghua Koyuki. After Anko, he was discharged from the hospital and his health was fine.

It was a routine visit to his teammates and to see when the mission target would recover and be discharged from the hospital. Although it was a bit unkind to say this, the fact was that only by restarting the mission could he get the reward of Flying Thunder God.

Also, update before twelve o'clock

(End of chapter)