Sasuke snorted coldly at Kakashi's comment. He felt there was still a huge gap between himself and Naruto, so his strength was still within the human range.
But he was willing to take that as a compliment.
In his mind, Sasuke thought darkly, 'Uchiha Itachi! Just you wait! I will kill you soon!'
On the other hand, Naruto frowned and looked at Kakashi with a pained expression.
'Hatake Kakashi! You're walking the road to death!'
'Although my body's recovery ability has improved a little, you can't just revoke my human status!'
Naruto gritted his teeth, pulled out a giant wooden door from inside his clothes without saying a word, and began tiptoeing toward Kakashi from behind.
Of course, his action of carrying the large door panel was really conspicuous.
When Kakashi saw the large door panel, his pupil trembled and cold sweat instantly formed on his forehead.
'Why is this child so obsessed with the door panel?'
'Wait… was pulling out the door a symbolic way of thinking about his father?' (T/N: In Chinese Namikaze literally means Watergate, so Kakashi might be talking about that.)
"Naruto!"
"What are you doing!?"
The others turned their eyes to Naruto at the same time, and the atmosphere immediately grew awkward.
Just like that, a certain yellow-haired boy's ambush attempt was ruined.
Noticing everyone's strange looks, figured it wouldn't look good if he backstabbed his teacher with everyone watching.
After all, respecting teachers was one of the proud virtues of every human.
'But…'
'In Naruto, it seems that it is kind of a tradition for students to backstab their teachers.'
Bang…
Naruto lifted up the door, sending up a cloud of dust. He patted it twice with a loud thump-thump and casually said, "The door is a bit moldy..."
"So I figured I'd air it out a little."
"It's totally reasonable, right?"
"Hahahaha, Kakashi-sensei, you don't think I'm going to attack you, right?"
Kakashi: "…"
'If you hadn't just picked up the door and walked straight at my back, I might've believed that!'
"Let's go, don't delay the mission."
Kakashi used the diversion technique again, then turned his head and got in front of Tazuna.
"And another thing…"
"Old man, this mission..."
"This isn't right, is it?"
"Under normal circumstances, a C-Rank escort mission shouldn't involve Shinobi attacks."
Kakashi narrowed his visible eye, and murderous intent instantly enveloped Dazna.
"This is basically an A-Rank mission!"
Although Kakashi looks like a lazy guy and seems very easy to talk to on the surface, that didn't mean he was some gullible pushover.
However, he can use this opportunity to test Team 7's unity and resolve.
Tazuna avoided Kakashi's gaze and turned his head away, not daring to look Kakashi in the face.
He had no doubt that the Shinobi in front of him would kill him.
Thinking of his family and the unfinished bridge, the fear in the old man's chest only grew.
"Haha, don't be nervous."
Kakashi, who was releasing murderous intent just now, suddenly smiled and looked at the three little ones beside him.
"This mission is officially at A-Rank level now."
"Do you want to continue or give up?"
"Continue."
"Same here."
Sasuke replied coolly, and Sakura beside him immediately agreed.
"I'm fine with it."
Naruto had a serious expression and seemed to be getting serious.
When Tazuna heard that the other party was still willing to continue the mission, the smile on his face became extremely bright, then his face became sad again, and then he said to several people with guilt, "I'm sorry, everyone..."
"I had my reasons for..."
"Shut up! Skip! Skip!!"
Naruto didn't want to listen to this old man's blabbering. He didn't even have the patience to watch cutscenes in games, so there was no way he'd stand there and listen to this.
His motto was simple:
I don't know who I am. I don't know where I am. But I do know that I'm here to cause a bloodbath!
The eyes of the other members of Team 7 twitched.
'Here we go again…'
'Naruto started saying something incomprehensible again.'
Tazuna had just been building up his emotions in his mind, preparing to use some moral blackmail on these Shinobi, but because he was suddenly interrupted by Naruto, the words he was about to say were instantly stuck in his throat.
'What the…'
'Why couldn't this kid just let me finish talking?'
Naruto had been wary of Tazuna from the start.
'Moral blackmail?'
'As long as I have no morals, you can't blackmail me!'
This mission didn't matter much to Naruto anyway, since he was just here to clear the Land of Waves dungeon.
As for the people who are suffering in the Land of Waves...
He wasn't some kind of compassionate God here to save the miserable, so why should he care about the life and death of these people.
After Kakashi confirmed that all team members were on board, he nodded and motioned for everyone to continue forward.
The rest of the journey went smoothly, and no more Shinobi ambushed them.
Around lunchtime, Naruto felt a little bored. He glanced at the book in Kakashi's hand, then looked at Sasuke, who was in a daze. The corner of his mouth curled up, and his consciousness instantly sank into the sealed space and he began to search through the large number of items in the system's inventory.
After about twenty minutes, Naruto pulled the book out of the system.
"Found it!"
There are four big words written on the cover of the book - Battle Through the Heavens.
After snickering twice and his consciousness exiting the sealed space, Naruto looked at Sasuke's expressionless face again and immediately took out the book.
Under the influence of this world's rules, the moment the book materialized, it instantly became real, and the words inside turned into the local language.
'Well, now that I think about it…'
'The main character of this novel really kind of matched Sasuke.'
'Well… both played with fire.'
'So who's the old grandpa in the book?'
'Orochimaru? Or Kakashi?'
"Sasuke, this is for you."
Sasuke, who was in a daze, instinctively raised a hand to catch the object Naruto tossed his way. When he looked closely, he found that it was a book with a dark brown cover with some weird words on the cover.
"Battle Through the Heavens?"
After that, the boy even glanced at a certain white-haired guy.
Kakashi, who sensed something strange, immediately turned his head to look at the book in Sasuke's hand, and then his expression became a little strange.
'Naruto, this kid...'
'Did he see what I was reading and then go browse the same section at the Konoha Bookstore?'
'Isn't it a bit too early for them to be exposed to adult literature?'
Kakashi's eyes widened and he began to wonder, 'Is it because I kept reading Icha-Icha Paradise in front of them?'
After realizing that he might have led his disciples astray, Kakashi instantly thought of Jiraiya's lecherous look and the furious wrath of his teacher's wife...
'If Kushina-san knew about this...'
'After I go to the Pure Land, I will definitely suffer the consequences, right?'
'And when my father saw my current state, I would probably be severely beaten.'
'Alas, I can't continue to degenerate like this.'
Kakashi tightly grasped the book in his hand, feeling very reluctant, but for the sake of his students' mental and moral well-being...
He made a vow.
From this day forward!
He would renounce degeneracy!
Starting with quit reading the Icha-Icha Paradise!
After Kakashi made up his mind, he immediately began to preach to Sasuke and Naruto, and he even began to feel more confident.
"Naruto, Sasuke."
"That kind of material is far too inappropriate for you."
"The adult world isn't someone your age should be exploring."
After saying that, Kakashi slowly reached out toward Sasuke to confiscate the mysterious book.
Although he didn't see the specific content just now, his intuition told him that it was not a healthy reading material.
He has extensive experience in this regard.
Slap…
Sasuke immediately smacked Kakashi's hand away.
It would have been fine if he hadn't said that. But once Kakashi said he was not allowed to read it, Sasuke became even more curious about what was inside.
Besides…
Sasuke believed that, with the blood of vengeance boiling in his veins, he had earned the right to understand the adult world.
Meanwhile, Sakura's face turned slightly red and her eyes kept glancing at the book in Sasuke's hand.
'This is great!'
'Has Sasuke finally come to his senses?'
'Thank you, Naruto! Thank you!!'
"Kakashi-sensei, what are you even talking about?"
"This isn't that kind of book, okay?"
Naruto rolled his eyes, feeling somewhat speechless.
'Sure enough, this white-haired's mind is filled with nothing but smut.'
Upon hearing this, Sasuke immediately opened the book and glanced at it, then nodded to indicate that Naruto was right.
After realizing that he had made a mistake and made a complete fool of himself, Kakashi silently backed off and pretended nothing had happened.
Just as he was about to take out his book, he remembered the vow he had just made and stopped mid-motion.
When Sakura heard that the book in Sasuke's hand was not the same as Kakashi's, she hugged her knees in disappointment and looked utterly defeated.
However, during all of this...
Sasuke found the contents of the book were somewhat novel, but after taking a look at it, he found it strange.
'A story about a loser rising to power?'
'It's so boring!'